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	Gwendolyn MacEwen Information
		Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 - 29 November 1987) was a Canadian novelist and poet.
		MacEwen was regarded as one of Canada's greatest poets, whose work was visionary, witty and drew readily on themes and images of magic and mythology.
		MacEwen died in 1987, at the age of 46, of health problems related to alcoholism.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Gwendolyn_MacEwen (199 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen
		Gwendolyn MacEwen was born in Toronto in 1941.
		MacEwen served as Writer in Residence at both the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto.
		Gwendolyn MacEwen died in 1987, at the age of 46.
	www.brocku.ca /canadianwomenpoets/Macewen.htm (622 words)

	A New Slang or a Modern
		Gwendolyn MacEwen has been publishing poetry and prose fiction for more than twenty years and has carved what appears to be a separate niche for herself in our literary history.
		MacEwen's myth, she insists, "is neither a literary device nor the formalistic system of a modernist, but the totally involved searchings of a post-modernist amid a cataclysmic environment." Of this judgment, more later.
		The fact that MacEwen's voice is more personal than MacPherson's, that her figures wear contemporary garb in many of the poems and short stories, should not obscure from view the classically organized structure which she imposes on experience, Frank Davey's arguments about mythology innate in the environment notwithstanding.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol15/zezulka.htm (1994 words)

	Alien Creature: A Visitation with Gwendolyn MacEwen by Brent Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MacEwen, who lived most of her life in downtown Toronto not far from Theatre Passe Muraille, began her poetic career with a splash in the 1960s, but found her audience shrinking as the 1960s became the 1970s and the 1970s the 1980s.
		MacEwen’s family history is not substantially different from that of many families who emigrated to Ontario from lower-class British industrial ghettos in an attempt to escape these social ills.
		In portraying MacEwen, Griffiths has tapped into the essence of the character that is formed when a child is forced to deal with these major disturbances within her own family, perhaps by bringing her own experience into the mix.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/103/alien03.html (1095 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen Biography and Summary
		Gwendolyn MacEwen is a versatile writer who has given poetry readings across Canada and published regularly in Canadian literary magazines and journals.
		Gwendolyn MacEwen was one of Canada's best-known mythopoeic writers in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
		Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen(1 September 1941- 29 November 1987) was a Canadian novelist and poet.
	www.bookrags.com /Gwendolyn_MacEwen (387 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen Park Memorial - Fundraising History
		Gwendolyn MacEwen - one of Canada’s most beloved poets - passed-on Nov 30, 1987 in Toronto’s Annex, the neighbourhood where she had spent her last years.
		A decade later her long-standing friend, John McCombe Reynolds, the renowned sculptor and photographer, created a wax bas-relief portrait of MacEwen with the intention of having it cast in bronze and placed in the nearby park named in her honour (Gwendolyn MacEwen Park, located on Walmer Road just north of Bloor Street West).
		MacEwen’s friends, contemporaries, and those in the arts and letters who counted her as an influence were invited to participate in the event as readers/speakers, donors or VIP guest.
	www.gwenpark.org /about.htm (440 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: Volume 1: Books: Gwendolyn MacEwen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry is a unique, heady mixture of the mythical and the mundane.
		MacEwen's fascination with Middle Eastern mythologies means that some of her poems recall those of H.D., but her resemblance to other poets ends there.
		Her poems aren't all mythological; MacEwen is as likely to find an epiphany in an appendix scar or a conjuror's trick as she is to seek it in ancient Egypt.
	www.amazon.ca /Poetry-Gwendolyn-MacEwen-1/dp/1550965433 (421 words)

	::Arc Poetry::How Poems Work::Barbara Myers on Gwendolyn MacEwen's "The Mirage"::
		Gwendolyn MacEwen was one of the most remarkable Canadian poets of her generation.
		MacEwen published her collection The T. Lawrence Poems in 1982, attributing her first fascination with Lawrence to “sepiatone photographs … of blurred riders on camels riding to the left into some uncharted desert just beyond the door” pointed out to her in a hotel in Tiberias, Israel, in 1962.
		MacEwen was interested in language as the basis of myth.
	www.arcpoetry.ca /howpoemswork/features/2004_11_myers.php (824 words)

	Eye Weekly - Mark her words - 05.09.02
		MacEwen explored ancient languages and mythologies for the raw stuff of her poetry.
		Any heroic identification with MacEwen is an aspiration to the bravery of her work, says Dey, who has no pretension to a mad and tortured existence.
		It's for the same reason that the walls of her tiny office at Factory are covered with poems by Gwendolyn MacEwen, written on note paper in Dey's practiced script.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.09.02/arts/gwendolynpoems.php (835 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen and Female Spiritual Desire
		Gwendolyn MacEwen writes that her poetic interest is in discovering "the real, unexplored country which lies within the country we think we have conquered." "The search for a reality which resolves all contradictions" is how she describes her poetic desire (Colombo 65).
		Without comprehending MacEwen's underlying strategy of equating the outside with the inside, or failing to see she adheres to the notion that the "personal is political," one might concede that she trivializes human suffering or is simply too self-absorbed to notice it, particularly in her poems on war.
		It is largely by this unconventional use of language, through style itself, that MacEwen contributes to the shattering of the myth of transcendence, substituting for it her perception of the inequities in andro centric metaphysical thought.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol28/potvin.htm (7551 words)

