Miriam Waddington's memories of childhood embrace adventurous rambles across the prairie in an early Ford, jokes and folk songs around the dinner table, and growing in a family of enthusiastic gardene...
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Critical Essay by Desmond Pacey
[Miriam Waddington is a] quiet and unspectacular poet…, but she has a persuasive sincerity that is very winning.
[Her first book, Green World (1945),] establ...
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Critical Essay by Marvin Bell
In a poem entitled Losing Merrygorounds, Miriam Waddington regrets that loss as well as "… the careful prose / of growing up". Indeed, throughout Th...
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Critical Essay by D. G. Jones
[Waddington's language in Say Yes is close to the conventional lyric, appears fresh,] surprises with sudden illumination, touches us with her gaiety and convinces...
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Critical Essay by Tom Wayman
I think most of Miriam Waddington's poems in her recent collection of new and selected poems, Driving Home, are boring. But as this collection spans thirty years o...
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Critical Essay by L. R. Ricou
When Miriam Waddington writes of the exhaustion of language, that inevitable subject for poets, she speaks first of the lost language of nature…. But for Waddingt...
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Critical Essay by Mark Abley
Reading The Visitants, I was struck by the absence of something I couldn't exactly place: some quality, some attitude that these 40 poems simply didn't cont...
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Miriam Waddington
Critical Essay by Desmond Pacey
