Margaret Avison

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Who is Margaret Avison?

Margaret Avison is a poet and writer and recipient of the Leslie K. Tarr Award.

She was born in 1918 in Galt, Ontario. Infant and childhood years in Regina and Calgary (Sask. and Alta.). Educated in Ontario ( University of Toronto, 1936-40; M.A. 1963-5). Various daytime jobs, 1940-67, twice interrupted (8 months in Chicago on a Guggenheim Scholarship; two years' teaching at Scarborough College, University of Toronto: 1967-8). Conversion to Christian faith in early 1963. Late '63 till '85, family responsibilities. Worker in Evangel Hall '68-'73. For eight months ('73-'74) at the University of Western Ontario as Writer-in-Residence. Jobs '74-'78. Secretary, Mustard Seed Mission until retirement, '78-'86.

Avison has won several leading awards; two of her books have won the Governor General's Award. One of Canada's foremost critics has described her as "probably the most important English-Canadian poet."

Elizabeth Davey is doing doctoral work on the Christian Canadian poet Margaret Avison.
http://www.tyndale.ca/~edavey/


Margaret Avison's Contributions

Contact Margaret Avison

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/avison/index.htm