W.J. Keith is well-known to fans of Canadian literature as an editor, scholar and critic. Over the last twenty years, he has written about the work of many Canadian poets, gaining a reputation as a demanding arbiter of Canadian literature. Now for the first time in his career, Keith brings together a substantial collection of his own poetry for this masterful volume. Taking memory as its main subject, Echoes in Silence explores the poet's memory of his native England; of his wartime childhood; of words, language and God; and of Proust, the quintessential spokesman of memory.