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  • Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.
  • Bevington, Helen. Dr. Johnson's Waterfall, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1946.
  • --. Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1950.
  • --.A Change of Sky, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1956.
  • --.When Found, Make a Verse Of. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
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  • Hennessy, Michael. "Phyllis McGinley". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 285-290.
  • McGinley, Phyllis. On the Contrary. New York: Doubleday, 1934. PS3525 .A23293 O6 1934 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --. One More Manhattan. New York: Harcourt, 1937. PS3525 .A23293 O7 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --. A Pocketful of Wry, Duell. New York: Sloan & Pearce, 1940, revised edition, Grosset & Dunlap, 1959. PS3525 .A23293 P6 1959 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Husbands Are Difficult; or, The Book of Oliver Ames. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941.
  • --.Stones from a Glass House. New York: Viking, 1946.
  • --.A Short Walk from the Station. New York: Viking, 1952. PS3525 .A23293 S5 1957 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Love Letters. New York: Viking, 1954. PS3525 .A2329 L6 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
  • --. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. New York: Viking, 1958. PS3525 .A2329 M4 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
  • --. Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems. Foreword by W. H. Auden. New York: Viking, 1960. PS3525 .A23293 T5 1960 Robarts Library.
  • --. A Wreath of Christmas Legends. New York: Macmillan, 1967 PS3535 .A23293 W7 1968. University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Christmas Con and Pro. New York: Hart Press, 1971.
  • --.Confessions of a Reluctant Optimist. Edited by Barbara Wells Price, illustrated by Peter Lippmann, Hallmark Editions. Kansas City, MO: 1973.
  • Hennessy, Michael. "Phyllis McGinley". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 285-290.
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For more poems, see The Poetry Foundation

 

  • Angel
  • At the Bambi Motel
  • Black Fairy Tale
  • Boardwalk
  • Catchpenny Road
  • Cemetery Reef
  • Death Dress
  • Fabergé's Egg
  • Glass-Bottom Boat
  • Globe
  • Letter from Swan’s Island
  • Letter in July
  • Mansion Beach
  • Mutoscope
  • My Daughter
  • Ocean City: Early March
  • Profil Perdu
  • S N A I L
  • Sims: The Game
  • The Bodies
  • The Playground
  • Two Characters in Search of a Metaphor
  • Waving Goodbye

     

      • Davis, William V.. "Elizabeth Spires". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 120: American Poets Since World War II, Third Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by R. S. Gwynn, Lamar University. The Gale Group, 1992. pp. 291-292.
      • Spires, Elizabeth. Boardwalk. Cleveland, Ohio: Bits, 1980.
      • --. Globe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. PS3569 .P554 G57 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
      • --. Swan's Island. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. PS3569 .P554 S92 1985 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
      • --. Annonciade. New York: Viking/Penguin, 1989. PS3569 .P554 A83 1989 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
      • --. Worldling. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. PS3569 .P554 W67 1995 Robarts Library
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For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

 

  • The End
  • Orpheus Alone
  • The Idea

the Poetry Archive

 

  • Eating Poetry
  • From the Long Sad Party
  • Man and Camel
  • My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer
  • The Coming of Light

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • “The Dreadful Has Already Happened
  • Black Maps
  • Coming to This
  • Courtship
  • Eating Poetry
  • Elegy 1969
  • Futility in Key West
  • In Celebration
  • Keeping Things Whole
  • Lines for Winter
  • My Life
  • Mystery and Solitude in Topeka
  • No Words Can Describe It
  • Orpheus Alone
  • Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life
  • Seven Poems
  • The End
  • The Garden
  • The Idea
  • The Marriage
  • The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish
  • The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
  • The Prediction
  • The Untelling
  • To Himself
  • Where Are the Waters of Childhood?

