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'', June 14, 2012. Marshall taught at the institution from 1964 until his death. Marshall was the author of numerous poetry collections and novels, the poetry editor of ''

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'' and the chief editor of ''Quarry''. At the time of his death in 1993, Marshall had completed a final novel, ''The Adventures of John Montgomery''. Merilyn Simonds
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David Helwig David Helwig (April 5, 1938 – October 16, 2018) was a Canadian editor, essayist, memoirist, novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. Life and career Helwig was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he spent his early childhood years. When h ...

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Publications

Poetry

* ''The Beast With Three Backs'', (with Tom Eadie and Colin Norman.) Quarry Press, Kingston, n.d.. (1965) * ''The Silences of Fire.'' Macmillan, Toronto, 1969. * ''Magic Water.'' Quarry Press, Kingston, 1971. * ''The Earth Book.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1974. * ''The White City.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1976. * ''The Elements.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1980. * ''Playing with Fire.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1984. * ''Dance of the Particles.'' Kingston, Quarry Press, 1984. * ''Ghost Safari.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1991. * ''Some Impossible Heaven of the Senses.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1994. * ''The Essential Tom Marshall'', 2012

Criticism

* ''The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D.H. Lawrence.'' London and New York: Heineman and Viking Press, 1970. * ''A. M. Klein''. Edited and with an introduction by Tom Marshall. Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1970. * ''Harsh and Lovely Land:The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition.'' Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1979. * ''Multiple Exposures, Promised Lands:Essays on Canadian Poetry and Fiction.'' Kingston, Quarry Press, 1992.

Fiction

* ''Rosemary Goal.'' Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1978. (Harper Collins, paper.) * ''Glass Houses''. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1985. * ''Adele at the End of the Day.'' Toronto, Macmillan, 1987. (Vintage Books, 1990.) * ''Voices on the Brink''. Toronto, Macmillan, 1988. (Faber and Faber,paper.) * ''Changelings.'' Toronto, Macmillan, 1991. (McClelland and Stewart, paper.) * ''Goddess Disclosing.'' Kingston, Quarry Press, 1992 * ''The Adventures of John Montgomery.'' Kingston, Quarry Press, 1995.

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