Editorial


Book Reviews

Women & Icons (pp. 68-69)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fairy Tales and the Female Imagination by Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters

Jungian Davies (pp. 69-72)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Smaller Infinity: The Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies by Patricia Monk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Théâtre en lutte: le Théâtre Euh! by Gerald Sigouin

In Resistance (pp. 73-75)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Embroidered Tent by Marian Fowler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786 by Alexander Walker and Robin Fisher

A Moral Press (pp. 78-79)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Victorian Authority by Paul Rutherford

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tale Spinners in a Spruce Tipi by Evalyn Gautreau
  • Heritage of the North American Indian People by Daniel H. Page
  • People of the Longhouse, How the Iroquoian Tribes Lived by Ian Bateson, Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington

Various Histories (pp. 81-83)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stanley Knowles by Susan Mann Trofimenkoff

Fighting Men (pp. 83-85)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • British Regulars in Montreal by S. E. Read
  • The Diary of a P.B.O. by Frank J. Shrive
  • Royal Flying Corps by William E. Chajkowsky

Real Poets (pp. 85-87)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Least You Can Do Is Sing by Cecelia Frey
  • Remembering History by Rhea Tregebov
  • Conceptions by Jane Dick
  • Writing Right by Douglas Barbour and Marni L. Stanley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Black Madonna by F. G. Paci
  • Head of the Harbour by Mark Gordon

On Targets (pp. 89-91)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Quantrill by William Goede
  • The Lazar House Notebooks by Don Akenson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Canadian Alternative by E.D. Blodgett

Alas, Poor Beaver (pp. 93-97)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Taking Stock by Charles R. Steele

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Littérature et le reste by Gilles Marcotte and André Brochu

In Conversation (pp. 100-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ecrivains contemporains. Entretiens I: 1976-1979 by Jean Royer

The Gélinas Review (pp. 103-105)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Fridolinades, 1941 et 1942, 1943 et 1944. 2 vols. by Gratien Gelinas

Asking Too Little (pp. 105-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dramatic W. O. Mitchell by W. O. Mitchell

Ruts and Riddles (pp. 107-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hugh MacLennan by Elspeth Cameron
  • Configurations by Yves Beauchemin

Chlorine Please (pp. 109-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Backyard Gene Pool by David Ingham and Ken Decker

Lost Voice? (pp. 111-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • My Lovely Enemy by Ruby Wiebe

Outrage (pp. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Famous Players by Greg Hollingshead
  • Stories of Men and of Rats by Sam Spiller

No Second Stage (pp. 116-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Fairly Conventional Woman by Carol Shields
  • Dancing in the Dark by Joan Barfoot

Too Many Poets (pp. 119-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Delicate Bodies by Daniel David Moses
  • News and Weather by August Kleinzahler
  • Squid by Squid Inc 1982
  • The Green Plain by John Newlove
  • Tracings by Mae Hill Brown

Metasyntheses (pp. 121-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Narcissistic Narrative by Linda Hutcheon

Down the Red Lanes (pp. 124-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Old Mother by Dorothy Livesay and Patrick Lane

Aux anges (pp. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Savon by Ginette Anfousse
  • L'Hiver, ou le Bonhomme Sept Heures by Ginette Anfousse
  • Popok le petit Esquimau by Yves Theriault
  • Les Contes du Sommet-Bleu by Claude Jasmin

Time-Travel (pp. 127-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Junction by Elizabeth Brewster
  • The Way Home, New Poems by Elizabeth Brewster

La rêve (pp. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Duchesse et le roturier by Michel Tremblay
  • Les Pays étrangers by Jean Éthier-Blais

On Hébert (pp. 132-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Fous de Bassan by Anne Hébert
  • Kamouraska d'Anne Hébert by Robert Harvey

Endlessly Talking (pp. 135-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Work: Conversations with English Canadian Playwrights by Robert Wallace, Cynthia Zimmerman and Ann Messenger

Equestrians (pp. 137-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voices, Noises by Rafael Barreto-Rivera
  • The Martyrology, Book 5 by bp Nicol

Mission Memoirs (pp. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Wake of the War Canoe by William Henry Collison

Des Mots & des maux (pp. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Occulteur by Claire de Lamirande
  • La Baie heureuse by Pierre Charonneau
  • La Mort d'Alexandre by Yvon Pare

Immigrants (pp. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Far From You by Pavel Javor
  • Evenings on Lake Ontario by Waclaw Iwaniuk
  • Love's Sinning Song and Other Poems by Celestino De Iuliis
  • Stephen Gill and His Works by George Hines

Webworks (pp. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earth Witch by Anne Cameron
  • Releasing the Spirit by Mona Fertig
  • Earth Dreams by Jerry Rush
  • Open Squares by John Nold

Much Ado (pp. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cross/cut by Ken Norris and Peter Van Toorn

In Gloom, Gold (pp. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Harrier by Terry Griggs
  • Saskatchewan Gold by Geoffrey Ursell
  • Rainshadow by Stephen Guppy and Ron Smith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Writing by Daphne Marlatt
  • What Matters by Daphne Marlatt

Pearls & Swine (pp. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gophers and Swans by Gwen Hauser
  • The Climate of The Heart by Len Gasparini
  • Townswomen and Other Poems by Rosalind Eve Conway
  • Duet by Gertrude Katz
  • Love En Route by Gregory M. Cook
  • Digging In by Elizabeth Brewster
  • Stone Wear / A Sequence of the Blood by Eva Tihanyi and Dianne Joyce

(Un)Making (pp. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shattered Songs by Arnold Itwaru
  • Acrobats by Paul Savoie

Conviction (pp. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Circular Coast by Anne Marriott

Leah (pp. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Errand Runner by Leah Rosenberg

Tale Types (pp. 160-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Folktales of French Canada by Edith Fowke
  • Folktales of the Canadian Sephardim by Andre E. Elbaz

Voyager’s Masks (pp. 163-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Voyage that Never Ends by Sherrill Grace

As It Is (pp. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Canadian Earth by Roger Boulet

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chinada by Gary Geddes

Magnetic Fields (pp. 168-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Teacher's Daughter by Richard B. Wright

Amours (pp. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Une Aurore Boréale by Jacques Folch-Ribas
  • Le Dernier Été des Indiens by Robert Lalonde
  • L'Amour langue morte by Solange Levesque

Words Alone (pp. 173-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Letter to the Past. An Autobiography by George Woodcock

Fox Trot (pp. 174-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Swell Season by Josef Skvorecky

First Thoughts (pp. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Second Words by Margaret Atwood

Drudges (pp. 177-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Book Review Annual 1980 by Dean Tudor, Nancy Tudor and Betsy Struthers
  • The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Quotations by Robert I. Fitzhenry