Issue archives
#97 (Summer 1983)
Poetic Form
Add to Cart ($10.00)Editorial
Articles
Poems
Book Reviews
New Talents (p. 96 - 98)
by David Watmough
Book(s) reviewed:
- Calling Home by Merna Summers
- Taking Cover by Keath Fraser
- Third Impressions by John Metcalf
Winging It (p. 98 - 101)
by E. D. Blodgett
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
Bleak House (p. 101 - 102)
by Patricia Morley
Book(s) reviewed:
- God's Eye by George McWhirter
- Making Up by Don Bailey
- The Driver by Nora Keeling
Aimer et se connaître (p. 102 - 104)
by Mark Benson
Book(s) reviewed:
- L'Oiseau de fer by Nadia Ghalem
- Nadeige by Jean-Eric Parisien
- Peut-être à Tokyo by Jean-Francois Somcynsky
Fantasy Four (p. 104 - 107)
by Terry Goldie
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dragonhunt by Frances Duncan
- Skiamachia by Virgil Burnett
- The King's Evil by David Helwig
- Years of Light: A Celebration of Leslie by John Robert Colombo
No Place Like (p. 107 - 108)
by Murray J. Evans
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Secret of Ivy Lea by Janice Cowan
- Tom, David, and the Pirates by Betty Clarkson
- Where the Heart Is by Nell Hanna
Tenuous Past, Open Future (p. 108 - 109)
by Anthony Appenzell
Book(s) reviewed:
- The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English by Margaret Atwood
At Home at Home (p. 109 - 111)
by Daryl Hine
Book(s) reviewed:
- Selected Poems by David Solway
Nexus & Birney (p. 111 - 112)
by Diana Brydon
Book(s) reviewed:
- WRC 1-2258 by
Towards Poetry (p. 112 - 113)
by Barbara Pell
Book(s) reviewed:
- Surplus Waste and Other Poems by Shaunt Basmajian
- The Arrivals by Robert Clayton Casto
- The Prinzhorn Collection by Don Coles
- White Noise by Garry Raddysh
Of Women, Men, & Muses (p. 114 - 115)
by Hans R. Runte
Book(s) reviewed:
- Aux mouvances du temps: Poésie 1961-1971 by Marie Laberge
- Gravité: Poèmes 1967-1973 by Guy Gervais
- La Nomade by Julie Stanton
A Dangerous Book (p. 115 - 118)
by Diana Brydon
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
Mountain Poets (p. 118 - 122)
by Laurie Ricou
Book(s) reviewed:
- By Green Mountain by Allan Brown
- Journey by Rona Murray
- Limits by Robin Skelton
- Mid-River by Dale Zieroth
- Nobody Danced with Miss Rodeo by Sid Marty
- Queens of the Next Hot Star by Linda Rogers
- Roothog: Contemporary B.C. Writing by John Harris
- White Monster by Brian Brett
Three Novels (p. 122 - 124)
by Donald R. Bartlett
Book(s) reviewed:
- Eastmall by Percy Janes
- Indian River by Jane MacDonald
- Wednesday's Child by Gilbert Choquette
Pastoral Lines (p. 124 - 126)
by Ian Sowton
Book(s) reviewed:
- Castle Mountain by Luanne Armstrong
- Daughters by Jane Munro
- The Authentic Life by Suniti Namjoshi
Une conscience (p. 126 - 128)
by Alexandre L. Amprimoz
Book(s) reviewed:
- Décors à l'envers by Jacques Lafleur
- Le Premier Homme by Alain Chevrette
- Nuits blanches by Pierre Paul Karch
- Quand il pleut sur ma ville by Pascal Sabourin
Windows on Invention (p. 128 - 131)
by Kathy Mezei
Book(s) reviewed:
- Angoisse Play by Jean-Marie Poupart
- Horace du l'art de porter la redingote by Bertrand B. Leblanc
- Le Prix du Silence by Nadine MacKenzie
- Les Chevaliers de la nuit by Jean-Yves Soucy
- Les Soeurs d'Io by Therese Bonvouloir-Bayol
La regne du scorpion (p. 131 - 133)
by Eva-Marie Kröller
Book(s) reviewed:
- La Saga de Lagacé by Andre Vanasse
- Le Cercle de arènes by Roger Fournier
- Le Vent n'a pas d'écho by Monique Jeannotte
De la chaleur a l'enfer (p. 133 - 135)
by P. Collet
Book(s) reviewed:
- Gisèle et le serpent by Jacques Benoit
- Le Canard de bois by Louis Caron
