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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“Democracy and equality try to deny ... the mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.”
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.””
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“Admiration. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.”
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