Career
Wilkinson published two books of poetry, Counterpoint to Sleep (1951) and The Hangman Ties the Holly (1955). A founding editor and patron of the literary quarterly The Tamarack Review, she also wrote a family history, Lions in the Way (1956), about her maternal family, the Oslers, and a modern fairy tale for children, Swann and Daphne (1960), before her early death from cancer in 1961. Her work was anthologized in The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, appeared in several prominent Canadian literary journals of the day, including Northern Review and The Tamarack Review, was broadcast on Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio"s Anthology and recorded on the album Six Toronto Poets, alongside the works of West.W.E. Ross, Raymond Souster, Margaret Avison, James Reaney and Jay Macpherson.
Forgotten for several decades, her work has enjoyed a minor revival since the publication in 2003 of Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924–1961, edited by Dean Irvine.