Miriam Waddington

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Miriam Waddington (née Dworkin, 23 December 1917 - 3 March 2004) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for many years as a social worker in the then Toronto suburb of North York. In 1964, she joined the English department at York University. She retired in 1983.

Miriam Waddington was part of a Montreal circle that included Irving Layton and Louis Dudek. Her poem "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" is featured on the back of the Canadian $100 bill released in 2004.

She died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After her death, much of her own works and personal library were donated by her sons to the archives of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Criticism 1.3 Fiction 1.4 Essays 1.5 Edited collections 2 External links

[edit] Bibliography

Miriam Waddington (nee Dworkin) was born December 23, 1917 in Winnipeg. She studied English at University of Toronto (B.A. 1939) and social work at University of Pennsylvania (M.A.). Waddington lived in Montreal, doing social work, writing poetry, and raising her family during the 1940's and 50's. She returned to Toronto to work with North York Family Services and to teach English at York University from 1964-1983. She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, poetry editor of Poetry Toronto, writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa. She received the J.J. Segal award in 1972. In addition to her poetry, Waddington also published a short story collection Summer at Lonely Beach and the critical study A.M. Klein.

[edit] Poetry

• Green World - 1945
• The Second Silence - 1955
• The Season's Lovers - 1958
• The Glass Trumpet - 1966
• Say Yes - 1969
• The Price of Gold - 1976
• Mister Never - 1978
• The Visitants - 1981
• Collected Poems - 1986
• The Last Landscape - 1992
• Canada: Romancing the Land - 1996
• Canadians
• Someone who used to have someone

[edit] Criticism

• A.M. Klein - 1970

[edit] Fiction

• Summer at Lonely Beach - 1982

[edit] Essays

• Apartment Seven: Essays Selected and New - 1989

[edit] Edited collections

• John Sutherland, Essays, Controversies, Poems - 1972
• Canadian Jewish Short Stories - 1990

[edit] External links

• 100 Canadian Poets
• The Bank of Canada - $100 Note, Background Information
• Miriam Waddington's life achievements, awards, selected publications and books in print