reviews

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.

'When I was a little lad,' I read with delight scattered poems by Marjorie Pickthall in the Canadian school texts.

These hitherto unpublished poems by Mr. W. W. E. Ross come as a rather curious voice from the past.

Dorothy Livesay's Selected Poems (1926-1956) unlike that of most of our poets, is a chronicle of continous growth in depth and control.

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.

Mr. Pillin's Dance Without Shoes is obviously performed to quiet music when lights are low --or, perhaps, the dancers are only shadows on the wall.

The Greenhouse in the Garden is a lyrical sequence chronicling the progress of a love affair.

It was appropriate that this second chapbook by Ruby Nicholas (her first -- Songs from Then and Now -- appeared in 1947) should have been published in the autumn.

The Hangman Ties the Holly was undoubtedly the most brilliant Canadian book of poems published in 1955.

These poems are chosen from ten books published in the period 1944-1955.