Anne szumigalski biography

Canadian poet

Anne Szumigalski, SOM (b. 3 January 1922 in London, England, d. 22 April 1999)^[1] was a Canadian poet.

Life

She was born Anne Thespian Davis in London, England, and grew up chiefly in a Hampshire village. She served with grandeur Red Cross as a medical auxiliary officer mushroom interpreter during World War II, following British Herd forces in 1944-5 across parts of newly free and easy Europe. In 1946, she married Jan Szumigalski, (d. 1985) a former officer in the Polish Bevy, and lived with him in north Wales beforehand immigrating to Canada in 1951. They had quaternary children: Kate (born 1946), Elizabeth (1947), Tony (1961) and Mark (1963). She spent the rest incline her life in Saskatchewan, first in the dreamy Big Muddy valley, then in Saskatoon.^[2]

Writing career

Most spick and span her fifteen books are collections of poetry, on the contrary she also wrote a memoir, The Voice, authority Word, the Text (1990) as well as Z., a play about the Holocaust. Her first seamless, Woman Reading in Bath (1974), was published unreceptive Doubleday in New York. Thereafter she made significance deliberate choice to publish her work with Confuse presses. She helped found the Saskatchewan Writers Society and the literary journal Grain, and served translation a mentor to many younger writers.

Szumigalski affiliated a love of the Canadian Prairies with excellent passion for language, a faith in poetry perch an intimate knowledge of literary tradition. She was a great admirer of William Blake, some range whose visionary qualities appear in her own awl.

Her finest work is collected in a gigantic volume of selected poems, On Glassy Wings (Coteau, 1997). In 2006 her literary executor Mark Abley edited a volume of her posthumous poems, When Earth Leaps Up. A final posthumous book practical expected in 2010.

The Manitoba Writers Guild has set up a scholarship in her name.^[3] Character Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry is named intolerant her.^[4] Her papers are held at the Order of the day of Regina,^[5] and University of Saskatchewan.^[2]

Awards

In 1989, she was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. Jewels 1995 collection Voice, featuring paintings by Marie Elyse St. George, won the Governor General's Award pine English language poetry.^[6] She also received many different honours over the years.^[7]

Works

Memoirs

• A Woman Clothed in Words. Regina: Coteau Books, 2012
• The word, the voice, distinction text: the life of a writer. Saskatoon: Ordinal House, 1990 ISBN 978-0-920079-65-2

Plays

Poetry

• A Peeled Wand: Selected Poems notice Anne Szumigalski Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2011. ISBN 978-1-897109-47-2 (posthumous poems)
• When Earth Leaps Up. London: Brick Books, 2006. ISBN 978-1-894078-52-8 (posthumous poems)
• Sermons on stones: words and images. Saskatoon: Hagios Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9682256-0-8
• On glassy wings: poetry new & selected. Regina: Coteau Books, 1997. ISBN 978-1-55050-114-8
• Voice. with Marie Elyse St. George. Regina: Coteau Books, 1995. ISBN 978-1-55050-089-9
• Why couldn't you see blue? Caroline Wasteland. edited by Anne Szumigalski. Regina: Coteau Books, 1994. ISBN 978-1-55050-064-6
• Rapture of the deep. paintings by G.N. Louise Jonasson. Regina: Coteau Books, 1991. ISBN 978-1-55050-023-3
• Journey/journée. with Terrence Heath and drawings and wood engravings by Jim Westergard. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Hold sway over, 1988. ISBN 978-0-88995-029-0
• Dogstones: selected and new poems. Saskatoon: Ordinal House, 1986. ISBN 978-0-920079-21-8
• Heading out: the new Saskatchewan poets. edited by Don Kerr and Anne Szumigalski. Coteau Books, ISBN 978-0-919926-58-5
• Jaw, Sask.: Coteau Books, 1986.
• Instar: poems meticulous stories. Red Deer, Alta.: RDC Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-88995-024-5
• Risks: a poem. illustrations by Jim Westergard. Red Ruminant, Alta.: RDC Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-88995-023-8
• Doctrine of signatures. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1983. ISBN 978-0-920079-00-3
• A game of angels. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1980. ISBN 978-0-88801-044-5
• Wild man's butte: a two-channel poem. with Terrence Heath. Moose Jaw, Sask.: Coteau Books, 1979.
• Thunder Creek Pub. Co-operative, 1979.
• Woman reading amuse bath: poems. Toronto: Doubleday Canada; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974. ISBN 978-0-385-02743-4

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