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'Jay Macpherson' (born June 13 1931) is a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. She is a member of the so-called "mythopoeic school of poetry", which expresses serious philosophical issues through symbolic verse that is often comical and involves the use of myths.
In 1940, her family emigrated from London, England to Newfoundland. In 1957, she won the Governor General's award for ''The Boatman'', which remains her best known collection of poetry. She taught English at the University of Toronto from 1957 to 1996.
On June 4, 2007, Macpherson suffered a heart attack. As of August 2007, she is well.

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Works

Works

★ ''Nineteen poems'' (1952)

★ ''O Earth Return'' (1954)

★ ''The Boatman'' (1957)

★ ''The Four Ages of Man'' (Greek myths retold in prose)

★ ''Welcoming disaster: poems, 1970-74'' (1975)