Canada

Introduction

The literary and publishing world in Canada saw several of its most renowned figures pass away in 2011. Robert Kroetsch, who died on June 21, immortalized his home province of Alberta through his books and was an eminent novelist, critic, teacher, poet, and a mentor of many writers. His quintessential fictional work about the Prairies was The Studhorse Man, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 1969. For his literary achievements, including award-winning non-fiction and poetry collections, Kroetsch was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. The nation also lost two eminent authors from the Maritimes. Douglas Lochhead, who died on March 15, was a respected scholar-librarian of Canadian literature at several universities and colleges. Nova Scotia’s maritime landscape inspired his poetry collection High Marsh Road, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1980 and won Italy’s Bettocchi Literary Prize. In 2002, he was designated the first Poet Laureate of Sackville, Nova Scotia. Maxine Tynes, who passed away on September 12, was a Nova Scotian poet descended from the black Loyalists who migrated to Halifax in the late 1700s. Her award-winning books spoke passionately about the roles that poetry, race and womanhood had played in her life. Eric Nicol, who died on February 21, was a beloved humorist, newspaper columnist, and social satirist who won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for three works: The Roving I (1951), Shall We Join the Ladies? (1956), and Girdle Me a Globe (1958). He received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 and was later appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. Chava Rosenfarb, who died on January 30, wrote Yiddish works of fiction, poetry and drama which described her horrific experience of the World War II Holocaust in Poland. Several of her books have been translated into English.

In the realm of fiction, several emerging authors won national recognition. Patrick de Witt’s novel The Sisters Brothers, which received the Governor General’s Award, is a remarkable comic transformation of the classic Western. The author’s narrative about the odyssey of two brothers in the 1850s frontier was praised for its brilliant prose and unforgettable realism. An award finalist, The Free World, is David Bezmozgis’ first novel. Set in Italy in 1978, the work describes the emigration tribulations of three generations of a Soviet Jewish family. It was critically acclaimed as a brilliant multigenerational epic, with both a wide historical sweep and a great emotional depth. The shortlisted work Half-Blood Blues was written by Esi Edugyan, another new talent. Her novel, a retrospective narrative that follows the story of a black jazz-artist arrested by the Nazis in 1940s Paris, was lauded as a unique adventure that spotlights a fascinating, unexplored area of history. Marina Endicott’s The Little Shadows, another finalist, focuses on the lives of three sisters who perform in vaudeville during the era of World War I. The novel was praised for a prose style that captures the flavour of the times and for its insightful portrayal of the girls’ coming of age and evolution into true artistry. Touch, a debut work by runner-up Alexi Zentner, explores the history and myths of Sawgamet, a remote community located in the northern forests of British Columbia. Narrated by Stephen, an Anglican priest who returns to the town for his mother’s funeral, the novel was acclaimed as a captivating saga that weaves together memories of a haunted family with mysterious tales about the prospectors, lumberjacks and eccentric inhabitants of this harsh wilderness.

Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction. Award finalist The Antagonist by Lynn Coady is a fictional autobiography about an ex-hockey player called Rank, who, in middle age, tries to rectify the harsh portrayal of his life presented by a friend in a secret novel. Written in epistolary form through a series of e-mails, the work was praised for its dynamic prose and comically scathing social insights about male friendships and relationships. Zsuzsi Gartner’s Better Living through Plastic Explosives, another runner-up, is a collection of short stories whose range of themes includes many contemporary topics. Her satirical tales about neighbourhood conflicts, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, and terrorism were lauded for their comic depth and biting exposure of human folly. Another finalist for the prize was Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table, which portrays a Ceylonese boy’s adventures aboard an ocean liner bound for England during the 1950s. A mixture of autobiography and fiction told from the retrospective of adulthood, the novel received many accolades for its rich imagery and fresh narrative perspective. David Bezmozgis’ The Free World and Patrick de Witt’s The Sisters Brothers were also shortlisted for the Giller.

Phil Hall’s Killdeer (2010) received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. The collection’s poem-essays, many of which were influenced by old fiddle tunes and pay tribute to famous writers, were widely praised for their masterful elegiac and lyrical qualities. Michael Boughn’s Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic (2010), a prize finalist, is a long epic poem consisting of twelve books and seventy-one cantos. The work was lauded as a tour de force for its innovative combination of rigorous formal technique and its satirical mock-epic treatment of timely issues concerning politics, sex and spirituality. Kate Eichhorn’s Fieldnotes: A Forensic (2010), another runner-up, structures its poems around an unusual parodic form – the mock notebook of a field anthropologist. The concept of the work, the application of poetry to explore responses to environmental and human disasters, was highly acclaimed as an original and provocative association of ideas. The shortlisted collection Discovery Passages is a work by Gary Thomas Morse, an Aboriginal poet who seeks to recover the displaced language and cultural traditions of his Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. His book won many accolades for the haunting power of its rich poetic lyrics and gripping sensory realism. Another finalist, Origami Dove by the celebrated poet Susan Musgrave, encompasses elegiac, lyric, and narrative poetry. Exploring various themes, such as personal crises, her life on Haida Gwaii, and the pitfalls of love, the collection won positive reviews for its masterful range of form and expression.

