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	Margaret Avison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Charles Avison Quote from Robert Browning and local ties from the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.
		Avison, Charles Biography noting his musicianship, compositional style, and critical writings from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
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	Margaret Avison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Avison could be considered a spiritual or metaphysical poet.
		New, William H. "The Mind's (I's) (Ice): The Poetry of Margaret Avison." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal.
		Sullivan, R. "The Territory of Conscience: The Poetry of Margaret Avison." Literary Half-Yearly." 32.1 (1991): 43-55.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Avison (539 words)

	The Dissolving Jail- Break in Avison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margaret Avison's most concise statement on the faculty of imaginative vision appears in the early and darker stages of her mature career, in her most controversial poem; the thought embodied by this statement, however, flows through most of her poetry in various channels, undergoing various transformations.
		It is difficult to generalize about movements in Margaret Avison's poetry: elements of the celebration and conviction of later poems enlighten some of her early work, and "voices" of earlier scepticism and self-examination speak in her later poems.
		Margaret Avison would probably consider this statement somewhat blasphemously exaggerated, since in her belief there is only One who bore that collision head-on; but it digs up an important truth — Avison's poetry is incarnational, not idealistic, and that incarnation is what "Prelude" and its "annunciation" are about.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol25/quinsey.htm (6025 words)

	Through the Son: an Explication of Margaret Avison's "Person" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That Avison had an encounter with the "Jesus of resurrection power," and that this experience changed her attitude not only to herself, but also to her art, both past and present, is a well-documented fact.
		Through the control of language, form and rhetoric, Avison is able to weave Christian doctrine, with its specific language, metaphors and images, into the body of her poem and to present the completed work as a unified whole, rather than as a disguised homiletic.
		Margaret Avison, The Dumbfounding (New York: Norton, 1966).
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol22/mazoff.htm (3796 words)

	Always Now (Volume Two)
		Margaret Avison has created poems which are regarded as `among the finest religious poems written in the 20th century' (David Stouck, Major Canadian Authors).
		In these poems, Margaret Avison's faith, now constant, is dynamic, challenging her as well as her reader (`from the namby-pams / of the cloaking faith I wear / deliver me').
		Margaret Avison was born April 23, 1918 in Galt, Ontario.
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	Take A Joy Read, Canada! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Avison's poetry is also alive in its sublimity and its humility: 'wonder, readiness, simplicity' - the gifts of perception Avison attributes to her Christian faith - imbue every poem in this book with a rare spirit of disorderly love.
		Avison has already been rightly honoured in her career with two Governor-General's Awards (1960 and 1989) and is an officer of the Order of Canada.
		For a devout Christian (as Avison is), the afterlife is part of this cycle, and she often alludes to it in a veiled way, using "the intricate / script of the world" to signify the beyond.
	www.lpg.ca /JoyRead/marapr05/titles/concrete.htm (1625 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Avison's most explicit attempts at a poetic formulation for this acceptance are found in her latest volume of poems, The Dumbfounding, perhaps most notably in "Person" (the title itself emphasizes the challenging, inescapable fact of selfhood).
		The struggle is reflected in Avison's style and choice of poetic forms: she is a poet of the large, free gesture ("Yet I declare, your seeing is diseased / That cripples space', -"Perspective"), but she is also a practitioner of the tighly bound sonnet.
		The special violence of Avison's concept may be confirmed by contrasting it with two famous statements on the nature of seeing; thus, Emerson: "such is the constitution of all things, or such the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms...
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol3_2/&filename=Zichy.htm (3784 words)

	Review - Concrete and Wild Carrot by Margaret Avison
		They mark the passing year as 'Trees that were only sticks/ in the overcast' become 'soft and full of catkins' and Avison can be seen momentarily as one of 'the newly shampooed children being/ readied for the party' (Pacing the Turn of the Year).
		For Avison, no matter her age, sees the world lightly and with delight, noting the underlying wildness that like the Wild carrot, or Queen Anne's Lace, is universally known and grows in unexpected and often dark places--she treats that darkness playfully.
		While Gerard Manley Hopkins brought a profound emotional quality to his writing, there is objectivity about Avison's poetry that grants the reader distance and perspective on the wider complexities of life, death, the cycles of time, and the limitations of language, without losing track of the details that delineate each day.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/poetry/avison.htm (617 words)

