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"This new 2022 edition is the only one to chronologically follow the astonishing trajectory of Gwendolyn MacEwen's career as a poet, storyteller, translator, and dramatist. Seminal and a substantial selections from each genre are set among paintings, photographs, personal letters, and rare archival material. Also included for students or bookclubs or for the general reader are questions for discussion, essay topics, suggested reading, and related websites."--
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Rosemary Sullivan is an award-winning writer and the author of the
New York Times bestseller
The Betrayal of Anne Frank.
Shadow Maker, her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, won the Governor General's Award, the UBC President's Medal for Canadian Biography, and the Toronto Book Award.
Meaghan Strimas is the author of three collections of poetry:
Junkman's Daughter, A Good Time Had by All, and
Yes or Nope, which received the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She teaches and co-ordinates the Bachelor of Creative & Professional Writing degree program at Humber College. She also serves as interviews editor at the
Humber Literary Review, a magazine she co-founded.
Gwendolyn MacEwen was a Canadian poet and novelist, and a sophisticated, wide-ranging, and thoughtful writer. She published more than 20 books in her life, each carrying a sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt, magic itself, and from her wonderment at life and death. Her writing is unique, and to this day she is still regarded by most as one of the best Canadian poets.
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Spanning Gwendolyn MacEwen’s career from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, this is a comprehensive collection of work by one of the greatest women writers of the 20th century. It traces the trajectory of her verse and the development of her fiction and drama, and includes letters, paintings, and photographs.
