Skip to main content alibris logo

Anne Wilkinson

Anne Wilkinson (21 September 1910 - 10 May 1961) was one of Canada's few female modernist poets writing during the 1940s and 50s. Born into a wealthy family in Toronto, she grew up there and in London, Ontario, and travelled extensively over the course of her private education. She published her first collection of poetry, "Counterpoint to Sleep", in 1951 at the age of 40, followed by her second, "The Hangman Ties the Holly", in 1955. Though she considered herself an outsider