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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba , the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto with her family in 1920 . She 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'', 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 and Marcia.

She died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1996 .


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SELECTED WORKS

  • ''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  • ''Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay'' (1996)



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