Gwendolyn MacEwen is a versatile writer who has given poetry readings across Canada and published regularly in Canadian literary magazines and journals. Her work has been widely anthologized, and many...
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Gwendolyn MacEwen was one of Canada's best-known mythopoeic writers in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her startling themes of myth, magic, alchemy, and dream, as well as the setting of many works in exo...
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Critical Essay by Elliott Gose
The setting of [Julian the Magician] is vaguely post-Renaissance, but the language is poetic and ironic, slangy modern and analytic. The ingredients do not mix smoothly...
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Critical Essay by George Bowering
Gwendolyn MacEwen's poems are filled with the things the wants. And the language of the poems is a language of ambition, of wanting. It stands outside the mai...
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Critical Essay by George Jonas
If Gwendolyn MacEwen's [King of Egypt, King of Dreams] were a landscape it would be a jungle of startling colours and strange sounds, dense vegetation and humid ...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Barbour
[Gwen MacEwen] is a wonder, a phenomenological mythicist, a poet of legendary process—how everyday becomes supernatural reality. Magic Animals: Selected Poems...
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Critical Essay by Tom Marshall
Gwendolyn MacEwan has always been a singer, one who sings forcefully of things exotic and mysterious. Readers and reviewers of [the 60's] responded immediately t...
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Critical Essay by Joan Mcgrath
Gwendolyn MacEwen has set a high standard against which her impressions of Greece must be measured: "Greece presents a very real challenge to whoever goes there&...
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Gwendolyn (Margaret) MacEwen
Critical Essay by Elliott Gose
