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A GLAM Future for Canadian Comics: Introduction (p. 115-116)
The Long Journey (p. 116-118)
Hope and Comics (p. 123-124)
A Comics Community of Practice (p. 125-127)
Opinions & Notes
Book Reviews
Twisting Mean (p. 125-127)
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- Best Canadian Stories 2019 by
- This Wicked Tongue by
Where Ghosts Reside (p. 126-132)
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- A Nail the Evening Hangs On. by
- Ghost Face by
Mimetic Histories (p. 127-128)
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- Dear Evelyn by
- The Boat People by
Reading on the Frontier (p. 128-130)
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- Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement by
Don’t Worry, Epidermis (p. 128-129)
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- The National Gallery by
- This Is the Emergency Present by
- Vulgar Mechanics by
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- The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being by
- We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos by
Lessons in Style and Substance (p. 129-130)
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- Renaissance Normcore by
- The Truth about Facts by
The Conformalists (p. 130-132)
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- One Dog Town by
- Little Red by
Women’s Histories (p. 130-132)
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- Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism by
Gaspereau in the Community (p. 130-132)
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- Under the Gamma Camera by
- The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology by
- Odysseus Asleep by
Simply Observe (p. 132-134)
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- The Ritualites by
- Correspondent by
- On High by
Traumatized Teens (p. 132-133)
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- Last Words by
- Larkin on the Shore by
Fiction Aslant of Memoir (p. 132-134)
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- Dual Citizens by
- Frying Plantain by
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- The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique by , and
Gifts for the Journey (p. 133-135)
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- Footprints of Dark Energy by
- The House the Spirit Builds by , and
- Travelling the Lost Highway by
The Breadth of “breth” (p. 134-135)
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- breth /th treez of lunaria: selektid rare n nu pomes n drawings, 1957-2019 by
A Bowering Literary History of Canada (p. 134-135)
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- Writing and Reading: Essays by
Shifting Cityscapes (p. 135-136)
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- The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis by
- A Diminished Roar: Winnipeg in the 1920s by
Whose Canadian Avant-Garde? (p. 135-136)
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- Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries by and
New York to Muddy York (p. 135-136)
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- Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada by
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- Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada by and
Something Attentive (p. 136-137)
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- Apostrophes VIII: Nothing Is But You and I by
- Out All Day by
- The Broken Face by
These Words Singing (p. 136-137)
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- The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by
- Lullabies in the Real World by
Stories, Good Food, and Friends (p. 136-137)
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- A Generous Spirit: Selected Works by Beth Brant by and
Wayfinding in the Marginalia (p. 137-138)
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- What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home by
Photography and Vietnam: A New Take (p. 137-139)
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- Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam by
Gaspereau in the Wild (p. 138-139)
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- Pivot Point by
- Chance Encounters with Wild Animals by
- Boom Time by
Women in Publishing (p. 138-139)
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- Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing by
Land and language through story (p. 139-140)
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- The Man Who Lived with a Giant by , and
- Otter’s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law by
Unmeaning Mental Illness (p. 139-140)
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- Unmeaningable: Poems by
- Belated Bris of the Brainsick by
Goodbye to Language (p. 139-141)
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- The Handsome Man by
- In Veritas by
- Goth Girls of Banff by
Refugee Possibilities (p. 139-141)
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- The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America by
No One and Twin Studies (p. 140-142)
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- No One by
- Twin Studies by
“yearning distilled to its essence” (p. 140-142)
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- On Nostalgia by
Playful Experiments with Perspective (p. 141-142)
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- Collapsible by
- Echolocation by
Archives of Movement (p. 142-144)
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- Moving Archives by
Never Enough Sad Poems? (p. 142-143)
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- What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light by
- What We Carry by
- There Are Not Enough Sad Songs by
Where Was Here? (p. 143-144)
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- You Can't Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction by
- The Melting Queen by
Attention Canadian Literature Professors (p. 143-144)
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- Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry by
- Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry by and
Degrees of Separation (p. 144-145)
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- The Far Himalaya by
- The Lost Sister by
Hitched to Everything (p. 145)
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- The Nature of Canada by and
Broken and Unbroken Lines (p. 145-147)
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- Cosmic Bowling by and
- Swoon by
Rebirth of the Flesh (p. 145-150)
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- They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen by and
Frenemies and Possibilities (p. 146)
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- Equivocal City: French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal by
When Poems Are Quilts (p. 147-148)
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- Mowing by
- A Tent, a Lantern, an Empty Bowl by
- This Was the River by
Of Care and the Self (p. 147-149)
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- Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty by
- Take Her, She’s Yours by
A Terrifying Insularity of Mind (p. 148-149)
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- The Innocents by
- Lampedusa by
Transforming Stories (p. 149-150)
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- SH:LAM (The Doctor) by
- Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by
- Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid by and
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- Half-Sisters and Other Stories by
- The Towers of Babylon by
Drilling Down (p. 150-152)
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- Unravelling by
- I Can't Get You Out of My Mind by
Listening to Inuit Stories (p. 151)
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- Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex by and
Under Our Own Threat (p. 151-152)
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- Re-Origin of Species by
- Odes & Laments by
Getting to the Roots (p. 152-153)
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- Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance by
- Colours to the Chameleon: Canadian Actors on Shakespeare by
Slivers and Gaps (p. 152-153)
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- Year of the Metal Rabbit by
- Vancouver for Beginners by
- Bounce House by
Performing Unsettlement (p. 152-153)
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- Unbecoming Nationalism: From Commemoration to Redress in Canada by
- Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by , , , and
Undertaking the Impossible (p. 154-156)
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- Beirut Hellfire Society by
“Patchwork Crazy Quilt” (p. 154-155)
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- Every Little Scrap and Wonder: A Small-Town Childhood by
Poem Emporium (p. 154-155)
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- A halt, which is empty by
- The Inflatable Life by
Long Poems, Serial Poems: On Writing Writing (p. 154-156)
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- Taking Measures: Selected Serial Poems by and
Addressing Endurance: Midgley, Bowling, Lockhart (p. 155-156)
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- let us not think of them as barbarians by
- The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems by
- Devil in the Woods by
Diasporic (Be)longings (p. 156-157)
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- The Forbidden Purple City by
- The Emperor's Orphans by
A Love Letter to Anne (p. 157)
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- Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript by and
(Re)Writing China (p. 157-158)
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- The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by
- Oracle Bone by
Tracking Pasts: The Wild Heavens and Cardinal Divide (p. 157-158)
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- Cardinal Divide by
- The Wild Heavens by
Collecting the Unknown Montgomery (p. 158-159)
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- A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891-1917 by and
- A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 by and
Toward More Feeling (p. 158-160)
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- These are not the potatoes of my youth by
- All Day I Dream about Sirens by
- Mad Long Emotion by
Engaging with a Remediated Archive (p. 158-160)
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- CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event by and
Sinews and Sheaves (p. 159-161)
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- Bones by
- Fields of Light and Stone by
Leavings Just Source (p. 160-164)
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- Entering Sappho by
- Sonnet's Shakespeare by
Faces of Desperation (p. 160-161)
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- Claremont by
- Crow by
- The Dishwasher by and
Parallel Stories (p. 160-162)
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- Land Beyond the Sea by
- Parallel Universe: The Poetries of New Brunswick (Literary Criticism Monograph: number seven) by and
- Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real by
Presence of the Past (p. 161-163)
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- Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology by
- Vergessene Stimmen, nationale Mythen: Literarische Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und Kanada/Forgotten Voices, National Myths: Literary Relations between Austria and Canada by and
Twenty-first-Century Novels (p. 161-162)
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- The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretations by and
CBC’s Canadian History (p. 162-163)
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- Recasting History: How CBC Television Has Shaped Canada’s Past by
“memory knows no compromise” (p. 162-164)
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- From Turtle Island to Gaza by
- Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being by
Rejoicing in MacLennan (p. 163-164)
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- Man Should Rejoice: A Critical Edition by and
