# Gay Allison

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**Gay Allison** (born 1953) is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) poet, editor, and English teacher. She was the fiction editor of [The Canadian Forum](/source/Canadian_Forum), poetry editor of *Waves*, founding editor of a feminist journal, *[Fireweed](/source/Fireweed_(periodical))*,[1] co-editor of *Landscape*,[2] and founding member of the Women's Writing Collective of Toronto. Additionally, Allison is an advisory board member of *Tiger Lily*, a journal by women of colour. Allison is also a full member of the [League of Canadian Poets](/source/League_of_Canadian_Poets).[3]

She was the recipient of the Poetry Award from the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario (FWTAO) in 1982 and 1986.[4]

## Early life

Allison was born in [Saskatchewan](/source/Saskatchewan). She has since lived in [Saskatoon](/source/Saskatoon), [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver), and [Toronto](/source/Toronto).

## Work

Allison's poetry in *The Unravelling*, focuses on daily life "at a slow meditative pace."[5]

## Publications

### Poetry

- *Life: Still.* (1981)[6]
- *In the Valley of the Butterflies* (1981)
- *The Unravelling* (1986)[7]
- "Iron Shirt Moves" (1988)[8]

### Anthologies

- *Women and Words: The Anthology/Les femmes et les mots: Une anthologie* (1984)[9]
- *Sp/Elles: Poetry by Canadian Women/Poésie de femmes canadiennes* (1986)[10]

## Awards

- Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario, Poetry Award, 1982, 1986.
- Tyrone Guthrie Award, [Stratford Festival](/source/Stratford_Festival), 1997.

## References

1. Butling, Pauline & Rudy, Susan (2009). [*Writing In Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003)*](https://books.google.com/books?id=NODfAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22gay+allison%22+canada&pg=PT41). Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9780889205277.

1. Allison, Gay; Hood-Caddy, Karen; Rapoport, Janis (1977). *Landscape*. Toronto: Women's Writing Collective. ISBN 9780969068006.

1. ["Why The Poet Writes"](http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/UserFiles/File/GayAllison.pdf). *Centre For Women's Studies in Education*. University of Toronto. 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2016.

1. ["Membee – Directory — Poets.ca"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170415015155/http://poets.ca/membee-directory/#action=Listing&value=313&searchID=0&cid=1043&did=100). *poets.ca*. Archived from [the original](http://poets.ca/membee-directory/#action=Listing&value=313&searchID=0&cid=1043&did=100) on 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2016-02-22.

1. Hatch, Ronald B. (1998). ["Poetry"](https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/university_of_toronto_quarterly/v058/58.1.hatch.pdf). *University of Toronto Quarterly*. **58** (1): 32–49. [doi:10.3138/utq.58.1.32](https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.58.1.32). Retrieved 27 February 2016. – via Project MUSE.

1. Allison, Gay (1981). [*Life: Still.*](https://archive.org/details/lifestillpoems0000alli). Toronto: Williams-Wallace International. ISBN 9780887950117.

1. Gay, Allison (1986). *The Unravelling*. Toronto: Williams-Wallace. ISBN 9780887950605.

1. ["Iron Shirt Moves"](https://canlit.ca/article/iron-shirt-moves/). *canlit.ca*. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. 1988. pp. 26–27. Retrieved 2016-02-24.

1. [*Women and words : the anthology = Les femmes et les mots : une anthologie*](https://archive.org/details/womenwordsanthol0000unse). Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Pub. Co. 1984. ISBN 9780920080535.

1. Allison, Gay (1986). *Sp/Elles: Poetry by Canadian Women/Poésie de femmes canadiennes*. Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press. ISBN 9780887531514.

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