Editorial


Book Reviews

Travel Tales (p. 64-66)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel by Percy G. Adams

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Time For Judas by Morley Callaghan

Lay History (p. 69-70)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • John Walden Myers, Loyalist Spy by Mary Beacock Fryer
  • James FitzGibbon: Defender of Upper Canada by Ruth McKenzie
  • The Island Family Harris: Letters of an Immigrant Family in British North America by Robert Critchlow Tuck

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Willie, A Romance. Volume 1 of the King Years by Heather Robertson

Founding Fathers (p. 73-74)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution by John N. Grant and Phyllis R. Blakeley
  • The House of Ontario by Royce MacGillivray
  • Loyalist Literature: An annotated bibliographical guide to the writings on the Loyalists of the American Revolution by Robert S. Allen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Isabella Valancy Crawford. The Life and the Legends by Dorothy Farmiloe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • No Memory of a Move by Anne Campbell
  • The M Poems by Elizabeth Gourley
  • Customers by Yvonne Trainer
  • Signs of the Former Tenant by Brownwen Wallace

Speculations (p. 78-80)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan by Marian Fowler

Multiple Vision (p. 80-81)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada: Essays by Alvin Balkind, Gary Michael Dault, Terrence Heath, John Bentley Mays, Diana Nemiroff and Charlotte Townsend-Gault by Robert Bringhurst et al.

Posted (p. 81-83)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Taking It to the Letter by George Woodcock
  • Deux Mats une Galère by Edouard Jasmin and Claude Jasmin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ecrivains Contemporains. Entretiens 2. (1977-1980) by Jean Royer

Third Eye (p. 86-87)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood

Dark Mother (p. 88-89)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Interlunar by Margaret Atwood

Crossing Borders (p. 89-91)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gabrielle Roy et Margaret Laurence: deux chemins, une recherche by Terrance Hughes
  • Anne Hébert by Delbert W. Russell

Balancing Acts (p. 91-93)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flying Dutchmen by James Harrison
  • Second Person by Derk Wynand
  • The Dream of Snowy Owls by Monty Reid
  • The Cave of Trophonius and Other Poems by Francis Sparshott

Fertile Forms (p. 93-97)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pisscat Songs by E. F. Dyck
  • Syntax by Robin Blaser
  • Passing into Storm by Patrick Lane

Virtuoso Turns (p. 97-98)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mountain Tea by Peter van Toorn

Co-Translations (p. 98-101)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Learn This Poem of Mine by Heart by George Faludy and John Robert Colombo

Dickens in Quebec (p. 101-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pourquoi cracher sur la lune? by Jacques Fillion

Developing Poets (p. 103-105)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Words For Elephant Man by Kenneth Sherman
  • The Visitation by A. F. Moritz
  • Settlements by David Donnell
  • The Blue Pools of Paradise by Mick Burrs

Need to Witness (p. 105-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Complicity by Susan Glickman
  • The Medusa Head by Mary Meigs
  • Holding the Pose by Sharon Thesen

Down Home (p. 107-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album by Mordecai Richler

Oedipal Melodrama (p. 108-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un An de sursis pour Timi by Jacques Fillion

Roman Américain (p. 111-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vollkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin

Countries to Visit (p. 113-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Trouble With Heroes and Other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • A Comedy of Eros by Virgil Burnett
  • The Growing Dawn by Mark Frutkin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travelin Light by Jim Christy
  • Tourists From Algol by Tom Henighan

Dreams & Sagas (p. 116-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tenderfoot Trail by Olive Spencer Loggins
  • Gopher Hills by Tom Cummings
  • My Own Years by Barry Broadfoot
  • The Silent Song of Mary Eleanor by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Abundant Form (p. 119-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Coming Attractions by Sandra Martin
  • A House Full of Women by Elizabeth Brewster
  • 83: Best Canadian Stories by by Sandra Martin and David Helwig

On Hood (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hugh Hood by Keith Garebian

School Days (p. 123-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel by Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman

Signe du rêve (p. 125-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Maison Trestler, ou le 8e jour d'Amérique by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Intolerable (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Questing Beast by Richard Hebert
  • Tolerable Levels of Violence by Robert G. Collins

Craft & Criticism (p. 128-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts by Louis K. MacKendrick

Shadows of the Past (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marie-Eve, Marie-Eve by Adrien Therio
  • In the Shadow of the Wind by Anne Hébert
  • Mère-solitude by Emile Ollivier

Expanding Vision (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories by Richard Teleky

Vision & Satire (p. 133-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Weather by Lorna Crozier
  • Public Fantasy by C. H. Gervais

Dream & Feelings (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Greendream by Joseph McLeod
  • The Moon of Hunger by Ian McCullough
  • Opening Day by George Stanley
  • Luna-Verse by Catherine Ahearn

Ear & Eye (p. 138-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tyrian Veil by Kenneth Banks
  • A Minor Operation by Phil Hall
  • Seven Robins by Neile Graham
  • Stranded in Terra by Deborah Godin
  • Fire Before Dark by George McWhirter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Angel in the Works by Robert Hilles
  • Precautions Against Death by Maria Jocobs
  • The Sunday Before Winter by Marilyn Bowering

Northern Frontiers (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Poetry of Frontiers: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature by Clément Moisan
  • The Northern Imagination: A Study of Northern Canadian Literature by Allison Mitcham

Riffs of Criticism (p. 146-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Invocations: The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Jan Bartley
  • On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics by R. St. J. MacDonald and Sandra Djwa
  • Tasks of Passion: Dennis Lee at Mid-Career by Russell Brown, Karen Mulhallen and Donna Bennett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Child's Anne by Deirdre Kessler
  • Jelly Belly by Juan Wijngaard and Dennis Lee
  • The Genesis of Grove's The Adventure of Leonard Broadus: A Text and Commentary by Mary Rubio

Ghosts (p. 151-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dry Water by Robert Stead and Prem Varma
  • Reminiscences of a Bungle by One of the Bunglers by R. C. McLeod

Climacteric Blues (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paul Nolan by Robert Harlow