Margaret Avison was born in Ontario. She attended public school in Western Canada, high school and university in Toronto. She spent eight months in Chicago in 1956-57, on a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She has worked in libraries, publishing houses, universities, archives, and missions, was writer-in- residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1973-74. In 1985 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She lives in downtown Toronto.
... Amounts to a beautiful argument for Ongoingness, and open-heartedness ... these poems have won us outright by virtue of their unflagging precision, notional complexity and exuberance ... If lyric poetry has a country, welcome to its capital.--Ken Babstock, The Globe and MailMargaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some of the most humane, sweet, and profound poetry of our time.--from The Griffin Poetry Prize Judges' Citation
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