Ronsdale Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Big Sky Falling by Kelsey Andrews
Pandemic Poems by Philip Resnick
St. Michael's Residential School: Lament and Legacy by Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein
Out All Day by John Donlan
Provoked by Gilgamesh: The Search for a Way Around Death by Gilmour Walker
Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado by Daniel Marshall
Defending Darkness by Pamela Porter
Collecting Silence by Ulrike Narwani
The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History 1945-53 by Susan McNicoll
The Private Journal of Captain G. H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862) by Linda Dorricott and Deidre Cullon
Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge? by Jim McDowell
The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle by Gordon Hak
How Happy Became Homosexual: And Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts by Howard Richler
Runaway Dreams by Richard Wagamese
Beckett Soundings by Inge Israel
Ghost of Heroes Past by Charles Reid
Follow the Elephant by Beryl Young
River of Gold by Anusree Roy
In the Wake of Loss by Sheila James
Tibetans in Exile by Alan Twigg
Skin Like Mine by Garry Gottfriedson
Shadows of Disaster by Cathy Beveridge
Jeannie and the Gentle Giants by Luanne Armstrong
Borrowed Rooms by Barbara Pelman
Mother Time: Poems New and Selected by Joanne Arnott
Winds of L'Acadie by Lois Donovan
Visible Living: Poems Selected and New by Marya Fiamengo, Janice Fiamengo, Seymour Mayne and Russell Thornton
Living Language and Dead Reckoning: Navigating Oral and Written Traditions by J. Edward Chamberlin
Writing the Tides: New and Selected Poems by Kevin Roberts
Free Will by Harold Rhenisch
Dark Times by Ann Walsh
First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia. by Alan Twigg
Mandorla by Nancy Holmes
A Brush with Life by John Koerner
The Story of Dunbar: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood by Peggy Schofield
Half in the Sun: Anthology of Mennonite Writing by Elsie Neufeld
At the Mercy Seat by Susan McCaslin
Grandchild of Empire: About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth by W. H. New
Terra Incognita by Anne Metikosh
After Ted & Sylvia by Crystal Hurdle
Jeannie and the Gentle Giants by Luanne Armstrong and Hilary Turner
Journey to Atlantis by Philip Roy
Cleaving by Florence Treadwell
The City in the Egg by Michel Tremblay and Michael Bullock
The Exile and The Sacred Travellers by Marie-Claire Blais and Nigel Spencer
Hong Kong Poems by Andrew Parkin and Laurence Wong
Daruma Days by Terry Watada
White Linen Remembered by Marya Fiamengo
Bialystok to Birkenau: The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielnicki by Michel Mielnicki and John Munro
Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim McDowell
A Second Earth: Poems Selected and New by Harold Enrico
Wintersleep by Marie-Claire Blais and Nigel Spencer
The Ghouls' Night Out by Janice MacDonald and Pamela Breeze Currie
Vanilla Gorilla by W. H. New and Vivian Bevis
Popping Fuchsias by Robin Skelton
Light Like a Summons: Five Poets by Mary Choo, Margaret Fridel, Eileen Kernaghan, Sue Nevill, Laurel Wade and J. Michael Yates
Abbey: Selected Poems 1959 to 1989 by Lloyd Abbey
Beginnings: Stories of Canada's Past by Ann Walsh
Hurricanes Over London by Charles Reid
Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism by Anne McClintock
Of Irony by Garnett Gladwin Sedgewick
Vintage 2000 by League of Canadian Poets
Vintage 1999 by League of Canadian Poets
The Judge's Wife: Memoirs of a British Columbia Pioneer by Eunice M. L. Harrisoin
Black Light by Ron Shaw
Les Sables Mouvants by Hubert Aquin
I Have My Mother's Eyes by Barbara Ruth Bluman
Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place by Christine Lowther and Anita Sinner
The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Beckett Soundings by Inge Israel
Runaway Dreams by Richard Wagamese
The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors by Alan Twigg