Desmond Pacey

With this issue, The Fiddlehead enters its sixteenth year of continous publication, thus setting a record of longevity for 'little' magazines in Canada.

This is the third volume of verse by the Montreal poet Miriam Waddington and provides an apt occasion for a review of her development.

This is the first booklet published by the Klanak Press, and it is a very delightful one.

Two books of verse in one year by Louis Dudek!

Here are three little books of verse of Canadians whose work has hitherto been printed only in such magaines as The Fiddlehead and Northern Review, which again indicate the importance today of the small private presses for the publication of poetry.

I assume that Mr Hine's title, which is itself the title of an obscure eighteenth century carol in which a well-informed crane instructs a crow in several matters pertaining to the nativity and earliest days of Jesus, is meant to be a clue to the central theme of this book.

The book jacket of this anthology describes it as a 'stimulating collection, the vigour and quality of which may well come as a surprise to readers in other countries not yet fully aware of this strong flowering of poetry in twentieth-century Australia.'

The late John Sutherland's book on Pratt is an exciting piece of criticism, perhaps the most exciting critical monograph ever to be written in Canada.

As this issue of The Fiddlehead is about to go to press, we have learned of the death of John Sutherland.

Irving Layton is a man of many masks.