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POETRY Canadian Roulette. Vancouver: Pooka Press, 2004. Stopping By the Mailbox on a Snowy Evening. Vancouver: Pooka Press, 2004. Nothing. Vancouver: Pooka Press, 2004. Cargo of Orchids. Toronto: Vintage, 2001. What The Small Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985. Victoria: Porcepic Books, 2000. Things That Keep and Do Not Change. Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart, 1999. Twenty-eight Uses for Al Purdy's Ashes. Victoria, BC: Reference West, for the Hawthorne Society, 1999. Forcing the Narcissus. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. Cocktails at the Mausoleum. Toronto: McClelland
& Stewart, 1985. Beach Holme (revised edition), 1992. The Spiritualization of Cruelty: Six Poems. Toronto: Lake Galleries, 1992. The Embalmers Art: Poems New and Selected.
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1991. In the Small Hours of the Rain. Victoria: Reference West, 1991. Kestrel and Leonardo. Victoria, BC: Reference West, for the Hawthorne Society, 1990. Great Musgrave. Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall,
1989. The Plane Put Down in Sacramento. Vancouver, BC: W. Hoffer, 1982. Tarts and Muggers: Poems New and Selected.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982. Taboo-Man. Vancouver, BC: C. Duthie, 1981. The Charcoal Burners. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980. When My Boots Drive Off in a Cadillac. Toronto:
League of Canadian Poets, 1980. Conversation During the Omelette aux Fines Herbes.
Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1979. A Man to Marry, a Man to Bury. Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Becky Swans Book. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1978. For Charlie Beaulieu in Yellowknife Who Told Me
To Go Back to the South and Write Another Poem About Indians.
Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1977. Selected Strawberries and Other Poems. Winlaw,
BC: Sono Nis Press, 1977. Two Poems for the Blue Moon. Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1977. Between Friends. Toronto: Dreadnaught Press,
1976. The Impstone. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. Two Poems. Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1975. Against: Poem. Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1974. Grave-Dirt and Selected Strawberries. New York: Macmillan, 1973. Kung. Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1973. Entrance of the Celebrant. New York: Macmillan, 1972. Equinox. Rushden, England: Sceptre Press,
1972. Birthstone. Rushden, England: Sceptre Press,
1971. Mindscapes: Poems by Zieroth, Jiles, Musgrave, Wayman. Ed. Ann Wall. Toronto: Anansi, 1971. Skuld. Frensham, England: Sceptre Press,
1971. EDITED COLLECTIONS Crozier, Lorna, ed. The Selected Poems of Susan Musgrave. Vancouver: Beach Holme, 2000. OTHER WORK Musgrave, Susan, ed. Perfectly Secret: The Hidden Lives of Seven Teen Girls. Toronto: Annick Press, 2004. Musgrave, Susan, ed. Certain Things About My Mother: Daughters Speak. Toronto: Annick Press, 2003. Musgrave, Susan, ed. The Fed Anthology: Brand New Fiction and Poetry from the Federation of BC Writers. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2003. Musgrave, Susan, ed. You Be Me: Friendship in the Lives of Teen Girls. Toronto: Annick Press, 2002. Musgrave, Susan, ed. Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls. Toronto: Annick Press, 2001. Dreams are More Real than Bathtubs. with Marie-Louise Gay. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, 1998. Musgrave Landing: Musings on the Writing Life. Toronto: Stoddart, 1994. Musgrave, Susan, ed. Because You Loved Being a Stranger: 55 Poets Celebrate Patrick Lane. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1994. Musgrave, Susan, ed. Clear-cut Words: Writers for Clayoquot. Victoria, BC: Reference West, for the Hawthorne Society, 1993. The Dancing Chickens. Toronto: Methuen, 1987. The Charcoal Burners. Toronto: Totem Books, 1981. Hag Head. with Carol Evans. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1980. Kiskatinaw Songs. with Sid Robinovitch. Winnipeg, Man.: S. Robinovitch, 1980. Gullband Thought Measles Was a Happy Ending. Vancouver, BC: J.J. Douglas, 1974. |
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| CRITICISM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brown, Allan. Rev. of Things That Keep & Do
Not Change, by Susan Musgrave. Antigonish Review 123
(2000): Davis, Marie. Susan Musgrave: An Interview.
Canadian Childrens Literature 68 (1992): 114-120. Fitzgerald, Judith. Women in the Moon. Rev. of Cocktails at the Mausoleum, by Susan Musgrave. Books in Canada (1985): 30. Halim, Nadia. Blindfolded Prophetess: Nadia Halim
Speaks with Susan Musgrave. Interview. Books In Canada Joyce, Arthur R. Susan Musgrave: The Spiritualization
of Cruelty. Canadian Author 72.3 (1997): 18-19. Knutson, Susan. Rev. of Things That Keep & Do
Not Change, by Susan Musgrave. Canadian Literature
169 Lavoie, Chantel. Rev. of Things That Keep &
Do Not Change, by Susan Musgrave. Journal of Canadian Poetry Leong, Penni. Susan Musgrave: A Risk Worth Taking. Canadian Author 72.3 (1997): 16-17. The Life and Art of Susan Musgrave. National
Post 1 (249) 14 Aug. 1999: WP4-WP5. Lowry, Miles. Thirteen Questions: An Interview with
Susan Musgrave. Hecates Loom: a Canadian Pagan Musgrave, Susan. Canadian Poets Talk About Poetry:
Commentary. In 2 Print (2000): 14. Nicol, Eric. A Vulgarian View. Rev. of A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury, by Susan Musgrave. Canadian Literature 87 (1980): 108-10. Panofsky, Ruth. Rev. of Things That Keep & Do
Not Change, by Susan Musgrave. Quill & Quire
65.4 (1999): 28. Rev. of Forcing the Narcissus, by Susan
Musgrave. Quarry 44.1 (1995): 121-132. Starnino, Carmine. Rev. of What the Small Day Cannot Hold, by Susan Musgrave. ARC 47 (2001): 58-62. Twigg, Alan. Femina. For Openers: Conversations
with 24 Canadian Writers. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing,
1981. 139.
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1991: First Place winner, b.p. nichol Poetry Chapbook Award, In the Small Hours of the Rain 1982: DuMaurier Magazine Award |
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| Susan Musgrave was born in 1951 in Santa Cruz, California, and raised on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. A protegee of Robin Skelton, she published a number of poems in The Malahat Review when she was only sixteen. Her first poetry collection, Songs of the Sea-Witch, was published in 1970, when she was 18. She has written in a wide variety of genres, and has been awarded for her work in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, childrens literature and editing. In 1996, Musgrave was the recipient of the Tilden (CBC/Saturday Night) Canadian Literary Award for Poetry. Susan continues to live and work on Vancouver Island. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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