Ken Babstock’s Methodist Hatchet won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Using urban and wilderness imagery, his poetry deftly explores modern obsessions such as money, the media and cyberspace and was praised for its intelligent play of language and ideas. Jan Zwicky’s collection Forge, an award finalist, probes themes of disaster, metamorphosis and physical love. The musical qualities and memorable rarefied vocabulary of her poems were highly acclaimed. Phil Hall’s Killdeer was also shortlisted for the prize.

The Governor General’s Award in drama was given to Erin Shield’s If We Were Birds, an adaptation of the Greek myth about the devastating war that erupts between two nations after King Pandion marries his daughter Procne to war hero King Tereus. The play, which is punctuated with references to twentieth-century genocidal horrors, was acclaimed as a bold, haunting exploration of war’s brutalities, especially toward women. An award finalist, Brandan Gall’s Minor Complications, is a collection of two plays: “Wide Awake Hearts” deals with infidelity, destruction and filmmaking; “A Quiet Place” is a parable about two amnesiacs in a doorless room. These dramatizations of human folly were acclaimed for their piercing insights and virtuosic comic timing. Another runner-up, Jonathan Garfinkel’s House of Many Tongues, is a comedy about the struggles of an Israeli general with a Palestinian writer who comes to claim his occupied house during the Six Day War. The work was roundly praised for its insightful humour and magic realism. The short-listed work Gas Girls, by Donna St. Bernard, dramatizes the plight of two women who prostitute their bodies in exchange for gas in an impoverished African country. The work was heralded as bold and stirring theatrical story-telling. Another finalist, Lenin’s Embalmers by the celebrated playwright Vern Thiessen, is based on a true story about two Jewish biochemists who were recruited by Stalin to embalm Lenin’s body after his death. The drama’s gritty wit and historical insights won much critical praise.

There were numerous outstanding publications in the area of letters and autobiography. George Bowering’s How I Wrote Certain of My Books, Roy Robertson’s Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live and Jane Rule’s posthumous work Taking My Life are insightful memoirs that reveal how these writers were shaped artistically and culturally by significant life events. Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm. Blissett in Letters (edited by Sean Kane) and A.M. Klein: The Letters (edited by Elizabeth A. Popham) are excellent editions of correspondence that offer valuable revelations about the literary craft and vision of two eminent Canadian poets.

In literary criticism, several of Canada’s major authors were the focus of extensive research studies. These include critical biographies and in-depth analyses of writers of fiction such as Sheena Wilson’s Joy Kogawa: Essays on Her Works, Robert Thacker’s Alice Munro Writing Her Lives, and Milena Marinkova’s Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing. Brian Busby’s book about poet John Glassco entitled A Gentleman of Pleasure, Failure’s Opposite: Listening to A. M. Kline, a collection of essays about the poet, and Richard Outram: Essays on His Works are publications that offer valuable critical perspectives on seminal literary figures of the twentieth century. The contribution of Asian-Canadian authors to Canadian literature has been a hitherto neglected area of research which has now been addressed by studies such as Roy Miki’s In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing and the essay collection Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s.

Gabriella Reznowski’s Literary Research and Canadian Literature: Strategies and Sources is an outstanding reference guide for Canadian studies. With its thorough coverage of the major print and electronic resources for the subject area, especially its multicultural and multilingual aspects, this publication should prove to be a very useful research aid for students of Canada’s literary heritage.

Bibliographies

Bibliographies Published Serially

Canadian Book Review Annual online format Dundurn (Toronto) contact publisher for price: http://cbraonline.com.

Research Aids

AMICUS Web National Library of Canada (Ottawa) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html.

Literary Research and Canadian Literature: Strategies and Sources Gabriella Reznowski 210pp Scarecrow (Lanham, MD) Pb $39.95.

Poetry

Aubert, Rosemary Rough Wilderness: The Imaginary Love Poems of the Abbess Heloise 68pp Fourfront (Toronto) Pb $15.95.

Babstock, Ken Methodist Hatchet 101pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Banks, Chris Winter Cranes 64pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Barwin, Gary and Gregory Betts The Obvious Flap 104pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

— Craig Conley, and Hugh Thomas Franzlations: The Imaginary Kafka Parables 93pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $19.

Battson, Jill The Ecstatic Torture of Gratitude 86pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Beissel, Henry Coming To Terms with a Child 63pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $10.

Bennett, Jonathan Civil and Civic 61pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Besner, Linda The Id Kid 80pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Bett, Stephen Re-positioning 116pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Bissett, Bill Novel 176pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.

Blades, Joe Casemate Poems (Collected) 116pp Chaudiere (Ottawa) Pb $18.

Blouin, Michael Wore down Trust 135pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Bolster, Stephanie A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth 79pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Boxer, Asa Skullduggery 83pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Brand, Dionne Chronicles: Early Works preface Leslie Sanders 162pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $24.95 [includes three previously published volumes: Primitive Offensive, Winter Epigrams & Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia,Chronicles of the Hostile Sun].

Brett, Brian Wind River Variations 149pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $22.95.

Buchanan, Diane Unruly Angels 109pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $16.

Cain, Stephen I Can Say Interpellation illus Clelia Scala 45pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $16.

