Six Montreal Poets

Six Montreal Poets is a collection of mid-20th-century poetry featuring six members of the Montreal Group, modernist writers formed at McGill University in the 1920s. This 1957 album offers listeners a slice of the romance and bustle of mid-century Montreal. Rejecting the Victorianism that had previously characterized English Canadian poetry, the Montreal Group took on more cosmopolitan, personal, and philosophical subjects. It was a movement that eventually produced Leonard Cohen, heard here reciting his own poetry from his first published book, Let Us Compare Mythologies , seven years before his first major literary prize and ten years before his first song album would be released.

Track Listing

101	Like an Old Proud King in a Parable	A.J.M. Smith	01:09
102	A Hyacinth for Edith	A.J.M. Smith	01:29
103	Noctambule	A.J.M. Smith	01:04
104	The Plot Against Proteus	A.J.M. Smith	00:52
105	Business as Usual / Fear as Normal	A.J.M. Smith	01:41
106	The Archer	A.J.M. Smith	01:01
107	Sonnet	A.J.M. Smith	00:58
108	My Death	A.J.M. Smith	01:05
109	For Wilf and His House	Leonard Cohen	01:50
110	Beside the Shepherd	Leonard Cohen	00:53
111	Poem	Leonard Cohen	00:30
112	Lovers	Leonard Cohen	00:50
113	The Sparrows	Leonard Cohen	01:36
114	Warning	Leonard Cohen	00:58
115	Les Vieus	Leonard Cohen	00:50
116	Elegy	Leonard Cohen	00:45
117	The Birth of Tragedy	Irving Layton	01:40
118	The Fertile Muck	Irving Layton	01:42
119	Maxie	Irving Layton	01:30
120	The Bull Calf	Irving Layton	01:59
121	The Cold Green Element	Irving Layton	01:50
122	The Improved Binoculars	Irving Layton	01:10
123	Surfaces	F.R. Scott	00:45
124	Lakeshore	F.R. Scott	02:31
125	Laurentian Shield	F.R. Scott	01:44
126	The Bird	F.R. Scott	00:39
127	Caring	F.R. Scott	00:42
128	Bonne Entente	F.R. Scott	00:34
129	Memory	F.R. Scott	00:50
130	Will to Win	F.R. Scott	01:01
131	Conflict	F.R. Scott	01:13
132	Poem 19 from Europe	Louis Dudek	01:05
133	Poem 95 from Europe	Louis Dudek	00:55
134	To an Unknown in a Restaurant	Louis Dudek	00:58
135	A Cracker Jack	Louis Dudek	01:08
136	The Pomegranate	Louis Dudek	02:28
137	Line and Form	Louis Dudek	01:54
138	Psalm XXII	A.M. Klein	01:05
139	Plumaged Proxy	A.M. Klein	01:24
140	The Rocking Chair	A.M. Klein	01:51
141	Political Meeting	A.M. Klein	02:23
142	For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu	A.M. Klein	00:41
143	Montreal	A.M. Klein	03:27