Saturday, January 7, 2006
Irving Layton's funeral is tomorrow.
In the year 1959, Irving Layton won the Governor General's award for his collection of poems "A Red Carpet For the Sun." I was born that same year, but I didn't read Layton until nearly twenty years later. This is sad, in my view, because Layton was one of Canada's greatest poets. He had a strong...
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