Callanan, Mark Gift Horse 75pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Camia, Shirley Calliope 82pp Libros Libertad (Surrey, BC) Pb $17.

Charach, Ron Forgetting the Holocaust 94pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $15.95.

Cheuk, Sam Love Figures 106pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $14.95.

Clarke, George Elliott Red 157pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $19.95

Cook, Méira A Walker in the City 95pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Couture, Dani Sweet 75pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Crozier, Lorna Small Mechanics 94pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

Cunningham, Ralph Collected Poems 488pp Multicultural (Richmond, BC) Pb $45 [with reviews and criticism].

Davis, Tanya At First, Lonely 72pp Acorn (Charlottetown, PEI) Pb $17.95.

Dempster, Barry Dying a Little 101pp Wolsak & Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Di Michele, Mary The Flower of Youth: The Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems 87pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Di Nardo, Desi The Cure Is a Forest 74pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $13.

D’Iorio, Chris Without Blue 102pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $15.95.

Downie, Glen Local News 80pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Dunlop, Rishma Lover through Departure 166pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Elliot, Kirsty True 76pp Leaf Press (Lantzville, BC) Pb $15.95.

Foreman, Gabe A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People 93pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Fretwell, Kathy Angelic Scintillations 101pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Friesen, Patrick Jumping in the Asylum 60pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Guri, Helen Match 80pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Hall, Phil Killdeer: Essay-Poems 112pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Hannan, Jack Some Frames 108pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $18.

Hart, Jonathan Musing 109pp Athabasca Univ Press (Edmonton, AB) Pb $16.95.

Henderson, Brian Sharawadji 88pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Hickey, David Open Air Bindery 69pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $18.95.

Hiemstra van der Horst, Jessica Apologetic For Joy 117pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $17.95.

Hildebrandt, Walter The Time in between: Adorno’s Daemons 78pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Hoogland Cornelia Woods Wolf Girl 96pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

— Crow 84pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Howard, Sean Incitements 96pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $19.95.

Hynes, Joel Straight Razor Days 113pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Hynes, Maureen Marrow, Willow 101pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Israel, Inge Beckett Soundings 99pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $15.95 [some French].

Ito, Sally Alert to Glory 83pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.

Jernigan, Amanda Groundwork 61pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $17.95.

John, Aisha Sasha The Shining Material 61pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Johnstone, Jim and Julienne Lottering Sunday, the Locusts 86pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $15.95 [a poem].

Jonas, George The Jonas Variations: A Literary Seance 260pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $24.

Kennedy, Jake Apollinaire’s Speech to the War Medic 95pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Kienlen, Alexis 13 95pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $16.

Krueger, Richard The Monotony of Fatal Accidents 106pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Lane Patrick The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane ed introd Donna Bennett and Russell Brown afterword Nicholas Bradley 544pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Hb $44.95.

Ltaif, Nadine and John Asfour The Metamorphoses of Ishtar 59pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $13.

Lush, Laura Carapace 88pp Palimpsest (Kingsville, ON) Pb $18.

MacDonald, Hugh This Is a Love Song 63pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $10.

Manolis Vernal Equinox 114pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

McElroy, Gil Ordinary Time 126pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.

McGimpsey, David Li’l Bastard: 128 Chubby Sonnets 151pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

McNeilly, Kevin Embouchure 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Miki, Roy Mannequin Rising 120pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $21.

Mockler, Kathryn Onion Man 130pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $15.95.

Mooney, Jacob McArthur Folk 103pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

Morse, Garry Thomas Discovery Passages 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.

Mulhallen, Karen The Pillow Book 104pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Murakami, Sachiko Rebuild 95pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Musgrave. Susan Origami Dove 128pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Outram, Richard Daley The Essential Richard Outram select Amanda Jernigan 63pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $12.95.

Pacey, Michael The First Step 96pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Parkin, Andrew Star with a Thousand Moons 62pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Pass, John Crawlspace 95pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $18.95.

Paul, Marianne Above and below the Waterline 91pp Bookland (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Persaud, Sasenarine Lantana Strangling Ixora 76pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Piepzna-Samarasinha Love Cake 97pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Pierce, E. Alex Vox Humana 95pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Pierson, Ruth Roach Contrary 144pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $15.95.

Pottle, Adam Beautiful Mutants 105pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $16.95.

Rhodes, Shane Err 95pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Ridley, Sandra Post-Apothecary 81pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Rogal, Stan Dance, Monster!: 50 Selected Poems 110pp Insomniac (London) Pb 14.95.

Rolfe, Rob Saugeen 86pp Fourfront (Toronto) Pb $15.95.

Scofield, Gregory A. Louis: The Heretic Poems 93pp Nightwood (Gibsons BC) Pb $18.95.

Scott, F. R. Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott select introd Laura Moss afterword George Elliott Clarke 70pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $16.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].

Seelig, Adam Every Day in the Morning (Slow) 151pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $16 [2010].

Shatzky, Lisa Do Not Call Me by My Name 72pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Simpson, Anne Is 93pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

Smith, Steven Fluttertongue 5: Everything Appears to Shine with Mossy Splendour 96pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.

