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Last Updated: May 12th, 2012 - 09:05:42 |
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Carole H. Leckner: Irving Layton, Times
I don’t remember when I first met Irving, but we both knew when we connected. We had actually known each other in that literary, familial way, seeing each other at book launchings and readings until our rapport actualized into the beginnings of a friendship.
Feb 14, 2012, 20:49
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Note from Poet Laureate of Montreal Claude Beausoleil
I imagine the poet totally engaged in his work, an intimate mirror of his inner struggles and those of his time. I imagine the poet attentive to language, that which makes him conscious of the fragility of all freedoms.
Feb 8, 2012, 13:24
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A Note from Tyrone Benskin, Official Opposition Critic for Canadian Heritage, on the Occasion of Irving Layton's Centenary
Tyrone Benskin, MP for Jeanne-Le Ber and the Official Opposition Critic for Canadian Heritage.
Feb 8, 2012, 13:13
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Nadja Zajdman: The Man Who Taught My Mother English
It happened in Montreal, and it began in 1949. A young, struggling poet was giving night classes in English at the Jewish Public Library to recently- arrived refugees from Europe.
Feb 5, 2012, 17:35
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Jennifer Boire: Mentor or Not
Irving Layton once said a poem should have as much life as a mosquito, by which I think he meant energy, not buzz. I was fortunate to have Layton as a professor in my first year of the Creative Writing Graduate program at Concordia (1989).
Feb 5, 2012, 10:05
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Barry Callaghan: Irving Layton
I was sitting with Irving Layton in his apartment in Montreal. We were talking about fathers, about how his father had a black beard, and how his eyes were black, and how he had been harried by angels who had nibbled at his ears.
Feb 5, 2012, 09:57
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Donald McGrath: Irving Agonistes
Donald McGrath grew up in a fishing village on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and moved away from the island at the age of nineteen to study art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has been a longshoreman, factory worker and waiter, and currently works as a translator in Montreal, where he has lived for the past twenty-five years. He has published in periodicals and reviews in Canada, Australia, and the UK, and is the author of one previous poetry collection, At First Light (1995). A second volume, The Port Inventory, is forthcoming from Cormorant Books this spring.
Feb 5, 2012, 09:28
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Anna Fuerstenberg: The Black Leather Jacket
He was on the down escalator at Sir George while I was heading up for a class. He had a full head of wave salt and pepper hair and he wore a grin and a black leather jacket. : “Finally I can see that you have legs.
Feb 1, 2012, 11:54
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Elaine Kalman-Naves: Happiest When Composing
Issie Lazarovitch had a passion for the English language. Recalled a friend from his Baron-Byng-High-School days, "He would come into my place and throw a dictionary into my lap, saying 'Ask me any word! I know them all!' I'd try to catch him, but I never could. He did know the meaning of any word I picked."
Feb 1, 2012, 09:39
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Your Arts Dollar @ Work
when Poetry Quebec heard Heritage Minister James Moore say that his department planned to spend $28 million dollars of its current budget on 1812 anniversary celebrations, it nearly had a Laura Secord cow.
Dec 8, 2011, 14:06
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