Miriam Waddington
Miriam Waddington | |
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Born | Miriam Dworkin 23 December 1917 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Died | 3 March 2004 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | (aged 86)
Pen name | E. B. Merrit[1] |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Notable works | Driving Home: Poems New and Selected |
Miriam Waddington (née Dworkin; 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator. She was part of a Montreal literary circle that included F. R. Scott, Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.
Biography
Miriam Waddington was born in
She died in
Honours
Miriam Waddington was awarded Borestone Mountain Awards for best poetry in 1963, 1966, and 1974.[2] She received the J.J. Segal Award in 1972. She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, and served as writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa.
Waddington received honorary doctorates from Lakehead University in 1975 and York University in 1985.[2]
Her poem "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" is featured on the back of the
Bibliography
Poetry
- Green World. Montreal: First Statement, 1945.
- The Second Silence. Toronto: Ryerson, 1955.
- The Season's Lovers. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958.
- Four Poems. n.p.: n.p., 196-?
- The Glass Trumpet. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1966.
- Flying with Milton. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Unicorn Press, 1969.
- Say Yes. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969.
- Dream Telescope. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1972.
- Driving Home: Poems New and Selected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1972.
- The Price of Gold. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Mister Never. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1978.
- The Visitants. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1981.
- Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- The Last Landscape. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Canada: Romancing the Land - 1996
- Advice to the Young
Fiction
- Summer at Lonely Beach and Other Stories. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1982.
Non-fiction
- A.M. Klein. Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing, 1970.
- Folklore in the Poetry of A.M. Klein. St. John's, NF: Memorial University, 1981.
- Apartment Seven: Essays New and Selected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Edited
- Waddington, Miriam, ed. The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein. Toronto: Mc-Graw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.
- Waddington, Miriam, ed. John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Brock University.[3]
References
- ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 114.
- ^ a b "Miriam Waddington Archived 23 February 2004 at the Wayback Machine", League of Canadian Poets, Poets.ca, Web, 13 April 2011
- ^ "Miriam Waddington," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, 13 April 2011.
Further reading
- Emily Robins Sharpe, "“The heart above the ruins”: Miriam Waddington’s Poetry, the Spanish Civil War, and Jewish Canadian Literature", Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes vol. 26, 2018.
- Adam Sol, David S. Koffman, Gary Barwin, Michael Greenstein, Ruth Panofsky, Lisa Richter, Emily Robins Sharpe, and Rhea Tregebov, “Canadian Jewish Poetry: A Roundtable”, Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes vol. 34, 2022.
External links
- 100 Canadian Poets
- The Bank of Canada - $100 Note, Background Information
- Miriam Waddington's life achievements, awards, selected publications and books in print
- Works at Open Library
- Waddington at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Archives of Miriam Waddington (Miriam Waddington fonds, R4777) ate held at Library and Archives Canada