Stewart, Robert Earl Campfire Radio Rhapsody 95pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Still, Jennifer Girlwood 119pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Tagore, Proma Language Is Not the Only Thing That Breaks 68pp Arsenal (Vancouver) Pb $14.95.

Taylor, Bruce No End in Strangeness: New and Selected Poems 119pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $ $18.

Taylor, Rob The Other Side of Ourselves 63pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $18.

Thesen, Sharon Oyama Pink Shale 64 pp Anansi (Toronto, ON) Pb $14.95.

Thompson, Rachel Galaxy 103pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.

Thran, Nick Earworm 72pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Tourtidis, Ilya Bright Bardo 95pp Libros Libertad (Surrey, BC) Pb $17.

Tsiang, Yi-Mei Sweet Devilry 104pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $17.95.

Vryenhoek, Leslie Gulf 80pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $17.95.

Wagamese, Richard Runaway Dreams 129pp Ronsdale (Vancouver, BC) Pb $15.95.

Wharton, Calvin The Song Collides 80pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $16.

Wilson, Carleton The Material Sublime ed Ray Hsu 77pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Wolff, Elana Startled Night 74pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Woodman Kerkham, Cynthia Good Holding Ground 104pp Palimpsest (Kingsville, ON) Pb $18.

Worth, Liz Amphetamine Heart 58pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Yin, Anna Wings toward Sunlight 102pp Mosaic (Oakville, ON) Pb $17.95.

Young, Lisa When the Earth 73pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Zetlin, Liz The Punctuation Field 77pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Zwicky, Jan Forge 80pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $19.95.

Drama

Arrand, Ellen Bear Me Stiffly Up: Two Plays 121pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $22.95 [includes One-Man Hamlet by Clayton Jevne].

Barlow, John Garfield Inspiration Point 126pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Ciufo, Paul A Killing Snow 88pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Gall, Brendan Minor Complications: Two Plays 152pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Galluccio, Steve In Piazza San Domenico 126pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.

Garfinkel, Jonathan House of Many Tongues 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Griffith, Ryan Lutz 119pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Healey, Michael The Nuttalls 67pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Karasik, Daniel The Crossing Guard; In Full Light 101pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Lawrence, Alison The Catering Queen 81pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Lemoine, Stewart Witness to a Conga and Other Plays 206pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [includes Happy Toes and The Oculist’s Holiday].

Lillford, Daniel R. The Mystery of Maddy Heisler 81pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb$16.95.

MacIvor, Daniel Bingo! 103pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Robinson, Mansel Two Rooms 50pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle Gas Girls 80pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Hb $16.95.

Shields, Erin If We Were Birds 96pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Slater, Keith Mysterious Visitors 60pp Questex (Guelph, ON) Pb $12.

— Three for Two: Three One-Act Plays for Two Actors 66pp Questex (Guelph, ON) Pb $12.

Stubbs, Sally Herr Beckmann’s People 94pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Tepperman, Julie Yichud (Seclusion) 139pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Thiessen,Vern Lenin’s Embalmers136pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Wiebe, Armin The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz 103pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Williams, Kenneth T. Bannock Republic 95pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Wrigley, Brian The Disinhibition Effect 76pp Rubeus (Victoria, BC) Pb $10.29 [one-act play].

Fiction

Abdou, Angie The Canterbury Trail 277pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Ackerman, Marianne Piers’ Desire 328pp McArthur (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Adams, H. Clark You Be the Judge 223pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $19.99

Almond, Paul The Survivor: Book Two of the Alford Saga 259pp McArthur (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

— The Pioneer: Book Three of the Alford Saga 259pp McArthur (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Anderson, G. F. Beyond the Great Water 141pp Borealis (Ottawa) Pb $19.95.

Armstrong, Bob Dadolescence 227pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.

Badami, Anita Rau Tell It to the Trees 255pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.

Baggio, Allison Girl in Shades 379pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Bartleman, James As Long as the Rivers Flow 250pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Bateman, Jackie Nondescript Rambunctious 203pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.

Beauchemin, Raymond Everything I Own 240pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Behrens, Peter The O’Briens 514pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Bezmozgis, David The Free World 384pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Black, Carolyn The Odious Child 159pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Black, Catherine A Hard Gold Thread 105pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Blaise, Clark The Meagre Tarmac 168pp Biblioasis (Ottawa) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Bolen, Dennis E. Anticipated Results 239pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Booker, Julie Up, Up, Up 240pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [stories].

Burgess, Tony Idaho Winter 149pp Misfit (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Butler, Paul Cupids 183pp Brazen (St. John’s, NL) Pb $16.95 [2010].

Cadieux, Keith Gaze 102pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [novella; 2010].

Chong, Kevin Beauty Plus Pity 255pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.

Choyce, Lesley Raising Orion 249pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95 [2010].

Christie, Michael The Beggar’s Garden 272pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $16.99 [stories].

Coady, Lynn The Antagonist 352pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Collins, Gerard Moonlight Sketches: A Short Story Collection 193pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Compton, Valerie Tide Road 236pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $22.95.

Coupland, Douglas and Graham Roumieu Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People illus Graham Roumieu 131pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $25 [stories].

Crowe, Nick A Cold Night for Alligators 343pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Pb $29.95.

Couture, Dani Algoma 319pp Invisible (Halifax NS) Pb $19.99.

