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Current Issue: #215 Indigenous Focus (Winter 2012)

Canadian Literature's Issue 215 (Winter 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Renate Eigenbrod, K. J. Verwaayen, Paul Murphy, Sylvie Vranckx, Mareike Neuhaus, Angela Van Essen, and Anouk Lang, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

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#76 (Spring 1978)
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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Stephen Scobie

Ofelia Cohn-Sfetcu

Michael Greenstein

Lorraine Weir

Robert Lecker

Anne Srabian de Fabry

Max Dorsinville

Edwin Hamblet

Poems

Derk Wynand

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

George Woodcock

George Woodcock

Cyril Dabydeen

Cyril Dabydeen

Book Reviews

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To Improve Without Progress (p. 98 - 99)

by James Bacque

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Six Journeys: A Canadian Pattern by Charles Taylor

Subjects: Canadian Studies

Shikata-NaGai and Other Offences (p. 99 - 101)

by Silver Donald Cameron

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II by Barry Broadfoot

Subjects: Japanese-Canadian, World War II

The Long and the Short of It (p. 101 - 104)

by Ann P. Messenger

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. I Love You, Baby Blue by Theatre Passe Muraille
  2. La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays by Michel Tremblay
  3. On the Job by David Fennario
  4. Some Angry Summer Songs by John Herbert
  5. The Execution by Marie-Claire Blais
  6. Tiln & Other Plays by Michael Cook

Subjects: Drama, Literary Criticism

Staying True (p. 104 - 107)

by C. H. Gervais

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. By Death Never Leave Me by Stephanie J. Nynch
  2. Inch Man by Ken Eisler
  3. Positions and Senses by David Norman Brenner
  4. The National Hen by Dan Dougherty
  5. Three by J. O. Thompson, Jon Whyte, and Charles Noble
  6. Wolf Cycle by Ken Stange

Subjects: Poetry

Conversational Craftsman (p. 108 - 110)

by Keith Roberts

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Smoked Glass by Alden Nowlan

Subjects: Poetry

The Other Galt (p. 110 - 111)

by Ian A. Gordon

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Galts: A Canadian Odyssey John Galt 1779-1839 by H. B. Timothy

Subjects: Biography

Calcutta Chronicle (p. 111 - 113)

by Robert S. Anderson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Days and Nights in Calcutta by Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee

Poet's Effort (p. 113 - 114)

by Stuart Newton

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Left Hand Mind by Richard Sommer
  2. Milarepa by Richard Sommer
  3. Sparks by Michael Harris
  4. The Road to Arginos by David Solway

Subjects: Poetry

Orchestrated New Brunswick (p. 114 - 116)

by Fred Cogswell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Blood Ties by David Adams Richards

Subjects: Novel

Story and Teller (p. 116 - 118)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Spit Delaney's Island by Jack Hodgins
  2. The Butterfly Ward by Margaret Gibson Gilboord
  3. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair Macleod

Subjects: Short Fiction

Northern Journey (p. 118 - 120)

by Russell Morton Brown

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Landing by Claude Liman

Subjects: Poetry

Fatal Distraction (p. 120 - 121)

by Rod Willmot

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Death in Don Mills by Hugh Garner

Subjects: Novel

Social Change (p. 122 - 123)

by Gary Werden

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Intruders by Hugh Garner

Subjects: Novel

Out of Purdy-Land (p. 123 - 125)

by Lloyd Abbey

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Storm Warning 2 by Al Purdy

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry

A Flooding Past (p. 125 - 127)

by Al Purdy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Images on Water by Ken Cathers
  2. Jericho Road by Joy Kogawa
  3. The Alders and Others by Peter Trower

Subjects: Poetry

Vagabond Mask (p. 128 - 129)

by Clara Thomas

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Robert Service by C. F. Klinck

Subjects: Biography

Fiction Stronger than Fact (p. 129 - 130)

by Pat Barclay

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Snow Walker by

Subjects: Short Fiction

The War of 1812 and More (p. 130 - 131)

by Mary Jane Edwards

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War by John Richardson

Subjects: Publishing, War

Opinions & Notes

Gertrud Jaron Lewis

Marshall Brooks

George Woodcock

W. H. New

W. H. New

L. T. C. and W. H. New



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