George Thaniel. Seawave & Snowfall: Selected Poems 1960-1982. Toronto: Amaranth Editions, 1984. 120 p.

ISBN 0919063020 pbk; 9780919063020 pbk

Contains both translations from the Greek (pp. 3-70: Seawave. Selected Poems 1960-1980. Translated by Edward Phinney) and poems written in English (pp. 71-114: Snowfall: Selected Poems in English 1965-1982).

The poems of Seawave have been taken from the following collections:

Poetics: "Let Not the Poet Fear" (p. 7); "The Poet" (p. 8); "Orpheus & Eurydice" (p. 9); "Biography" (pp. 10-14): 1. 'Prophecy' (p. 10), 2. 'Maturity' (p. 11), 3. 'Sympathy' (p. 12), 4. 'The Fallen Angel' (p. 13), 5. 'The Statue-Thief' (p. 14); "Ritual" (p. 15); "Self-Portrait" (p. 16).

Mazes: "The Balloon" (p. 19); "Unpredictable Morning" (p. 20); "The Black and White" (p. 21); "The Deer" (p. 22); "My Brothers in the Flesh" (p. 23); "Afterwards the Leaves Snapped" (p. 24); "Chairs in a Row" (p. 25); "Rediscovery" (p. 26); "Death" (p. 27); "Gray Airplane" (p. 28); "The Almighty" (p. 29); "Journey" (p. 30); "I Do Not Progress" (p. 31); "Necessity" (p. 32); "Heavy Heart" (p. 33); "What" (p. 34).

Hymns: "He" (p. 37); "Lenten Song" (p. 38); "Mary" (p. 39); "Miracle" (p. 40); "Rosary" (p. 41).

Escapes: "I Return" (p. 45); "How I Tremble" (p. 46); "Let's Give" (p. 47); "Unforeseen" (p. 48); "Movement" (p. 49); "Busses" (p. 50); "The Cycle of Seasons" (p. 51); "The Earth" (p. 52); "The Grocery Store" (p. 53); "The Stoic Escape" (p. 54); "Waterloo-Toronto" (p. 55).

Landscapes: "Picassoesque" (p. 59); "The Youth Who Greeted Me at the Restaurant" (p. 60); "At Pylos" (p. 61); "Pylos" (p. 62); "Olympian Games" (p. 63); "Mystras" (p. 64); "Nestor's Palace" (p. 65); "The House" (p. 66); "When Something Dies" (p. 67); "Vulcano" (p. 68); "In the Museum at Volos" (p. 69); "Familiar Things" (p. 70).

Explanatory footnotes are occasionally added.