The End of Popular Women’s Writing (p. 163-164)
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- The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche. by
Voices of Trauma and Hope (p. 164-165)
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- Hope Matters by , and
- I Am a Body of Land by
Limbs, Limits, Love (p. 164-165)
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- Nought by
- Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by
The Numbers Tell a Story (p. 165-166)
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- Coconut Dreams by
- 26 Knots by
Precarious Places (p. 165-166)
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- Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times by
- What You Take with You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home by
- Love of the Salish Sea Islands: New Essays, Memoirs and Poems by 40 Island Writers by , and
Journeys into and through (p. 165-167)
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- Journeys by and
- Field Notes for the Self by
A Dis-Ease in Lyric and Fragment (p. 165-170)
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- The Elements by
- Render by
- The Outer Wards by
Spaces of Possibility (p. 166-167)
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- Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's Writing by
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- Flow: Poems Collected and New by and
“It Takes a Lifetime to Write a Poem” (p. 167-169)
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- Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet by
“Dragging Baggage” (p. 167-169)
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- Polar Vortex by
- Hunger Moon: Stories by
The Divided Self in the African South (p. 169-170)
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- My Totem Came Calling by and
- Such a Lonely, Lovely Road by
Knowing Ourselves (p. 169-170)
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- The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick by
Playful Disruption (p. 169-170)
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- Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka by
- The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics by
Walking Woman and Her Legacy (p. 170-171)
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- Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive by and
Love on Looted Lands (p. 170-171)
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- Sotto Voce by
- Crow Gulch by
A Book Review, over Thirty Years Too Late (p. 170-173)
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- Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel by
To the Heart of the Matter (p. 171-172)
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- Murder And Other Essays by
“waist-deep in the criss-cross river of shadows” (p. 171-172)
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- Sharing the Past: The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960 by
Particulars Remembered (p. 171-172)
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- Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace by and
Jiaozi and Pirozhki (p. 172-173)
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- Spinster Kang by
Placing Through Poems, Play, and Stories (p. 173-174)
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- Cottagers and Indians by
- Treaty # by
- Moccasin Square Gardens by
The Ripple Effect (p. 173-174)
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- Rue des Rosiers by
- Mad Hatter by
A Multi-Generational Mixtape (p. 173-174)
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- Reproduction by
A Tribute to Munro (p. 173-174)
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- Alice Munro Country: Essays On Her Work I by
- Alice Munro Everlasting: Essays On Her Work II by
Epic Perceptions (p. 173-175)
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- Crito Di Volta: An Epic by
- If You Discover a Fire by
History Lessons (p. 174-175)
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- City on Strike: A Novel by
- A Boy from Acadie: Roméo LeBlanc’s Journey to Rideau Hall by
Indigenous Women and Law (p. 175-176)
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- Gender, Power & Representations of Cree Law by
- Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law by
All What Jazz (p. 176-178)
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- Music at the Heart of Thinking by
A Purpose for Every Time (p. 176-177)
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- Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of Environmental Crisis by
The Prairie is Black (p. 177-178)
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- The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by
Everyday Life in the Fur Trade (p. 178-179)
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- Peter Fidler: From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains by
Desire, Violence, Nature, Truth (p. 179-180)
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- A House of Memory: Last Poems by
- Canticles II (Lost Scrolls) by
Flippin’ the Script (p. 179-181)
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- We Still Here: Hip Hop of the 49th Parallel by and
Communal History (p. 181-182)
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- Rough and Plenty by
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- Magnetic Equator by
- Dominoes at the Crossroads by
Indigenous Resurgence (p. 186-189)
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- Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School by
- Indianthusiasm by , and
A Labour of Love (p. 189-191)
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- The L. M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print by
A Very Timely Anthology (p. 191-192)
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- Changing the Face of Canadian Literature by
Little but Resilient (p. 192-194)
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- Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books by
Tidal Memories of Loss (p. 194-196)
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- Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley by and