Elizabeth Brewster

Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM (26 August 1922 – 26 December 2012) was a Canadian poet and academic.

Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick, a Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College, a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. She was a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2001, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor.

Poetry

• East Coast 1951
• Lillooet 1954
• Roads 1957
• Death by Drowning 1969
• Passage of Summer 1969
• Sunrise North 1972
• In Search of Eros 1974
• Sometimes I Think of Moving 1977
• The Way Home 1982
• Digging In 1982
• Selected Poems, 1944-1984 (2 volumes) 1985
• Entertaining Angels 1988
• Spring Again 1990
• Wheel of Change 1993
• Footnotes to the Book of Job 1995, shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General's Award
• Garden of Sculpture 1998
• On the Value Of Fantasies
• Where I Come From 2000
• Blueflag

Other works

• The Sisters 1974
• It's Easy to Fall on the Ice 1977
• Junction 1982
• A House Full of Women 1983
• Visitations 1987
• The Invention of Truth 1991
• Away from Home 1995
• In The Morning (27 May) year unknown. Published in Viewpoints Grade 11 English Textbook