Gay Allison

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Gay Allison
Born1953
Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation(s)Poet, Editor, English Teacher

Gay Allison (born 1953) is a Canadian poet, editor, and English teacher. She was the fiction editor of The Canadian Forum, poetry editor of Waves, founding editor of a feminist journal, Fireweed , [1] co-editor of Landscape, [2] and founding member of the Women's Writing Collective of Toronto. Additionally, Allison is an advisory board member of Tiger Lily, a journal by women of colour. Allison is also a full member of the League of Canadian Poets. [3]

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She was the recipient of the Poetry Award from the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario (FWTAO) in 1982 and 1986. [4]

Early life

Allison was born in Saskatchewan. She has since lived in Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Toronto.

Work

Allison's poetry in The Unravelling, focuses on daily life "at a slow meditative pace." [5]

Publications

Poetry

Anthologies

Awards

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References

  1. Butling, Pauline; Rudy, Susan (2009). Writing In Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN   9780889205277.
  2. Allison, Gay; Hood-Caddy, Karen; Rapoport, Janis (1977). Landscape. Toronto: Women's Writing Collective. ISBN   9780969068006.
  3. "Why The Poet Writes" (PDF). Centre For Women's Studies in Education. University of Toronto. 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. "Membee – Directory — Poets.ca". poets.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  5. Hatch, Ronald B. (1998). "Poetry" (PDF). University of Toronto Quarterly. 58 (1): 32–49. doi:10.3138/utq.58.1.32 . Retrieved 27 February 2016 via Project MUSE.
  6. Allison, Gay (1981). Life: Still . Toronto: Williams-Wallace International. ISBN   9780887950117.
  7. Gay, Allison (1986). The Unravelling. Toronto: Williams-Wallace. ISBN   9780887950605.
  8. "Iron Shirt Moves". canlit.ca. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. 1988. pp. 26–27. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  9. Women and words : the anthology = Les femmes et les mots : une anthologie . Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Pub. Co. 1984. ISBN   9780920080535.
  10. Allison, Gay (1986). Sp/Elles: Poetry by Canadian Women/Poésie de femmes canadiennes. Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press. ISBN   9780887531514.