Cumyn, Richard Constance, Across 96pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [novella].

Dalton, Sheila The Girl in the Box 382pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Davidar, David Ithaca 276pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Davis, Lauren B. Our Daily Bread 255pp Wordcraft of Oregon (La Grande, OR) Pb $15.

DeGrace, Anne Flying with Amelia 250pp McArthur (Toronto) Hb $29.95 [stories].

De la Roche, Mazo Centenary at Jalna 307pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $24.99 [first pub 1958].

— Morning at Jalna 283pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $24.99 [first pub 1960].

De Mille, James The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia introd Michael Peterman map 229pp Formac (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [includes bibliographical endnotes; first pub 1874].

— A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder ed Daniel Burgoyne 352pp Broadview (Peterborough, ON) Pb $22.95 [includes bibliographical endnotes; first pub 1888].

Den Hartog, Kristen And Me among Them ed Robyn Read 205pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Denham, Joe The Year of Broken Glass 327pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $24.95.

Desrochers, Suzanne Bride of New France 294pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.

DeWitt, Patrick The Sisters Brothers 336pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Dixon, Sean The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn 245pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [2010].

Doctor, Farzana Six Metres of Pavement 380pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Dumont, Dawn Nobody Cries at Bingo 298pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $16.95.

Dunnion, Kristyn The Dirt Chronicles 246pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $17.95 [stories].

Edugyan, Esi Half-Blood Blues 304pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Elcock, Michael The Gate 220pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $18.95.

Endicott, Marina The Little Shadows 544pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Farrant, M. A. C. The Strange Truth about Us 215pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb$16.95.

Farrell, Jenn The Devil You Know 125pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $18 [stories; 2010].

Fitzpatrick, Jamie You Could Believe in Nothing 261pp Vagrant (Halifax, NS) Pb $19.95.

Fitzpatrick, Wilhelmina Mercy of St. Jude 288pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Francis, Brian Natural Order 361pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Gartner, Zsuzsi Better Living through Plastic Explosives 256pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $30 [stories].

Gauer, Stephen Hold Me Now 285pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Gilmour, David The Perfect Order of Things 222pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Hb $27.95.

Goodison, Lorna By Love Possessed 264pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $28.99 [stories].

Greenslade, Frances Shelter 376pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Hale, Amanda In the Embrace of the Alligator: Fictions from Cuba 273pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Hallett, Michelle Butler Deluded Your Sailors 271pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Hb $19.95.

Hardwell, Jesus Easy Living 134pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Harvey, Kenneth J. Reinventing the Rose 347pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $22.99.

Hay, Elizabeth Alone in the Classroom 306pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

Hayes, Derek The Maladjusted 203pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Hayward, Steven Don’t Be Afraid 315pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Hegerat, Betty Jane The Boy 280pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $21.95.

Helwig, David Killing McGee 58pp Oberon (Ottawa) Hb $38.95 [novella.]

Heroux, Jason Good Evening, Central Laundromat 93pp Quattro (Thornhill, ON) Pb $16.95 [novella; 2010].

Holdstock, Pauline Into the Heart of the Country 400pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $25.99.

Holmström, Britt Leaving Berlin 297pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Holz, Cynthia Benevolence 310pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Humphreys, C.C. A Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453 461pp Orion (London) Pb $24.99.

Humphreys, Helen The Reinvention of Love 312pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Huston, Nancy Infrared 264pp McArthur (Toronto) Hb $29.95 [first pub in French as Infrared 2010].

Hynes, Darren Flight 209pp Killick (St. John’s) Pb $19.95 [2010].

Itani, Frances Requiem 317pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

Jetha, Sadru Nuri Does Not Exist 151pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [linked stories].

Johnson, Bruce Firmament: A Fiction 220pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $26.95 [2010].

Johnston, Wayne A World Elsewhere 320pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.

Juby, Susan The Woefield Poultry Collective 306pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $21.99.

Kalla, Daniel The Far Side of the Sky 452pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $24.99.

Kankesan, Koom The Panic Button 115pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [novella].

Kearney, Greg Pretty 151pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Keith, Esmé Claire Not Being on a Boat 347pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

King, Basil The High Heart introd Mary Lu MacDonald 419pp Formac (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [includes bibliographical endnotes; first pub 1917].

Kinsella, W.P. Butterfly Winter 302pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Hb $29.95.

Krukoff, Devin Flyways 267pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95 [2010].

Krumm, Stan Zachary’s Gold 256pp TouchWood (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Lapeña, Shari Happiness Economics 232pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC)] Pb $19.95.

Lee, Jen Sookfong The Better Mother 350pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Lavorato, Mark Believing Cedric 279pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Learn, Peter Surrender 114pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Lundrigan, Nicole Glass Boys 291pp Douglas & McIntyre (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Macdonald, Frank A Possible Madness 364pp Cape Breton Univ Press (Sydney, NS) Pb $24.95.

MacLennan, Hugh Voices in Time introd ed Michael Gnarowski 347pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $19.95 [first pub 1980].

Macpherson, M. A. Body Trade 224pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $19.95.

Malone, Stephens Gerard Big Town: A Novel of Africville 233pp Vagrant (Halifax, NS) Pb $18.95.

