Margaret Avison

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Margaret Avison (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice received Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Award.

"Her work has been lauded for the beauty of its language and photographs," Encyclopdia Britannica says.

Early life and education

Avison, the daughter of a Methodist minister, was born in Galt, Ontario, in 1918. She moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1920, and Calgary, Alberta, a few years later. Her family migrated to Toronto, Ontario, in 1930. She attended Alma College, which is located in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. 1935. As an infant, she was hospitalized for anorexia.

She enrolled Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1936 and received her B.A. In 1940, she returned to get her M.A. (in 1965) The company was founded in 1965. She earned her B.A. before beginning to study. She was a published poet; the poem "Gatineau" appeared in the Canadian Poetry Magazine in 1939. In addition, she began releasing poetry in Acta Victoriana, the college journal.

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Career

Avison worked in a variety of other fields, including as a file clerk, proofreader, and editor. She also worked at the University of Toronto's Registrar's Office and Library. Avison served as a librarian at the Presbyterian Church Mission in Toronto and taught at Scarborough College. She wrote the majority of her poetry in spare time and chose executive jobs that left her time to write. She did not apply for a Canada Council grant.

History of Ontario, Avison's junior high school textbook, was released in 1951.

Avison's poem "Gatineau" appeared in Canadian Poetry Magazine in 1939, as mentioned earlier. A.J.M., an anthologist, died in 1943. In his Book of Canadian Poetry, Smith included poetry from her poetry. (She mentions a "chaste skinny dip" with Smith in her autobiography.)

Avison received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant in 1956; she stayed eight months in the United States and was able to attend classes at the Universities of Chicago and Indiana. She ghostwrote A Doctor's Memoir and wrote her first book of poetry, Winter Sun. It was published in 1960 and received the Governor General's Award.

Avison was moved by the 1956 Hungarian Uprising and translated eight Hungarian poems that later appeared in The Plough and The Pen, which brought recognition to several twentieth-century Hungarian writers. Avison earned her M.A. degree with a flourishing resume. She obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, but she did not graduate as she did not write a thesis.

In 1963, Avison converted to Christianity (from agnosticism). In her second book of poetry, The Dumbfounding (1966), she wrote about it.

Avison served at Scarborough Hall, University of Toronto, from 1966-1968, and also served at Evangel Hall, the Presbyterian Mission of the University of Toronto during this period. Avison was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario for eight months in 1973. She worked in the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1973 to 1978 (CBC). She joined Mustard Seed Mission in 1978 as a secretary and continued working there until her retirement in 1986.

In 1984, Avison became an Officer of the Order of Canada.

No Time, her fourth collection of poems, came out in 1990 and received her second Governor General's Award.

The Griffin Poetry Prize was won by Avison's Concrete and Wild Carrot in 2003. "Lauding Avison is regarded as a national treasure" by Griffin Poetry Prize judges, who praised her poetry's "sublimity" and "humility" -- which they described as "some of the most humane, sweet, and profound poetry of our time."

Avison received several honorary degrees: Acadia University (1983), York University (1985), and Victoria University (1988).

Margaret Avison died in Toronto on July 31, 2007, age 89, from undisclosed causes.

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