NeWest Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle by Myrna Kostash
Light on a Part of the Field by Kevin Holowack
A Brief View from the Coastal Suite by Karen Hofmann
Hunger Moon: Stories by Traci Skuce
The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth
Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain
In Veritas by C. J. Lavigne
Goth Girls of Banff by John O'Neill
Echolocation by Karen Hofmann
let us not think of them as barbarians by Peter Midgley
The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon
To Me You Seem Giant by Greg Rhyno
My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur by Phyllis Rudin
The Bosun Chair by Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Mountain Blues by Sean Arthur Joyce
Three Times Five (3 x 5) — Short Stories by Fred Stenson, Beverly Harris and Gloria Sawai
Tar Swan by David Martin
What is Going to Happen Next by Karen Hoffman
Disappearing Moon Cafe by SKY Lee
Where It Hurts by Sarah de Leeuw
Paper Teeth by Lauralyn Chow
59 Glass Bridges: A Novel by Steven Peters
Where the Truth Lies: Selected Essays by Rudy Wiebe
A Revision of Forward by Wendy McGrath
Friendly Fire by Lisa Guenther
Memory Serves: Oratories by Lee Maracle and Smaro Kamboureli
Entropic by R. W. Gray
Rupert’s Land by Meredith Quartermain
Talon by Paulette Dubé
restless white fields by Barbara Langhorst
Showing West: Three Prairie Docu-Dramas by Diane Bessai and Don Kerr
Crisp by R. W. Gray
Figures Cut in Sacred Ground by Angela Bowering
The Darkening Archipelago: A Cole Blackwater Mystery by Stephen Legault
Gangson by Andy Weaver
White Lies for Mother by Liza Potvin
Due West: 30 Great Stories from Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba by Wayne Tefs, Geoffrey Ursell and Aritha van Herk
Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie
My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice by Smaro Kamboureli and Erín Mouré
Jumping Off by Laura J. Cutler
The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems 1965-2001 by Stephen Scobie
The Collected Works of Pat Lowther by Christine Wiesenthal
The Old Lost Land of Newfoundland: Family, Memory, Fiction, and Myth by Wayne Johnston
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture by Barbara Thomson Godard and Smaro Kamboureli
Listening to the Trees by A. K. Hellum
Paper Trail by Arleen Paré
Weasel Tail: Stories Told by Joe Crowshoe Sr. (Aapohsoy'yiis), a Peigan-Blackfoot elder by Michael Ross and Joe Crowshoe Sr.
The Cardinal Divide by Stephen Legault
Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain
The Bindery by Shane Rhodes
Trail of the Spirit: The Mysteries of Medicine Power Revealed by George Blondin
Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman’s Journey across Canada by Barbara Kingscote
So This Is the World & Here I Am in It by Di Brandt
Salal by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou and Alan Filewood
At the Zenith of the Empire by Stewart Lemoine
Fallen Empires: Lost Theatres of Edmonton, 1881- 1914 by John Orrell
Nextfest Anthology II: Plays from the Syncrude Next Generation Arts Festival by Steve Pirot
The Far Away Home by Marci Denesiuk
Aldershot 1945: The Novel by Bruce Allen Powe
The Almost Meeting and Other Stories by Henry Kreisel
were the bees by Andy Weaver
Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson by F.T. Flahiff
Blue Feast by Shawna Lemay
This Way the Road by Nina Berkhout
All of Baba's Children by Myrna Kostash
Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology by Stan Rowe and Don Kerr
Touch by Gayleen Froese
Diamond Grill by Fred Wah
Encounters by Michael Trussler
Working North: DEW Line to Drill Ship by Rick Ranson
Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic by Rudy Wiebe
Naked at School: Three Plays for Teens by Chris Craddock
Jumping Off by Adrienne Kertzer and Laura J. Cutler
Breathing Water by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans by Joseph Boyden
Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives by Lynda Shorten
Playing Dead, a Contemplation Concerning the Artic by Rudy Wiebe
The Measure of Miranda by Sue Thomas
Poor Superman by Brad Fraser
In Visible Ink: crypto-frictions by Aritha van Herk
NeXt Fest Anthology: Plays from the Syncrude NeXt Generation Arts Festival 1996-2000 by Glenda Stirling
Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp by Tom Sando
Readings from the Labyrinth by Daphne Marlatt
Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka and Daphne Marlatt
The Widows by Suzette Mayr
The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
The Man Who Beat the Man by F. B. André
Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self by Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson
Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto
The Doomed Bridegroom by Myrna Kostash
Lyric/Anti-Lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Douglas Barbour
Martin Yesterday by Brad Fraser
Diamond Grill by Fred Wah
Nothing But Brush Strokes: Selected Prose by Phyllis Webb
The Blood Girls by Méira Cook
Holding Pattern by Shane Rhodes
moving to the clear by Jason Dewinetz
Apocrypha by Stan Dragland
Crybaby! by Janice Williamson
Lion's Granddaughter and Other Stories by Yasmin Ladha
Mostly Country: Short Stories by Rosemary Nixon
Beyond Tish by Douglas Barbour
Imaginary Hand by George Bowering and Smaro Kamboureli
Comic Book Heroine and Other Stories by Sarah Murphy
Wonderfull by William Neil Scott
A New-Found Ecstasy by Ed Kleiman
A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing by Smaro Kamboureli and Shirley Neuman
NeWest Plays By Women by Diane Bessai and Don Kerr
The Woman Upstairs by Mary Walters Riskin
A Stranger in My Time: Essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove by Paul Hjartarson
The Other Side of Rebellion: The Remarkable Story of Charles Bremner and His Furs by Margaret R. Stobie
Housebroken by Leona M. Gom
Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature by Reingard M. Nischik and Robert Kroetsch
Another Country: Writings by and about Henry Kreisel by Shirley Neuman
The Last Echo by Byrna Barclay
Five from the Fringe: A Selection of Fiver Plays First Performed at the Fringe Theatre Event by Nancy Bell and Diane Bessai
Eight Plays for Young People by Joyce Doolittle
visible visions: selected poems by Douglas Barbour
A Nest of Singing Birds by Susan Charlotte Haley
The Land They Gave Away: New and Selected Poems by Andrew Suknaski
West of Fiction by Leah Flater, Aritha van Herk and Rudy Wiebe
The Cutting Season by Margaret Clarke
Beast Gate by E.D. Blodgett
The Lion's Mouth by Caterina Edwards
From a High Thin Wire by Joan Clark
The Upper Hand by Christopher Wiseman
Blood Relations and Other Plays by Sharon Pollock
The Almost Meeting and Other Stories by Henry Kreisel
Summer of the Hungry Pup by Byrna Barclay
A Voice in the Land by W. J. Keith
Crow's Black Joy by Lorna Uher
Far as the Eye Can See by Rudy Wiebe and Theatre Passe Muraille
Getting Here by Rudy Wiebe
Last One Home by Fred Stenson
Gangson by Andy Weaver
Crisp by R. W. Gray
House of Spells by Robert Pepper-Smith
restless white fields by Barbara Langhorst
The Darkening Archipelago: A Cole Blackwater Mystery by Stephen Legault
Extensions by Myrna Dey