Always Now: Not yet but still ; Concrete and wild carrot ; Too towards tomorrow : new poems

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The Porcupine's Quill, 2003 - Poetry - 232 pages

The three volumes of Always Now contain all of Margaret Avison's published books of poetry. The author has removed a very few poems: `Public Address' (from Winter Sun), `The Two Selves' and `In Eporphyrial Harness' (from The Dumbfounding), `Highway in April', `The Evader's Meditation', and `Until Christmas' (from sunblue), `Living the Shadow', `Insomnia' and `Beginning Praise' (from No Time), `Having Stopped Smoking' and `Point of Entry' (from Selected Poems). The opening section of volume one, `From Elsewhere', is arranged according to date of publication, from 1932 to 1991, the date of Selected Poems. `From Elsewhere' includes the `Uncollected' and `New Poems' of that book, except for the two noted above and `The Butterfly', which is here in its original form. All of the poems in Always Now having been considered and reconsidered, and small corrections having been made, the book contains definitively all of the published poems up to 2002 that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve.

 

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Contents

Pacing the Turn of the Year
119
Ambivalence
133
Other Oceans
146
Dead Ends
159
A Gloss on I Cor 14 6
173
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About the author (2003)

Margaret Avison was born April 23, 1918 in Galt, Ontario. She was raised in Regina and Calgary. She earned her degree from the University of Toronto, 1936 to 1940 and her M.A. from 1963 to 1965. She spent 8 months in Chicago on a Guggenheim Scholarship and two years' teaching at Scarborough College, University of Toronto from 1967 to 1968. She worked for eight months from 1973 to 1974 at the University of Western Ontario as Writer-in-Residence. Avison has won several leading awards; two of her books have won the Governor General's Award and her book Concrete and Wild Carrot won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2003. Margaret Avison died in August 2007 in Toronto.

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TitleAlways Now: Not yet but still ; Concrete and wild carrot ; Too towards tomorrow : new poems
Volume 3 of Always Now: The Collected Poems, Margaret Avison
AuthorMargaret Avison
Editionillustrated
PublisherThe Porcupine's Quill, 2003
ISBN0889842612, 9780889842618
Length232 pages
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Poetry / Canadian
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Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
  
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