Officer of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 1984-12-17
Invested on: 1985-04-10
Her work, which is intensely Canadian and personal, has placed her in the forefront of Canadian writers and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Governor General's Award for Literature. "The Dumbfounding", published in 1966, is considered classic, disciplined poetry of the "rarest and purest kind".