Listening
The Last Poems of Margaret Avison
Published on 31. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-7710-0886-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada's foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more than forty years.
Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada's foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more than forty years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7710-0886-3 (9780771008863)
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McClelland & Stewart
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Person
Margaret Avison’s work had, over the course of her four-decade-long career, won numerous awards, including two Governor General’s Awards and, for Concrete and Wild Carrot, the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her books of poetry include Always Now: The Collected Poems and, most recently, Momentary Dark. Margaret Avison died in July 2007, in Toronto.