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Remembering Canadian poet Irving Layton, a century after his birth: It’s been more than six years since Irving Layton passed away at the age of 93. As the Toronto Star’s Martin Knelman noted on Tuesday, Layton asked in his will that his grave site go unmarked. Next week, though, marks the centenary of Layton’s birth on March 12, 1912, in Romania. The country he moved to as an infant won’t let that occasion go unmarked. To celebrate Layton’s life, and the contributions he made to Canadian poetry, events are taking place across the country next week
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