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Collected Poems - Limited Edition
With photos from the Connors' family archives, this full-colour scrapbook celebrates the life and times and songs of a Canadian music legend.
From his first performance at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, in November 1964, Tom Connors was well on his way to becoming a Canadian icon. This illustrated scrapbook explores Stompin' Tom's songs, and the events that inspired them -- among them, "Fire in the Mine," "Sudbury Saturday Night," "The Hockey Song," "The Martin Hartwell Story," "Erika Nordby," and "How the Mountain Came Down." Also here are original song lyrics, family photographs, and stories from Tom's family and friends.
With 150 photographs drawn from the Connors' family archives, this new book is an intimate look at the life of a music legend whose music embodies what it means to be Canadian.
From his first performance at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, in November 1964, Tom Connors was well on his way to becoming a Canadian icon. This illustrated scrapbook explores Stompin' Tom's songs, and the events that inspired them -- among them, "Fire in the Mine," "Sudbury Saturday Night," "The Hockey Song," "The Martin Hartwell Story," "Erika Nordby," and "How the Mountain Came Down." Also here are original song lyrics, family photographs, and stories from Tom's family and friends.
With 150 photographs drawn from the Connors' family archives, this new book is an intimate look at the life of a music legend whose music embodies what it means to be Canadian.
- GenresPoetry
589 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1965
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About the author
Irving Layton
85 books40 followersPoet, Teacher.
Born as Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, author Irving Layton immigrated to Canada in 1913, as a baby, his family settling on the infamous St. Urbain Street in the city of Montreal. In the heavily French-speaking province of Quebec, some locals were weary of English foreigners and Jewish families, however, the Lazarovitches adapted to the city where a great Canadian literary scene flourished, producing several English (Canadian) authors such as Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen and Louis Dudek.
In the early 1930's, Irving Layton received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from MacDonald College. In 1946, he received his M.A. in Political Science. He also began teaching English, History, and Political Science at the Jewish parochial high school, Herzliah, in 1949. He taught modern English and American poetry at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) and worked as a tenured professor at York University in the 1970s. He lectured occasionally at McGill University in Political Science. He taught English and Literature at the Jewish Public Library.
Irving Layton often recited his works at readings and travelled the world doing so, gaining fame and popularity. Over the course of his life, Irving Layton received many awards and honours for his writing. In 1959, Irving Layton received the Governor-General's Award for "A Red Carpet for the Sun." He was titled an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976. In 1981, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature by Italy and South Korea. He also received the Petrarch Award for Poetry.
Well loved, Irving led a full life surrounded by students, friends and family. He was married four times - to Faye Lynch, Harriet Bernstein, Annette Pottier and Betty Sutherland. He also lived with a woman named Aviva Cantor for several years. He fathered four children during his life named Max, Naomi, David and Samantha Clara.
Born as Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, author Irving Layton immigrated to Canada in 1913, as a baby, his family settling on the infamous St. Urbain Street in the city of Montreal. In the heavily French-speaking province of Quebec, some locals were weary of English foreigners and Jewish families, however, the Lazarovitches adapted to the city where a great Canadian literary scene flourished, producing several English (Canadian) authors such as Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen and Louis Dudek.
In the early 1930's, Irving Layton received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from MacDonald College. In 1946, he received his M.A. in Political Science. He also began teaching English, History, and Political Science at the Jewish parochial high school, Herzliah, in 1949. He taught modern English and American poetry at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) and worked as a tenured professor at York University in the 1970s. He lectured occasionally at McGill University in Political Science. He taught English and Literature at the Jewish Public Library.
Irving Layton often recited his works at readings and travelled the world doing so, gaining fame and popularity. Over the course of his life, Irving Layton received many awards and honours for his writing. In 1959, Irving Layton received the Governor-General's Award for "A Red Carpet for the Sun." He was titled an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976. In 1981, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature by Italy and South Korea. He also received the Petrarch Award for Poetry.
Well loved, Irving led a full life surrounded by students, friends and family. He was married four times - to Faye Lynch, Harriet Bernstein, Annette Pottier and Betty Sutherland. He also lived with a woman named Aviva Cantor for several years. He fathered four children during his life named Max, Naomi, David and Samantha Clara.
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August 26, 2013
Does anyone read the poetry of Irving Layton any more? Or has he faded from the PopCanLit consciousness like Robertson Davies did within a year or two of his death? Leonard Cohen is still filling the stadiums with his poetry, but will his words fall silent, ignored, when he shuffles off to the Tower of Song a final time? Layton was, in his time, big like his friend and student Cohen is now. If Leonard Cohen's poetry lies dusty in the future, it will be as much a sad tragedy as is what I think is current neglect of Irving Layton's brutally, beautifully flaying body of work.
I've just finished reading Layton's 1965 Collected Poems, a big, manly, brutish, sensitive, bawdy, discomfiting, apocalyptic collection of 385 brilliant pieces of life. If you know Cohen's work, reading Layton is like finding Cohen's rough-edged but admired older brother. But the interest of Layton's poetry is it's own. Layton should be read, admired, loathed and savoured for his poetry, not just for his mentorship of Canada's favourite old man poet rock star...
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I've just finished reading Layton's 1965 Collected Poems, a big, manly, brutish, sensitive, bawdy, discomfiting, apocalyptic collection of 385 brilliant pieces of life. If you know Cohen's work, reading Layton is like finding Cohen's rough-edged but admired older brother. But the interest of Layton's poetry is it's own. Layton should be read, admired, loathed and savoured for his poetry, not just for his mentorship of Canada's favourite old man poet rock star...
read the rest of my brief reaction at http://wp.me/p2bqoo-hT
July 3, 2022
Pretty mediocre poetry by the Great Canadian Chauvinist™
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