reviews

In a lovely format, Miss Macpherson has published the lyrics which won her the E.J. Pratt Prize for poetry at the University of Toronto last year.

'There are no easy signposts, only a lonely road / That each one travels with his suffering.'

Neat, gentle satire and careful, precise handling of genuine emotion combine to make this book a delight to read.

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.'

Admirers of A. J. M. Smith's first book of poems, News of the Phoenix (1943), have been eagerly awaiting his second.

Poems by Mr Purdy have been appearing regularly for years now in such magazines as the Canadian Forum and The Canadian Poetry Magazine, and it is good to see his work embodied in the more permanent and accessible form of a chapbook.

I have mixed feelings about this anthology.

These sixteen sonnets by Fred Cogswell succeed admirably; they are a fine contribution to the rich store of poetry which the Maritimes have given us.

Attractively bound in grey cloth, generously leaded, and printed in 12-point Baskerville type on soft, cream-coloured paper, The Old Bateau has an old-fashioned graciousness about it.

There are two kinds of poetry in this, the latest of Miss Law's six volumes of published verse.