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Anne Wilkinson (1910-61) was one of the most celebrated Canadian writers of her time. Her success as a poet came against all odds: nothing in her background, from geography to genealogy, would have suggested a literary career. She lived her life and practised her art in Toronto at a time when the nerve centre of Canadian poetry was unquestionably Montreal. She was born into the highest levels of Toronto society, a daughter of the very distinguished Osler family. And yet she wrote poetry, and was published to great acclaim, through decades of marriage, child-rearing, divorce, and illness. From December 1947 to July 1956, the years during which she wrote her most successful poetry, Wilkinson kept journals; in due course she also wrote an autobiography, part of which appeared in a literary magazine shortly after she died. Joan Coldwell brings together the complete text of the autobiography with the poet's journals, some samples of her poetry, and a moving exchange of letters between Wilkinson and her mother. The journals vividly reveal the inner workings of the writer's mind and her struggles to create in a difficult environment. With an immediacy and power that only journals can achieve, these writings explore the nature of the creative process in a context of daily realities that are often harsh and sometimes heart-breaking. The autobiography tells the story in a different way, rearranged to fit the forms of a 'legitimate' genre. Together with Coldwell's introduction, these writings present a unique and moving self-portrait of a poet who died too young, at the peak of her career. This volume celebrates Wilkinson's life and work, and the spirit that informed them.

Poets, Canadian --- Wilkinson, Anne,

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Laurence, Margaret --- Purdy, Al --- Novelists, Canadian --- Poets, Canadian --- Correspondence. --- Correspondence

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Poets, Canadian --- Lawyers --- Scott, F. R. - (Francis Reginald), - 1899 --- -Canada

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"Meaning is all around us, but because of the way we live as moderns, we are mostly unable to perceive it. Or so say the Thinking and Singing poets, one of the most remarkable gatherings of artist-thinkers in Canada since the Group of Seven. They are Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay and Jan Zwicky. For more than fifty years, they have been taking short trips into that more meaningful world and leaving clues to its whereabouts in their poems, essays, and other writings. Canadian Primal is the first group biography of the Thinking and Singing poets. Mark Dickinson describes how they each found their way to that richer reality, introduces the guides and teachers who affirmed what they saw, and tracks how they came to poetry as a way of being with that world. Dickinson considers some of the most important moments in their lives - 'primal' moments when they felt the touch or heard the call of that larger world - that allowed them to move beyond the ways of thinking and structures of life in which they'd been trapped. Drawing on dozens of field visits and thousands of letters and e-mails with its subjects, Canadian Primal is literary biography reconceived as an adventure of the mind, body, and spirit. Ebullient, intelligent and eminently readable, it reminds us that we can live on the earth in a different way, true to the defining experiences of our lives, surrounded by meaning and presence beyond our imagining."--

Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. --- Poets, Canadian (English) --- 1900-1999

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American literature --- Layton, Irving --- Poets, Canadian --- Poètes canadiens --- Biography --- Biographie --- Layton, Irving, --- Poètes canadiens --- Poets, Canadian - 20th century - Biography --- Layton, Irving, - 1912-2006