| Born in Born in 1926 in London, England, Anne Szumigalski was raised in rural Hampshire.At the beginning of World War II, she worked with Belgian refugees in a hospital near her home. Her next assignment was that of an interpreter in Europe, providing civilian relief in areas hit by the fighting. She met and married a Polish army officer, and they emigrated from Wales to Canada in 1951. She has lived in Saskatchewan since, primarily in Saskatoon. She helped to establish the writing courses at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and taught poetry there. She co-founded the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Grain Magazine, and the Writers’ Colony (where?). Her work has predominantly been poetry, though she wrote fiction and drama also. In 1995 she won the Governor-General’s Award for poetry with Voice.
read “You Have a Switchblade” and “Present Tense”
read a review of Z: a Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom
REAL AUDIO:
Ms. Szumigalski discusses Saskatchewan (0:19) © 1980 Saskatchewan Archives Board
Ms. Szumigalski’s advice to the beginning writer (2:14) © 1980 Saskatchewan Archives Board
Ms. Szumigalski reads her poem, “Classification” (1:42) © 1997 Anne Szumigalski and Coteau Books
Bibliography
Sermons on stones: words and images. Saskatoon: Hagios Press, 1997.
On glassy wings: poems new & selected. Regina: Coteau Books, 1997.
Voice. with Marie Elyse St. George. Regina: Coteau Books, 1995.
Z : a meditation on oppression, desire and freedom. Regina: Coteau Books, 1995.
Caroline Heath. Why couldn’t you see blue? edited by Anne Szumigalski. Regina: Coteau Books, 1994.
Rapture of the deep. paintings by G.N. Louise Jonasson. Regina: Coteau Books, 1991.
The word, the voice, the text: the life of a writer. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1990.
Journey/journée. with Terrence Heath and drawings and wood engravings by Jim Westergard. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press, 1988.
Dogstones: selected and new poems. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1986.
Heading out: the new Saskatchewan poets. edited by Don Kerr and Anne Szumigalski. Moose Jaw, Sask.: Coteau Books, 1986.
Instar: poems and stories. Red Deer, Alta.: RDC Press, 1985.
Risks: a poem. illustrations by Jim Westergard. Red Deer, Alta.: RDC Press, 1983.
Doctrine of signatures. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1983.
A game of angels. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1980.
Wild man’s butte: a stereophonic poem. with Terrence Heath. Moose Jaw, Sask.: Coteau Books, Thunder Creek Pub. Co-operative, 1979.
Woman reading in bath: poems. Toronto: Doubleday Canada; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974.
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