Poetic Obituaries: Canadian poet Margaret Avison,

who was lauded as a "national treasure" when she won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize four years ago, has died at age 89.

"Her contribution to Canadian literature was incalculable," said Joseph Zezulka, an English professor at the University of Western Ontario who met Avison in the early 1970s while she was a writer-in-residence at the university.

from The Globe and Mail: Poet Avison's 'incalculable' contribution to Canadian literature

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