SOURCE: "Diamond Panes," in Canadian Literature, Nos. 113–14, Summer-Fall, 1987, pp. 247–49.

In this review of The Glass Air: Selected Poems, Hutchison praises the book as a "valuable asset to both neophyte and scholar" and calls Page "one of our finest and most accomplished poets, as well as an interesting and original artist."

The Glass Air is one of the most important books of Canadian poetry published in 1985. Punctuated by the drawings inspired by her years abroad and rounded out by two essays on her aesthetics, P. K. Page's selections from her best-known poems and from recent work (some unpublished) trace the evolution of a rich and complex imagination. As Page writes in "Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman," one of the two essays reprinted here, poetry and painting are a journey to "my absolute centre … that luminous circle, that locus which is at the same time a focusing glass, the surface of a...