Writing about Writing (p. 136 - 138)
by David O'Rourke
Book(s) reviewed:
- Canadian Novelists and the Novel by Leslie Monkman and Douglas Daymond
- Sinclair Ross: A Reader's Guide by Ken Mitchell
- The Callaghan Symposium by David Staines
Sanest Insanity (p. 138 - 140)
by Patricia Keeney Smith
Book(s) reviewed:
- Black Orchid by A. F. Moritz
- The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by Tom Wayman
- The Upper Hand by Christopher Wiseman
- The Whisky Vigil by Erín Moure
- Traditions by Heather Cadsby
In Minor Key (p. 140 - 143)
by Douglas M. Daymond
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Queen is Holding a Mummified Cat by Mary Melfi
- Adam 2000 by Orin Manitt
- Cattail Week by Brian Bartlett
- Finding Mom at Eaton's by George Morrissette
- From Here to Here by Endre Farkas
- Riding to Nicola Country by Andrew Wreggitt
- Running into the Open by Pamela Banting
- Signs and Certainties by A. F. Moritz
- The Cost of Living by Kenneth Sherman
- The Space Between Sleep and Waking by Robyn Sarah
Parnassus Clearance (p. 144 - 146)
by Peter Mitcham
Book(s) reviewed:
- A New Improved Sky by Don Kerr
- Coming Back by Peter Stevens
- Excuses for Archery by Glen Deer
- Forcing the Field by Eugene MacNamara
- Swimming at Twelve Mile by J. D. Carpenter
- To Sleep, To Love by Ken Norris
- War in an Empty House by Don Domanski
Extremes (p. 146 - 148)
by Peggy Nightingale
Book(s) reviewed:
- Cottage Gothic by Martin Avery
- Small Wonders by Robert Weaver
Singing Against Decline (p. 148 - 150)
by J. A. Wainwright
Book(s) reviewed:
- Collected Poems of Raymond Souster, Volume Four 1974-77 by Raymond Souster
- Collected Poems of Raymond Souster, Volume Two 1955-62 and Volume Three 1962-74 by Raymond Souster
Cultural Markers (p. 150 - 152)
by Tara Cullis
Book(s) reviewed:
- Paper Doors: An Anthology of Japanese-Canadian Poetry by Gerry Shikatani and David Aylward
Precious Tongue (p. 153 - 157)
by Ian Ross
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Emigrant Experience: Songs of Highland Emigrants in North America by Margaret MacDonnell
Poetry Chronicle (p. 157 - 163)
by David F. Rogers
Book(s) reviewed:
- A l'orée de l'oeil by Rolande Gigeure
- Abre-Radar by Gaten Lapointe
- Chansons by Marcel Sabourin
- Dans l'intervalle by Jean-Pierre Leroux
- L'Architecture pressentie (Précis d'intuition) by François Tétreau
- L'Enfant doré by
- La Surface du paysage by Claude Beausoleil
- Le Fou solidaire by Gilbert Langevin
- Pylônes by J.-H. Letourneux
- Terre féconde by Jean-Louis Roy
Heraclitean Knowledge (p. 163 - 166)
by George Woodcock
Book(s) reviewed:
- Bursting Into Song: An Al Purdy Omnibus by Al Purdy
- Cantos North by Henry Beissel
- In a White Shirt by Bill Howell
- New Poems by Henry Moscovitch
Poetry & Prose (p. 166 - 168)
by Gary Boire
Book(s) reviewed:
- As Elected: Selected Writing 1962-1979 by Jack David and bp Nichol
- Beyond Even Faithful Legends by bill bissett
- Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poems by George Bowering and Fred Wah
- Particular Accidents: Selected Poems by Robin Blaser and Claude Boisvert
- The Arches: Selected Poems by Frank Davey and bp Nichol
For Words (p. 168 - 170)
by Lola Lemire-Tostevin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Ghostcatcher by Stephen Guppy
- Lines in the Dark Wood by Michael Bullock
- Passages of Winter by Arthur Adamson
- Stonefish and Other Poems by Kevin Roberts
Aquin en relief (p. 170 - 171)
by Francoise Maccabee Iqbal
Book(s) reviewed:
- L'Imaginaire captif, Hubert Aquin by Rene Lapierre
Untitled (p. 171)
by George Woodcock
