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#102 (Autumn 1984)
B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue

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Editorial

Laurie Ricou

• Talismans of Religion (p. 2 - 6)
• Subjects: Regionalism
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Articles

Steven Putzel

• Under Coyote's Eye: Indian Tales in Sheila Watson's "The Double Hook" (p. 7 - 16)
• Subjects: Canadian Folklore, Native Studies
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Brent Thompson

• Ethel Wilson, Wary Mythologist (p. 20 - 32)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism
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Allan Pritchard

• West of the Great Divide: Man and Nature in the Literature of British Columbia (p. 36 - 53)
• Subjects: British Columbia, Literary Criticism
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Poems

Bernice Lever

• Unable to Sway You, Father (p. 6)

Maggie Helwig

• Pisa-Crusader Dreams (p. 17 - 19)

Glen Downie

• A Primitive Cosmology (p. 19)

J. D. Carpenter

• Barn Dance (p. 33)

J. D. Carpenter

• Midnight in the City (p. 34)

Glen Downie

• Worker Classification: Material Handler (p. 35)

Al Purdy

• Vancouver (p. 54 - 55)

Eric Miller

• Bells (p. 55)

Book Reviews

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Artist/Artisan (p. 56 - 58)

by Linda Hutcheon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lusts by Clark Blaise

Subjects: Art, Life Writing

Chere Maman (p. 58 - 61)

by Jacques Cotnam

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Maman-Paris Maman-la-France by Claude Jasmin

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Love & Hurt (p. 61 - 63)

by Jo-Anne Elder

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Jean-Pierre, mon homme, ma mère: roman by Josette Labbe
2. La Butte-aux-Anges by Bertrand B. Leblanc
3. Le Surveillant by Gaétan Brulotte
4. Petites Violences by Madeleine Monette
5. Une Heure de la vie: roman by Jean-Raymond Boudou

Subjects: Novel

Mice to Men (p. 63 - 64)

by Murray J. Evans

Book(s) reviewed:

1. "I Want to Go Home!" by Gordon Korman
2. Hunter in the Dark by Monica Hughes
3. The Squeakers by Aviva Layton and Louise Scott

Subjects: Children's Literature

Beast Play (p. 64 - 66)

by Terry Goldie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Anhaga by Jon Furberg
2. Beast Gate by E. D. Blodgett

Subjects: Poetry

Illusions (p. 66 - 69)

by Anthony John Harding

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Illusion One by Geoff Hancock
2. Illusion Two by Geoff Hancock

Subjects: Anthologies, Short Fiction

Word-Centred (p. 69 - 71)

by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye by Eleanor Cook, et al.
2. The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies by Northrop Frye

Subjects: Essays

Paradigms (p. 71 - 73)

by Blanche H. Gelfant

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Margaret Atwood: Language, Text and System by Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism

Recycling Richler (p. 74 - 75)

by Michael Greenstein

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mordecai Richler by Arnold Davidson

Subjects: Biography, Literary Criticism

Methodologies (p. 75 - 76)

by Virginia Harger-Grinling

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Partie et le tout. Lecture de Fernand Oulette et Roland Giguère by Paul Chanel Malenfant
2. Maurice Constantin-Weyer: écrivain de l'Ouest et du Grand Nord by
3. Réjean Ducharme, Nietzsche et Dionysos by Renee Leduc-Park

Subjects: Biography

Double Vision (p. 76 - 80)

by Linda Hutcheon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alibi by Robert Kroetsch

Subjects: Novel

Mammoth/Machine (p. 80 - 81)

by Arnold E. Davidson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Perpetual Motion by Graeme Gibson

Subjects: Novel

Romantic (p. 82 - 84)

by Ronald Hatch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Spirit of Solitude: Conventions and Continuities in Late Romance by Jay MacPherson

Subjects: Poetry

Mind & Eye (p. 84 - 86)

by T. D. MacLulich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada by Carl Berger
2. The Ghost Walker by R. D. Lawrence

Subjects: Nature Writing, Nineteenth Century, Science

The Lonely Land (p. 86 - 87)

by Roderick Harvey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Last Hiding Place by Terrence Heath
2. The Ruined Season by M. T. Kelly

Subjects: Northern Canada

Exiles & Aliens (p. 87 - 90)

by Catherine McLay

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Foreign Bodies by Rachel Wyatt
2. Shreiber by Adam Boyarsky

