(Ryerson 1962 pb)
(rare signed Talonbooks/Macmillan 1971 pb)
James (Crerar) Reaney 1926-2008) was born near Stratford, ON and studied with Northrop Frye. He had a child-like imagination and imagery as evidenced in his plays Listen to the Wind (1972) and his best play Colours in the Dark (1969). He won the Governor General Award for The Red Heart (1949), Suit of Nettles (1958) and Twelve Letters to a Town, The Kildeer and Other Plays (1962). Reaney was admitted to the Order of Canada in 1976.