Jay Macpherson

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Jay Macpherson (born Jean Jay Macpherson on June 13, 1931) is a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. She is a member of the so-called "mythopoeic school of poetry", which expresses serious philosophical issues through symbolic verse that is often comical and involves the use of myths.

In 1940 her family emigrated from London, England to Newfoundland. In 1957 she won the Governor General's award for The Boatman, which remains her best known collection of poetry. She taught English at the University of Toronto from 1957 to 1996.

[edit] Works

  • Nineteen poems (1952)
  • O Earth Return (1954)
  • The Boatman (1957)
  • The Four Ages of Man (Greek myths retold in prose)
  • Welcoming disaster: poems, 1970-74 (1975)
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