Books

• Waiting for the Messiah: A Memoir. Don Mills, Ontario: Totem Press, 1986.
• Taking Sides: The Collected Social and Political Writings. Ed. Howard Aster. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1977.
• Engagements: The Prose of Irving Layton. Ed. Seymour Mayne. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.

Correspondence

• "An Unexpected Alliance: The Layton-Pacey Correspondence." Ed. John David Michael Pacey. Ph.D. dissertation, U of British Columbia, 1994.
• Irving Layton & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, 1953-1978. Eds. Ekbert Faas and Sabrina Reed. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
• Wild Gooseberries: The Selected Letters of Irving Layton. Ed. Francis Mansbridge. Toronto: Macmillan, 1989.
• An Unlikely Affair. Oakville, Ontario: Mosic Press, 1980. [with Dorothy Rath]

Book Contributions

• Forward to Modern Romanian Poetry by Nicholas Catanoy. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1977.
• "The Creative Process." English Poetry in Quebec: Proceedings of the Foster Poetry Conference, October 12-14, 1963. Ed. John Glassco. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1965. 29-42.

Periodical Publications

• "A Man Was Killed." With Leonard Cohen. Canadian Theatre Review 14 (Spring 1977): 56-68. (play)
• "Nietzsche and Poetry: A Discussion." With Eli Mandel. Malahat Review 24 (October 1972): 23-29.
• "Thinking of Eli Mandel at York." Essays on Canadian Writing 45/46 (Winter/Spring 1991-92) 232-34.

Editing

• Rawprint. Montreal: Concordia University, 1989.
• Handouts from the Mountain. Toronto: York University Poetry Workshop, 1978.
• Shark Tank. Toronto: York University Poetry Workshop, 1977.
• New Holes in the Wall. Toronto: York University, 1975.
• Anvil Blood: A Selection of Workshop Poems. Toronto: York University Poetry Workshop, 1973.
• i side up. Toronto: York University Poetry Workshop, 1971.
• Poems to Color. Toronto: York University, 1970.
• Anvil: A Selection of Workshop Poems. Montreal: Kuritzky, Frohlinger, 1966.
• Love Where the Nights Are Long: Canadian Love Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962.
• Poems for 27 Cents. Montreal: The Authors, 1961.
• Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems. New York: Alan Brilliant, 1958.
• Canadian Poems, 1850-1952. With Louis Dudek. Toronto: Contact Press, 1952.

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