The Essential Anne WilkinsonAnne Wilkinson’s poetic career emerged during a time of few Canadian poets—and even fewer who were women. The Essential Anne Wilkinson showcases the work of her abbreviated but meaningful career, with poems that range from intellectual and symbolic lyrics, to direct, incisive satire. Infused with a woman’s perspective, Wilkinson’s poems reflect her attempts to come to terms with the restrictive world within which she was born and to find her voice amid the expectations of society, gender and class. The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible, and affordable. The Essential Anne Wilkinson is the 11th volume in the series.
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To a PsychoNeurotic | 18 |
Lullaby | 20 |
was born a boy and a maiden The Hangman Ties the Holly 1955 | 21 |
Boys and Girls | 33 |
Poem in Three Parts | 35 |
To a Sleep Addict | 37 |
Where Cliffs Reflected Cower | 38 |
Nature Be Damned | 40 |
A Sorrow of Stones | 43 |
Variations on a Theme | 47 |
Untitled | 50 |
Lens | 23 |
In June and Gentle Oven | 25 |
The Red and the Green | 27 |
Topsoil to the Wind | 28 |
Carol | 29 |
Little Men Slip into Death | 30 |
Daily the Drum | 31 |
Letter to My Children | 51 |
Notes on Suburbia | 57 |
Roches Point | 59 |
About Anne Wilkinson | 61 |
A Bibliography | 63 |
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