Gwendolyn MacEwen

I barely know a thing about her, but I do know that she's truly awesome (I've read what little bits of her poetry that I could find).

I also spent some time searching her up. Here are some brilliant links:
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol47/wood.htm

--From The Rising Fire to Afterworlds: the Visionary Circle in the Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen
by Brent Wood

http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/cpjrn/vol28/potvin.htm

--Gwendolyn MacEwen and Female Spiritual Desire
by Liza Potvin

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol9_1/&filename=Harding.htm


--Iconic Mythopoeia in MacEwen'sThe T.E. Lawrence Poems
by R. F. Gillian Harding

and: http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/2002/terror.html a little write-up on her radio play Terror and Erebus.

Some of what I could find:

Flight One.

Good Afternoon ladies and gentleman
This is your Captain speaking.

We are flying at an unknown altitude
And an incalculable speed.
The tempurature outside is beyond words.

If you look out your window you will see
Many ruined cities and enduring seas
But if you wish to sleep please close the blinds.

My navigator has been ill for many years
And we are on Automatic Pilot; regrettably
I cannot forsee our ultimate destination.

Have a pleasant trip
You may smoke, you may drink, you may dance
You may die.
We may even land one day.


And:

Terror and Erebus
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Being an account of the search by Rasmussen for the remains of the Franklin expedition

here:

http://www.alsopreview.com/thecollections/macewen/poetry/terror.htm


Departures from "The T.E. Lawrence Poems" here: http://doctoralmore.spaces.msn.com/Blog/cns!41B67ADE3D607F1D!112.entry



All right. That's all I can unearth now.