Editorial


Book Reviews

Playmaking (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Prague by John Krizanc
  • Jitters by David French
  • Quebec Voices: Three Plays by Robert Wallace

Lowry’s Noxon (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Teresina Maria by Gerald Noxon

Vers mirage (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Catégoriques un deux et trois by Normand de Bellefeuille
  • Orchidée nègre by Anthony Phelps
  • Dans les plis de l'écriture by Joël Pourbaix
  • Effets personnels by Pierre Morency
  • La Main au feu by Roland Giguere

Kroetsch (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robert Kroetsch by Robert Lecker

Feelings (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 4722 Rue Berri by Mona Fertig
  • Hour of the Pearl by Rhona McAdam

First Novels (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Under the House by Leslie Hall Pinder
  • The Promised Land by Martin Waxman

Thriller (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last Hunter by Fred Cederberg
  • Foreign Object by Ron Base

Voice Problems (p. 147-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism by Albert Gelpi
  • The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition by Marjorie Perloff
  • The Poem as Utterance by R. A. York
  • The Revels by Robert Billings
  • Heat Lightning by Robert Hogg
  • The Night the Dog Smiled by John Newlove

Long Light (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Afterworlds by Gwendolyn MacEwen
  • Selected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster (2 vols.) 1944-1977 by Elizabeth Brewster

Counterpoint (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Poems of George Whalley by George Johnson
  • Zembla's Rocks by Louis Dudek
  • The Night the Dog Smiled by John Newlove

Choice of Lens (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • British Columbia: Visions of the Promised Land by Brenda Lea White
  • The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson
  • Malcolm Lowry: Vancouver Days by Sheryl Salloum

Dummies & Children (p. 156-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sing a Song of Sixpence: The English Picture Book Tradition and Randolph Caldecott by Brian Alderson
  • Sophie et Pierrot by Ginette Anfousse
  • A Candle for Christmas by Jean Speare and Ann Blades
  • Two Stupid Dummies by Mark Thurman
  • I'll Make You Small by Tim Wynne-Jones and Maryann Kovalski
  • Mischief City by Tim Wynne-Jones and VictoR GAD

Story & Mores (p. 158-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Devil is Innocent by H. Gordon Green
  • An Arch for the King & Other Stories by Michael Hennessey
  • Frogs & Other Stories by Diane Schoemperlen

Page’s Brazil (p. 161-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Brazilian Journal by P. K. Page

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Oeuvre Romanesque de Marie Claire Blais by François Laurent

Pick of the Crop (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 86 Best Canadian Stories by Sandra Martin and David Helwig
  • Coming Attractions 4 by Sandra Martin and David Helwig

Magic Decade (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Remembering Summer by Harold Horwood

Les Compagnons (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le père Emile Legault et ses compagnons de saint Laurent: Une petite histoire by Hélène Jasmin-Bélisle

Voix Universitaires (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Littérature québécoise, voix d'un peuple, voies d'une autonomie by Gilles Dorion and Marcel Voisin

Cameo & Conflict (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visitations by Elizabeth Brewster
  • As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair Macleod

Quests & Journals (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Psalms from the Suburbs by Roger Nash
  • Rip Current by Harold Enrico
  • A Sacrifice of Fire: Expeditions into the Interior by Gregory Grace

Braces & Freckles (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Catastrophes de Rosalie by Ginette Anfousse and Marisol Sarrazin
  • La Patte dans le sac by Sylvie Desrosiers and Pierre Huet
  • Le Journal intime d'Ani Croche by Bertrand Gauthier and Gérard Frischeteau
  • Atterrissage forcé by Joceline Sanschagrin and Pierre Pratt

Presence/Absence (p. 175-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Martyrology: Book 6 Books 1978-1985 by bp Nichol

King Arthur (p. 180-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacey
  • The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe

Story & Book (p. 182-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Farewell Tour by Virgil Burnett
  • The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind by Terrence M. Green

Untitled (p. 184-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If You Love This Country by Laurier Lapierre