The Essential Jay Macpherson - Couverture souple

MacPherson, Jay

 
9780889844018: The Essential Jay Macpherson

Synopsis

The Essential Jay Macpherson reveals an unexpected complexity in the poetry of one of the leading figures of Canada's mythopoeic modernist movement.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos des auteurs

Jay Macpherson (1931 - 2012) was an author, publisher and educator central to the development of Canadian mythopoetry in the 1950s and 60s. She became the first Canadian to win Poetry magazine's Levinson prize in 1957. In 1958 she won the Governor General's Award for Poetry for The Boatman. In addition to her verse, Macpherson was the founder of Emblem Books and an instructor at The University of Toronto's Victoria College. Macpherson died in March of 2012.



Melissa Dalgleish is a writer, researcher and research administrator whose work focuses on the professional development of graduate students and on mythopoeic modernism in post-war Canadian poetry. Her work has appeared in Canadian Literature and English Studies in Canada, and she regularly blogs for the feminist academic site Hook & Eye. She is also the co-editor of the online project Graduate Training in the 21st Century. She lives in Toronto.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.