Bronwen Wallace

Bronwen Wallace (born May 26, 1945 in Kingston (Ontario) , † August 25, 1989 ibid) was a Canadian writer , documentary filmmaker and feminist activist. She wrote about the beauty and terror of everyday life and "in her last works mixed the boundaries between science and art, the natural and the supernatural, life and death".

Life and work

Wallace was born and raised in Kingston in 1945. She completed her studies at Queen's University (Kingston) in 1969 with an MA in English. She gave up her dissertation because it seemed too “unworldly” to her.

In 1970 she opened a women's bookshop in Windsor . She was also involved in women's activist groups and helped set up unions . In 1977 she moved back to Kingston. There she worked at Kingston's Interval House, a women's shelter where she a. a. initiated a children's program. She has taught creative writing and women 's studies courses at St. Lawrence College and Queen's University . She wrote a weekly feminist column for the Kingston Whig Standard in which she a. on women's and children's rights and social issues.

In 1980 Wallace made his debut with the volume of poetry Marrying into the Family . She and her husband Chris Whynot made the documentary All You Have to Do (1982) about her friend Pat Logan's fight against the malignant cancer Hodgkin lymphoma . Her second volume of poetry Signs of the former Tenant (1983) received the Pat Lowther Award. In 1984 she made the documentary That's Why I'm Talking with Whynot about four contemporary Canadian poets Carolyn Smart , Mary di Michele , Robert Priest and Pier Giorgio di Cicco . 1988–1989 she was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario .

Wallace died in 1989 of oral cancer . Her son Jeremy Baxter became her literary executor . Her only collection of short stories, People You'd Trust Your Life To (1990) , was published posthumously . Her newspaper columns were published in 1992 in Arguments with the World (1992), and in 1994 Two Women Talking: Correspondence 1985-1987 was a collection of letters in which Wallace discussed the poet Erin Mouré et al. a. exchanged views on feminist theory and philosophy of language .

In memory of Wallace, the Bronwen Wallace Award has been presented annually since 1994 to promising poets and prose writers under 35 who have not published their own books.

Works

Poems

• Marrying into the Family (1980, omnibus edition with Mary di Michele's Bread and Chocolate )
• Signs of the former Tenant (1983)
• Common Magic (1985)
• The Stubborn Particulars of Grace (1987)
• Keep That Candle Burning Bright and Other Poems (1991)

Short stories

• People You'd Trust Your Life To (1990)
  • When you trust your life: Stories . Rowohlt, 1994 ISBN 3-499-13183-8 , translated by Gerhard Döhler.

Essays

• Arguments with the World (1992, edited by Joanne Page)

Correspondence with Erin Mouré

• Two Women Talking: Correspondence 1985–1987 (1994)

Documentaries

• All You Have to Do (1982, with Chris Whynot)
• That's Why I'm Talking (1984, with Chris Whynot)

Appreciations

• 1983: Pat Lowther Award for Signs of the former Tenant
• 1989: Commonwealth Poetry Prize
• 1994: Foundation of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

literature

• Gloria Nixon-John, "Getting the Word Out: The Country of Bronwen Wallace and Emmylou Harris," in: James E. Akenson and Charles K. Wolfe, The Women of Country Music University Press of Kentucky, 2003 ISBN 978-0-8131 -2280-9 pp. 46-60.
• Patrick Finn, "When Editing Goes Write: The Correspondence of Erin Moure and Bronwen Wallace", in: Textual Studies in Canada 13/14 (2001) pp 101-112.
• Gloria Nixon-John, A Place of Rupture: The Life and Poetry of Bronwen Wallace . Dissertation (unpublished). Michigan State University, 2001.
• Steven Scobie, "The Voices of Elegy: or, Hurtin 'Songs for Bronwen Wallace," in: Frank M. Tierney and Angela Robbeson, Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem . University of Ottawa Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-7766-0483-1 pp. 151-159.
• Lorraine M. York, "Home Thoughts or Abroad? A Rhetoric of Place in Modern and Postmodern Canadian Political Poetry," in: Essays on Canadian Writing 51/52 (1993) pp. 321-339.
• Janice Williamson, "I Couldn't Separate the Landscape from How I See my Poems Moving," in: Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers . University of Toronto Press, 1993 ISBN 978-0-8020-2762-7 pp. 286-298.
• Donna Bennett, "Bronwen Wallace and the Meditative Poem," in: Queen's Quarterly 98/1 (1991) pp. 58-79.
• Susan Dorscht and Eric Savoy (Eds.), "Particular Arguments: A Special Issue On Bronwen Wallace", in: Open Letter 7/9 (1991).
• Fay Vandenbeukel, "Interview with Bronwen Wallace", in: Room of One's Own 14/1 (1990) pp. 53-63.
• Carolyn Smart, "Bronwen Wallace: In Memoriam, 1945-1989", in: Poetry Canada Review 10/3 (1989) pp. 14-15.

Web links

• Bronwen Wallace in the Internet Movie Database .
• Wallace's poem with a short introduction in: Christine Chettle, Monday Poem: 'Lonely for the Country' .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Colin Boyd: Bronwen Wallace ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} EG, "Wallace, Bronwen", in: Lorna Sage, Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter (eds.), The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English . Cambridge University Press, 1999 ISBN 978-0-521-66813-2 p. 649.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Adèle Barclay, Commemorating Common Magic (March 7, 2008) at: queensjournal.ca, accessed on September 19, 2015 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Bronwen Wallace at: brocku.ca, accessed on September 19, 2015 (English).
5. ↑ Amy Logan, "All You Have to Do": a documentary about my mother by Bronwen Wallace and Chris Whynot (May 24, 2013) at: hardstare.blogspot.ca, accessed on September 19, 2015 (English).
6. ^ "Tim Lilburn," in: Heather Hodgson (Ed.), Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present . University of Regina Press, 2004 ISBN 0-88977-163-4 p. 139.
7. ↑ 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers at: writerstrust.com, accessed on September 19, 2015 (English).