Margaret Avison

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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.

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Books by Margaret Avison

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

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