Manning, Linda Hutsell That Summer in Franklin 350pp Second Story (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Manuel, Tara Walking through Shadows 116pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Mayr, Suzette Monoceros 268pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $20.95.

McDonald, Anne To the Edge of the Sea 162pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95.

McKay, Ami The Virgin Cure 356pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

McNeney, Arley The Time We All Went Marching 236pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

McWatt, Tessa Vital Signs illus Aleksandar Macassev 165pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Mirolla, Michael The Ballad of Martin B. 140pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Missen, Brenda Tell Anna She’s Safe 353pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Moore, Brian Black Robe afterword Marilyn Bowering 224pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [first pub 1985].

Moloney, Susie The Thirteen 328pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $32.

Mukherjee, Bharati Miss New India 336pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Murphy, Michael A Description of the Blazing World 234pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Nash, Roger The Camera and the Cobra and Other Stories 210pp Scrivener (Sudbury, ON) Pb $18.95.

Nason, Riel The Town That Drowned 273pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Nasrallah, Dimitri Niko 235pp Esplanade (Montréal) Pb $19.95.

Niedzviecki, Hal Look down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened 174pp City Lights (San Francisco) Pb $15.95 [stories].

Nixon, Rosemary Kalila 255pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $22.95.

Ondaatje, Michael The Cat’s Table 288pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.

Owen, Catherine and Joe Rosenblatt Dark Fish & Other Infernos: Epistles and Poems 64pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $10 [short story written as a series of letters between Owen and Rosenblatt].

Papernick, Jon There Is No Other 179pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories; 2010].

Parry, Nerys Man and Other Natural Disasters 214pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Hb $29.95.

Penhale, David Passing Through 329pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $22.

Ponomareff, Barbara In the Mind’s Eye 84pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Price, Steven Into That Darkness 273pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Pyper, Andrew The Guardians 349pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Queyras, Sina Autobiography of Childhood 199pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $20.95.

Rafique, Fauzia Skeena 206pp Libros Libertad (Surrey, BC) Pb $23 [2010].

Ravel, Edeet The Last Rain 256pp Viking Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.

Ravvin, Norman The Joyful Child illus Melanie Boyle 131pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $24.95 [linked short stories].

Reid, Gayla Come from Afar 363pp Cormorant (Toronto) Hb $32.

Rehner, Jan Missing Matisse 268pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Richards, David Adams Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul 291pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Riche, Edward Easy to Like 293pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Robillard, Leo Brent Drift 200pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.

Romain, Janet Grandpère 247pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $24.95.

Rosenblum, Rebecca The Big Dream 190pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Ross, Stuart Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew 178pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Ruby-Sachs, Emma The Water Man’s Daughter 325pp Emblem (Toronto) Pb $29.99.

Ruddock, Nicholas The Parabolist 371pp Doubleday (Toronto) Hb $29.95 [2010].

Schabas, Martha Various Positions 361pp (Toronto) Pb $22.

Schroeder, Andreas Dustship Glory 264pp Athabasca Univ Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [first pub 1986].

Schultz, Judy Freddy’s War 257pp Brindle and Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Senior, Olive Dancing Lessons 371pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $22.

Sileika, Antanas Underground 310pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $29.95.

Sinclair, Bertrand W. The Inverted Pyramid 288pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $18.95 [first pub 1924].

Skibsrud, Johanna This Will Be Difficult To Explain 169pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $30 [stories].

Smith, Michael V. Progress 261pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.

Sorensen, Sue A Large Harmonium 216pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $19.95.

Sparling, Ken Intention, Implication, Wind 392pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $21.

Spry, Mike Distillery Songs ed Jon Paul Fiorentino 155pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Stonehouse, Cathy Something about the Animal 219pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Story, Kate Wrecked upon This Shore 197pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Sui Sin Far Mrs. Spring Fragrance ed Hsuan L. Hsu 305pp Broadview (Peterborough, ON) Pb $19.95 [includes bibliographical references and appendices on Chinese culture in North America; first pub 1912].

Tacon, Claire In the Field 300pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb 19.95.

Taylor, Timothy L. The Blue Light Project 347pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Tefs, Wayne Bandit: A Portrait of Ken Leishman 295pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.

Thien, Madeleine Dogs at the Perimeter 253pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

Thompson, David Talking at the Woodpile 223pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Tidler, Charles Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers 178pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.

Tinsley, Sean A. and Rachel A. Qitsualik Ajjiit: Dark Dreams of the Ancient Arctic illus Andrew Trabbold 191pp Inhabit Media ([Toronto) Pb 14.95.

Toews, Miriam Irma Voth 255pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Trafford, Matthew J. The Divinity Gene 191pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $22.95 [stories].

Tyson, Sylvia Joyner’s Dream 400pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $24.99.

Valgardson, W. D. What the Bear Said: Skald Tales from New Iceland 130pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.

Vanderhaeghe, Guy A Good Man 480pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

Vyleta, Dan The Quiet Twin 374pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Warwaruk, Larry Bone Coulee 234pp Coteau (Regina) Pb$21.

Warner, Patrick Double Talk 235pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Westhead, Jessica And Also Sharks 236pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21 [stories].

