Photograph of Irving Layton
Photograph likely taken in Ottawa, Ontario.
Irving Layton, Francesca Valente and her students
Photograph taken in New York.
photograph of Aviva Layton
Irving Layton, Francesca Valente and her students
Photograph of Irving layton
Irving Layton, Francesca Valente and her students
Interview with Michael Harris conducted by Malka Cohen for CBC Radio, Montreal, Quebec. This interview covers the following topics, among others: the relationship between Harris and Layton; Layton's influence on Harris; Layton's poetic style; and the Canadian poetry scene.
The Levitan family interviewed by Malka Cohen for CBC Radio, Montreal, Quebec. The family discusses their experiences of Layton as an educator.
Melech Ravitch and Rochel Eisenberg interviewed by Malka Cohen for, CBC Radio, Montreal, Quebec. Ravitch and Eisenberg discuss their relationship with Layton, religion, and the Jewish Public Library.
Musia and Leon Schwartz interviewed by Malka Cohen for CBC Radio, Montreal, Quebec. The Schwartz's discussed, among other topics, the Jewish Public Library; their relationship with Layton; "coffee romances"; the holocaust; Layton as an educator; the evolution of Layton's work; and criticism of Layton's poetry.
Irving Layton and John Hofsess interviewed by Barbara Frum. Layton and Hofsess discuss the film "The Night Porter".
Wynne Francis interviewed by Malka Cohen, for CBC Radio, Montreal, Quebec. This interview covers the following topics, among others: Layton's style; the influence of Nietzshe and D.H. Lawrence; the poets' views on the tension between men and women; Layton as a teacher; Layton as a major poet; critical reactions to Layton's poetry; and religion.
A lecture by Irving Layton given at York University,Toronto, Ontario.
Irving Layton at a poetry reading at Beth Tikva Synagogue, Toronto, Ontario. Layton discusses Judaism and reads 25 poems, including "The black huntsman," "Death of Moishe Lazarovitch," :Gothic landscape," and "Mrs. Fornheim, refugee."