The series consists of a promotional pamphlet for the premiere publication in the World of Art series for Irving Layton’s seventieth birthday.
Material consists of audio reels, vinyl discs and cassette recordings of Layton reading on the radio, Layton giving readings at various libraries and universities in Ontario, Layton’s appearance on television shows including CBC’s Fighting Words, Vicki Gabereau, and the Brian Gazzard Show, interviews with Layton, and Layton speaking at the Baron Byng High School Reunion.
Irving Layton for Fighting Words, Toronto, Ontario.
Irving Layton at the Sarnia Library, speaking about the atrocities of the Holocaust and reading Eine Klein Nachtmusik.
Irving Layton interviewed by Bob McLean (1981). Also contains recording of Irving Layton on CBC's Fighting Words (1982).
Irving Layton on CBC's Fighting Words.
Material consists of newspaper clippings that include reviews of Layton’s works, commentary concerning the release of An Unlikely Affair, comments and criticisms regarding Layton’s style as a poet, advertisements about poetry readings, interviews with Canadian poets, and articles about Irving Layton’s tribute in Canadian newspapers including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, and the Toronto Sun.
Material consists of typed poems and an offprint of the poem “Catacombe dei Cappuccini” by Layton that was given to Dorothy Rath.
Material consists of posters promoting Irving Layton’s poetry readings, a brochure for the Banff Festival of the Arts, pamphlets of upcoming events, invitations to the Shaw Festival featuring Irving Layton, York University Performing Arts series and the Magnum Reading and Exhibition Series.
Material consists of various video clips of Irving Layton and video of Layton speaking at Magnum Books in Ottawa.
Consists of provincial and district annual and quarterly reports dating between 1906 and 1962.