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The essential Margaret Avison / selected by Robyn Sarah.

by Avison, Margaret, 1918-2007.

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Porcupine's Quill, c2010.

Essential poets ; 6

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Poems. Selections

Includes bibliographical references: p. 63.

From Elsewhere in Always Now: The Collected Poems (Volume 1)The Butterfly Winter SunSnowJonathan, O JonathanThe World Still NeedsAll Fool's EveHiatusNovember 23New Year's PoemThe Swimmer's MomentSeptember StreetWatershedThawMordent for a Melody From Elsewhere in Always Now: The Collected Poems (Volume 1)The Typographer's Ornate Symbol at the End of a Chapter or Story The DumbfoundingPaceTwilightIn a Season of UnemploymentJuly ManA Nameless OneMany as Two A StoryThe Dumbfounding sunblueOughtiness OustedHid LifeSlow AdventReleased FlowCement Worker on a Hot DayScar-faceA Lament No TimeNoted, FounderedPowerLossCrowd Corralling Not Yet but StillLit Sky and Foundered EarthPoringConcrete and Wild CarrotBalancing Out Too Towards Tomorrow: New Poems, in Always Now: The Collected Poems (Volume 3)Sad Song Momentary DarkFinished When UnfinishedPrayer of AnticipationEn RoutePoetry Is ListeningStill LifeMetamorphosisSafe but Shaky

The Essential Margaret Avison showcases the development of one of Canada's most brilliant and original poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for Poetry. Margaret Avison's vibrant life work is distilled here into a selection that is illuminating, generous and richly varied.

All Fools' Eve From rooming-house to rooming-house The toasted evening spells City to hayrick, warming and bewildering A million motes. From gilded tiers, Balconies, and sombre rows, Women see gopher-hawks, and rolling flaxen hills; Smell a lost childhood's homely supper. Men lean with folded newspapers, Touched by a mushroom and root-cellar Coolness. The wind flows, Ruffles, unquickens. Crumbling ash Leaves the west chill. The Sticks-&-Stones, this City, Lies funeral bare. Over its gaping arches stares That haunt, the mirror mineral. In cribs, or propped at plastic tablecloths, Children are roundeyed, caught by a cold magic, Fading of glory. In their dim Cement-floored garden the zoo monkeys shiver. Doors slam. Lights snap, restore The night's right prose. Gradually All but the lovers' ghostly windows close.

Canadian poetry.

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