Douglas Barbour

January 29, 2015


Works by Douglas Barbour

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Book Reviews by Douglas Barbour

The Many or One
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Prison Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 208 (Spring 2011): 145-147.
  • Revolver by Kevin Connolly
  • Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson
  • Be Calm, Honey by David McFadden (Author)
Time Changes
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 178-180.
  • Along a Snake Fence Riding by Douglas Barbour
  • Finding Ft. George by Rob Budde
  • The Shovel by Colin Browne
Poetry
A Very Mixed Bag
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 169-170.
  • The Given by Daphne Marlatt
  • Ragtime for Beginners by Moberley Luger
  • Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn
Robin Blaser's Summa
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 116-118.
  • The Fire by Miriam Nichols and Robin Blaser
  • The Holy Forest by Miriam Nichols and Robin Blaser
Going Beyond Prose
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 185-186.
  • Red Lacquered Chopsticks by Betty Warrington-Kearsley
  • Newer Lies by Dan Jalowica
  • Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006 by George Bowering
Poetry
Of Note
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 192 (Spring 2007): 194-195.
  • The Engine of Recall by Karl Schroeder
  • Earthbaby by Peter Such
Poetry
Versions of Lyric
By Douglas Barbour
Published in South Asian Diaspora. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 190 (Autumn 2006): 163-165.
  • Bizarre Winery Tragedy by Lyle Neff
  • The Sutler by Michael Kenyon
  • Standing Wave by Robert S. Allen
Science Fiction
Ontario Traditionalism
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 130-132.
  • Killing Things by John Degen
  • The Address Book by Steven Heighton
  • Night Street Repairs by A. F. Moritz
Poetry
Writing through Terror
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 187-188.
  • Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Ontario Poetry
Deeper into the Forest
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Women, City, Wilderness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 146 (Autumn 1995): 154-156.
  • The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser
  • The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe by George Bowering
Novel Twentieth Century
Studies of the Majors
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Strangers & Strange Voices. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 141 (Summer 1994): 129-132.
  • The Topology of Being: The Poetics of Charles Olson by Judith Halden-Sullivan
  • A Sourcery for Books 1 and 2 of bpNichol's The Martyrology by Irene Niechoda
Life Writing Northern Canada Poetry
Studies of the Majors
By Douglas Barbour
Published in East Asian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 140 (Spring 1994) (Spring 1994): 148-151.
  • The Topology of Being: The Poetics of Charles Olson by Judith Halden-Sullivan
  • A Sourcery for Books I and 2 of bpNicol's The Martyrology by Irene Niechoda
Literary Criticism Poetry
Essaying
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Past, Present, Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 103-105.
  • Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book Machine; The Collected Research Reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982 by bp Nichol and Steve McCaffery
  • inkorrect thots by bill bissett
Literary Criticism Poetry
Journey Among Discourses
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 127-129.
  • Theory of Sediment by Steve McCaffery
  • The Brick Reader by Linda Spalding (Editor) and Michael Ondaatje (Editor)
Poetry Twenty-First Century
A Gift
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Discourse in Early Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 131 (Winter 1991): 233-235.
  • Selected Organs: Parts of an Autobiography by BP Nicol
Anthologies Correspondence Literary Theory
Wily Western
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Shaping Texts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 119 (Winter 1988): 103-106.
  • Caprice by George Bowering
Autobiography
Comic Rage
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Magic & Other Realisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 145-148.
  • Adult Entertainment by John Metcalf (Author)
British Columbia Novel Western
SF for Survival
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 141-143.
  • Tesseracts by Judith Merril (Editor)
Short Fiction
Mythic-Comic Opera
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Italian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 106 (Autumn 1985): 161-163.
  • Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Anthologies Poetry Science Fiction Short Fiction
Black Comedy
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Poets & Politics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 105 (Summer 1985): 151-152.
  • My Present Age by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Biography
Isn't Reality?
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Science & Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 96 (Spring 1983): 145-147.
  • The Hawryliw Process: Part Two by Robert Allen
Mandel's Selves
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Caribbean Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982): 125-128.
  • Dreaming Backwards: The Selected Poetry by Eli Mandel
  • Life Sentence by Eli Mandel
Tour-de-farce
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Timothy Findley & the War Novel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 91 (Winter 1981): 162-164.
  • The Hawryliw Process by Robert Allen
Poetry
Original People
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Fifteenth Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 61 (Summer 1974): 82-84.
  • riverrun by Peter Such
  • The Temptations of Big Bear by Rudy Wiebe (Author)
Hopes and Trepidations
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Lovers and Losers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 59 (Winter 1974): 117-119.
  • Parking Lots by Victor Coleman
  • America by Victor Coleman
  • Standing Back by Robert Hogg
Literary Criticism Novel
Journey in a Mythic Landscape
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Poets Past and Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 56 (Spring 1973): 93-97.
  • The Martyrology by bp Nichol
Poetry
Play in the Western World
By Douglas Barbour
Published in National Origins. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 52 (Spring 1972): 77-81.
  • The Post Electric Cave Man by Ken Belford (Author)
  • Towards a Chemistry of Reel People by Jim Brown
  • Four Myths For Sam Perry by Frank Davey
  • The Carcasses of Spring by Barry McKinnon
  • Wave by David Phillips
  • The Coherence by David Phillips
Poetry
Critical Limitations
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Views of Novelists. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 49 (Summer 1971): 75-77.
  • The Novels of Hugh MacLennan by Robert H. Cockburn
  • Stephen Leacock by Robertson Davies
  • Hugh MacLennan by Alec Lucas
  • Leonard Cohen by Michael Ondaatje
Poetry
The Common Craving
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Aspects of Layton. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 48 (Spring 1971): 70-74.
  • Trips—without LSD by Rose Rosberg
  • This Cold Fist by Robin Mathews
  • The Kings Have Donned their Final Mask by Malcolm Miller
  • Separations by Patrick Lane (Author)
  • Iowa by Richard Gellar
  • A & B & C & by Douglas Lochhead
  • Dangerous Season by Gail Fox
Literary Criticism
Low Key
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Lowry’s Reading. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 44 (Spring 1970): 93-94.
  • Entrance to the Greenhouse by Joan Finnigan
Poetry
Eclectic Publishing
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Arts in the Politician’s Eye. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 43 (Winter 1970): 87-90.
  • I've laughed and sung the whole night long seen the summer sunrise in the morning by Raymond Fraser
  • The Gentlemen Are Also Lexicograhers by Michael Gnarowski
  • Images by Geral Robitaille
  • Homage to Mr. MacMullin by Richard Sommer
  • Nothing But Spoons by Peter Stevens
Poetry
Young Toronto Poets
By Douglas Barbour
Published in The Living Mosaic. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 42 (Autumn 1969): 87-88.
  • T.O. Now: The Young Toronto Poets by Dennis Lee (Author)
Poetry
Controlling the Jungle
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Books of the Year. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 36 (Spring 1968): 86-88.
  • The Dainty Monsters by Michael Ondaatje
Poetry
David Meet David
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 153-54.
  • Why Are You So Long and Sweet: Collected Long Poems by David McFadden (Author)
  • Watermelon Kindness by David Donnell