Subjects: Novel, Politics, Religion

Suffragists (p. 90 - 92)

by Susan Jackel

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Liberation Deferred? The Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918 by Carol Lee Bacchi

Subjects: Feminism, Women's Studies

Real Identity (p. 92 - 94)

by Marilyn E. Kidd

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Il n'y a pas d'hiver à Kingston by Alain Gagnon
2. La Charge des sangliers by Alice Poznanska-Parizeau

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, World War II

Impressions (p. 94 - 95)

by Elaine F. Nardocchio

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Destin Littéraire du Québec by Gerard Tougas

Subjects: Quebec

Aigu et sombre (p. 95 - 98)

by Kenneth W. Meadwell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Comme parfois respire la pierre by Alain Lessard
2. L'Ecran by Denise Desautels
3. Poèmes by
4. Veille by Anne-Marie Alonzo

Subjects: Poetry

Old Themes (p. 98 - 101)

by Jane Moss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Société de Métis by Normand Chaurette
2. Le Tir à blanc by Andre Ricard
3. Les Batteux by Marcien Ferland
4. Les Drôlatiques, horrifiques et épouvantables aventures de Panurge, ami de Pantagruel by Antonine Maillet
5. Un Parc en automne by Louise Maheux-Forcier

Subjects: Drama, Francophone

Clapp-Trap (p. 101 - 102)

by R. G. Moyles

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Clapp's Rock by William Rowe
2. The Outport People by Claire Mowat

Subjects: Novel

Wildcat (p. 102 - 103)

by Eric Nicol

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Smith and Other Events by Paul St. Pierre

Subjects: Novel

Fibre/Optics (p. 103 - 106)

by Robert C. Nunn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Showing West: Three Prairie Docu-Dramas by Diane Bessai and Don Kerr

Subjects: Anthologies, Drama, Prairie Writing

Heartfelt (p. 106)

by Clara Thomas

Book(s) reviewed:

1. From the Heart: Folk Art in Canada by

Subjects: Anthologies, Art

Extrapolations (p. 106 - 111)

by Elizabeth Popham

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Indians Don't Cry by George Kenny
2. The Voice of Emma Sachs by D. M. Fraser
3. What Place Is This? by Rosalind Macphee

Subjects: Short Fiction

Battle Lines (p. 109 - 111)

by Robert Billings

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Essays by Frank Davey, Robert Kroetsch, and bp Nicol
2. The Canadian Novel: Modern Times by John Moss
3. The Mask in Place: Essays on Fiction in North America by Claude Boisvert

Subjects: Postmodernism

Neo-Modernists (p. 112 - 114)

by John Orange

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Continental Trance by
2. Fugue Brancusi by J. Michael Yates
3. Montage for an Interstellar Cry by Andrew Suknaski
4. The Black Bird by David Halliday
5. The Mossbank Canon by E. F. Dyck

Subjects: Poetry

Transformations (p. 115 - 117)

by Andrew Brooks

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Among Other Howls in the Storm by Norm Sibum
2. Beyond Here by Jim Green
3. Captain Neal MacDougal and the Naked Goddess by Milton Acorn
4. Only So Far by Hilary Thompson
5. The Story's Dream by Sean O'Huigin

Subjects: Children's Literature, Poetry

Sybil & Oracle (p. 117 - 118)

by Andrew Parkin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Quadriga for Judy by Michael Bullock
2. The Phases of Love by Dorothy Livesay

Subjects: Poetry

Cave & Crystal (p. 118 - 121)

by Ted Bishop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Lion's Mouth by Caterina Edwards
2. Zarkeen by Pegeen Brennan

Subjects: Novel, Women's Literature

Speakable (p. 121 - 124)

by Bruce Pirie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A New Romance by David McFadden
2. Country of the Open Heart by David McFadden
3. Is That You This Is Me by Elspeth Bradbury
4. Lords of Shouting by Joseph Sherman
5. Power Sources by Carolyn Smart
6. Three Stories and Ten Poems by David McFadden

Subjects: Poetry, Short Fiction

Dying Words (p. 124 - 125)

by Hans R. Runte

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Slow Light by Ross Leckie
2. Fathers and Heroes by Brian MacKinnon
3. Night Coach by Marco Fraticelli
4. Night Letters by Bill Furey
5. Wordsong by Robin Skelton

Subjects: Poetry

Ways with Words (p. 125 - 128)

by Ian Sowton

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ignoring the Bomb by Lionel Kearns
2. Just Off Main by Gary Hyland
3. Pointwise by Derk Wynand

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry

Dire le moi (p. 128 - 130)

by Jacqueline Viswanathan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ange Amazone by Yolande Villemaire
2. T'as rien compris, Jacinthe . . . by Sylvie Desrosiers

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Ideologies (p. 130 - 134)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Vallée des blés d'or by Albertine Halle
2. Tel un coup d'archet by Cicco and Jacques Grand'Maison
3. The Euguélionne by Louky Bersianik and Gerry Denis et al.