	Journal of Canadian Studies: "Out of the Painted Grove, My Buck": The Escape from Irony in Avison and Page
		P.K. Page and Margaret Avison both begin their careers in this mode: the garden in The Metal and the Flower is surrounded by industrialstrength barbed wire; the sun of Winter Sun can barely warm the things of this world.
		Avison's ongoing interest in the germinating seed is not so much in the unconscious, intuitive and spontaneous dimensions of creation, but in the poem's taking shape, being shaped by its inner guidelines, its DNA as it were, and within a supportive structure.
		For Avison, by contrast, the figure of transcendence, her Lord, is none other than Christ the Lord, and Christ's masculinity will be an insuperable difficulty for many of her readers, although not for her.
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	Word and Action in Margaret Avison's Not Yet But Still (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These two Canadians of the same birth-decade (Avison b 1918; Frye b 1912) both passed most of their working lives in Toronto; and both were explicitly Christian in their vocations as in their writing – Frye an ordained United Church of Canada minister, Avison for many years a worker for the Presbyterian Church of Canada.
		Avison writes that the Christ who is the created world 'is, as it were, God translating Himself into the language of our kind of being, so that we can understand' (A Kind of Perseverance, hereafter KP, 44); for God, 'speaking with us meant "lisping in our language"' (KP, 37).
		Avison agrees, in explicit Christian terms: '[N]othing, nothing at all, could be excluded from the total relevance of the person Jesus...
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	Rainbows and Worn-out Shoes
		Margaret, who is one of the most achieved poets in Canada, has won the Governor General's Medal twice; once in 1960 for Winter Sun and again in 1989 for No Time.
		Margaret hobnobbed with Raymond Souster and Leonard Cohen; achieved her master's degree in Old Norse Icelandic and was a writer in residence for Western and York universities.
		For one of the Mission's windows, Margaret wanted to write, "You don't have to go it alone." She wrote a story about John who was in advanced stages of schizophrenia, called, "27 pairs of worn out shoes" (which is the only thing they found after John moved from his rooming house).
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	margaret avison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margaret Avison (born April 23, 1918) is a Canadian poet.
		Quinsey, K. "The Dissolving Jail-Break in Avison." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews.
		Zezulka, J. "Refusing the Sweet Surrender: Margaret Avison's 'Dispersed Titles'" Canadian Poetry 1 (1977): 44-53.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /margaret_avison.html (547 words)

	Margaret Avison, Poet
		Avison's is an urbanized, "educated imagination." Take the poem, "Dispersed Titles," for instance, largely about the achievement of Tycho Brahe, a Dane who lived from 1546 to 1601 and who was once regarded as the world's most practical astronomer.
		But Avison's hope isn't cheap, false hope; it is hope grounded in the pain and companionship of one who also suffered and died before he rose again.
		Avison is not without a good sense of humour as only a peek at some of her recent pictures will show you or an encounter with her will tell.
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	Refusing the Sweet Surrender: Margaret Avison's "Dispersed Titles." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As far as possible I leave aside "the whole terrain" of Avison's work, but with the hope that by casting some illumination on this poem, the larger terrain may be more easily comprehended.
		For Avison, the Dutchman's microscope is an image of man's technology, a "magic window" which opens into previously undiscovered recesses of the natural world.
		Along with her contemporaries, Avison fears that the heavens have become simply "the night's empty galleries;" that "Up" is just another direction in which one can travel.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol01/zezulka.htm (3019 words)

	CanLinks - Criticism (A)
		In Pursuit of the Faceless Stranger: Depths and Surfaces in Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm.
		Margaret Avison: Power, Knowledge and the Language of Poetry.
		Phoenix from the Ashes: Lorna Crozier and Margaret Avison in Contemporary Mourning.
	www.lucking.net /canlinks/cl_criticism_a.htm (94 words)

	Margaret Avison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margaret Avison (born April 23, 1918) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet.
		Avison was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Galt) Galt, (A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada) Ontario.
		In 2003 her work Concrete and Wild Carrot won the lucrative (Click link for more info and facts about Griffin Poetry Prize) Griffin Poetry Prize.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/margaret_avison.htm (645 words)

