Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do by Michael Ondaatje

Since 1940 (p. 105-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Migrations by Marcel Bélanger
  • Le Centre Blanc by Nicole Brossard
  • Chaleuils by Cécile Cloutier
  • Sol Inapparent by Gilles Cyr
  • Petits poèmes presque en prose by Jean Éthier-Blais
  • Matin d'Oiseaux by Rina Lasnier
  • Paliers de Paroles by Rina Lasnier
  • Fragments by Guy Menard

A Vulgarian View (p. 108-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Empire, York Street by Erín Mouré
  • A Man to Mary, A Man to Bury by Susan Musgrave
  • The Tough Romance by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Slim, Slimmer… (p. 110-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Children on the Edge of Space by Mick Burrs
  • Now Is a Far Country by John V. Hicks
  • Crow's Black Joy by Lorna Uher

Premature Poetry (p. 112-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fiddlehead Republic by Nicholas Catanoy
  • Moon Without Light by Len Gasparini
  • Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows and other poems by Sean Virgo

Winning Spirit (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sunblue by Margaret Avison

Early Oates (p. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dreaming America: Obsession and Transcendence in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates by G. F. Waller

Cohen (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Leonard Cohen by Stephen Scobie

A Place in Time (p. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bright Glass of Memory by Douglas Le Pan

Voices of Women (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • House of Changes by Jeni Couzyn
  • The Cranberry Tree by Enid Delgatty Rutland

Essais (p. 124-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ecrire en notre temps Essais by Fernand Ouellette

Uneven Breathing (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • D'Sonoqua: An Anthology of Women Poets in British Columbia by Ingrid Klassen

Poetry and Polemics (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Irving Layton. The Poet and His Critics by Seymour Mayne

Gems & Ashes (p. 128-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hanging In by Raymond Souster
  • Droppings from Heaven by Irving Layton

Mappemounde? (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Brave New Wave by Jack David
  • The Human Elements: Critical Essays by David Helwig

Words & Power (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forêt vierge folle by Roland Giguere
  • Torrentiel by Pierre Morency
  • J'ai tant cherché le Soleil by Andre Beauchamp

Getting It Together (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making Arrangements by Robert Harlow

Seismograph (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Art of Thomas Merton by Ross Labrie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Franklin and McClintock by David West
  • First Ghost to Canada by Kenneth McRobbie
  • The Terrible Word by William Bauer
  • The Visitors Have all Returned by Marilyn Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rock Observed: Studies in the Literature of Newfoundland by Patrick O'Flaherty

Retrieving the Past (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Resevoir Ravine by Hugh Hood
  • A Family Album by William Bauer

After Descartes (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contemporary Surrealist Prose by Rikki Ducornet, Michael Bullock and H. C. Artmann
  • Surréalisme et littérature québécoise by Andre Bourassa

Heart/Body Harmony (p. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heart's Frame by Cyril Dabydeen
  • The Earth Is One Body by David Waltner-Toews
  • The Heart Is Altered by Alan Safarik
  • This Body That I Live In by Anne Le Dressay

Ends of Things (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Pyramid of Time: Selected Stories by Abraham Boyarsky
  • Shotgun And Other Stories by Kent Thompson

Politics & Culture (p. 145-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poésie des fontières: etude comparee des poesies canadienne et quebecoise by Clément Moisan
  • Le territoire imaginaire de la culture by Michel Morin and Claude Bertrand
  • Parti Pris: ideologies et litterature by Robert Major