Subjects: Novel, Philosophy

Untitled (p. 133 - 134)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:

Subjects: Bibliography

Mystery (p. 134 - 135)

by Donald R. Bartlett

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Maddened by Mystery by Michael Richardson
2. Murder on Location by Howard Engel

Subjects: Crime & Detective

Natural & Unnatural (p. 136 - 138)

by Reginald Berry

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Throw of Particles: The New and Selected Poetry of D. G. Jones by D. G. Jones
2. A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems 1945-82 by Irving Layton
3. Mostly Coast People: Selected Verse by Hubert Evans
4. The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-82 by Robert Bringhurst
5. Winter Sun / The Dumbfounding: Poems 1940-66 by Margaret Avison

Subjects: Poetry

Workers' Playtime (p. 138 - 139)

by Marilyn Bowering

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Counting the Hours: City Poems by Tom Wayman
2. Inside Job, Essays on the New Work Writing by Tom Wayman

Subjects: Poetry

Little Man (p. 139 - 140)

by Michael Benazon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Once in Woods by Abraham Ram

Subjects: Jewish-Canadian , Novel

Mainstream & Better (p. 140 - 142)

by Susan Stone-Blackburn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Black Apples by Kevin Roberts
2. Cold Comfort by Jim Gerrard
3. The Paper Cage by Robin Skelton
4. Two Plays: Paracelsus and Prometheus Bound by George Ryga

Subjects: Drama

A Find (p. 142 - 145)

by John Ripley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canada's Lost Plays. Colonial Quebec: French-Canadian Drama, 1606-1966 by Anton Wagner

Subjects: Anthologies, Drama, Quebec

Nothing Simple (p. 145 - 147)

by Judith Rodriguez

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Forest Full of Rain by Lala Koehn
2. Ideas of Shelter by George Amabile
3. Pastoral Madness by Ed Upward
4. The Eyes of the Wind by Lala Koehn

Subjects: Poetry

Au lyrisme (p. 147 - 149)

by Claire-Lise Rogers

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aube by Jacqueline Hogue
2. Entre l'oeil et l'espace: le geste et le cri by Alain Bernard Marchand and Claire Rochon
3. Une Volvo rose by Jean Yves Collette
4. Vivres by Pierre Laberge

Subjects: Poetry, Quebec

Maillard (p. 149 - 151)

by Constance Rooke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Cutting Through by Keith Maillard

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Show Biz (p. 151 - 152)

by Roger Seamon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Making Movies by David Halliday
2. The Biggest Modern Woman of the World by Susan Swan

Subjects: Film, Novel

Untitled (p. 152 - 153)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:

Subjects: Bibliography

Inconsistencies (p. 153 - 154)

by Gwladys V. Downes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Pearls by Fred Cogswell
2. The Complete Poems of Emile Nelligan by Fred Cogswell

Subjects: Anthologies, Francophone, Literary Criticism, Poetry

The Language of Necessity (p. 154 - 157)

by Judith Fitzgerald

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Brides of the Stream by Joe Rosenblatt
2. Globe Doubts by Barry Dempster
3. Gyno-Text by Lola Lemire Tostevin
4. Kiss Me Down to Size by Ken Rivard

Subjects: Poetry

Alienation et resignation (p. 157 - 159)

by Mark Benson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. J'avais quatorze ans by Alain Poissant
2. L'Hiver dans les os by Roger Levac

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Sparrows & Eagles (p. 159 - 160)

by Philip Stratford

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Concrete City by Claude Beausoleil and Ray Chamberlain
2. The Alchemy of the Body and Other Poems by Juan Garcia and Marc Plourde

Subjects: Poetry, Quebec

Condition Humaine (p. 160 - 162)

by Ronald Ewing

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le Goéland Blessé by Lionel Allard
2. Maurice Dufault, sous-directeur by Marguerite-A. Primeau
3. Variations sur un Thème Anathème by Bertrand B. Leblanc

