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.


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)
sunblue
1978
Sunblue (poetry)
1982
Winter Sun / The Dumbfounding: Poems, 1940-66 (poetry)
No Time
1989
No Time (poetry)
1991
Selected Poems (poetry)
1993
A Kind of Perseverence (nonfiction)
Not Yet But Still
1997
Not Yet But Still (poetry)
Concrete and Wild Carrot
2002
Concrete and Wild Carrot (poetry)
Always Now
2003
Always Now: The Collected Poems (poetry)
Always Now: The Collected Poems, Volume 2
2004
Always Now: The Collected Poems, Volume 2 (poetry)
Always Now: The Collected Poems, Volume 3
2005
Always Now: The Collected Poems, Volume 3 (poetry)
Momentary Dark
2006
Momentary Dark (poetry)
2009
Listening (poetry)
2009
I Am Here and Not Not-There
Autobiography.
 
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Added 23 April 2007.
Updated 07 January 2012.