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.

Her poem "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" is featured on the back of the Canadian $100 bill released in 2004.

Waddington was part of the Montreal circle that included Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.

She died in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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

[edit] Bibliography

[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

[edit] Criticism

• A.M. Klein - 1970

[edit] Fiction

• Summer at Lonely Beach - 1982

[edit] Essays

• Apartment Seven: Essays Selected and New - 1989

[edit] Anthologies

• Essays, Controversies, Poems - 1972 (a collection of writing by John Sutherland)
• 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