Alden Nowlan differs from most of the younger poets in this country in that he is unconnected with the university system, which has tended more and more to be both a starting point and the final resting place of his contemporaries.
Mr. R. A. D. Ford, the author of A Window on the North, is a member of the Department of External Affairs, and service in Russia and Brazil has strongly influenced his work.
This is at once the first book of poems by Leonard Cohen and the first in a poetry series produced by McGill University in order to bring to the public the work of young McGill writers of outstanding ability.
Kenneth Beaudoin in his introduction to this book writes of Phivos Delphis as 'a new Greek voice speaking with all the richness of that immortal race.'