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Current Issue: #214 (Autumn 2012)

Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

Issue archives

Cover of issue #91

#91 (Winter 1981)
Timothy Findley & the War Novel

Issue PDF available

Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Timothy Findley

John F. Hulcoop

Alison Summers

Peter Klovan

Bruce Pirie

Eric Thompson

Poems

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

John Barton

Ron Charach

Ron Charach

Russell Thornton

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Nothing to Love or Be Loved By (p. 97 - 99)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. McAlmon's Chinese Opera by Stephen Scobie

Subjects: Poetry

Struggles with Silence (p. 99 - 102)

by W. J. Keith

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Wilson's Bowl by Phyllis Webb

Subjects: Poetry

North-Northwest (p. 102 - 104)

by Ian Sowton

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Measure by Patrick Lane

Subjects: Poetry

Audrey and Rachel (p. 104 - 106)

by Diana Cooper-Clark

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Latakia by Audrey Thomas

Subjects: Women's Literature

Fantasy Lives (p. 106 - 109)

by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Cry Evil by Leon Rooke
  2. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella

Subjects: Short Fiction

A Classicist's Celebration (p. 109 - 111)

by Patricia Morley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Long Apprenticeship: Collected Poems by Fred Cogswell

Subjects: Poetry

Creation & Recreation (p. 111 - 117)

by David Jeffrey

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Creation and Recreation by Northrop Frye

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism

Bessete Re-Viewed (p. 117 - 120)

by Mary Jane Edwards

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. La Garden-Party de Christophine by Gerard Bessette
  2. Le Cycle by Gerard Bessette

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Fantasia (p. 120 - 122)

by Grazia Merler

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Miss Charlie by Suzanne Paradis

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Wrestling the Alpha-bet Beast (p. 122 - 124)

by David S. West

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Sad Phoenician by Robert Kroetsch

Subjects: Poetry

Doing Time (p. 124 - 125)

by Hans R. Runte

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Inspector Therrien by Mark Czarnecki and Andre Major
  2. Jeune Délinquant by Robert Gurik
  3. The Draft Dodger by Louis Caron

Subjects: Novel

Bubble-and-Squeak (p. 125 - 127)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Lizard in the Grass by John Mills

Subjects: Autobiography, Literary Criticism

Una's Story (p. 127 - 128)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Una by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Echoes, Reflections (p. 128 - 131)

by John J. O'Connor

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Ceremony by David Lobdell and Marie-Jose Theriault
  2. The Umbrella Pines by Gilles Archambault and David Lobdell

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Quebec

Regionalism, Realism (p. 131 - 134)

by Neil K Besner

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Selected Stories of Mazo de la Roche by Douglas Daymond
  2. The Glace Bay Miner's Museum by Sheldon Currie
  3. The Hockey Sweater and other stories by Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman
  4. The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Browne

Subjects: Short Fiction

Beauty of Bones (p. 134 - 136)

by Lorraine Weir

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Héloïse by Anne Hébert

Subjects: Novel

Canadian Languages (p. 136 - 139)

by Anneliese Kramer-Dahl

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Languages of Canada by J. K. Chambers

Subjects: Language/Linguistics

Forgettable Plays (p. 139 - 141)

by Marian Fraser

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. After Abraham by Ron Chudley
  2. Aléola by Gaetan Charlebois
  3. Jitters by David French
  4. Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons by James W. Nichol
  5. The Lionel Touch by George Hulme

Subjects: Drama

Required: Boldness (p. 141 - 144)

by Anthony B. Dawson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. 80: Best Canadian Stories by Clark Blaise
  2. Aurora 1980 by Morris Wolfe
  3. First Impressions by John Metcalf

Subjects: Publishing

Companion in a Bowler Hat (p. 144 - 146)

by Michael Thorpe

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Variations & Theme by Robert Finch

Subjects: Poetry

Words and Rewards (p. 146 - 148)

by David Watmough

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Greco's Last Book by Fred Candelaria and Stanley Cooperman
  2. The Love Poems of Irving Layton by Irving Layton

Subjects: Poetry

To Revelations (p. 148 - 151)

by J. A. Wainwright

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Bread and Chocolate by Mary Di Michelle
  2. Marrying Into the Family by Bronwen Wallace
  3. Piece Work by Mona Elaine Adilman
  4. The Mushroom Jar by Nancy Senior

Subjects: Poetry

Riel in Review (p. 151 - 155)

by Simone P. Knutson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. De ta Soeur, Sara Riel by Mary Jordan
  2. Histoire de la nation métisse dans l'Ouest canadien by Auguste-Henri de Tremaudan
  3. Le Roitelet by Claude Dorge
  4. Louis Riel—Justice Must be Done by Association of Métis and Non-status Indians of Saskatchewan
  5. Poésies religieuses et politiques by Louis "David" Riel

Ferron's Appeal (p. 155 - 157)

by Valerie Raoul

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Jacques Ferron, Cartographe de l'imaginaire by Pierre L'Herault
  2. L'Amélanchier by Jacques Ferron

Conspiratorial (p. 157 - 159)

by Patricia Merivale

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Clandestines(s) ou La tradition du couchant by Jacques Renaud

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

La francophonie (p. 159 - 160)

by Maurice Lebel

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Rencontres des peuples francophones 1979 by

Subjects: Francophone, Quebec

Coureur de bois (p. 161 - 162)

by Allison Mitcham

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Menfou Carcajou, Premiere partie: Ville-Marie: Deuxième partie: La baie du Nord by Suzanne Martel

Subjects: Francophone, Historical Fiction

Tour-de-farce (p. 162 - 164)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Hawryliw Process by Robert Allen

Subjects: Novel

Snearths & Others (p. 164 - 166)

by Louis K. MacKendrick

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. For the Birds by Paul Hiebert

Subjects: Essays

More from Moss (p. 166 - 167)

by Carole Gerson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Canadian Novel, vol. II, Beginnings by John Moss

Subjects: Essays

Tout seul (p. 167 - 169)

by Camille R. La Bossiere

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. La Sagouine by Antonine Maillet and Luis de Céspedes
  2. Monologues québécois, 1890-1980 by Laurent Mailhot and Doris-Michel Montpetit

Subjects: Anthologies

En Acadie (p. 169 - 170)

by Raoul Boudreau

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Isabelle-sur-mer by Claude Lebouthillier
  2. Raconte-Moi Massabielle by Jacques Savoie

Subjects: Novel

Psychocosmos (p. 171 - 172)

by Patricia Monk

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Autokinesis by Ken Norris
  2. Other Realities by Alexandre L. Amprimoz
  3. Report on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Ken Norris
  4. Romantic at Heart and other Faults by Endre Farkas
  5. The Perfect Accident by Ken Norris
  6. Voice Storm by Raymond Gariepy

Subjects: Poetry

Fragments of a Vision (p. 172 - 173)

by Bruce Whiteman

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Breaking and Entering: New and Selected Poems by Len Gasparini
  2. Marsh Burning by David Arnason

Subjects: Poetry

Untitled (p. 173)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:

    Subjects: Bibliography

    Opinions & Notes

    William C. James

    Mary Lu MacDonald

    W. H. New and George Woodcock



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