Susan Musgrave

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Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in Sidney, British Columbia.

Musgrave defended Al Purdy's collection of poetry Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962-1996 in Canada Reads 2006.

Contents

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Songs of the Sea-Witch - 1970
  • Entrance of the Celebrant - 1972
  • Grave-Dirt - 1973
  • Gullband Thought Measles was a Happy Ending - 1974
  • The Impstone - 1976
  • Selected Strawberries and Other Poems - 1977
  • Kiskatinaw Songs - 1978
  • Becky Swan's Book - 1978
  • A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury - 1979 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Tarts and Muggers - 1982
  • Cocktails at the Mausoleum - 1985
  • The Embalmer's Art - 1991
  • Forcing the Narcissus - 1994
  • Things That Keep and Do Not Change - 1999
  • What the Small Day Cannot Hold - 2000

Fiction

Non-Fiction

  • Great Musgrave - 1989
  • Musgrave Landing - 1994
  • You're in Canada Now, Motherfucker: A Memoir of Sorts - 1989

Children's Literature

  • Gullband - 1980
  • Haghead - 1980
  • Kestrel and Leonardo - 1990
  • Dreams are More Real than Bathtubs - 1998


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