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Phyllis Webb was born on 8 April, 1927 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian poet and broadcaster (1927–2021). Discover Phyllis Webb's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Occupation Poet · radio broadcaster
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 8 April, 1927
Birthday 8 April
Birthplace Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Date of death 11 November, 2021
Died Place Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1927

Phyllis Webb (April 8, 1927 – November 11, 2021) was a Canadian poet and broadcaster.

Webb's poetry had diverse influences, ranging from neo-Confucianism to the field theory of composition developed by the Black Mountain poets.

Phyllis Webb was born on April 8, 1927, in Victoria, British Columbia.

1949

She attended the University of British Columbia, where she received a BA in English and philosophy in 1949, and McGill University.

In 1949, aged 22, she ran as a candidate for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1949 British Columbia general election.

1950

In the 1950s, Webb became interested in Eastern philosophy; critic Pauline Butling suggests that Webb's early work shows the influence of neo-Confucianism's metaphysics of time.

1957

In 1957 Webb won a grant that allowed her to study theatre in France.

Webb's first poems were published in Contemporary Verse, a magazine run by Alan Crawley.

Her first book publication was in Trio, a collection of poems by Eli Mandel, Gael Turnbull, and Webb published by Raymond Souster's Contact Press.

1960

As a broadcaster at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in the 1960s, Webb created programs including Ideas and Extension, a television program about Canadian poetry.

Webb's approach shifted in the 1960s toward a model of poetry influenced by the field theory of composition developed by Charles Olson and the Black Mountain poets.

1963

The field theory was a jumping-off point for Naked Poems, which she started in 1963 and published in 1965.

George Bowering describes Naked Poems as a "key text in contemporary Canadian literature".

1964

Beginning in 1964, Webb worked as a writer and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

1965

Critics have described her collections Naked Poems (1965) and Wilson's Bowl (1980) as important works in contemporary Canadian literature.

In 1965 she created, with William A. Young, the radio program Ideas.

1967

She left the CBC in 1967 to return to British Columbia, where she remained for much of her life.

From 1967 to 1969, Webb was its executive producer.

In 1967, she travelled to the Soviet Union, carrying out research on the anarchist Peter Kropotkin; she later proposed, but did not complete, a cycle of poems called "The Kropotkin Poems".

Also in 1967, Webb created the CBC television program Extension, a series about Canadian poetry.

1980

Wilson's Bowl (1980) adopts a new poetics centred on a critique of political and interpersonal power, drawing from Haida stories "to undermine the binary structures of Western thought".

Critic Northrop Frye called it a "landmark".

Webb taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, and the Banff Centre, and was writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta from 1980 to 1981.

Webb's poems often concern death, particularly suicide.

In 1980 Webb was awarded a prize of CA$2,300 by fellow Canadian poets in recognition of her book Wilson's Bowl, which was overlooked for a Governor General's Award nomination that year.

The award citation stated, in part, "this gesture is a response to your whole body of work as well as to your presence as a touchstone of true good writing in Canada, which we all know is beyond awards and prizes".

1981

She won Canada Council awards in 1981 and 1987.

1982

Webb won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, 1982, for The Vision Tree.

1990

Webb composed the poems in Hanging Fire (1990) by waiting for words to arrive in her mind.

She said in an interview that adopting this passive stance allowed her to focus more on the external world.

1992

She became an officer of the Order of Canada in 1992.

Soon after Extension finished, Webb moved from Toronto to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, where she lived for much of her life.

Webb died at Lady Minto Hospital on Salt Spring Island on November 11, 2021.