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.
Macpherson's poem "Ark Apprehensive" was set to music by Gene Kondusky for his 2010 Kites Overhead album, You are a secret, and you must never tell it.
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“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man’s recognition of his own negative potential—with his sense of what he is capable of.”
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“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
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