‘Conrad Kain the Canadian’
“Conrad Kain is a longer poem, much like David, but unlike the fictional David, Conrad Kain is biography turned into succinct and compact poetry. It is Birney at his alliterative and alluring best, and Kain is held high as the model and icon of the authentic Canadian mountain man.” Ron Dart takes a look back at the poem Conrad Kain, by Earle Birney.