MARVYNE JENOFF
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Out of print, available in some libraries:
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The Orphan and the Stranger, poetry. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 1985, 
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Poems based on the lives and deaths of both the poet’s parents.
Partial Contents:  “Song of the Runaway Father”   “What Shall We Do with My Father’s Portrait?”           
“Still Life with Television”  “Anti-Lullaby” “My Mother Abdicates” “The Orphan and the Stranger”



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Hollandsong, poetry. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1975 
Poems of love and love’s waning.
Partial contents:   "Poem for Silence and a Name"  "The Potters’ Morning"  “The spider knows his centre…” 
"Balcony Ballad"  "At Love"  “Hubband in de Kitchen…”


                















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No Lingering Peace, poetry. Fredericton: The Fiddlehead Press, 1972 
The poet’s first collection. 
Partial Contents:  “New Snow in March”  “We, as Poetic Device”   “Birds in Water”
“Homegoing Blues”  “Song about Songs”  “The Grey Coat”
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Anthologies
"Flying into Vancouver" published in Heartwood: Poems for the Love of Trees, ed. Leslie Strutt,​The League of Canadian Poets, 2018 
"Alive, Unique,"​ essay, in Imagination in Action: Thoughts on Creativity by Painters, Sculptors, Musicians, Poets, Novelists, Teachers, Actors..., ed. Carol Malyon. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2007
 
​"A Lesson in Resuscitation," narrative poem, and "The Singular Sister," fable, in Tales for an Unknown City: Stories from One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, ed.  Dan Yashinsky. Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.     

 ​The Third Taboo: A Collection of Poems on Jealousy, ed. Heather Cadsby and Maria Jacobs. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 1983.
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Whale Sound, ed. Greg Gatenby. North Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd., 1977
Handbook

New Poet’s Handbook, edited and compiled by Marvyne Jenoff for The League of Canadian Poets, 1983 and 1985.                                    

 Twoffish Press

These chapbooks have been adapted and included in my hybrid memoir, Fruit and Tree: A Writer's Life and Work, 2025.
Many of the poems in Crackerjack Umbrella are included in Climbing the Rain, Silver Bow Publishing, 2022.
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