WORKS

POETRY

The Hangman Ties the Holly. Toronto: MacMillan, 1955.

Counterpoint to Sleep. Montreal: First Statement, 1951.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

Irvine, Dean, ed. Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson (1924-1961). Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2003.

Coldwell, Joan, ed. The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Coldwell, Joan, ed. The Poetry of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1990.

Smith, A.J.M., ed. The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir. Toronto: MacMillan, 1968.

OTHER WORK

Elegy: Voice and Piano. Oskar Morawetz. Words by Anne Wilkinson. Toronto: Aeneas Music, 1989.

Swann & Daphne. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Lions in the Way: A Discursive History of the Oslers. Toronto: Macmillan, 1956.
CRITICISM

Acheson, Katherine. “Anne Wilkinson in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion: Writing and Reading Class.” Canadian Literature 145 (1995): 107-120.

Armitage, Christopher. Anne Wilkinson and her Works. Toronto : ECW Press, 1989.

Armitage, Christopher. “Anne Wilkinson (1919-61).” ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1993. 126-30.

Barbour, Douglas. “Day Thoughts on Anne Wilkinson’s Poetry.” A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing. Eds. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamoureli. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1986: 179-190.

Carey, Barbara. Rev. of The Poetry Of Anne Wilkinson And A Prose Memoir, ed. Joan Coldwell. Books In Canada 20.3 (1991): 48.

Coldwell, Joan, ed. “The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 11.1 (1996): 151-152.

Coldwell, Joan, ed. “The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Coldwell, Joan. Rev. of Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, by Dean Irvine. University of Toronto Quarterly 74.1 (2004/2005): 583.

Coldwell, Joan. “Walking the Tightrope with Anne Wilkinson.” Editing Women. Eds. Ann Hutchison and Margaret Doody. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 3-25.

Dudek, Louis and Michael Gnarowski. The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967.

Howsam, Leslie. Rev. of Editing Women, ed. Ann Hutchison. University of Toronto Quarterly 69.1 (1999/2000): 142-143.

Keitner, Wendy. “Canadian Women Poets and the Syndrome of the Female Man: A Note on the Poetry of Audrey Alexandra Brown and Anne Wilkinson.” A Room of One’s Own: A Feminist Journal of Literature and Criticism 8.4 (1984): 76-81.

Lecker, Robert. “Better Quick than Dead: Anne Wilkinson’s Poetry.” Studies in Canadian Literature 3 (1978):35-46.

Marshall, Joyce. Rev. of The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Books In Canada 21.7 (1992): 35.

Marshall, Tom. Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition. Vancouver: UCB Press, 1979.

Morley, Patricia. “Feeding the Inner Furnace.” Rev. of The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Canadian Forum 71.814 (1992): 25-27.

Pacey, Desmond. “A Group of Seven.” Queen's Quarterly 63 (1956): 436-443.

Rev. of The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Journal of Canadian Poetry 9 (1994): 162-164.

Rev. of The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Canadian
Literature 138/139 (1993): 171-172.

Rev. of The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Matrix 41(1993): 74-75.

Shreve, Sandy. “Anne Wilkinson’s ‘Tigers Know From Birth.’” How Poems Work. Ottawa: ARC Poetry Society, 2003.

Smith, A.J.M. “A Reading of Anne Wilkinson.” Canadian Literature 10 (1961): 32-39.

Stevenson, RJ. Rev. of Editing Women, ed. Ann Hutchison. Herizons 14.2 (2000): 37.

Walsh, William. “The Muscled, Working Eye: The Poetry of Anne Wilkinson.” The Twofold Voice: Essays in Honour of Ramesh Mohan. Ed. S.N.A. Rixvi. Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Poetic Drama and Poetic Theory 53. Salzburg Inst. fur Anglistik & Amerikanistik, Universitat Salzburg, 1982: 209-23.

Walsh, William. “The Shape of Canadian Poetry.” Sewanee Review 87.1 (1979): 73-95.

Wells, Zach. “Salvage Ops.” Rev. of Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Dean Irvine. Books in Canada 33.7 (2004): 29.

Whiteman, Bruce. “‘Her Long Duty Cut Short’: on Anne Wilkinson.” Poetry Canada Review 9.1 (1987): 10.

Wynne-Davies, Marion. “Dialogic Framework.” Rev. of The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson, ed. Joan Coldwell. Canadian Literature 138-139 (1993): 171-172.

DISSERTATIONS

Potvin, Elizabeth. “Aspects of the Spiritual in Three Canadian Women Poets: Anne Wilkinson, Gwendolyn MacEwen, and Phyllis Webb.” Dissertation. McMaster University, 1992.
BIOGRAPHY
Anne Wilkinson, a member of the prominent Osler family, was born in Toronto in September of 1910. She travelled extensively as a child, and studied in London, California, Connecticut and Paris. She moved to Toronto with her husband, a surgeon, in 1930. She became literary editor of Here and Now magazine in 1949, and was founding editor of The Tamarack Review. She published two collections of poetry: Counterpoint to Sleep (1951) and The Hangman Ties the Holly (1955). Wilkinson also wrote fiction, history, and children’s fairy tales. Her prose memoir, Lions in the Way (1956), traces the history of Osler family from its days of settlement in Upper Canada in the early years of the nineteenth century. Anne Wilkinson died of lung cancer at the Toronto General Hospital on May 10, 1961.

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