POETRY
The Last Landscape. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1992.
Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1986.
The Visitants. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1981.
Mister Never. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press,
1978.
The Price of Gold. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1976.
Dream Telescope. London: Anvil Press Poetry,
1972.
Driving Home: Poems New and Selected. Toronto:
Oxford University Press, 1972.
Say Yes. Toronto: Oxford University Press,
1969.
Flying with Milton. Santa Barbara, Calif.:
Unicorn Press, 1969.
The Glass Trumpet. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1966.
Four Poems. n.p.: n.p., 196-?
The Season's Lovers. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958.
The Second Silence. Toronto: Ryerson, 1955.
Green World. Montreal: First Statement,
1945.
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Monk, Lorraine, ed. Canada: Romancing the Land: Poetry by Miriam Waddington. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1996.
OTHER WORKS
Apartment Seven: Essays New and Selected.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Summer at Lonely Beach and Other Stories.
Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1982.
Folklore in the Poetry of A.M. Klein. St.
John's, NF: Memorial University, 1981.
Waddington, Miriam, ed. The Collected Poems of A.M.
Klein. Toronto: Mc-Graw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.
Waddington, Miriam, ed. Essays, Controversies and Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
A.M. Klein. Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing, 1970.
Arnold, Abraham J. “Miriam Waddington adds to the
chain of Jewish culture.” Outlook 39.4 (2001): 28.
Bastein, Friedel H. “ 'A European Writer in Canada':
A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Miriam
Waddington.” Ed. Konrad Gross and Wolfgang
Klooss. Voices from Distant Lands: Poetry in the
Commonwealth. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1983: 94-97.
Binder, Wolfgang. “An Interview with Miriam Waddington.”
Commonwealth Essays and Studies 11.2 (1989): 83-94.
Brown, Judith. “Turning words on a loom: The Last
Landscape by Miriam Waddington.” Essays on Canadian Writing 55 (1995):
269.
Divasson, Lourdes. “A Few Words from Miriam Waddington.”
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 21 (1990): 141-144.
Greenstein, Michael. “Filling the Absence: Metalepsis
and Liminality in Jewish-Canadian Poetry.” Ariel 23.2 (1992): 25.
Jacobs, Maria. “The Personal Poetry of Miriam Waddington.”
CV/II 5 (1980): 26-33.
Jenoff, Marvyne. “Miriam Waddington: An Afternoon.”
Waves: Fine Canadian Writing 14.1-2 (1985): 5-12.
Jones, D.G. “Voices in the Dark.” Canadian Literature
45 (1970): 73-74.
Katz, Bernard. “Miriam Waddington: a summation of
her work.” Outlook 39.4 (2001): 29.
Levitan, Seymour. “Remembering Miriam Waddington
(1917-2004): Miriam Waddington and Yiddish.” Outlook 42.3 (2004):
27.
Matyas, Cathy. “Miriam Waddington.” Ed. Jeffrey
M. Heath. Profiles in Canadian Literature, 4. Toronto: Dundurn, 1982:
9-16.
Moritz, Albert. “From a Far Star.” Books in
Canada (1982): 5-8.
Ricou, L.R. “Into My Green World: The Poetry of Miriam
Waddington.” Essays on Canadian Writing 12 (1978): 144-61.
Ricou, Laurie. “The Naive Eye in the Poetry of Dorothy
Livesay, P. K. Page, and Miriam Waddington.” Ed. Konrad Gross and
Wolfgang Klooss. Voices from Distant Lands: Poetry in the Commonwealth.
Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1983: 108-114.
Ricou, L.R. “Miriam Waddington: A Checklist 1936-1975.”
Essays on Canadian Writing 12 (1978): 162-91.
Ricou, L.R. “Miriam (Dworkin) Waddington: An Annotated
Bibliography.” Ed. Robert Lecker and Jack David. The Annotated Bibliography
of Canada's Major Authors (VI). Toronto: ECW Press, 1985: 287-388.
Sowton, Ian. “The Lyric Craft of Miriam Waddington.”
Dalhousie Review 39 (1959): 237-42.
Stevens, Peter. “Miriam Waddington.” Woodcock,
George. Introduction. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley.
Canadian Writers and Their Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985: 279-329.
DISSERTATION
McLauchlan, Laura Jane. “Transformation Poetics: Refiguring the Female Subject in the Early Poetry and Life Writing of Dorothy Livesay and Miriam Waddington.” Dissertation. York University, 1997.
Uppal, Priscila. “Recovering the Past Through Language
and Landscape: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy.” York University,
2004.
1963: Borestone Mountain Award
1966: Borestone Mountain Award
1972: J.J. Segal Award
1974: Borestone Mountain Award
Miriam Waddington was born in December of 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received her BA in English from the University of Toronto in 1939, and her MA in social work from the University of Pennsylvania. She then moved to Montreal, where she pursued a career in social work while writing and publishing poetry. In 1964, she returned to Toronto, where she accepted a position teaching English at York University, retiring in 1983. She published ten collections of poetry between 1945 and 1992, including Green World (1945), The Glass Trumpet (1966), and The Visitants (1981). In 1972, she won the J.J. Segal award for her work, and received the Borestone Mountain Award for best poem of the year in 1963, 1966 and 1974. Waddington is a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets.
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