James Reaney has the distinction of being one of Canada's most talented writers and versatile men of letters. Having early in his career established a reputation as a gifted lyric poet, he has in later years made an equally important name for himself...

Dermot Reaney has been promoted to head of HSBC's corporate consultancy. He will lead all cross-practice activity while also continuing to develop the business. Prior to joining HSBC Actuaries and Consultants in April 2003, Reaney spent 14 years with Deloitte &...

James by Patrick J. Hartin SP, 14. Liturgical, Collegeville, 2003. 319 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN O-8146-5816-4. AT ITS BEST, THE SACRA PAGINA COMMENTARY SERIES has served its intended readers well by providing up-to-date critical scholarship on the books of the New Testament in...

Judging from a sampling of recent critical commentary on his collected Poems, Reaney's reputation is in [a slump] …; which is a shame. Any poet who has created an original body of work, especially one of such uniqueness, power, peculiarity and, sometimes, unprecedented weirdness as Reaney's deserves better treatment. A critic might begin by attempting to actually read the poems, as opposed to reading into them various philosophies and literary theories which the poet is assumed to have....

The plays of James Reaney … have a background of religious and philosophical concern behind them. The survey of philosophy in Reaney's "September Eclogue," in A Suit of Nettles, ends significantly with Heidegger and with games of magic taken from The Golden Bough; and Reaney's plays in general are shot through with a kind of religious-philosophical excitement that tells us there is much going on privately in that area. But he is a solitary exile in an empty land, almost un...

It was reassuring to find that the text [of Sticks & Stones] does not lose the original spirit of live theatre. The secret behind this is the way the directions for stage movement have been so carefully integrated into the poetry of the play; they are not merely instructions but a spur to the imagination of the actor or director to discover the pattern of movement best suited to the rhythm of the language and the mood of the particular incident. This is most important because Reaney's stage world...