	Essay: "The Child Dancing" by Gwendolyn MacEwen is an interior monologue about artist's role in society. - ...
		Essay: "The Child Dancing" by Gwendolyn MacEwen is an interior monologue about artist's role in society.
		MacEwen expresses this by describing an attempt to write about the horrors of a "child dancing" lifelessly on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto, would be "slandering" him.
		To assist in this style of writing; MacEwen abandons the use of proper grammar, capitalization in new sentences, and punctuation such as periods.
	www.coursework.info /GCSE/English_Literature/Poetry/The_Child_Dancing_by_Gwendolyn_MacEwen_is_an_interior_monologue_L28687.html (303 words)

	From The Rising Fire to Afterworlds: the Visionary Circle in the Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen
		MacEwen is without question a poet who falls on the "visionary" end of the artistic spectrum, though she associates herself with no particular faith.
		MacEwen’s relationship with acute experience is made plain in "The Red Curtains." The beginning of the poem is almost a lament, a plea to be freed of the intensity of life, a plea that probably led her to alcohol, which in turn probably made the acuteness of pain and loneliness all the more unbearable:
		MacEwen takes this process one step farther, by identifying her lovers with her poetic muse, and viewing each individual relationship as one aspect of a greater relationship with a muse who manifests himself in different ways at different times.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol47/wood.htm (8354 words)

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		MacEwen wasn't the first to write about the city, but her work was the first to lay out its tropes.
		MacEwen's city dwellers are lonely because they don't know who they are, mainly because they are lost, rent apart from culture, history, and familiar places.
		MacEwen's city dwellers are transient and deliberately interchangeable, but they are also fierce and sometimes free.
	www.readingt.readingcities.com /index.php/toronto/comments/imagining_toronto_gwendolyn_macewens_noman_1972_and_nomans_land_1985 (748 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She married poet Milton Acorn in 1962, although they divorced two years later.
		MacEwen won the Governor General's Award in 1969 for her poetry collection The Shadow Maker.
		She won her second Governor General's Award in 1987 for Afterworlds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwendolyn_MacEwen (266 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen, Other Information
		But after MacEwen's death, the author discovered that she "hadn't been an intimate friend at all." As with so many others, MacEwen had kept hidden the more troubling elements of her personal story.
		MacEwen was born in 1941, into a working-class Toronto family.
		MacEwen believed, to quote Sullivan, that poetry "was a form of magic that could change lives." Sullivan thinks that her subject lost that belief in her final years.
	library.utoronto.ca /canpoetry/macewen/other1.htm (950 words)

	Amazon.de: Julian the Magician (Insomniac Library): English Books: Gwendolyn Macewen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's first novel, more than forty years after its original appearance in 1963.
		MacEwen described what she set out to achieve as a "sort of powerful poetic mad half-abandoned prose somewhere between [Kenneth] Patchen and Virginia Woolf." Set in a medieval past that has distinctly modern overtones, the novel is about Julian, a young man who believes he is Christ.
		MacEwen skilfully implies a relationship between alchemy, miracles and belief, and the art forms she is engaged in herself, poetry and prose.
	amazon.de /Magician-Insomniac-Library-Gwendolyn-Macewen/dp/1894663578 (282 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Poet's Name - Profile
		Gwendolyn MacEwen was born September 1, 1941 at Toronto.
		MacEwen authored many poetry collections, among them the Governor General's Award winning collection The Shadow-Maker (1969).
		The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Later Years, Volume Two Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan, eds.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/g_macewen.htm (99 words)

	Gwendolyn MacEwen Park Memorial - Readers
		She is also editing a volume of critical essays on the work of Gwendolyn MacEwen, for Guernica Editions' Writers Series.
		Gwendolyn MacEwen was a friend, mentor and was instrumental in arranging for the publication of his first book of poetry.
		It was his arrest for reading poetry in Allen Gardens Park, (along with that of Gwendolyn and Milton Acorn's) which challenged and ultimately changed the public speech bylaws of Toronto in 1962.
	www.gwenpark.org /readers.htm (1198 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Then Act One begins with Gwendolyn’s announcement to her parents that she has discovered that she is a poet and must drop out of high school to follow her calling.
		Another early scene highlights MacEwen’s first marriage, to Milton Acorn, and again, Dey gets to the core of the relationship, showing, in only two brief dialogues, both the attraction that brought the two poets together and the inevitable souring of their short marriage.
		The hints are compelling, including MacEwen’s conscious obliteration of memories that surfaced when she found herself alone and vulnerable to unwanted sexual advances on trips to Israel and to Egypt in the 1960s.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/181/5957_Shostak.html (615 words)

