Listening Paperback by Margaret Avison

Product Details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (2009-03-31)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 88 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771008863
• Item Weight: 124.74 grams
• Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.25 x 0.25 cm

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year


Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more than forty years.

About the Author

Margaret Avison’s work had, over the course of her four-decade-long career, won numerous awards, including two Governor General’s Awards and, for Concrete and Wild Carrot, the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her books of poetry include Always Now: The Collected Poems and, most recently, Momentary Dark. Margaret Avison died in July 2007, in Toronto.