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LEITERS IN CANADA: 1967 EDITED BY DAVID M . HAYNE We welcome to this issue of "Letters in Canada" Professor Rejean Robidoux, who succeeds Professor Jean Ethier-Blais as reviewer in charge of publications in French in the double category "Roman et the~tre." As this section did not appear in the July 1967 issue, Professor Robidoux includes in this year's survey of French-Canadian novels Some of the more important titles of the previous year. We extend a grateful greeting also to Professor J. H. Dales who, in the absence on sabbatical leave of the regular reviewer, Professor R. M. Saunders, has consented to prOVide this year's "Nature" reviews. This issue of "Letters in Canada" includes an author-title index prepared in the Editorial Department of the University of Toronto Press. POETRY The year's poetry reveals the vigour of both the established writers and the new wave. A surprising number of well-known poets brought out publications in the course of the year. There were selections and collections by P. K. Page, A. J. M. Smith, and George Woodcock, and new works by Louis Dudek, D. G. Jones, Dorothy Livesay, Eli Mandel, Alden Nowlan, Alfred Purdy, Raymond Souster, and, inevitably, Irving Layton. It was also a year of experiment by poets new and old, featuring concrete poetry and "found" poetry, as well as the exploration of free form and syllabic verse. While tl,ere was much of interest in the year's work, however, there were few surprises: several promising writers published first collections, but nOne moved decisively from promise to realization. A fitting centennial party was provided by A. J. M. Smith, whose Modern Canadian Verse: In English and French (Oxford, xxvi, 426, $6.50) is a fine sequel to his edition of The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1960). In the preface to the new volume he remarks that it grew out of what was to have been a revision of the earlier anthology, but in ...

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