Barbara Pell


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Di Brandt's World
By Barbara Pell
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 119-120.
  • So This Is the World & Here I Am in It by Di Brandt
Gothic and Pomo History
By Barbara Pell
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 139-141.
  • The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
  • Consolation by Michael Redhill
Massacres and Floods
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 167-168.
  • Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
  • The Wreckage by Michael Crummy
The Bible Fryed
By Barbara Pell
Published in The Literature of Atlantic Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 189 (Summer 2006): 172-173.
  • Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writing of Northrop Frye by Jeffery Donaldson (Editor) and Alan Mendelson (Editor)
Not After All!
By Barbara Pell
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 144-145.
  • After All! The Collected Stories: V by Hugh Hood
Complicated Lives
By Barbara Pell
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 103-104.
  • Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
  • Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
  • A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Religious Quest
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 122-123.
  • Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts by Robert D. Denham (Editor)
Mennonite Masterpiece
By Barbara Pell
Published in Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 185-186.
  • Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe (Author)
Community and Solitary
By Barbara Pell
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 181-182.
  • The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
  • Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women by Marian Botsford Fraser
Selected and Sanctified
By Barbara Pell
Published in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 128-129.
  • Between the Temple and the Cave: The Religious Dimensions of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt by Angela T. McAuliffe
  • E.J. Pratt: Selected Poems by W. J. Keith (Editor), Zailig Pollock (Editor) and Sandra Djwa (Editor)
Poetry of Faith and Loss
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 176-178.
  • Crossword: A Woman's Narrative by Margo Swiss
  • Near Finisterre by John Reibetanz
  • Why Couldn't You See Blue? by Caroline Heath
International Cancrit
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 165-167.
  • Canadian Women Writing Fiction by Mickey Pearlman (Editor)
  • Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells
Bibliotherapy
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 113-114.
  • Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life by Nancy Owen Nelson (Editor)
  • Where the Rivers Join: A Personal Account of Healing from Ritual Abuse by Beckylane
Deliberate Ordinariness
By Barbara Pell
Published in Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 157-158.
  • The Invention of Truth by Elizabeth Brewster
  • Fever by Sharon Butala
Canon or Not
By Barbara Pell
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 133-135.
  • Bliss Carman: A Reappraisal by Gerald Lynch
  • A Poetics of Place: The Poetry of Ralph Gustafson by Dermot McCarthy
Truth & Lie
By Barbara Pell
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 155-156.
  • The Western Kingdom: Part Two of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
  • Union Day: Part Three of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
  • Harvest: Part Four of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
(Dis)Illusions
By Barbara Pell
Published in Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 165-167.
  • Some Kind of Hero by Max Layton
  • the half-finished christ by James Misfeldt
  • Seeds by Bryan Moon
Cameo & Conflict
By Barbara Pell
Published in Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 169-171.
  • Visitations by Elizabeth Brewster
  • As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair Macleod
Quests & Journals
By Barbara Pell
Published in Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 171-173.
  • Psalms from the Suburbs by Roger Nash
  • Rip Current by Harold Enrico
  • A Sacrifice of Fire: Expeditions into the Interior by Gregory Grace
Introductory
By Barbara Pell
Published in Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 179-180.
  • Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker (Editor), Jack David (Editor) and Ellen Quigley (Editor)
Sifting the Dross
By Barbara Pell
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 136-137.
  • Un Dozen: Thirteen Canadian Poets by Judith Fitzgerald (Editor)
  • The Inner Ear: An Anthology of New Poets by Gary Geddes (Editor)
  • The Third Taboo: A Collection of Poems on Jealousy by Heather Cadsby (Editor) and Maria Jacobs (Editor)
Towards Poetry
By Barbara Pell
Published in Poetic Form. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 97 (Summer 1983): 112-113.
  • Surplus Waste and Other Poems by Shaunt Basmajian
  • The Arrivals by Robert Clayton Casto
  • The Prinzhorn Collection by Don Coles
  • White Noise by Garry Raddysh
Intimate Prairie
By Barbara Pell
Published in Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 128-130.
  • A Shored Up House by Elizabeth Allen
  • Lacuna by Laura McLauchlan
  • A Game of Angels by Anne Szumigalski
  • Humans and Other Beasts by Lorna Uher

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