Subjects: Francophone, Short Fiction

Conflicting Cultures (p. 162 - 165)

by James Acheson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Displaced Persons by Fred Bonnie
2. Flash Harry and the Daughters of Divine Light by Kevin Roberts
3. People Like Us in a Place Like This by Philip Kreiner
4. The Portable City by Don Austin

Subjects: Northern Canada, Short Fiction

Fourth World (p. 165 - 167)

by Keith Garebian

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Eagle Song by James Houston

Subjects: First Nations

The Geography of Childhood (p. 167 - 168)

by Paula L. Hart

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood by Edith Fowke and Alice Kane
2. The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn
3. Tom Penny by Tony German

Subjects: Children's Literature

Litterature pour la jeunesse (p. 168 - 170)

by Danielle Thaler

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Contes de bêtes et des choses by Luce Levasseur
2. L'enfant de fleurs by Rose Dompierre
3. La Grande Question de Tomatelle by Bernadette Renaud
4. Les Voleurs d'étoils de Saint-Abrousse-Poil by Pierre Leon
5. Martin l'ourson by Francois Ladouceur
6. Pierrot, l'avion des neiges by Francois Ladouceur
7. Pourquoi les moutons frisent by Cecile Gagnon

Subjects: Children's Literature

Old, New (p. 171 - 174)

by Jane Moss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 26 bis, impasse du Colonel Foisy by René-Daniel Dubois
2. Dis-moi qu'y fait beau Méo! by Jacqueline Barrette
3. Oncle Vania d'Anton Tchekhov by Michel Tremblay
4. Pièces en un acte by Andre Castelein de la Lande
5. Strip by Catherine Caron, Brigitte Haentjens, and Sylvie Trudel

Subjects: Drama

Courthouse to Fish-Kettle (p. 174 - 175)

by Mary McAlpine

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Cornerstones of Order: Courthouses and Town Halls of Ontario, 1784-1914 by Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson
2. Part of the Main: An Illustrated History of Newfoundland and Labrador by Peter Neary and Patrick O'Flaherty

Subjects: Ontario

Out to Pasture (p. 175 - 177)

by Margaret Stobie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gone to Grass by Jean McKay
2. Under the Moon by Jane Buchan

Subjects: Autobiography, Biography

Free Flight (p. 177 - 179)

by J. W. Foster

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Birding, or Desire by Don McKay

Subjects: Poetry

The Most Part (p. 179 - 181)

by Neil K Besner

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Night Games by Robert Currie
2. Trusting the Tale by Hugh Hood

Subjects: Essays, Short Fiction

CWTW-1 (p. 181 - 183)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canadian Writers and Their Work: Essays on Form, Context, and Development by Jack David, Robert Lecker, and Ellen Quigley

Subjects: Anthologies, Essays, Literary Criticism

Pratt on Pratt (p. 183 - 186)

by Catherine McKinnon Pfaff

Book(s) reviewed:

1. E. J. Pratt on His Life and Poetry by Susan Gingell

Subjects: Bibliography, Correspondence, Poetry

Opus Posthumous (p. 186 - 187)

by P. Matthew St. Pierre

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Malcolm Lowry: A Bilbliography by J. Howard Woolmer

Subjects: Bibliography

Exile & Home (p. 187 - 189)

by John W. Lennox

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Chamelon & Other Stories by Bill Schermbrucker
2. O Canada, Canada by Michel M. J. Shore
3. Through the Eyes of a Cat: Irish Stories by Sean Virgo

Subjects: Short Fiction

Hits & Misses (p. 189 - 191)

by Neil Carson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Full Circle by Glenn M. Frew
2. Talking Dirty by Sherman Snukal
3. The Fighting Parson by C. H. Gervais

Subjects: Drama, Publishing

Poetic Sequences (p. 192 - 194)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Arché/Elegies by E. D. Blodgett
2. Gringo: Poems and Journals from Latin America by Dennis Gruending
3. Passchendaele by Ted Plantos
4. The Modern Poetic Sequence: The Genuis of Modern Poetry by M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall

Subjects: Poetry

Untitled (p. 194)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:

Subjects: Bibliography

Opinions & Notes

Pauline Butling

• Thomas and Her Rag-Bag (p. 195 - 199)
• Subjects: Women's Literature

George Woodcock

• Untitled (p. 199)
• Subjects: Bibliography, First Nations

Last Pages

W. H. New

• Last Page (p. 199 - 200)
• Subjects: Bibliography