The narrative poem is a Canadian tradition that connects Crawford and Pratt with Atwood and Ondaatje. Reaney is the link. The key link. Selected Longer Poems completes the popular presentation of James Reaney’s classic Poems and includes the well-known ’The Great Lakes Suite’, ’A Message to Winnipeg’, ’Twelve Letters to a Small Town,’ and ’The Dance of Death at London, Ontario’.
The narrative poem is a Canadian tradition that connects Crawford and Pratt with Atwood and Ondaatje. Reaney is the link. The key link. Selected Longer Poems completes the popular presentation of James Reaney’s classic Poems and includes the well-known ’The Great Lakes Suite’, ’A Message to Winnipeg’, ’Twelve Letters to a Small Town,’ and ’The Dance of Death at London, Ontario’.
