A CONSTANT COMPANION for over 10 years, Bruno ts always at Anne's side, providing relaxing companionship. (lan Smith photo) Celanese 45 02 Westimillis 42 oz Westmille 54 02 Weetmille 50 02 Underlays Labour plus Westmills 48 o7. SPRING INSTOCK CARPET SALE 50° Celanese 20 02 cream mocha only Saxony Saxony Plush Saxony Plush Sanony Plush Peertees 60 07 Sup Special Saxony Camelontly 922.67 m? from 61.99 m2? from 62.95 m2 many unadvertised in store specials of quality carpeting & VINYL FLOORING during the month of April N E’VE GOT THE CURE FOR THE COMMON KITCHEN sunday news April 11, 1982 Tel. 985-2131 LIVING IN LYNN VALLEY DISTINGUISHE INSPIRED BY NATURE By OLGA RUSKIN ANNE MARRIOTT, one of Canada’s most distinguished poets and Governor General's Award poetry recipient, is alive and well in Lynn Valley where she has lived since 1958. (You can find her singing in the choir in Lynn Valley United Church.) She has not been heard from in published form for 10 years but this has now changed. The Circular Coast Poems New and Selected by Anne Marriott (Mosaic Press, $6.95 paper cover, $12.95 hard cover) has now appeared in libraries and bookstores to grip readers with beautiful, unforgettable imagery and _ powerful emotional qualities. The title comes from one of the poems “The Circular Coast” first broadcast on the CBC in 1977 and stems from the idea as Anne explains “that everything is sort of an endless circle which repeats itself.” The book includes the best of her older and a number of her newer poems. Anne Marnott (whose married name is McLennan) is a writer whose roots are in the West Coast though some of her important work has been based in other Canadian locales. Born and raised in Victoria, Anne attended Norfolk House school there where she was encouraged by a high school teacher to write “and I've done it ever since.” Though she has written prose as well as poetry, she is best known for her poetry which 1s “something I've always done naturally.” One year in the 1930's she was sent to Saskatchewan to recuperate after having been sick over winter. She was struck by ‘the prairie graveyard after coming from the moist greenness of Victoria.” What resulted from this experience was a sequence of ten poems “The Wind Our Enemy” (1939) which has become Anne thinks “the most = an- thologized poem in Canada.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature has praised the poem “as the most vital expression of the period.” It is a moving, vivid description of the plight of the farmers living in_ the drough-bitten areas of Saskatchewan. A couple of years later Anne won the Governor General’s Award for “Calling Adventures” (1941), verse choruses written for a radio documentary on the Canadian North. Her writing background includes writing school broadcasts, working in the 1940’s as a scmpt writer for the National Film Board in Ottawa where she got married. Back in B.C. Anne SECTION WOMEN ° FOOD TRAVEL D POET and her husband lived in Prince George for four years where she worked as the women’s editor for a Prince George newspaper and did “whatever the men reporters didn’t want to do such as cover weddings. “However, throughout all this and becoming a mother to three adopted children,” I never stopped writing poetry or short stories.” For her “writing poetry just happens. Officially I write every morning though I usually end up doing it at 11 o'clock at night. I feel a poem brewing for a while but the actual writing doesn't take much time.” She describes her poetry as ‘‘very frequently as emotional reaction to nature and comments “The sad side of life moves me.” (In her new book there is a_ gripping poem “Battered” about a case of child abuse.) A number of poems in The Circular Coast arise out of camping experiences which she and her late husband and her children enjoyed in the Long Beach area. Life is busy for Anne Marriott McLennan these days. She sings in the choir in Lyon Valley United Church, is a member of the North Shore Historical Society, takes French lessons. looks after two CONTENUED ON PAGE C3 Landscape Materials New Decorative Ties CCA Treated 5 x6 «8% Quality Used Rail Ties Creosote Treated 6 x8 x8 Flat Edge / $75,, $85°.. intertocking Paving Stones 8 styles = 5 Colors Cedar Poles Up to 8 CCA Treated Poles 4 xI1Q trom $ 1 68 on .89. $4 69 n Beautitul Aggregate - Seeded Stepping Stones 1A hound OF BqQuare Pau) $4oo $ 410. Cayoosh Trading Ltd. 5004 Still Creek Avenue South on Douglas off Lougheed Hwy Burnaby Gudor House CABINETSLTD 156 WEST THIRD ST. N.VAN. oncatt = 980-0222 cotmares Lonsdale Floors Ltd. cor 17th & Lonsdale 987-6612 North Vancouver 926-9188 of 298-3112 Buy tn quantity 4 seve even more Sat 03 Mappy E aste: Free instalation advice giadty! Mon Fri 84