The Poetry of Anne Wilkinson
$37.95
After Anne Wilkinson’s death, fellow-poet and friend, A.J.M. Smith, who saw in her poems a wealth of “small, immensely significant details of imagery, music, language and emotion” — edited her Collected Poems and included a prose Memoir, Four Corners of My World. Both are contained in this volume, in which a new generation of readers can experience the world of Anne Wilkinson as seen through the lens of her extraordinary imagination and poetic gift.
Introduction by Joan Coldwell
Poetry, with a prose memoir; 1990 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 224 pages • 9781550960020
Rare – less than 20 copies available.
In the last decade of her life of fifty years, Anne Wilkinson (1910-61) published two collections of poetry, and two books of prose that marked her as one of the finest Canadian writers of her time. Her poems celebrate a sensuous identification with nature, with love, with life itself. They focus on the beauty and richness of life, as well as its pain, with elegance and wit, light and lively diction, and intense emotion. They have, moreover, a laconic pertness that rivals Emily Dickinson.
“This Canadian poet’s obscurity is a crime against literature.” —The Edmonton Journal
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