reviews

Irving Layton is a man of many masks.

For a first volume of verse, this book is very well done indeed.

One's first impression of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts' Selected Poems is the length of the volume, notwithstanding Demond Pacey's omission of such anthology pieces as

In The Stunted Strong, Mr Cogswell essay a 'Saint John River Anthology,' and with some success.

Although evidently not composed as a sequence, these fifteen poems are related in themes and images.

This booklet is the third in a series published by Jay Macpherson, of which the first two items were Five Poems, 1954, by Daryl Hine, and O Earth Return, by Miss Macpherson herself.

In these poems, P.K. Page observes the process she describes in 'Photos of a Salt Mine.'

Mr Irving Layton is certainly the most prolific of modern Canadian poets - he now has eight volumes to his credit - and in many ways he is the most powerful.

The vision of Paradise has always haunted man.

There are sixteen poems in this little collection and one of them ('Last Days') is memorable.