Anne Wilkinson (poet)
Anne Wilkinson | |
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| Born | Anne Cochran Gibbons September 21, 1910 Toronto, Ontario |
| Died | May 10, 1961 (aged 50) Toronto, Ontario |
| Resting place | Roches Point, Ontario |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality |  Canadian |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Relatives | Sir Edmund Boyd Osler (1845-1924) (maternal grandfather) |
Anne Cochran Wilkinson (September 21, 1910 – May 10, 1961)[1] was a Canadian poet[2] and writer. She was part of the modernist movement in Canadian poetry in the 1940s and 1950s, one of only a few prominent women poets of the time, along with Dorothy Livesay and P. K. Page.
Early life
Wilkinson was born Anne Gibbons in Toronto, Ontario, at Craigleigh, the Rosedale home of her maternal grandfather, the banker and Ontario politician Sir Edmund Boyd Osler. The middle child of Mary Osler and lawyer George Gibbons, she grew up in privileged society in London, Ontario[3] and, after her father's early death from multiple sclerosis in 1919, in Toronto and California, and at her grandfather's country estate at Roches Point on Lake Simcoe.[4]
Career
By 1946, several of Wilkinson's poems had appeared in
.Her close friend A. J. M. Smith edited and introduced The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir, which was posthumously published in 1968.[8] Her writing was celebrated by artist/filmmaker Joyce Wieland and author Michael Ondaatje, and set to music by composer Oskar Morawetz. In the early 1990s it was re-examined by Joan Coldwell, who edited a new edition of the poems, as well as a volume of Wilkinson's autobiographical writings.
Wilkinson's work has enjoyed a revival since the publication in 2003 of Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924–1961, edited by Dean Irvine, with appearances and discussion in more recent anthologies such as An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, Modern Canadian Poets,[9] Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry,[10] and Earth and Heaven, An Anthology of Myth Poetry.
Selected works
Poetry
- Counterpoint to Sleep. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1951.
- The Hangman Ties the Holly. Toronto: Macmillan, 1955.
- The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir, ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968.
- The Poetry of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir, ed. Joan Coldwell. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1990.
- Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924–1961, ed. Dean Irvine. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2003.
- The Essential Anne Wilkinson - poems, ed. Ingrid Ruthig. Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 2014.[11][12]
Prose
- Lions in the Way: A Discursive History of the Oslers. Toronto: Macmillan, 1956.
- Swann and Daphne, a children's story. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1960.
- The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Other
- Elegy: Voice and Piano, music Oskar Morawetz, words Anne Wilkinson. Aneneas Music, 1989.
References
- ^ Wilson, Jean (2013-12-15). "Anne Wilkinson". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ISBN 978-1-349-86101-9.
- ^ "Anne Wilkinson" Archived 2018-02-05 at the Wayback Machine at The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Biography of Anne Wilkinson" Archived 2018-05-15 at the Wayback Machine at canwwrfrom1950.org: Canadian Women Writers from 1950
- ISBN 978-0-88784-878-0. p. 47–.
- ^ Trehearne, Brian (ed.). "Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960". Penguin Random House. McClelland & Stewart, 2010. Archived from the original on 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
- OCLC 5211239. Retrieved 19 January 2020 – via WorldCat.
- ISBN 978-1-4875-1136-4. p. 120–.
- ISBN 978-1-85754-938-6. p. 33–.
- ISBN 978-1-55458-690-5. p. 125–.
- ^ "Review: A Little and a Lot". Canadian Literature, November 12, 2015
- ^ "Review: The Essential Anne Wilkinson, edited by Ingrid Ruthig". Bullcalf Review, February, 2016
Further reading
- Smith, A.J.M. "A Reading of Anne Wilkinson". Introduction to The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir, ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968.
- Lecker, Robert. "Better Quick Than Dead: Anne Wilkinson's Poetry". Studies in Canadian Literature Volume 3, Number 1, 1978.
- Coldwell, Joan. "Anne Wilkinson." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Armitage, Christopher. Anne Wilkinson and Her Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989.
- Irvine, Dean. Introduction to Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924–1961. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2003.
- Ruthig, Ingrid. Foreword to The Essential Anne Wilkinson. Erin: the Porcupine's Quill, 2014.
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