WORKS

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 Embalmer’s 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 Swan’s 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.

Songs of the Sea Witch. Winlaw, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1970.

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.

CRITICISM

Brown, Allan. Rev. of Things That Keep & Do Not Change, by Susan Musgrave. Antigonish Review 123 (2000):
53-61.

Davis, Marie. “Susan Musgrave: An Interview.” Canadian Children’s 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
28.7 (1999): 11-13.

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
(2001): 152-154.

Lavoie, Chantel. Rev. of Things That Keep & Do Not Change, by Susan Musgrave. Journal of Canadian Poetry
16 (1999): 40-48.

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.” Hecate’s Loom: a Canadian Pagan
Quarterly
31 (1996): 50.

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.

 

AWARDS

 

1991: First Place winner, b.p. nichol Poetry Chapbook Award, In the Small Hours of the Rain

1982: DuMaurier Magazine Award

BIOGRAPHY
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, children’s 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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