reviews

Some books of poems yield enjoyment less readily than others.

The debt which Canada owes to their Jewish citizens in the creation of literature is staggering.

As early as 1919 William Carlos Williams wrote that technique must be the poet's Bible.

It will be interesting to see how this posthumous collection of Robinson Jeffers' poetry makes out among the reviewers and the prize committees.

Colin Haworth's six expressionist drawings that accompany the forty poems in this book are curiously appropriate

Alfred Purdy never bores me.

At first glance this enat, uncluttered little book of Maritime poetry puzzled me.

At least one thing keeps Irving Layton from being only the unkind names some readers of his new volume may call him.

There is pride mixed with sadness in contemplating the Collected Poems of A.J.M Smith: pride in these hundred good poems produced by a Canadian who has exercised such a potent influence on our literary development ...

The first thing that can be said about these three books of translation is that they are unequivocally successful in producing poetry in the English language that reflects without strain the beauty and clarity of the originals.