Canadian Poets 1 2LP CBC Records 1966 Leonard Cohen Irving Layton Al Purdy RARE
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Canadian Poets 1
Leonard Cohen
Al Purdy
Irving Layton
George Bowering
John Newlove
Phyllis Webb
Earle Birney
Gwendolyn MaCewen
CBC Records 55106-9 1966 2X12" 33rpm (Canada)
"Canadian Poets 1", a double LP, was released in 1966 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Phyllis Webb, Earle Birney, John Newlove, Alfred Purdy, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, George Bowering, and Gwendolyn Macewen read some of their own poems.
Leonard Cohen reads the following poems:
1. What I'm Doing Here
2. You Have the Lovers
3. Now of Sleeping
4. Style
5. Two Went to Sleep
6. Nothing Has Been Broken
7. These Heroics
Poems 1-3 from The Spice-box of Earth (1961)
Poem 4 from Flowers of Hitler (1964)
Poems 5-7 from Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956)
Robert McCormack wrote this liner note for the gatefold:
"Ten years or so ago when he (Cohen) was in his late 'teens there was a tendency to regard Leonard Cohen as a disciple of Mr. Layton's. They shared, after all, their Jewishness and their Montreal background, and, inevitably, they knew one another. Mr. Cohen, however, soon proved that he was no one's disciple except his own, moving through the richly sensual texture of his early verse - he is perhaps too well known as one of the most lyrically sensous love poets of our time - to the hard-edged surrealistic vision of the contemporary world presented with almost hallucinatory force in Flowers for Hitler."
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