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Irving Layton : Publications

Books & Chapbooks

Fornalutx: Selected Poems, 1928-1990. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992.
A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945-89. Expanded edition. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
Fortunate Exile. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.
Final Reckoning: Poems 1982-1986. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1987.
Dance with Desire: Love Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
A Spider Danced a Cosy Jig. Toronto: Stoddart, 1984.
The Love Poems of Irving Layton, with Reverence & Delight. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1984.
The Gucci Bag. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1983. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983.
A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945-82. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982.
Europe and Other Bad News. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981.
For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1980.
There Were No Signs. Toronto: Madison Gallery, 1979.
The Tamed Puma / Il Puma Ammansito. Trans. Francesca Valente. Illustrations Carlo Mattioli. Milan: Trentadue, 1978. Toronto: Virgo Press, 1979.
Droppings from Heaven. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions, 1978. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980.
The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
The Poems of Irving Layton. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. Also published, with an introduction by Hugh Kenner, as The Selected Poems of Irving Layton. New York: New Directions, 1977.
The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
The Uncollected Poems of Irving Layton, 1936-59. Ed. W. David John. Ottawa, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1976.
For My Brother Jesus. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.
The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945-1968. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969-1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
Seventy-five Greek Poems, 1951-1974. Athens: Hermias Publications, 1974.
The Pole-Vaulter. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974.
Lovers and Lesser Men. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973.
Nail Polish. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971.
The Collected Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971.
The Whole Bloody Bird: Obs, Aphs & Pomes. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
Selected Poems. Ed. Wynne Francis. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. London: Charisma, 1977.
The Shattered Plinths. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968.
Periods of the Moon. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967.
Collected Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965.
The Laughing Rooster. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
Balls for a One-Armed Juggler. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
The Swinging Flesh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961. (poems and stories)
A Red Carpet for the Sun. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1959.
A Laughter in the Mind. 2nd edition [with twenty additional poems]. Montreal: Editions d'Orphée, 1959.
A Laughter in the Mind. Highlands, N.C.: Jonathan Williams, 1958.
The Improved Binoculars: Selected Poems. 2nd edition [with thirty additional poems]. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Highlands, N.C.: Jonathan Williams, 1957.
Music on a Kazoo. Toronto: Contact Press, 1956.
The Improved Binoculars: Selected Poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Highlands, N.C.: Jonathan Williams, 1956.
The Bull Calf and Other Poems. Toronto: Contact Press, 1956.
The Cold Green Element. Toronto: Contact Press, 1955.
The Blue Propeller. Toronto: Contact Press, 1955.
The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press, 1954.
In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1954.
Love the Conqueror Worm. Toronto: Contact Press, 1953.
Cerberus. With Louis Dudek and Raymond Souster. Toronto: Contact Press, 1952.
The Black Huntsmen. Montreal: 1951.
Now Is the Place: Stories and Poems. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1948.
Here and Now. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1945.

Selected Anthologies

A Rich Garland: Poems for A.M. Klein. Eds. Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1999.
Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry. Eds. Seymour Mayne and Glen Rotchin. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1996.
The Third Macmillan Anthology. Eds. John Metcalf and Kent Thompson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1990.
Introduction to Literature: British, American, Canadian. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and peter O'Brien. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Essential Words: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry. Ed. Seymour Mayne. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1985.
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse: In English. Ed. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Canadian Poetry. Eds. Jack David and Robert Lecker. Toronto: ECW Press, 1982.
An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Eds. Russell Brown and Donna Bennett. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Modern Canadian Verse: In English and French. Ed. A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire. Eds. F. R. Scott and A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Macmillan, 1967.
The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1958.
Other Canadians: An Anthology of New Canadian Poetry in Canada. Ed. John Sutherland. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1947.

Poetry Recordings

A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems 1945-82. McClelland & Stewart, 1990. (cassette)
A Poetry Reading by Irving Layton. League of Canadian Poets, 1982. (cassette)
Irving Layton. TV Ontario, 1984. 14 mins. (video cassette)
An Evening with Irving Layton. Jewish Public Library, 1981. (cassette)
My Brother Jesus. Saidye Bronfman Center, 1976. (cassette)
An Evening with Irving Layton. Jewish Public Library, 1976. (cassette)
A Red Carpet for the Sun. Trent University, 1975. (cassette)
Layton. Caedmon, c. 1973. (L.p.)
Irving Layton. High Barnet, c. 1972. (cassette)
An Evening with irving Layton. University of Guelph, 1969. (cassette)
Irving Layton Reads His Poetry. Jewish Public Library, c. 1967. (cassette)
Irving Layton. Sir George Williams University, 1967. (cassette)
Poems of Irving Layton. Jewish Public Library, c. 1965. (cassette)
Irving Layton at Le Hibou. c. 1962. (L.p.)

Other

Tutto sommato: poesie 1945-1989. Ed. Alfredo Rizzardi. Abano Terme, Italy: Piovan, 1989.
[The Selected Poems of Irving Layton]. Trans Jaihuin Kim. Seoul, Korea: Hyongsol Publishing, 1985.
Where Burning Sappho Loved. Trans. Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Athens: Libro, 1985.
Poemas de amor. Rans. Salustiano Masó. Madrid: Hiperión, 1983.
In un'età di ghiacco. Trans. Alfredo Rizzardi. Roma: Lerici, 1981.
Il freddo verde elemento. Trans. Amleto Lorenzini. Introduction by Northrup Frye. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1974.