Mona Adilman

Mona Elaine Adilman (1924 – 1991) was a Jewish-Canadian poet living in Montreal, Quebec. She received her B.A. from McGill University. Adilman was committed to social and environmental causes, warning Quebecers against the dangers of pesticides, creating and teaching a course on Ecology and Literature at Concordia University, directing a Heritage Group called Save Montreal, and editing an anthology of writings from prison called Spirits of the Age: Poets of Conscience.

A scholarship called the Mona Elaine Adilman Poetry Prize was established in 1992 by a bequest from Adilman in the Department of English at McGill University.

Poetry

• Candles in the Dark. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1990.
• Nighty-Knight. Ken Hanly ed. Dollarpoems, Series 3, no. 1, 1986
• Piece Work. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1980.
• Cult of Concrete. Montreal: Editions Bonsecours Editions, 1977.
• Best of Wings: An Environmental Story. New York: Regency Press, 1972.

Edited

• Spirits of the Age: Poets of Conscience. Mona Adilman, ed. Kingston: Quarry Press, 1989.