Margaret Avison

Photo: Joan Eichner

Margaret Avison was born 23 April 1918 in Galt, Ontario and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and Calgary, Alberta. She earned her B.A. in 1940 and her M.A. in 1966, both from Victoria College, University of Toronto, and worked as a teacher, librarian, archivist, and social worker. In addition to her own poetry, Avison translated poems and short stories from Hungarian to English. She died 31 July 2007 in Toronto after a short illness.

Books by Margaret Avison

	1951 History of Ontario (textbook)
	1960 A Doctor's Memoirs (from papers and conversations with Dr. A.I. Wolinsky) (nonfiction)
	1960 Winter Sun (poetry)
	1964 The Research Compendium; Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962 (nonfiction)
	1966 The Dumbfounding (poetry)
	1978 Sunblue (poetry)
	1982 Winter Sun / The Dumbfounding: Poems, 1940-66 (poetry)
	1989 No Time (poetry)
	1991 Selected Poems (poetry)
	1993 A Kind of Perseverence (nonfiction)
	1997 Not Yet But Still (poetry)
	2002 Concrete and Wild Carrot (poetry)
	2003 Always Now: The Collected Poems (poetry)
	2004 Always Now: The Collected Poems, Volume 2 (poetry)
	2005 Always Now: The Collected Poems, Volume 3 (poetry)
	2006 Momentary Dark (poetry)
	2009 Listening (poetry)
	2009 I Am Here and Not Not-There Autobiography.

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