     

      • Strand, Mark. Sleeping with One Eye Open. Stone Wall Press, 1964.
      • --. Reasons for Moving: Poems. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
      • --. Darker: Poems. New York: Atheneum, 1970. PS 3569.T69 D3 Robarts Library
      • --. The Story of Our Lives. New York: Atheneum, 1973. PS 3569.T69 S7 Robarts Library
      • --. The Sargeantville Notebook. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1974.
      • --. Elegy for My Father. Iowa City, IA: Windhover, 1978.
      • --. The Late Hour. New York: Atheneum, 1978. PS 3569.T69 L3 Robarts Library
      • --. Selected Poems. New York: Atheneum, 1980. PS 3569.T69 A6 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
      • --. The Continuous Life. New York: Knopf, 1990. PS 3569.T69 C6 Robarts Library
      • --. The Monument. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1991. PS 3569.T69 M6 Robarts Library
      • --. Reasons for Moving, Darking, and the Sargeantville Notebook. New York: Knopf, 1992. PS 3569.T69 A6 1992 Robarts Library
      • --. Dark Harbor: A Poem. New York: Knopf, 1993. PS 3569.T69 D28 1993 Robarts Library
      • --. Blizzard of One: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1998. PS 3569.T69 B57 1998 Robarts Library
      • --. New Selected Poems. New York: Knopf, 2007. PS 3569.T69 A6 2007X Robarts Library
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Rosemarie Rowley was born in Dublin in 1942. After a spell working in the Agricultural Institute in Dublin, which she left for ecological reasons, she went to England to work for the BBC and as a schoolteacher in Birmingham. She attended Trinity College, Dublin, for her first degree in English, Irish, and Philosophy, graduating with a Distinction in English in the late 'sixties. Opportunities for employment were few for a young married woman because of the marriage bar then in force in Ireland, but she worked in 1970 in the nascent Irish film industry as a personal assistant/secretary to John Boorman, the film director, when he was working on several projects, including Deliverance. She typed the manuscripts and found some of the scenes harrowing.

The Irish film industry was a long time taking off, so Rowley emigrated to Luxembourg where she took up the post of a European Civil servant. She returned to Ireland in the 1980s to raise her son, David, and was active in the beginnings of the green movement, acting as Coordinator for the Green Alliance, forerunner of the Green Party. In 1984 she obtained a Masters degree at Trinity College on the work of Patrick Kavanagh, whom she believes was Ireland'’s greatest poet after Yeats, and who was very opposed to the secularist, materialist world that developed in the late twentieth century in Ireland and elsewhere. He was the last great pastoral poet in Europe.

Her pamphlets include Freedom and Censorship—: why not have both? (1989), which influenced the Campaign against Pornography and Censorship in the UK. She also wrote an essay around this time on women and the Irish Constitution (published in Administration (37.1 [1989]). During this period, also, she worked as a creative writing teacher with individuals who were socially or educationally disadvantaged and as a lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Adult Education.

During the ‘eighties she published her first books of poetry, The Broken Pledge (1985), and The Sea of Affliction (1987), the second of which was one of the first works of eco-feminism. She developed as a formalist poet, finding that traditional forms (such as those using rhyme) were natural to her, growing up as she had with her father's traditional music and fiddle playing, and having been encouraged by him to write poetry. Flight into Reality (1989), a long poem written in terza rima, the form of Dante's Divina Commedia, then appeared in a small edition. Extracts from Flight into Reality, which is Rowley's principal work, were published by the late eminent poet, Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), in her journal of the arts and imagination, Temenos (London). Raine described it as the best long poem written by a woman in the twentieth century. Rowley's interest in Egyptian themes had begun in 1969, when she wrote the notes for a student production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and drew from arcane works on Egyptian mythology and alchemy. Years later, on her return from Luxembourg to Dublin, she was dismayed to find the city drug-ridden, and she devised Flight into Reality, a story of how young people often get into desperate company and are abused. Rowley has re-issued the poem, read by herself, in audio cassette.

During the 'nineties, Rowley won the Scottish International Open Poetry competition for three more of her long poems, The Puzzle Factory (also called Message in a Pill Bottle), The Wake of Wonder, and Betrayal into Origin—: Dancing & Revolution in the 60s. The Puzzle Factory won the Scottish Open International Poetry competition in 2000, although it was written in 1987 after a psychiatrist, Dr. Brion Sweeney, suggested that she might find it therapeutic to write some of her feelings down about hospitals and hospital treatments.

