If There’s Anything I Hate it’s Poetry

  • bp Nichol
    Journeyings and the Returns. Coach House Books
  • A. J. M. Smith
    Poems, New and Collected. Oxford University Press
  • Dennis Lee (Author)
    Kingdom of Absence. House of Anansi Press
  • Florence McNeil
    A Silent Green Sky. Klanak Press
Reviewed by Lionel Kearns
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This review “If There’s Anything I Hate it’s Poetry” originally appeared in Books of the Year. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 36 (Spring 1968): 67-70.

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