Opinions by Douglas Barbour

F. R. Scott 1899-1985
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Poets & Politics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 105 (Summer 1985): 196.
Novel

Poetry by Douglas Barbour

In the Midnight Hours
By Douglas Barbour
Published in 25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 21-23.
Novel
'The Wind and the Snow'
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Poetic Form. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 97 (Summer 1983): 93-95.
Art Objects for an Inner Landscape
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Science & Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 96 (Spring 1983): 58-59.
Novel
The Al Purdy Poem in the Athens Archaeologicall Museum
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Contemporary Quebec Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 88 (Spring 1981): 45-46.
Novel
Edges
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Contemporary Quebec Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 88 (Spring 1981): 5-5.
Cezanne's Last Years
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Intellectual History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 83 (Winter 1979): 71-71.

Articles by Douglas Barbour

Poet as Philosopher
By Douglas Barbour
Published in Of Heavenly Hounds and Earthly Men. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 53 (Summer 1972): 18-29.
Mythology Poetry

Book Reviews of Douglas Barbour's Works

Listen. If
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Poetry Museums by Jan Lermitte
continuations 2
By Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy
Reviewed in The Poetry Percentage by Tanis MacDonald
Poetry
Along a Snake Fence Riding
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Time Changes by Douglas Barbour
Poetry
Lyric/Anti-Lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Literary Artists’ Statements by W. F. (Will) Garrett-Petts
Michael Ondaatje
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Back-patting & Bakhtin by Susan MacFarlane
Authorship Autobiography Life Writing Literary Criticism Poetry
Beyond Tish
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Aesthetics, Inside & Out by Jeanette Lynes
Story for a Saskatchewan Night
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Short-Long by Roy Miki
Tesseracts2
By Phyllis Gotlieb and Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in SF Emotions by Christopher Dean
Language/Linguistics Poetry
visible visions: selected poems
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in An Eye Speaking by Ann Munton
Anthologies Science Fiction
The Pirates of Pen's Chance
By Stephen Scobie and Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Writing Poetry by Marya Fiamengo
Anthologies Poetry
Writing Right
By Douglas Barbour and Marni L. Stanley
Reviewed in Real Poets by Patricia Monk
Poetry
shore lines
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Foreclosure by Janet Giltrow
Anthologies Poetry
The Story So Far 5
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Microscope by Anthony John Harding
Land Fall
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Between Mindscape and Landscape by D. G. Jones
Short Fiction
A Poem as Long as the Highway
By Douglas Barbour
Reviewed in Between Mindscape and Landscape by D. G. Jones
Landscape/Space Poetry