	Taddle Creek Magazine \| Where Voices Cross \| taddlecreekmag.com
		Acorn carried a great amount of animosity towards MacEwen, so much so that when he died she was reluctant to read at his memorial, feeling the writing community saw her as a woman who had used him to promote herself.
		MacEwen fell into the “romantic” notion of the artist—a woman tormented by her childhood, who died an alcoholic, almost in poverty and remained relatively unknown in her own country, despite producing twenty books of poetry.
		After MacEwen’s death and after writing about Smart, Sullivan decided to write about someone she knew to be filled with a creative spirit and someone who had managed to produce a large volume of work over thirty years but still remained relatively unknown in her own country.
	www.taddlecreekmag.com /where_voices_cross.shtml (2642 words)

	Terror & Erebus by Gwendolyn MacEwen
		Gwendolyn MacEwen was one of Canada's most intriguing literary figures.
		Despite the directness of her poetry the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen is shrouded in a painful mystery that ended tragically with her death in 1987 from alcoholism.
		MacEwen's narrative is told almost a century later by the explorer Knud Rasmussen of both Scandinavian and Inuit heritage.
	www.naisa.ca /deepwireless/2002/terror.html (386 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: Volume 2: Books: Gwendolyn MacEwen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Along with MacEwen's poetry, editors Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan have chosen to include the last chapter of King of Egypt, King of Dreams, MacEwen's historical novel about Akhenaton, the heretic pharaoh who briefly established a monotheistic religion in place of the Egyptian pantheon.
		By this time, MacEwen has lightened the almost surreal richness of her style in favour of a plainer line that is more suitable to the asceticism of the desert:
		Like all of MacEwen's works, it has its own strangeness; it is a collection of love poems, elegies, political poems, and forays into a reading of modern physics.
	www.amazon.ca /Poetry-Gwendolyn-MacEwen-2/dp/1550965476 (398 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		MacEwen often braved in her writing an identity crisis closely related to the one which Alline addressed: "Kanada," her character Noman sighs, for instance.
		MacEwen's term "Shadow-Maker" might be said to encompass Boehme's Unground as well as the light or fire of love which Boehme saw as struggling dialectically with the Unground's dark, issuing in creation.
		MacEwen's distinctive mystical stance derives in part from being emphatically feminist: writing within the dominant discourse of male mysticism, represented by Boehme, MacEwen simultaneously subverts this discourse--not as an intellectual or literary exercise, but in order to voice her self as woman and mystic.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol16_2/&filename=Gerry.htm (3384 words)

	Noman's Land, Gwendolyn MacEwen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Noman's Land by Gwendolyn MacEwen, was first published in 1985 by The Coach House Press.
		MacEwen is not a poet interested in turning her life into myth; rather; she is concerned with translating her myth into life, and into poetry which is part of it.'
		For Canadian writers, the most salutary union of opposites MacEwen has achieved is this one in which the mythological and the experimental become inseparable faces of one living reality.
	www.chbooks.com /archives/online_books/nomans_land (160 words)

	Amazon.de: Selected Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: English Books: Gwendolyn MacEwen,Margaret Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Margaret Atwood presents a selection of poetry by Gwendolyn MacEwen, who first met Atwood in a Toronto coffee shop.
		MacEwen's poetry is by turns playful, extravagant, melancholy, daring and profound.
		Her work takes its inspiration from subjects as hard- hitting as the Hiroshima bombing and as humble as the peanut butter sandwich.
	www.amazon.de /Selected-Poetry-Gwendolyn-MacEwen/dp/1860490735 (204 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Fox amongst the chickens
		We'll leave it to literary scholars to judge the truth of The Gwendolyn Poems, but few could argue with the theatrical truth that playwright Claudia Dey has created in her exploration of the life and work of the late Gwendolyn MacEwen.
		As MacEwen, Brooke Johnson fills her performance with the vivid angles and edges of the poet's mind, aging herself largely on the strength of her performance alone.
		As Milton Acorn, MacEwen's first husband, however, David Fox is completely out of control -- a cuckoo loose in a nest of beautiful and timid finches.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/G/Gwendolyn_Poems/2002/05/17/pf-742016.html (430 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
		Because MacEwen took certain liberties with the text, her version was not a traditional Greek tragedy, but it retained many elements of the original.
		Marrion told the chorus at the beginning of rehearsals that her aim was not to produce a traditional tragedy, so the play's history was examined more as a matter of interest than as actual background.
		The text of MacEwen's chorus was divided up into nine individual parts, each of which had different image motifs and speech patterns (frequent questions, wailing, always initiating a line run, always ending a line run, speaking without following or being followed by other chorus members).
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol1no5/chorus.html (1129 words)

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