Editorial


Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

True Dilemmas (p. 112-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • True Stories by Margaret Atwood

Art, amour, poésie (p. 113-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Hauts cris by Suzanne Paradis
  • La Mariakèche by Laurent Dube
  • La Belle épouvante by Robert Lalonde

Second Launching (p. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Visitants by Miriam Waddington

Remembering War (p. 118-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • But This Is Our War by Grace Morris Craig
  • One Who Came Back by Anita Mayer
  • Diplomatic Passport: More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1946-1962 by Charles Ritchie

Hobbled (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Magician in Love by Leon Rooke

Rooke’s Stories (p. 123-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed by Leon Rooke
  • Death Suite by Leon Rooke

Mandel’s Selves (p. 125-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dreaming Backwards: The Selected Poetry by Eli Mandel
  • Life Sentence by Eli Mandel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rocky Shores: An Anthology of Faroese Poetry by George Johnston

In Africa (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pride and Fall by Kildare Dobbs

Words for Now (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ancestral Dreams by Beryl Baigent
  • The Book of Thirteen by Gertrude Story
  • Our Lives by Daphne Marlatt

Acquisitions (p. 132-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gallimaufry by Jon Whyte
  • A Grand Memory for Forgetting by Stephen Scobie
  • Lying in Bed by Mary Howes
  • Extreme Positions by bp Nichol

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 81: Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf and Leon Rooke
  • Second Impressions by John Metcalf

In Mellow Mood (p. 137-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Contrebandière by Antonine Maillet
  • Fau Divorcer! by Bertrand B. Leblanc
  • Du Sang Bleu Dans Les Veines by Georges Dor

To Amuse, To Bite (p. 140-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Crackwalker by Judith Thompson
  • The Ziggy Effect by Marc Diamond
  • The Horsburgh Scandal by Betty Jane Wylie
  • The Next Move by George Szanto

Street Life (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sad Paradise by Britt Hagarty
  • Dead Ends by Keith Harrison
  • Platonic Love by Scott Watson

Separate Lenses (p. 144-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Different Lens by Alastair MacDonald
  • The Songs of Bathsheba by Candace Adamson Burstow
  • Blue Angel by Tim Inkster
  • The Cage in the Open Air by Ed Jewinski
  • Odes for Sterilized Streets by Alexandre L. Amprimoz
  • Madder Lake by Thomas A. Clark
  • So the Night World Spins by Jim Stewart
  • The Girl in the Brook by Wayne Wright
  • Seasonal Bravery by Des Walsh
  • Look the Lovely Animal Speaks by Robert Hilles

Aright & Awry (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wry & Ginger by Jack Howard
  • Tally Ho! by Marie Mitchell

A Sense of All (p. 150-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Acid Test by Gary Geddes
  • Has and Is by Robert Finch

In the Gaspé (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le p'tit ministre-les-pommes by Real-Gabriel Bujold
  • Quand la viole faseille by Noël Audet
  • Esthétique pour Patricia suivi d'un écrit de Patricia B. by G.-Andre Vachon

Self Voyages (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Brush and Trunks by Liliane Welch
  • Wake-Pick Poems by Kristjana Gunnars
  • Voyages by T. D. MacLulich

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bachelor by Louise Roy, Michel Rivard and Louis Saia
  • Chez Paul-Ette, bière, vin, liqueur et nouveautés by Louis-Marie Dansereau
  • Vie et mort du roi boiteux by Jean-Pierre Ronfard
  • Le Fleuve au coeur by Manon Vallee, Danielle Bissontte and Leo Munger

Two-Uva-Kind (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gleebs of Wizagon by Enrico Renz and K. H. Wirsig
  • Ytek and the Arctic Orchid by Garnet Hewitt and Heather Woodall

Studying Folklore (p. 161-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English by Edith Fowke
  • Littérature orale en Gaspésie by Carmen Roy

Intoxication (p. 165-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sleep Full of Dreams by Edna Alford
  • The Mad River and Other Stories by Douglas H. Glover
  • Matinees Daily by Terence Byrnes
  • Canadian Short Fiction Anthology, vol. II by Paul Belserene

Picturing Our Past (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Inuit: Life As It Was by Richard Harrington
  • Canada: A History in Photographs by Gordon Dodds and Roger Hall
  • The Icelanders by David Arnason and Michael Olito
  • The Islands of Canada by Marian Engel

Weaving (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Comfortable Arts: Spinning and Weaving in Canada by Dorothy K. Burnham

War & After (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Walking Through Fire by Maggie Helwig
  • The Impossible Promised Land: Poems New and Selected by Seymour Mayne
  • After the War: Poems and Stories by Andy Wainwright

In Remembrance (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Mère morte by Suzie Murray
  • Cent Ans dans les bois by Antonine Maillet