Webb, Phyllis (1927–)
Webb, Phyllis (1927–)
Canadian poet. Born Phyllis Bane, April 8, 1927, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; attended University of British Columbia and McGill University.
Leading Canadian poet, worked as executive producer of CBC radio program "Ideas" (1967–69) and as teacher and writer-in-residence at Canadian universities; writings, noted for elegance and restraint, include Even Your Right Eye (1956), The Sea is Also a Garden (1962), Naked Poems (1965), Selected Poems (1971), Wilson's Bowl (1980), Talking (1980), The Vision Tree (1982), for which she received the Governor General's Prize, Water and Light: Ghazals and Anti Ghazals (1984), and Hanging Fire (1990).
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