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image TRIAL OF A CITY

Earle Birney

The Ryerson Press

Author's fourth book (originally titled "The Damnation of Vancouver")

"I was encouraged to make the play the title-piece of a new book of poems which were contracted to the Ryerson Press. Ryerson, however, for reasons explicable only to United Churchmen, refused at the last moment to accept 'damnation'. The word was o.k. in the text, but too shocking on the cover."



Other Books Published This Year:

The Searching Image by Louis Dudek (Ryerson Press)
Cerberus by Poems by Louis Dudek, Irving Layton and Raymond Souster (Contact Press)
Canadian Poems 1850-1952 by edited by Louis Dudek
and Irving Layton (Contact Press)
Twenty Four Poems by Louis Dudek (Contact Press)
Nineteen Poems by Jay Macpherson (Seizin Press, Mallorca)
5 Poems by Peter Dale Scott (Oxford University Press)