Gay Allison

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]

Gay Allison
Born1953
Saskatchewan, Canada
OccupationPoet, Editor, English Teacher

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
  • Life: Still. (1981)[6]
  • In the Valley of the Butterflies (1981)
  • The Unravelling (1986)[7]
  • "Iron Shirt Moves" (1988)[8]

Anthologies
  • Women and Words: The Anthology/Les femmes et les mots: Une anthologie (1984)[9]
  • Sp/Elles: Poetry by Canadian Women/Poésie de femmes canadiennes (1986)[10]

Awards
  • Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario, Poetry Award, 1982, 1986.
  • Tyrone Guthrie Award, Stratford Festival, 1997.

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. 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.
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