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list price: $44.95
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Literary Collections
published: May 2014
ISBN:9780776621456
publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
imprint: University of Ottawa Press

The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington

A Critical Edition

edited by Ruth Panofsky, by Miriam Waddington

tagged: canadian
Description

This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems. Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature love, the pleasures of marriage and motherhood, the experience of raising two sons to adulthood, and the ineffable pain of divorce. As she moved through life, she wrote clearly and uncompromisingly about the vast sweep of Canada, her travels to new lands, the passage of time, the death of her ex-husband, the loss of close friends and, later, of growing old.
Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature love, the pleasures of marriage and motherhood, the experience of raising two sons to adulthood, and the ineffable pain of divorce. As she moved through life, she wrote clearly and uncompromisingly about the vast sweep of Canada, her travels to new lands, the passage of time, the death of her ex-husband, the loss of close friends and, later, of growing old.
Supplementary material is available here:
https://press.uottawa.ca/en/supplementary-material-the-collected-works-of-miriam-waddington/

About the Authors

Ruth Panofsky


Miriam Waddington

Contributor Notes

Ruth Panofsky is a professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University where she specializes in Canadian literature and culture. Her scholarship focuses on Canadian publishing history, authorship studies, textual scholarship, and Jewish Canadian women writers. In addition to scholarly works, she has published two books of poetry.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature (Poetry)
  • Winner, Rosa and the late David Finestone Canadian Jewish Studies Award for Best Book
  • Winner, Canadian Jewish Literary Award, Yiddish Category
  • Winner, PROSE Award, Literature
  • Short-listed, Eric Hoffer Book Award
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