reviews

Whenver I read a critic who defines a poem as a certain kind of 'entity' I think of Alfred Kinsey.

I believe this book is worthy of mention because, unlike most 'vanity' publications, it does not bear on its surface the reasons for its failure to achieve regular publication.

In London that spring I attended a week-end converence on Narrative.

I am sorry that Descent from Eden is encumbered with an explanatory foreword (if only on the flap).

A comparison between Norman Nathan's and Ralph Kinsey's poems is illuminating.

The compiler of an anthology of Canadian poetry has, it seems to me, three choices.

The best advice ever offered a young writer was given by F. Scott Fitzgerald: ;you've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not just the little minor experiences that only touch you lightly ...

In Passage After Midnight, William Pillin speaks, now as an individual and now as a hew in all lands and ages ...

One important piece of advice from Ranier Maria Rilke's Letters To a Young Poet is understood and acted upon, at least tentatively or partially, by most of the nineteen contributors to Prismatic Voices.

Marjorie Battcock's collection of short lyrics are chiefly short poems of physical description, the details of which usually combine with economy and compactness to form a mood.