reviews

These hitherto unpublished poems by Mr.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.

This is at once the first book of poems by Leonard Cohen and the first in a poetry series produced by McGill University in order to bring to the public the work of young McGill writers of outstanding ability.

Irving Layton is a man of many masks.