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WORKS

POETRY

House of Cedars. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions. 1999.

Cannibal Speech. Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1981.

Out of the Violent Dark. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1978.

When We Lie Together. West Vancouver: Klanak Press, 1973.

Lost Diver. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1955.
CRITICISM

Burke, Anne. Rev. of House of Cedars, by Gwladys Downes. League of Canadian Poets.

Rampton, David. Rev. of House of Cedars, by Gwladys Downes. Journal of Canadian Poetry 16 (1999): 73.

AWARDS

1969: Canada Council Senior Arts Award
BIOGRAPHY
Gwladys V. Downes was born on April 22, 1915, in Victoria BC. She attended the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the Sorbonne, and worked as a French professor at the University of Victoria. As well as writing her own poetry, Downes translates the work of Quebec poets.

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