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#160 (Spring 1999)
(Sweatman, Michaels, Munro, Duncan)

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Editorial

Iain Higgins

• On Some Uses and Drawbacks of Poetry for Living: Untimely Meditations (p. 6 - 13)
• Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Poetry
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Articles

Ruth Panofsky

• Ambiguity and Paradox: A Conversation with Helen Weinzweig (p. 17 - 25)
• Subjects: Authorship
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Annick Hillger

• Afterbirth of Earth: Messianic Materialism in Anne Michael’s Fugitive Pieces (p. 28 - 45)
• Subjects: Novel, Religion
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Reinhold Kramer

• The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike and Margaret Sweatman’s Fox (p. 50 - 70)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Poetry, Prairie Writing, Working Class
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Gerald Lynch

• No Honey, I'm Home: Place over Love in Alice Munro's Short Story Cycle Who Do You Think You Are? (p. 73 - 98)
• Subjects: Short Fiction
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Chinmoy Banerjee

• Polyphonic Form and Effective Aesthetic in Obasan (p. 101 - 119)
• Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Novel, Twentieth Century
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Janice Fiamengo

• Susceptible to no common translation: Language and Idealism in Sara Jeannette Duncan’s The Imperialist (p. 121 - 140)
• Subjects: British, Colonialism, Language/Linguistics, Women's Literature
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Poems

Crystal Hurdle

• Doxology (p. 14 - 15)

Chad Norman

• The Birth of Domicide: Homage for Donald Hall's poem "The Prophecy" (p. 16)

Elana Wolff

• Hogheads (p. 26)

Catherine Owen

• Severence Package (p. 27)

Jack Winter

• A.Y. (p. 46 - 47)

Peter Loeffler

• From Conjuring Colours Parts I & II (p. 48 - 49)

Cyril Dabydeen

• Surrender (p. 71)

John Donlan

• View (p. 72)

Miranda Pearson

• Three Years Deep (p. 99)

Susan Ioannou

• Mourner (p. 100)

Paddy McCallum

• Saturday Night Reading, 1971 (p. 120)

Book Reviews

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Attending to the Garden (p. 141 - 143)

by Laurie Aikman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing by Edwinna von Baeyer and Pleasance Crawford
2. Storyground: The Making of a Canadian Garden by Douglas Chambers

Subjects: Ecocriticism, Nature Writing

A Ruined Institution (p. 143 - 148)

by Jennifer Lawn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Petrified Campus: The Crisis in Canada's Universities by J. L. Granatstein, Robert Bothwell, and David J. Bercuson
2. Racism, Sexism, and the University: The Political Science Affair at the University of British Columbia by M. Patricia Marchak
3. The University in Ruins by Bill Readings
4. University of Toronto Quarterly 66.4 (1997): Special Issue on Bill Readings's The University in Ruins by University of Toronto

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Gender, Postmodernism, Social Sciences

Coarse Comparisons (p. 148 - 150)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States by Sarah M. Corse

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Nationalism, United States

Nature's Grip (p. 150 - 151)

by Ruth B. Antosh

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Americas by Robert Mullen
2. One Indian Summer by Wayne Curtis

Subjects: First Nations, Mythology, Novel, Short Fiction

New Word Order (p. 151 - 154)

by David Rampton

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Guide to Canadian English usage by Janice McAlpine and Margery Fee

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Language/Linguistics

Time Travel (p. 154 - 155)

by Clara Thomas

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast by Douglas Fetherling

Subjects: Autobiography, Life Writing

Not Immortality, Dust (p. 155 - 157)

by Donna Palmateer Pennee

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dust to Dust: Stories by Timothy Findley

Subjects: Jewish-Canadian , Sexuality, Short Fiction

First Words (p. 157 - 159)

by Ruth Panofsky

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Crazy Sorrow by Susan Bowes
2. Keel Kissing Bottom by Elizabeth de Freitas

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel

Selected Gallant (p. 159 - 161)

by Ronald Hatch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant

Subjects: Short Fiction

Truth and Convention (p. 161 - 163)

by Lawrence Mathews

Book(s) reviewed:

1. dad says he saw you at the mall by Ken Sparling
2. Everything but the Truth by Christopher McPherson
3. Winter's Descent by Don Gutteridge

Subjects: Children's Literature, Novel, Short Fiction

Death on the BC Coast (p. 163 - 166)

by Joel Martineau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dangerous Waters: Wrecks and Rescues off the BC Coast by Keith Keller
2. Moonrakers by Beth Hill
3. On Coasts of Eternity: Jack Hodgins' Fictional Universe by J. R. Struthers

Subjects: British Columbia, Environment, Novel, Short Fiction

Queer Looking and Listening (p. 167 - 168)

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary by Cynthia Fuchs and Chris Holmlund
2. Word's Out: Gay Men's English by William L. Leap

Subjects: Film, Gay/Lesbian, Language/Linguistics

Matriarch of Manakawa (p. 168 - 169)

by Susan Sheridan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Life of Margaret Laurence by James King

Subjects: Biography

Dépasser le passé (p. 169 - 170)

by Estelle Dansereau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Céleste tristesse by Yolande Villemaire
2. La voix que j'ai by Gilbert Langevin

Subjects: Poetry, Quebec

Riding the Waves Ashore (p. 171 - 173)

by Heather Sanderson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dance the Rocks Ashore by Lesley Choyce
2. Gaffer: A Novel of Newfoundland by Kevin Major
3. Rum River: Stories by Raymond Fraser
4. Trapdoor to Heaven by Lesley Choyce

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Au delà  des Frontières (p. 173 - 175)

by Aurélien Boivin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dernier souffle à Boston by Judith Messier
2. la femme furieuse by Madeleine Monette

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Larger Than Seeing (p. 175 - 177)

by Diane Stiles

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Hidden Room: Collected Poems by P. K. Page

Subjects: Poetry

Two B.C. Writers (p. 177 - 178)

by Rebecca Raglon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. At First I Hope for Rescue by Holly Rubinsky
2. Through the Deadfall by Barry Kennedy

Subjects: British Columbia, Novel, Short Fiction

Picturing BC Landscapes (p. 179 - 181)

by Joel Martineau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Haida Gwaii: Journeys Through the Queen Charlotte Islands by Ian Gill
2. The Sunshine Coast: From Gibsons to Powell River by Howard White
3. This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape by Terry Glavin

Subjects: British Columbia, Essays, First Nations, Landscape/Space, Photography, Travel Writing

McLuhan Redux (p. 181 - 183)

by Christopher Keep

Book(s) reviewed:

1. McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse by Glenn Willmott
2. Virtual Realities and Their Discontents by Robert Markley

Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Science

On Atwood (p. 183 - 185)

by Sandra Tomc

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works by Shannon Hengen, Thomas B. Friedman, and Sharon R. Wilson

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Feminism, Literary Criticism

Viewing African Canada (p. 185 - 186)

by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Blacks in Canada : A History by Robin W. Winks

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Caribbean-Canadian , History

Opinions & Notes

Lisa Chalykoff

• Tracing C.D. Shanly's "The Walker of the Snow" (p. 187 - 189)
• Subjects: Art, Poetry