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David A. Kent
A study of Canadian poet Margaret Avison and her work.
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Margaret Avison
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant…
Elizabeth Davey
Originally published as a dissertation for Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and University of Wales in 2010 under the title: ‘A kind of perseverance’: Margaret Avison’s poetry as Christian witness.
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Includes poems that are rings within rings of reflection on the creation and the Creator.
A collection of poems that stretches from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, through Winter Sun in 1960 and Concrete and Wild Carrot in 2002 (winners, respectively, of the Governor-General’s…
Margaret Avison’s poems have warmed the hearts and enlarged the thinking of two generations of Canadian readers. This title presents a collection of her poems ranging from Winter Sun (1960)…
Margaret Avison was a highly regarded Canadian poet who saw poetry as her life’s vocation but shied away from being publicly labelled a poet. She has been called reclusive, introspective…
Shares with readers two lectures the author gave at the University of Waterloo in 1993 - ‘Misunderstanding is Damaging’ and ‘Understanding is Costly’. The author tells of her journey, often…
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003
In Margaret Avison’s new poems, little pleasures are…
Insightful and compelling, this collection of appreciations and reminiscences by both Canadian and American poets addresses Margaret Avison as both a Christian poet and as an individual who has influenced…
Margaret 1918- Avison
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile…
August Kleinzahler
This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchinson and Brent MacKay.