After this, she studied psychology at the level of the diploma, which was awarded from the National University of Ireland in the ‘nineties. In 1997 she represented Ireland in the European Capital of Culture celebrations, where she read translations of the anonymous women bards of the west of Ireland. In that year she also won an American Library of Poetry award for her poem on Princess Diana, "Queen of Hearts." Rowley'’s first short story won an Image Award. In recent years, she has published two more collections of poetry, Hot Cinquefoil Star (2002), which contains some of her long poems, and In Memory of Her (2004), a post-feminist work, largely consisting of short formal poems. She also co-edited a volume of poetry about trees, Seeing the Wood and the Trees, published by Forest Friends Ireland in 2003. In 2004, she was awarded first place in the Scottish International Open Poetry competition for her sequence Faustina in Sestinae.

Rosemarie Rowley now lives in Dublin. She is still committed to the environment, never having owned a car. Her hobbies include genealogy, graphology and going to the movies. She has her own Web site now, www.rosemarierowley.ie.

 

  • Rowley, Rosemarie. The Broken Pledge and Other Poems. [Dublin]: Tallaght, 1985.
  • --. The Sea of Affliction. Dublin: Rowan Tree Press, 1987. Now available under a Creative Commons Agreement.
  • --. Hot Cinquefoil Star. Dublin: Rowan Tree Press, 2002.
  • --. In Memory of Her. Dublin: Rowan Tree Press, 2004.
  • --. Freedom and Censorship—why not have both? 1989.
  • --, John Haughton, and Cairde na Coille, eds. Seeing the Wood and the Trees. Forest Friends Ireland, 2003.
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Edward Dickinson Blodgett, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada, has authored seventeen books of poetry. His Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996) won the Governor- General's Award for English language poetry.

 

  • Au Coeur du bois / In the Heart of the Wood. With Jacques Brault. Editions Lucie Lambert, 2005.
  • Elegy. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005.
  • Practices of Eternity. Ottawa: BuschekBooks, 2005.
  • Apostrophes VI: Open the Grass. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004.
  • An Ark of Koans. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003.
  • Apostrophes V: Never Born except within the Other. Ottawa: BuschekBooks, 2003.
  • Apostrophes IV: Speaking you is Holiness. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2000.
  • Apostrophes III: Alone upon the Earth. Ottawa: Buschek Books, 1999.
  • Transfiguration. With Jacques Brault. Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec: Éditions du Noroît; Toronto: BuschekBooks, 1998.
  • Apostrophes II: Through you I. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1997.
  • Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. Ottawa: BuschekBooks, 1996.
  • Da Capo: The Selected Poems of E.D. Blodgett. Ed. Paul Hjartarson. Edmonton: NeWest, 1990.
  • Musical Offering. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1986.
  • Arché / Elegies. Edmonton: Longspoon Press, 1983.
  • Beast Gate. Edmonton: NeWest, 1980.
  • Sounding. Edmonton: Tree Frog Press, 1977.
  • Take Away the Names. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1975.
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Books

  • A Strange Relief. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001. ISBN 0771045832

Anthologies

  • Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Mansfield Press, 2004.
  • Open Field: An Anthology of 40 Contemporary Canadian Poets. Persea Books, NY, 2005.
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Biography
  • Clark, Walter Aaron. "Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett." New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1992.
  • Coutts, Francis. The Girls of England. London: Hatchards, 1882. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. Poems. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N. Y.: George H. Richmond and Co., 1896. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. The Alhambra and other poems. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. The Revelation of St. Love the Divine. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. The Mystery of Godliness. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1900. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. The nut-brown Maid. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. Musa Verticordia. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. Egypt, and other poems. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. Psyche. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N. Y.: John Lane and Co., 1912. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. The Spacious Times and Others. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N. Y.: John Lane Co., 1920. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources.
  • --. Selected Poems. London: The Bodley Head, 1923.