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
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Poems online
- Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
- Crowd Coralling
- Cycle of Community
- The Dumbfounding
- End of a Day or I as a Blurry
- The Fixed in a Flux
- From Now - On?
- The Hid, Here
- Needy
- Not the Sweet Cicely of Gerardes Herball
- A Seed of History
- A Small Music on a Spring Morning
- Stone's Secret
- The Swimmer's Moment
- The World Still Needs
Awards
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- 2003 – Concrete and Wild Carrot – Winner
- Order of Canada
- 1984 – Officer
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Added 23 April 2007.
Updated 07 January 2012.