Book Reviews

Fast-Forward Man (p. 118-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Burning Water by George Bowering

Social Margins (p. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fat Woman by Leon Rooke
  • Shacking Up by Kent Thompson

Angry Mourner (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contract With the World by Jane Rule

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler

Primitive Present (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mad Trapper by Rudy Wiebe

Relearning Freedom (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alex Driving South by Keith Maillard

Familiar Worthies (p. 133-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dragon Lady by Silver Donald Cameron
  • Honour Your Partner by Helen Levi
  • O Time in Your Flight by Hubert Evans
  • Shore Lines by Roy Macgregor
  • Spirit Wrestler by James Houston

Poetic Gifts (p. 135-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rainy Hills: verses after a Japanese fashion by Francis Sparshott
  • High Marsh Road by Douglas Lochhead

Twice as Natural (p. 137-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flowers of Darkness by Matt Cohen

A Seeking Voice (p. 139-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Master and Son by Roger Mitton
  • Five Hundred Keys by Michael Carin

Goody Flat Foot (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kowalski's Last Chance by Leo Simpson

Two Poets (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moving Inland by Diana Hayes
  • Powerland Minds by R. W. Fulford

Mowat at War (p. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Champion de cinq heures moins dix by Jean-Marie Poupart
  • Cap Tourmente by Jean-Paul Filion

Primer vs. Prince (p. 149-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Hungry Time by Selwyn Dewdney
  • Who's a Soccer Player? by Bruce Kidd
  • It Scares Me but I Like It: Creating Poetry with Children by Russell Hazzard
  • The Trouble with Princesses by Christie Harris
  • The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales from Quebec by Marius Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Magic Realism by Geoff Hancock
  • Stories of Quebec by Leslie Monkman and Douglas M. Daymond

Small Miracle (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pilgarlic the Death by Bernard Epps

Indian Plight (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shaman's Daughter by Nan F. Salerno and Rosamond M. Vanderburgh

From Playwrights (p. 158-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sight Unseen by Steve Petch
  • The Trojan Women by Gwendolyn MacEwen
  • Clouds of Glory by Betty Lambert
  • Blitzkrieg by Bryan Wade

Eclectic, Classic (p. 162-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The World of Canadian Writing by George Woodcock
  • Autour de Borduas by Jean-Ethier Blais

Elusive Surfaces (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Divinations and Shorter Poems 1973-1978 by M. Travis Lane
  • This Planet Earth by Cyril Dabydeen
  • I Want to Tell You Lies by John Lane
  • The Beauty of It: Poems for Tuesday Night by Ted Colson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dangerous Crossings by David Donnell
  • Yarrow by Robert Currie
  • In Searching of Living Things by Gail Fox

Innis’s Bias (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis by William Christian