Whitton, David The Reverse Cowgirl 249pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Williams, Ian Not Anyone’s Anything 218pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Wilson, D. W. Once You Break a Knuckle 246pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $32 [stories].

Winkler, Derek Pitouie 239pp Workhorsery (Toronto) Pb $15.99 [2010].

Zentner, Alexi Touch 272pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Zeppa, Jamie Every Time We Say Goodbye 342pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Zorn, Alice Arrhythmia 315pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $21.95.

Translations

Arcan, Nelly Exit trans David Scott Hamilton 191pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20 [trans of French novel Paradis, clef en main].

Awumey, Edem Dirty Feet trans Lazer Lederhendler 208pp McGill-Queen’s Univ (Montréal) Pb $22.95 [trans of French novel Les Pieds sales].

Bélanger, Paul Meridian Line trans Judith Cowan 84pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $16 [2010; trans of French poetry collection Origine des méridiens].

Boucher, Denise The Divine Sisters trans Myrna Delson-Karan 113pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [trans of French play Les divines].

Cotnoir, Louise The Islands trans Oana Avasilichioaei 95pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17 [trans of French poetry collection Les îles].

Fournier, Danielle We Come from The Same Light trans Christine Tipper 80pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [trans of French poetry collection Effleurés de lumière].

Laferrière, Dany) The Return trans David Homel 227pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $22.95 [trans of French novel L’Enigme du retour].

Lalonde, Catherine Foreign Body trans Nora Alleyn 110pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [trans of French poetry collection Corps étranger].

Leroux, Georges Partita for Glenn Gould trans Donald Winkler 256pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $34.95 [2010; trans of French biography Partita pour Glenn Gould].

Tremblay, Michel Crossing the Continent trans Sheila Fischman 271pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $18.95 [trans of French novel Traversée du continent].

Letters and Autobiography

Barzanji, Jalal The Man in Blue Pyjamas: A Prison Memoir in the Form of a Novel trans Sabah A. Salih 261pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $25.39.

Bowering, George How I Wrote Certain of My Books 162pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Johnston, George and William Blissett Inward of Poetry: George & Wm. Blissett in Letters ed Sean Kane 431pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $29.95.

Kishkan, Theresa Mnemonic: A Book of Trees 247pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Klein, A. M. A.M. Klein: The Letters ed Elizabeth A. Popham 514pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $85.

Robertson, Ray Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons To Live 196pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95.

Robinson, Eden The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling 49pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $10.95.

Rule, Jane Taking My Life 277pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.

Anthologies

Best Canadian Stories 2011ed John Metcalf 143pp Oberon (Ottawa, ON) Hb $39.95.

Afrika, Solo ed Ric Knowles 126pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.95 [dramas, including George Seremba’s Afrika Solo, Djanet Sears’ Come Good Rain, and Lorena Gale’s Je me souviens].

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 ed Molly Peacock and Priscilla Uppal 160pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Body & Soul: Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica ed Allison Crawford et al 305pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) $32.95 [fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, and visual art on medical themes].

The Calling ed Rachelle McCallum 264pp Polar Expressions (Maple Ridge, BC) $39.99 [new Canadian poetry].

The Cuffer Anthology Volume III ed Pam Frampton 152pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $16.95 [short fiction from Newfoundland and Labrador].

Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules ed Jared Bland 320pp Emblem (Toronto) Pb $24.99 [essays and stories by 31 well-known writers].

Framing the Garden: Reflections of Victoria ed Linda Rogers 89pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $36.95 [images, poetry and prose by acclaimed authors and artists from Victoria].

Give Voice: Ten Twenty-Minute Plays from the Obsidian Theatre Company Playwrights Unit ed Rita Shelton Deverell 236pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Grassroots: Original Plays from Ontario Community Theatres ed Theatre Ontario 379pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.

I Feel Great about My Hands and Other Unexpected Joys of Aging ed Shari Graydon 245pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $22.95 [women writers over 50 celebrate maturity in essays, stories, and poems].

The Journey Prize Stories 23: The Best of Canada’s New Writers select Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, and Sarah Lucille Selecky 155pp Emblem Editions (New York, NY) Pb $17.99.

Let’s Face It: Writing and Artwork from PARC ed Hume Cronyn and Chris Beyers 241pp Mosaic (Oakville, ON) Pb$25 [PARC is a Toronto community centre that offers a safe haven for people who are marginalized, homeless, new immigrants and poverty-stricken].

The Mi’kmaq Anthology. Volume 2: In Celebration of the Life of Rita Joe ed Lesley Choyce, Theresa Meuse-Dallien, Rita Joe, and Julia Swan 240pp Pottersfield (Lawrencetown, NS) Pb $21.95 [essays, autobiography, stories and poetry].

Minority Reports: New English Writing From Quebec ed Claude Lalumiere and Elise 166pp Moser Véhicule (Montréal) Pb $18 [fiction].

Out on a Limb: Short Plays by New Playwrights ed Kit Brennan 223pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $24.95.

The Penguin Book of Memoir ed Camilla Gibb 261pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Hb $36 [excerpts from contemporary writers].

Slice Me Some Truth ed Luanne Armstrong and Zoe Landale 402pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $29 [creative nonfiction covering memoirs, personal and lyric essays, travel and nature writing; includes bibliographical references].

