Ordinary Moving

by Phyllis Gotlieb

Phyllis Gotlieb's second collection of poetry was nominated for Canada's Governor General's Award for literature in 1970. The title poem, a long complex lyrical meditation on childhood and growing up, takes up nearly a third of the volume, with the rest comprised of short lyrics in various modes.

86 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom, BA, MA was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.

The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel, Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems. Gotlieb won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.

She was married to Calvin Gotlieb, a computer science professor, and lived in Toronto, Ontario.