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Contains a leaflet for Irving Layton's reading "What is Jewish about my poetry?" at the Cummings Memorial Auditorium and a pamphlet for the National Film Board of Canada documentary "Life transformed: Canadian writers at work."

Posters advertising readings by Irving Layton at Guild Books in Chicago, Illinois, and at the University of Guelph in Ontario. Poster the poetry appreciation event at the University of Guelph is signed on the verso by Irving Layton.

Series consists of a leaflet for readings by Irving Layton, a pamphlet for the documentary Poet: Irving Layton Observed published by The National Film Board of Canada, and posters advertising readings by Irving Layton at Guild Books in Chicago, Illinois, and at the University of Guelph in Ontario. Series also includes a booklet from the Concordia University Spring Convocation 1976 in which Layton was awarded with an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws, honoris causa).

The series illustrates Irving Layton’s literary work. It contains photocopies of various poems by Irving Layton, including The Incarnation, The bull calf, Cain, After Auschwitz, The Burning Bush, Post-Auschwitz Jew, The Black Huntsman, Song for Naomi, Love Letters, Rhine Boat Trip, and Catacombe dei Cappucini.

Contains April 4, 1997, issue of The Senior Times (volume 11, number 7). Includes article “Friends and followers extol Layton’s work” by Irwin Block.

Contains July 27, 1974, issue of The Montreal Star Weekend Magazine (volume 24, number 30). Includes article “The apprenticeship of Irving Layton” by Marq de Villiers.

Contains the March 20, 1976, issue of The Canadian. Includes article “Irving Layton’s Crown of Thorns: If Zionism is racism, what is Christianity?” by Beverly Slopen.

Contains April 7, 1973, issue of The Canadian Magazine.

Contains January 1983 issue of What's Up Niagara (volume 1, number 1).

Contains August 1983 issue of The New Montréaler.

The series documents the life and work of Irving Layton by means of periodicals and articles from periodicals. Periodicals include The New Montrealer, What’s Up Niagara, The Canadian Magazine, The Canadian, the Montreal Star Weekend Magazine, and the Senior Times. Articles on Irving Layton include “The passionate poet” by Carolin Wilson in What’s Up Niagara (p. 6-11), “Irving Layton’s Crown of Thorns: If Zionism is racism, what is Christianity?” by Beverly Slopen in The Canadian (p. 4-8), “The apprenticeship of Irving Layton” by Marq de Villiers in The Montreal Star Weekend Magazine (p. 8-9), and “Friends and followers extol Layton’s work” by Irwin Block in the Senior Times (p. 5). The New Montrealer (August 1983) includes the open letter by Irving Layton titled “Oh! Montreal” (p. 10-13).