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Macpherson, Jay

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Macpherson, (Jean) Jay (1931– )

Canadian poet. Her short poems, in a variety of traditional forms, echo nursery rhymes, riddles, and hymns. She is best known for her poem cycle The Boatman (1957), which explores themes of redemption and the artistic experience through the biblical story of Noah's Ark. Welcoming Disaster: Poems 1970–1974 is a further quest sequence.

Macpherson was born in England and moved to Canada in 1940. After studying at Carleton College, McGill University, and the University of Toronto, she taught English at the University of Toronto !957–96.



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