	Image Update
		Just as we were about to send off this newsletter, complete with the review in the next paragraph of Margaret Avison's new collection, we got the news that she has won the Griffin Prize for Poetry, the largest cash award for poetry in the world.
		Avison is fascinated with mystery-the poems are spattered with question marks in all the places where we would expect to find conclusions.
		Margaret Avison's sense of wonder is apparent in these poems, as is her insight.
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	Find Free Essays on The Challenge of a Challenge
		In the poem "The Swimmer's Moments" the poet, Margaret Avison, suggests that when people are faced with challenges some people will strive to be their best and will conquer their challenge, and others will not try at all.
		Avison uses many symbols to show the reader how she preceives the challenge of a challenge.
		When Margaret Avison writes, "The mysterious, and more ample, further waters." She is suggesting that the brave few who face the challenge are going to gain knowledge, self confidence, personal growth and they have acheived victory over the challenge that stood before them.
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	Encyclopedia: Margaret Avison
		April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years).
		The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canadas youngest and most lucrative poetry award.
		Source for list of publications: "100 Canadian Poets" and Margaret Avison's home page (at library.utoronto.ca)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Margaret-Avison (882 words)

	Always Now
		The feast and famine that ruled John Hornby's life has echoes in her poetry, where tiny physical phenomena are seen with the "hallucinatory intensity" of a last meal.
		In her poetry, weather is a portent, a visible sign of the invisible, evidence of God made flesh.
		Margaret Avison was born in Galt, Ontario, in 1918.
	www.sentex.net /~pql/always.html (1015 words)

	Concrete and Wild Carrot by Margaret Avison, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1894078241
		One of Canada's senior poets, Margaret Avison will split the $80,000 prize — the richest award for poetry in the world — with Irish-born Paul Muldoon, winner of the international half of the award.
		She is not prolific; since publishing her first poem in 1939 at the age of 21, she has produced only seven books of poetry, two of them Governor General's award winners.
		Nominated for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize, March 27, 2003 In Margaret Avison's new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones.
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	100 Canadian Poets - Margaret Avison - Profile
		Her first poetry collection, The Winter Sun(1960) was started in Chicago where Avison lived in 1956 as a Guggenheim fellow.
		Avison combines a sense ofsocial concern, moral and religious values in her work.
		Margaret Avison and Her WorksToronto: ECW P, 1989.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/m_avison.htm (508 words)

	Margaret Avison -- Brick Books
		Concrete and Wild Carrot is Margaret Avison’s sixth book of poems, her first with Brick Books — though we now distribute her Lancelot Press books.
		She is one of Canada’s most respected writers, still at the top of her form in a career that stretches back to the 1940s, and during which she has gained three honorary degrees and two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry (for Winter Sun and No Time).
		"Avison's new volume is a lyrical tribute to a created order suffused with a holy energy--a vitality inaccessible to the statisticians, the engineers, the corporate mandarins.
	www.brickbooks.ca /BL-Avison.htm (509 words)

	F0259 - Margaret Avison fonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margaret Avison (1918-), poet and social worker, was born in Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto (BA 1940), as well as attending creative writing schools at the universities of Indiana and Chicago.
		Avison is a poet, with four collections of poetry to her credit, 'Winter sun,' (1960), 'The dumbfounding,' (1966) 'Sunblue' (1978), and 'No time,' (1990).
		The fonds mainly documents Margaret Avison's work as a poet and writer and includes manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, printed material, music scores and photographs.
	archivesfa.library.yorku.ca /fonds/ON00370-f0000259.htm (178 words)

	Charles Avison -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Little is known of Avison's life until he took positions as organist at St. John's and St. Nicholas' churches in Newcastle in 1736.
		More results on "Charles Avison" when you join.
		Among the first writer-musicians to make systematic contributions to criticism were Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France, Johann Mattheson in Germany, and Charles Avison and Charles Burney in England.
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	Margaret Avison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She went to VictoriaCollege and the University of Toronto.
		The Cosmic Chef Glee and Perloo Memorial Society under the direction ofCaptain Poetry presents an evening of concrete (poems by Margaret Avison [and others] edited by B.P. Nichol.); courtesyOberon Cement Works.
		New, William H. "The Mind's (I's) (Ice): The Poetry of Margaret Avison." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly andCritical Journal.
	www.therfcc.org /margaret-avison-129240.html (494 words)

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