Editorial

Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One-Eyed Moon Maps by Kristjana Gunnars
  • Settlement Poems 1, Settlement Poems 2 by Kristjana Gunnars

Poets in Prose (p. 76-77)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Cook, Once Dreaming by Derk Wynand
  • The Vivid Air by Ralph Gustafson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Positionings by Alice Van Wart
  • Where Have You Been by Miriam Mandel
  • Final Instructions by Pat Lowther

On Evaluation (p. 78-83)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Due Sense of Differences: An Evaluative Approach to Canadian Literature by Wilfred Cude

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Double Suspect by Madeleine Monette
  • la Mort après la mort by Claude Bouchard

New France & Old (p. 86-88)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The King's Loon by Mary Alice Downie
  • The King's Daughter by Suzanne Martel, David Toby Homel and Margaret Rose
  • Towers at the Edge of a World: Tales of a Medieval Town by Virgil Burnett

Six Chapbooks (p. 88-90)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rock Solid by John Lent
  • Wheat Fields by Helen Albright
  • Music and Exile by A. F. Moritz
  • Nude on the Dartmouth Ferry by Elizabeth Jones

Prose Lyrics (p. 90-92)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reclamation by David Haskins
  • Signs Against an Empty Sky by Stephen Hume
  • S'ney'mos by Kevin Roberts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Inanna Poems by Karen Lawrence
  • Echo and Montana by J. O. Thompson
  • Re-inventing the Wheel by Lesley Choyce
  • Sign Language by Ken Belford
  • The The by Barry McKinnon

Hemon et mythe (p. 94-95)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Mythe de Maria Chapdelaine by Nicole Deschamps, Raymonde Heroux and Normand Villeneuve
  • Louis Hémon, aventurier ou philosophe? by Gilbert Levesque

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anna's Pet by Joyce Barkhouse, Margaret Atwood and Ann Blades
  • Honor Bound by Mary Alice and John Downie
  • Afraid of the Dark by Barry Dickson and Olena Kassian
  • People of the Ice, How the Inuit Lived by Ian Bateson and Heather Smith Siska

In German (p. 98-99)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Das literarische Kanadabild by Walter E. Riedel

A faire penser (p. 100-101)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nos Valeurs en ébullition by Jean-Guy Dubuc

Power Plays (p. 101-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flytrap by David Freeman
  • Gossip by George F. Walker

Found Plays (p. 103-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada's Lost Plays, Volume Three by Anton Wagner
  • New Canadian Drama—1 by Neil Carson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earle Birney by Peter Aichinger
  • A. J. M. Smith by John Ferns

Brooker (p. 110-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of Bertram Brooker by Birk Sproxton

Cineaste, moraliste (p. 111-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Matou by Yves Beauchemin
  • Les Corps communicants by Agnes Guitard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sara Jeannette Duncan, Novelist of Empire by Thomas E. Tausky
  • Sara Jeannette Duncan, Selected Journalism by Thomas E. Tausky

Real, Subtle, True (p. 115-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wintering Over by Terence Byrnes
  • Only the Gods Speak by Harold Horwood
  • Three of a Kind: Letters from Eden by Martin H. Moose
  • The Witness and Other Stories by Donn Kushner

Cultural Icons (p. 117-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Goodbye Summer by Veronica Ross
  • None Genuine Without This Signature by Hugh Hood

Yankees in Canada (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Yankees in Canada: A Collection of Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives by James Doyle

Pessimists (p. 122-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Trousse by Louis-Marie Dansereau
  • Isabelle by Pierre Dagenais
  • Les Vaches sont de braves types et trois autres pièces by Jean Gagnon

Signifying Self (p. 125-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Friends by Wilfred Eggleston
  • A Trip Around Lake Huron by David McFadden

Intimate Prairie (p. 128-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Shored Up House by Elizabeth Allen
  • Lacuna by Laura McLauchlan
  • A Game of Angels by Anne Szumigalski
  • Humans and Other Beasts by Lorna Uher

Folklore (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sept-Iles Racontée by Gilles Landry
  • Jeux, rythmes et divertissements traditionnels by Madeline Doyon-Ferland
  • Folklore de la mer et religion by Benoit Lacroix
  • Chansons de Grand'mère by Alice Michaud-Latremouille
  • L'Anguille by Roger Martin
  • Complaintes acadiennes de l'Ile-du-Prince-Edouard by Georges Arsenault

Drawing On (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 100 Years of Canadian Drawings by Jerrold Morris

Skelton’s Canon (p. 134-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Shorter Poems, 1947-1977 by Robin Skelton

Lost Dreams (p. 137-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Long Way From Home by Myrna Kostash
  • The Big Generation by John Kettle

Romantic Modes (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism by Tilottama Rajan

Textures (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Right Hemisphere, Left Ear by Paul Dutton
  • The Island Man by George McWhirter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Panique à Longueil by René-Daniel Dubois
  • Rêve d'une nuit d'hôpital by Normand Chaurette

Talking Clearly (p. 146-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • For Openers by Alan Twigg

Suburbs & Shamans (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tent Peg by Aritha van Herk
  • Shandy by Dave Williamson

Untitled (p. 150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Point Pelee by William Reynolds