Her first collection of poems was called The Winter Sun, which won the Governor General's Award. Her later collection, No Time, also won the Governor General's Award. In 2003 her work Concrete and Wild Carrot won the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize.
Avison could be considered a spiritual or metaphysical poet. She converted to the Christian faith in the 1960's.
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No Time. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot P, 1989; Brick Books, 1998.
Not Yet but Still. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot P, 1997; Brick Books, 1998.
Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1991.
Winter Sun/ The Dumbfounding: poems, 1940-66. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1982.
sunblue. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1978.
''The Cosmic Chef Glee & Perloo Memorial Society under the direction of Captain
Poetry presents an evening of concrete (poems by Margaret Avison [and others]''
edited by B.P. Nichol.); courtesy Oberon Cement Works. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970.
The Dumbfounding. New York: Norton, 1966.
Winter Sun. London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1960.
A kind of perseverance. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1994
A Doctor's Memoirs (from papers and conversations with Dr. A.I. Wolinsky) Macmillan, 1960
Acta Sanctorum (translation in collaboration with Ilona Duczynska & Peter Owen, 1966)
History of Ontario [for Grade VII] [illustrations by Selwyn Dewdney]. Toronto : W.J. Gage,1951.
The research compendium; review and abstracts of graduate research, 1942-1962. [Toronto] University of Toronto Press [c1964]
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