Editorial

Book Reviews

Lowry’s Mouths (p. 85-87)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Confabulations: Poems for Malcolm Lowry by Sharon Thesen

Demon of Analogy (p. 87-88)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'itinerario del senso nella narrativa di Malcolm Lowry by Elsa Linguanti

Magpie Mind (p. 88-90)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies

Lost Innocents (p. 90-91)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nothing So Natural by Jim Curry
  • Flavian's Fortune: A Psychological Thriller by Alastair MacDermott

Red Crayon (p. 91-92)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Need of Wanting Always by Gertrude Story

Memory & Words (p. 92-95)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fables of Brunswick Avenue by Katherine Govier
  • Bottled Roses by Darlene Madott

Underwing (p. 95-97)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Shadow of the Vulture by George Ryga
  • The Quarter-Pie Window by Marianne Brandis

Other Americas (p. 97-100)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer
  • Voyage to the Other Extreme by Marilú Mallet and Alan Brown

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Québécoite by Regine Robin

Home Rituals (p. 102-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Noman's Land by Gwendolyn MacEwen
  • This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians 1941-1948 by Roy Miki

A Question of Taste (p. 104-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Six Days by Keith Harrison
  • Mario by Claude Jasmin and David Lobdell

Rare/Fear (p. 107-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Green Eyes, Dukes & Kings by Michael Rawdon
  • The Book of Fears by Susan Kerslake

Zarathustran (p. 109-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Waiting for the Messiah: A Memoir by Irving Layton
  • Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas

Dramatic Trilogies (p. 110-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Power Plays: Gossip, Filthy Rich, The Art of War by George F. Walker

Destinations (p. 112-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Essential Words: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry by Seymour Mayne
  • Russian Poetry: A Personal Anthology by R. A. D. Ford
  • Voix-off: Dix poètes anglophones due Québec by Antonio D'Alfonso

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Life of Hope by Paul Quarrington

On Riel (p. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • War in the West: Voices of the 1885 Rebellion by Rudy Wiebe and Bob Beal
  • I Fought Riel: A Military Memoir by Charles A. Boulton and Heather Robertson

From Mind to Mind (p. 118-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Night Studies by Constance Beresford-Howe
  • Wishbones by Cynthia Long

Transculture (p. 120-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Fresque de Mussolini by Filippo Salvatore
  • Sous le signe du Phénix: Entretiens avec quinze créateurs italo-québécois by Fulvio Gaggia
  • Scirocco: poèmes by Fulvio Gaggia

Clockmaker (p. 123-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Recollections of Nova Scotia: The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Black Lyricist (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gilbert La Rocque: l'écriture du rêve by Donald Smith

Le Livre d’Abel (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Steven le Hérault by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Putrefying Sore (p. 128-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Woman's Tongue by Hazel D. Campbell
  • Lesbian Triptych by Jovette Marchessault and Yvonne M. Klein
  • No Fixed Admission by Jacqui Smyth

Twice-Told Tales (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Montreal Story Tellers: Memoirs, Photographs, Critical Essays by J. R. (Tim) Struthers

Indian History (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Myth of the Savage: and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason
  • Indians in the Rockies by Jon Whyte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Poems of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts: A Critical Edition by Desmond Pacey and Graham Adams

Cycles (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'oeil interrompu by Michel Dallaire
  • Poison by Doric Germain

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bleus de mine by Anne-Marie Alonzo
  • Les Verbes seuls by Louise Desjardins
  • Cahiers d'anatomie (complicités) by Michel Savard
  • Dans l'après-midi cardiaque by Patrice Desbiens

SF for Survival (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tesseracts by Judith Merril

Ours as Daughters (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Duet for Three by Joan Barfoot
  • Flitterin' Judas by Victoria Branden

For People (p. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Seventy-One Poems for People by Claude Boisvert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bicentennial Lectures on New Brunswick Literature by Malcolm Ross, Fred Cogswell and Marguerite Maillet

Atlantic Heritage (p. 148-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Atlantic Anthology by Fred Cogswell

In Character (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Blue Notebook: Reports on Canadian Culture by Doug Fetherling

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Melanie Klein: Her World and Work by Phyllis Grosskurth

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mind of Ontario by Royce McGillivray
  • Understanding the Loyalists by J. M. Bumsted
  • Roots of Conflict by Douglas Edward Leach

Poulin (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Etudes françaises: Jacques Poulin by Anne Marie Miraglia

Peacetime (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spectral Evidence by Eugene McNamara
  • Fish-Hooks by Reg Silvester

Ghazal-Maker (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • See Run: Notes on John Thompson's STILT JACK by Peter Sanger

Vancouver MInd (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vancouver Short Stories by Carole Gerson
  • Vancouver Fiction by David Watmough

Picture-Power (p. 159-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews and Ian Wallace
  • Zoom Away by Tim Wynne-Jones and Ken Nutt

Freudian Farce (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Who's Afraid of Sigmund Freud? by T. P. Millar

Whereness (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Resident Alien by Jerome A. Greene

Iconographies (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Out of the Storm by Jack F. Stewart and Michael Thorpe
  • The End of Ice by Lesley Choyce

In Voice (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Brave Never Write Poetry by Daniel Jones
  • Champ by Kay Burkman
  • Blue Riders by Laurence Hutchman

Grief & Memory (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paper Roses by Rachel Korn
  • Homage to Victor Jara by Patrick White
  • Walking Slow by Helen Potrebenko
  • Poets Who Don't Dance by Shaunt Basmajian

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voix d'écrivains: entretiens by Gerald Gaudet

Feminism Changing (p. 172-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminist Radicalism in the 1980's by Angela Miles
  • Feminism Now: Theory and Practice by Marilouise Kroker and Arthur Kroker et al.
  • Women's Personal Narratives: Essays in Criticism and Pedagogy by Leonore Hoffman and Margo Culley
  • Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe by Ellen Carol Du Bois

Quilted Patch (p. 176-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Deep North by Bert Almon
  • Afternoon Starlight by Charles Noble
  • Counterpane: Poems and Drawings by Catherine Bates
  • Sheba and Solomon: A Poem for Voices by Karen Mulhallen

Introductory (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Remember Me by Michel Tremblay and John Stowe
  • L'Inconception by Robert Marinier
  • Les Rogers by Robert Bellefeuille, Jean Marc Dalpé and Robert Marinier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Immune to Gravity by Mary di Michele

Erasures (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Tale of Two Countries: Contemporary Fiction in Canada and the United States by Stanley Fogel

Reappraisals (p. 186-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium by Frank M. Tierney

Crusz (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Singing Against the Wind by Mathew Zachariah

Maritime Letters (p. 189-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On Being a Maritime Writer by Hugh MacLennan
  • Road to the Stilt House by David Adams Richards
  • The Tongue Still Dances by Robert Gibbs

Landscapes & Eyes (p. 192-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Twelve Landscapes by Ralph Gustafson
  • The Prismatic Eye by Doris Hillis
  • One Night by Ken Norris
  • Clouds Flying Before the Eye by Harry Thurston

Roy’s Language (p. 194-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Play of Language and Spectacle: a structural reading of selected texts by Gabrielle Roy by Ellen Reisman Babby

Last Pages

Last Page (p. 226-228)