Phyllis webb biography

Phyllis b, OC, poet, broadcaster (born 8 April in Victoria, BC). An Officer of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Governor.

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Phyllis Webb was born on April 8, in Victoria, BC. She was educated at the University of British Columbia and McGill University. The first major publication of her poetry was in Trio, which also included poetry by Eli Mandel and Gael Turnbull. For many years she worked as a writer and broadcaster for the CBC, where she created the radio program “Ideas” in and was its executive producer from to Webb served as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta from to and taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria and the Banff Centre. She is a life member of the League of Canadian Poets and currently resides on Salt Spring Island, BC. Her work Wilson’s Bowl was hailed by Northrop Frye as “a landmark in Canadian poetry.” When the book had been passed over for a nomination for the Governor General’s Award, a group of fellow poets—led by Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, bpNichol and P.K. Page—collected $2, and sent it to Webb, stating that “this gesture is

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Phyllis Webb

Canadian poet and broadcaster (–)

Phyllis WebbOC (April 8, – November 11, ) was a Canadian poet and broadcaster.

Webb's poetry had diverse influences, ranging from neo-Confucianism to the field theory of composition developed bygd the Black Mountain poets. Critics have described her collections Naked Poems () and Wilson's Bowl () as important works in contemporary Canadian literature.^{[citation needed]}

As a broadcaster at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in the s, Webb created programs including Ideas and Extension, a television program about Canadian poetry. She left the CBC in to return to British Columbia, where she remained for much of her life.

Early life and education

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Phyllis Webb was born on April 8, , in Victoria, British Columbia.^[1] She attended the University of British Columbia, where she received a BA in English and philosophy in , and McGill University.^[2] In , aged 22, she ran as a candid

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Phyllis Webb

In , Phyllis Webb received the fifth George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia.

She was born in Victoria on April 8, to Mary Patton and Alfred Wilkes Webb, the youngest child and only daughter in a family of three. Her parents later divorced. She joined the provincial C.C.F. party in and graduated from UBC with a B.A. in English and Philosophy in In the same year she ran as a Victoria C.C.F. candidate in the provincial election, becoming the youngest person in the Commonwealth to seek office in a Legislative assembly.

In she attended the national C.C.F. convention where she met F.R. Scott, her most important early literary influence, having participated in an off-campus writing group led by Earle Birney. In Webb moved to Montreal and completed a year of graduate studies at McGill. Between and she lived in Montreal, associating with fellow writers Louis Dudek, Eli Mandel, Irving Layton, Miriam Wa