A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Irving Layton Collection, Concordia University

Joy Bennett, compiler

About the Book

The Layton Collection at Concordia University houses the most complete body of work by and about the poet that exists to date. Since its inception in 1969, the collection has grown from a few boxes of miscellaneous manuscripts and letters to a large and important collection of manuscripts, notebooks, letters, published material, tapes and photographs.

About the Compiler

Joy Bennett is a Senior Librarian and Head of the Interlibrary Loans Unit, Concordia University.

Table of Contents

• Balls for a One-armed Juggler
• The Cold Green Element
• The Covenant
• Droppings from Heaven
• Europe and Other Bad News
• For My Brother Jesus
• For My Neighbours in Hell
• Final Reckoning: Poems 1982-1986
• The Gucci Bag
• The Gucci Bag (end ed.)
• The Improved Binoculars
• The Improved Binoculars (2nd ed.)
• In the Midst of My Fever
• A Laughter in Mind
• A Laughter in Mind (2nd ed.)
• Lovers and Lesser Men
• The Long Pea-shooter
• The Love Poems of Irving Layton
• The Laughing Rooster
• Music in Kazoo
• The Gucci Bag (McClelland and Stewart ed.)
• Nai Polish
• Periods of the Mood
• The Pole-vaulter
• The Swinging Flesh
• The Shattered Plinths
• The Tightrope Dancer
• Unpublished
• The Whole Bloody Bird
• Essays
• Miscellaneous
• Manuscripts
• Notebooks
• Prose

See also:
Bennett, Joy, compiler
A Catalogue of the Letters, Tapes and Photographs in the Irving Layton Collection

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