Posted AT 5:09 PM EDT on 08/01/06
Irving Layton remembered as iconic wordsmith
Montreal — Irving Layton, who achieved an iconic status on the Canadian literary scene with his gritty poems, was remembered Sunday as a challenging yet inspiring wordsmith.
A crowd including poet and singer Leonard Cohen, media mogul Moses Znaimer and federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler were among the mourners at his funeral in west-end Montreal.
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