Collection 30-007 - Seymour Mayne collection

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Seymour Mayne collection

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    CA ON0034 30-007

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    • 1974-1983 (Creation)
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      Mayne, Seymour

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    10 cm of textual records

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    Seymour Mayne is professor at the University of Ottawa and the author, editor or translator of more than fifty books and monographs, including anthologies and critical texts. He co-founded the poetry monthly Bywords, the poster magazine Graffito, and for a number of seasons he served as MC of the popular poetry reading venue, Bard. His work is represented in more than eighty national and international anthologies, and his own writings have been translated into French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish. He has given hundreds of lectures and readings at universities and other institutions across Canada, the U.S., and abroad.

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    (1954-)

    Biographical history

    Kathleen Moore (Pageot) was born in Montréal in 1954. In the late 1970s, she began to study at Concordia University and received the Concordia University Award for Creative Writing in the Arts in 1981. During her studies, she began corresponding with University of Ottawa Professor Seymour Mayne. From 1979 to 1982, she edited Athanor, a magazine dedicated to Canadian poetry. Her poems have been published in numerous books such as Celebrating Canadian Women : Prose and Poetry By and About Women, Poetry Toronto, Canadian Authors and Bookman, Raddle Moon and Here is a Poem. One of her poetry compilation, Nova : 9 poems, was issued following a workshop with schoolchildren from the Protestant School Board. Kathleen Moore has also written reviews for Books in Canada, From an Island and Wave and published three non-fiction works for Athanor : The Great Year in Myth and Religion, West and East : Explored Through the Revelation of John the Divine (1984), the preliminary draft of The Vernal Equinox : a Common Tradition in Western Myth and Mysticism (1983) and Kings and Paradigms : Space and Time in Revelation (1983).

    Custodial history

    On December 20th, 1983, Kathleen Moore Pageot sold her correspondence with Seymour Mayne and other material to the Archives and Special Collections of the University of Ottawa Library.

    Scope and content

    The collection consists of documents collected by Kathleen Moore Pageot related to Seymour Mayne and dating from 1969 to 1983 related to Canadian poetry, literature and publishing in Montreal and Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It contains correspondence, poems and the manuscript of a poetry collection, pamphlets, invitations and a short story written by and/or pertaining to both Kathleen Moore (Pageot) and Seymour Mayne.

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        Some of the documents are restricted in keeping with relevant privacy legislation. Please contact ARCS for details.

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