Editorial

Book Reviews

New Talents (p. 96-98)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Third Impressions by John Metcalf
  • Calling Home by Merna Summers
  • Taking Cover by Keath Fraser

Winging It (p. 98-101)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro

Bleak House (p. 101-102)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Driver by Nora Keeling
  • Making Up by Don Bailey
  • God's Eye by George McWhirter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Peut-être à Tokyo by Jean-Francois Somcynsky
  • L'Oiseau de fer by Nadia Ghalem
  • Nadeige by Jean-Eric Parisien

Fantasy Four (p. 104-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Skiamachia by Virgil Burnett
  • Dragonhunt by Frances Duncan
  • Years of Light: A Celebration of Leslie A. Croutch by John Robert Colombo
  • The King's Evil by David Helwig

No Place Like (p. 107-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tom, David, and the Pirates by Betty Clarkson
  • The Secret of Ivy Lea by Janice Cowan
  • Where the Heart Is by Nell Hanna

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English by Margaret Atwood

At Home at Home (p. 109-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mulberry Men by David Solway
  • Selected Poems by David Solway

Nexus & Birney (p. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • WRC 1-2258 by Nexus

Towards Poetry (p. 112-113)

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

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gravité: Poèmes 1967-73 by Guy Gervais
  • Aux mouvances du temps: Poésie 1961-1971 by Marie Laberge
  • La Nomade by Julie Stanton

A Dangerous Book (p. 115-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies

Mountain Poets (p. 118-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Six Poets of British Columbia by Robin Skelton
  • Nobody Danced with Miss Rodeo by Sid Marty
  • Mid-River by Dale Zieroth
  • Roothog: Contemporary B.C. Writing by John Harris
  • By Green Mountain by Allan Brown
  • White Monster by Brian Brett
  • Journey by Rona Murray
  • Queens of the Next Hot Star by Linda Rogers
  • Limits by Robin Skelton

Three Novels (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eastmall by Percy Janes
  • Wednesday's Child by Gilbert Choquette and David Lobdell
  • Indian River by Jane MacDonald

Pastoral Lines (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Castle Mountain by Luanne Armstrong
  • Daughters by Jane Munro
  • The Authentic Life by Suniti Namjoshi

Une conscience (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Premier Homme by Alain Chevrette
  • Nuits blanches by Pierre Paul Karch
  • Décors à l'envers by Jacques Lafleur
  • Quand il pleut sur ma ville by Pascal Sabourin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Soeurs d'Io by Therese Bonvouloir-Bayol
  • Angoisse Play by Jean-Marie Poupart
  • Le Prix du Silence by Nadine MacKenzie
  • Horace du l'art de porter la redingote by Bertrand B. Leblanc
  • Les Chevaliers de la nuit by Jean-Yves Soucy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Cercle de arènes by Roger Fournier
  • Le Vent n'a pas d'écho by Monique Jeannotte
  • La Saga de Lagacé by Andre Vanasse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Canard de bois by Louis Caron
  • Gisèle et le serpent by Jacques Benoit

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Callaghan Symposium by David Staines
  • Sinclair Ross: A Reader's Guide by Ken Mitchell
  • Canadian Novelists and the Novel by Leslie Monkman and Douglas M. Daymond

Sanest Insanity (p. 138-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Traditions by Heather Cadsby
  • Black Orchid by A. F. Moritz
  • The Upper Hand by Christopher Wiseman
  • The Whisky Vigil by Erín Mouré
  • The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by Tom Wayman

In Minor Key (p. 140-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Running into the Open by Pamela Banting
  • Cattail Week by Brian Bartlett
  • From Here to Here by Endre Farkas
  • Adam 2000 by Orin Manitt
  • A Queen is Holding a Mummified Cat by Mary Melfi
  • Signs and Certainties by A. F. Moritz
  • Finding Mom at Eaton's by George Morrissette
  • The Space Between Sleep and Waking by Robyn Sarah
  • The Cost of Living by Kenneth Sherman
  • Riding to Nicola Country by Andrew Wreggitt

Parnassus Clearance (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • To Sleep, To Love by Ken Norris
  • Coming Back by Peter Stevens
  • Excuses for Archery by Glen Deer
  • Forcing the Field by Eugene MacNamara
  • A New Improved Sky by Don Kerr
  • War in an Empty House by Don Domanski
  • Swimming at Twelve Mile by J. D. Carpenter

Extremes (p. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Small Wonders by Robert Weaver
  • Cottage Gothic by Martin Avery

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Poems of Raymond Souster, Volume Two 1955-62 and Volume Three 1962-74 by Raymond Souster
  • Collected Poems of Raymond Souster, Volume Four 1974-77 by Raymond Souster

Cultural Markers (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paper Doors: An Anthology of Japanese-Canadian Poetry by David Aylward and Gerry Shikatani

Precious Tongue (p. 153-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Emigrant Experience by Margaret MacDonnell

Poetry Chronicle (p. 157-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pylônes by J.-H. Letourneux
  • Abre-Radar by Gaten Lapointe
  • Dans l'intervalle by Jean-Pierre Leroux
  • L'Enfant doré by
  • A l'orée de l'oeil by Rolande Gigeure
  • La Surface du paysage by Claude Beausoleil
  • Terre féconde by Jean-Louis Roy
  • Chansons by Marcel Sabourin
  • Le Fou solidaire by Gilbert Langevin
  • L'Architecture pressentie : précis d'intuition by François Tétreau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bursting Into Song by Al (Alfred W) Purdy
  • New Poems by Henry Moscovitch
  • In a White Shirt by Bill Howell
  • Cantos North by Henry Beissel

Poetry & Prose (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Particular Accidents by Robin Blaser and Claude Boisvert
  • The Arches by bp Nichol and Frank Davey
  • Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek by Fred Wah and George Bowering
  • Beyond Even Faithful Legends by bill bissett
  • As Elected by bp Nichol, bp Nichol and Jack David

For Words (p. 168-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Passages of Winter by Arthur Adamson
  • Lines in the Dark Wood by Michael Bullock
  • Ghostcatcher by Stephen Guppy
  • Stonefish and Other Poems by Kevin Roberts

Aquin en relief (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Imaginaire captif, Hubert Aquin by Rene Lapierre

Last Pages

Last Page (p. 191-192)