its proper interpretation - is it a darker, more tragic vision or is the possibility of redemption there?" Suniti Namjoshi saw it as a book about redemption: about the necessity "to hit bottom and then to make the journey up"; "after a descent into the underworld ... it is possible to return to the ordinary world of everyday life". David Bromwich, reviewing the book in Poetry, saw it as even more positive: for him, it "moves from consolation to guilt to terror and finally to a deepened consolation." On the other hand, Lorraine Weir interpreted the book to be saying that the "underworld journey of redemption ... fails". "Fertility is not restored, the underworld is not left behind." Weir calls Macpherson's vision "inescapably a tragic one." Recognition Macpherson won Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, and the University of Western Ontario President's Medal, in 1957. She won the Governor General's Award for The Boatman in 1958. A small park in her former Toronto neighbourhood, Jay Macpherson Green, is named for her near Avenue Road and Dupont Street. Publications Poetry A Country Without a Mythology. n.p.: 195?. 1952:Nineteen Poems. Mallorca, Spain: Seizin Press 1954:O Earth Return. Toronto: Emblem Books 1957:The Fisherman: A Book of Riddles 1957:The Boatman. Toronto: Oxford University Press 1959:A Dry Light & The Dark Air. Toronto: Hawkshead Press 1968:The Boatman and Other Poems. Toronto: Oxford UP 1974:Welcoming Disaster: Poems, 1970-74. Toronto: Saannes Publications 1981:Poems Twice Told: The Boatman & Welcoming Disaster. Toronto: Oxford University Press Fiction 1962:The Four Ages of Man: The Classical Myths. Toronto: Macmillan Non-fiction 1972:Pratt’s Romantic Mythology: The Witches’ Brew. St. John's Nfld.: Memorial University 1974:"Beauty and the Beast" and Some Relatives. Toronto: Toronto Public Library 1982:The Spirit of Solitude: Conventions and Continuities in Late Romance. New Haven: Yale University PressExcept where otherwise noted, bibliographic information courtesy Brock University.References Monograph Weir, Lorraine. Jay Macpherson and Her Works Toronto: ECW Press, 1989. Articles Berner, Audrey. "The ‘Unicorn’ Poems of Jay Macpherson." Journal of Canadian Poetry 3 (1980): 9-16. "Comments (On the Practice of Alluding)." University of Toronto Quarterly 61.3 (1992): 381-390. Keith, W.J. "Jay Macpherson’s Welcoming Disaster: a Reconsideration." Canadian Poetry 36 (1995): 32-43. Weir, Lorraine. "Toward a Feminist Hermeneutics: Jay Macpherson's Welcoming Disaster," in Gynocritics/La Gynocritique - Feminist Approaches to Writing by Canadian and Quebecoise Women, ed. Barbara Godard (Toronto: ECW P, 1987) 59-70. Namjoshi, Suniti. "In the Whale’s Belly: Jay Macpherson’s Poetry." Canadian Literature 79 (1978):