Miriam Waddington

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 English at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1939) and social work the University of Pennsylvania (M.A.). She worked for many years as a social worker in Montreal. She later relocated to the then Toronto suburb of North York, where she worked for North York Family Services. In 1964, she joined the English department at York University. She retired in 1983.

Waddington was part of a Montreal circle that included F.R. Scott, Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.

She is a well known name in Canadian literary circles, especially those dealing in Canadian poetry and literature in general. Her name is one that is discussed at the university level in courses that deal in Canadian literature.

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. The donation was worth the approximate equivalent of a $25 000 dollar endowment. Her archival fonds is held at Library and Archives Canada.

Honours
Waddington was awarded Borestone Mountain Awards for best poetry in 1963, 1966, and 1974.

Waddington received the J.J. Segal award in 1972. She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, and served as writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa.

She received honorary doctorates from Lakehead University in 1975 and York University in 1985.

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

Poetry

 * Green World. Montreal: First Statement, 1945.
 * The Second Silence. Toronto: Ryerson, 1955.
 * The Season's Lovers. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958.
 * Four Poems. n.p.: n.p., 196-?
 * The Glass Trumpet. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1966.
 * Flying with Milton. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Unicorn Press, 1969.
 * Say Yes. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969.
 * Dream Telescope. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1972.
 * Driving Home: Poems New and Selected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1972.
 * The Price of Gold. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1976.
 * Mister Never. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1978.
 * The Visitants. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1981.
 * Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986.
 * The Last Landscape. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.
 * ''Canada: Romancing the Land - 1996

Fiction

 * ''Summer at Lonely Beach and Other Stories. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1982.

Non-fiction

 * A.M. Klein. Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing, 1970.
 * ''Folklore in the Poetry of A.M. Klein. St. John's, NF: Memorial University, 1981.
 * Apartment Seven: Essays New and Selected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Edited

 * Waddington, Miriam, ed. The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein. Toronto: Mc-Graw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.
 * Waddington, Miriam, ed. John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.

'' Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Brock University. ''