Elizabeth Brewster
Elizabeth Brewster | |
|---|---|
| Born | Elizabeth Winifred Brewster August 26, 1922 Chipman, New Brunswick |
| Died | December 26, 2012 (aged 90) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Language | English |
| Nationality |  Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of New Brunswick Radcliffe College University of Toronto Indiana University Bloomington |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Order of Canada Saskatchewan Order of Merit Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal |
Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM SOM (26 August 1922 – 26 December 2012[1]) was a Canadian poet, author, and academic.[2]
Biography
Born in the logging village of
PhD on the work of English poet George Crabbe and graduated in 1962. She was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan
, where she taught literature and creative writing from 1972 until she retired in 1990.
A founding member in 1945 of the Canadian literary journal , Canada's highest civilian honour.
Selected bibliography
Poetry
- East Coast. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951.
- Lillooet (with art by JEH MacDonald and Thoreau MacDonald). Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954.
- Roads, and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1957.
- Passage of Summer: Selected Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969.
- Sunrise North. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1972.
- In Search of Eros. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1974.
- Sometimes I Think of Moving. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1977.
- The Way Home. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1982.
- Digging In. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1982.
- Selected Poems, 1944-1977 & 1977-1984 (2 volumes). Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1985.
- Entertaining Angels. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1988.
- Spring Again. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1990. Finalist for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award.
- Wheel of Change. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1993.
- Footnotes to the Book of Job. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1995. Finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Award.
- Garden of Sculpture. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1998.
- Burning Bush. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2000.
- Jacob's Dream. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2002. Winner of the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award.
- Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster 1. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2003.
- Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster 2. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2004.
- Bright Centre. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2005.
- Time and Seasons. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2009.
- The Essential Elizabeth Brewster - poems, ed. Ingrid Ruthig. Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 2021
Prose
- The Sisters. (novel) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1974.
- It's Easy to Fall on the Ice. (stories) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1977.
- Junction. (novel) Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1982.
- A House Full of Women. (stories) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1983.
- Visitations. (stories) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1987.
- The Invention of Truth. (memoir) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1991.
- Away from Home. (memoir) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1995.
Anthologies
- The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1960.
- Five New Brunswick Poets: Elizabeth Brewster, Fred Cogswell, Robert Gibbs, Alden Nowlan, Kay Smith, ed. Fred Cogswell. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 1962.
- The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, second revised edition, ed. Ralph Gustafson. Penguin Books, 1958, 1967, 1975.
- Selections from Major Canadian Writers, ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.
- Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry By and About Women, ed. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff. Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984.
- Choice Atlantic : Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes, ed. Elaine Crocker, Eric Norman, and Michael Nowlan. St. John's: Breakwater, 1990.
- A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry, ed. Susan McCaslin. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 1998.
- Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie, and Robin McGrath. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2002.
- Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960, ed. Brian Trehearne. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
Musical settings of poems by Elizabeth Brewster
- Winter flowers: for alto soloist, chorus & orchestra. Music by Nancy Telfer, c.1980, words by Elizabeth Brewster.
- The Ballad of Princess Caraboo: a narrative of singular imposition for mezzo-soprano and piano. Music by Nancy Telfer, words by Elizabeth Brewster. F. Harris Music, c.1983.
Archives
There is an Elizabeth Brewster fond at Library and Archives Canada.[9] The archival reference is R931, former archival reference number MG30-D370.[10] The fond covers the date range 1935 (approximately) to 1997. It consists of 4.91 meters of textual records along with a number of graphic material and objects.
References
- ^ "College of Arts and Science . University of Saskatchewan". Arts.usask.ca. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
- ^ Noreen Shanahan. "Obituary: Elizabeth Brewster's journey of self-awareness led to prolific poetry career". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
- ^ "Elizabeth Brewster 1922-2012 | the Fiddlehead".
- ^ "Brewster, Elizabeth (Winifred) 1922- | Encyclopedia.com".
- ^ "Archived Awards - Saskatchewan Book Awards".
- ^ "Eli Bornstein and Elizabeth Brewster to receive Saskatchewan Order of Merit".
- ^ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists".
- ^ "The Governor General announces new appointments to the Order of Canada".
- ^ "Elizabeth Brewster finding aid at Library and Archives Canada" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
- ^ "Elizabeth Brewster fond description at Library and Archives Canada". Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
Further reading
- "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". University of Toronto Press. Archived from the original on March 5, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2006.
- Pacey, Desmond (July 1973). "The Poetry of Elizabeth Brewster". Ariel. 4 (3): 58–69.
- Gibbs, Robert (Autumn 1974). "Next Time from a Different Country". Canadian Literature. 62: 17–32.
- Friewald, Bina Toledo (2009). "Tradition, Individual Talent, and 'a young woman /From Backwoods New Brunswick': Modernism and Elizabeth Brewster's (Auto)Poetics of the Subject". In Di Brandt; Barbara Godard (eds.). Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 97–123. ISBN 9781554586905.
- Wilson, Jean (9 September 2014). "Elizabeth Brewster". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada.
- Ruthig, Ingrid. Foreword to The Essential Elizabeth Brewster. Erin: the Porcupine's Quill, 2021.
External links
- Archives of Elizabeth Brewster (Elizabeth Brewster fonds, R931) are held at Library and Archives Canada
