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Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC, OBC, M.Ed, D.Litt, FRSC (12 October 1909 - 29 December 1996) was a Canadian poet.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto, Ontario with her family in 1920. Livesay received a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work in 1934. She also studied at the Sorbonne and University of British Columbia. Her first collection of poetry, Green Pitcher (1928), was published when she was only nineteen. She worked for UNESCO in Paris in 1959 and in Northern Rhodesia as a field worker from 1960 to 1963.

From 1951 until 1984, she was an instructor and a writer-in-residence many Canadian universities, including the University of British Columbia (1951-53 and 1966-68), University of New Brunswick (1966-1968), University of Alberta (1968-1971), University of Victoria (1972-1974), University of Manitoba (1974-76), Simon Fraser University (1980-82), and University of Toronto (1983-84).

In 1937 she married Duncan Macnair, they had two children Peter Macnair and Marcia.

In 1975 she founded the literary quarterly Contemporary Verse 2.

She died in Victoria, British Columbia in December 1996.

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"Livesay's search for the 'essence' has led her through a series of transformations, from her earliest imagist and symbolist lyrics about love and isolation; through her activist 'agit-prop' writings of the forties and fifties; and, finally, to her confessional and feminist writings of the sixties and seventies." p. 393



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Selected works

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  • Green Pitcher (1928)
  • Signpost (1932)
  • Day and Night (1944), winner of the 1944 Governor General's Awards
  • Poems for People (1947), winner of the 1947 Governor General's Awards
  • Call My People Home (1950)
  • New Poems (1955)
  • Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay (1957)
  • The Colour of God's Face (1964)
  • The Unquiet Bed (1967)
  • The Documentaries (1968)
  • Collected Poems: The Two Seasons (1968)
  • Plainsongs (1969)
  • A Winnipeg Childhood (1973)
  • Nine Poems of Farewell (1973)
  • Ice Age (1975)
  • The Woman I Am (1977)
  • Right Hand Left Hand (1977)
  • The Raw Edges: Voices from Our Time (1981)
  • The Phases of Love (1983)
  • Feeling the Worlds (1984)
  • Beyond War: The Poetry (1985)
  • The Self-Completing Tree: Selected Poems: (1986)
  • Journey With My Selves: A Memoir, 1909-1963 (1991)
  • Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay (1996)

Discography

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References

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  • "Dorothy Livesay fonds, 1909-1996". University of Manitoba. Retrieved April 8, 2005.


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  • McKenna, Neil. The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. (Random House, 2004) ISBN 0-09-941545-3
  • Raby, Peter (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. (CUP, 1997) ISBN 0-521-47987-8
  • Wilde, Oscar. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. (Collins, 2003) ISBN 0-00-714436-9

  • Geddes,Gary & Phyllis Bruce (ed.). "15 Canadian Poets Plus 5" (Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1978) ISBN 0-19-540289-8

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/d_livesay.htm

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Honours

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Order of Canada « New SearchDorothy Livesay, O.C., O.B.C., M.Ed., D.Litt. Full Name Honour Received Residence Dorothy Livesay, O.C., O.B.C., M.Ed., D.Litt. O.C. Victoria, British Columbia Honour Appointment Investiture Officer of the Order of Canada December 29, 1986 April 29, 1987 Founding member of the League of Canadian Poets, former Writer-In-Residence at a number of Universities and presently Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, winner of the Governor General's Prize for Poetry in 1944 and 1947, she is widely-known as one of this country's consistently outstanding poets.

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