Jeni Couzyn

JC , poet of the twentieth century and later, calls herself a blend of several nationalities (South African, British, and Canadian) and of many identities. She is a feminist anthologist as well as a poet, author of spare but effective literary criticism in the form of introductions and headnotes.

Milestones

26 July 1942

JC was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the youngest in a family of three daughters.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Hobsbaum, Philip. “Jeni Couzyn”. Contemporary Poets, edited by Thomas Riggs, 6th ed, St. James Press, pp. 196-8.
196
Lampert, Arlene et al. “Preface”. The Selected Poetry of Jeni Couzyn, edited by Arlene Lampert et al., Exile Editions, p. xi - xiii.
xi

January 1983

Jeni Couzyn 's best-known collection of poetry, Life by Drowning: Selected Poems, was published by Toronto's House of Anansi Press . It includes the poetic sequence A Time to Be Born, written about her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

March 1985

JC issued through Bloodaxe a revised and expanded edition of Life by Drowning: Selected Poems (which had been published in Toronto in 1983).
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Biography

Birth and Background

26 July 1942

JC was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the youngest in a family of three daughters.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Hobsbaum, Philip. “Jeni Couzyn”. Contemporary Poets, edited by Thomas Riggs, 6th ed, St. James Press, pp. 196-8.
196
Lampert, Arlene et al. “Preface”. The Selected Poetry of Jeni Couzyn, edited by Arlene Lampert et al., Exile Editions, p. xi - xiii.
xi

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