Tonight at the Tarragon: A Critic’s Anthology ed Kamal Al-Solaylee 489pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $29.95 [idiosyncratic plays performed at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre].

Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry ed Robyn Sarah 160pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $24.

The White Collar Book: Poetry and Prose of Canadian Business Life ed Bruce and Carolyn Meyer foreword Conrad Black 189pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Criticism

General Studies

Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature Herb Wylie 279pp Wilfred Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $42.95.

Asian Canadian Theatre ed Nina Lee Aquino and Richard Paul Knowles 276pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.

Canadian Literary Humorists (Dictionary of Literary Biography: 362) ed. and introd Paul Matthew St. Pierre 420pp Gale (Detroit, MI) US $396.

“Choosing Self-Hatred: How Canadian Ethnic Minority Novels of the 1950s Reflect Racist Ideas Propagated Earlier by the Dominant Majority” Milda Danyte Transnational Literature 4(1).

Community Engaged Theatre and Performance ed Julie Salverson 192pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.

“Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies” Daniel Heath Justice American Indian Quarterly 35(3) pp334-352.

Identity in Place: Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand Paula Anca Farca 185pp Peter Lang (New York, NY) US $74.95.

In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing Roy Miki ed Smaro Kambourelli 307pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $24.95.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Margaret Atwood 255pp Signal (Toronto) Hb $26.99.

In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s Poetry Jennifer Courtney Elizabeth Andrews 324pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $55.

In the Writers’ Words: Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets ed Laurence Hutchman 186pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together ed Francisco Cota Fagundes, Irene Maria F. Blayer, Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid 298pp Peter Lang (New York, NY) US $86.95.

Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State ed introd Aloys N. M. Fleischmann and Nancy Van Styvendale ed Cody McCarroll 358pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton, AB) Pb $39.95.

National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Linda E. Connors and Mary Lu MacDonald 234pp Ashgate (Surrey, England) US $99.95.

Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature Sharon Morgan Beckford 277pp (Toronto) Pb $29.95.

New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism: Explorations of the Urban Caroline Rosenthal 313pp Camden House (Rochester, NY) US $80.

The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing Clint Burnham ed Anne Stone 255pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $23.95.

“Out of the Garrison and Beyond: The Rewriting of the Landscape Tradition in Contemporary Canadian Fiction” Claire Omhovère pp85-103 in Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries ed Pascale Guibert 310pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $84.

Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture Gillian Roberts 261pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $45.

Solo Performance ed Jenn Stephenson 206pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25 [historical and critical perspective on one-actor dramas].

Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s Pilar Cuder Domínguez, María Belén Martín Lucas and Sonia Villegas López 167pp TSAR (Toronto, ON) Pb $28.95.

West-words: Celebrating Western Canadian Theatre and Playwriting Moira Jean Day 330pp CPRC Press, Univ of Regina (Regina) Pb $39.95.

What’s a Black Critic to Do II: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers Donna Bailey Nurse 239pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95.

When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada’s Most Influential Literary Magazine Frank Davey 330pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Studies of Individual Writers

Atwood, Margaret “Alias Atwood, Alias Author, Alias Murder” Lisa A. Wellinghoff Clues: A Journal of Detection 29(2) pp92-97.

— Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Gina Wiske 141pp Continuum (New York, NY) Pb $19.95.

— “Going Wendigo: The Emergence of the Iconic Monster in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Antonia Bird’s “Ravenous” Danette DiMarco College Literature 38(4) pp134-155.

— “Margaret Atwood’s Anti-Fairy Tales: ‘There Was Once’ and Surfacing” Sharon R. Wilson pp275-284 in Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, ed introd Catriona McAra and David Calvin 299pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.

— “Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder” Amelia DeFalco Contemporary Literature 52(2) pp236-263.

— “Ravines and the Conscious Electrified Life of Houses: Margaret Atwood’s Suburban Künstlerromane” Cheryl Cowdy Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) 69-85.

— “Re-Writing a Woman’s Crime: Alias Grace and the Absence of Truth” Françoise Couturier-Storey and Jeffrey Storey pp49-61 in Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine ed Rédouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-Huguet 186pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $59.99.

— “‘The Sky Is the Limit’: Crossing Generic Borders in Margaret Atwood’s Short Prose Collection” Reingard M. Nischik Margaret Atwood Studies 4(2) pp3-9.

— “Virtuality, Globalization, and Neo-primitivism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” Peter I-min Huang Foreign Literature Studies 33(2 [148]) pp7-17.

— “‘We’re Using up the Earth: It’s Almost Gone’: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood” J. Brooks Bouson Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46(1) pp9-26.

— “When Talk Meets Page: The Feminist Aesthetic of Adapted Narration and Language Play” Melissa Ames pp104-118 in Women and Language: Essays on Gendered Communication across Media 236pp ed introd Melissa Ames and Sarah Himsel Burcon 236pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $45.

Avison, Margaret “An Approach to Margaret Avison’s Poetics in Concrete and Wild Carrot” Cristina Gámez-Fernández Canadaria: Revista Canaria de Estudios Canadiense 2(8) pp21-35.

Babstock, Ken “A Conversation with Ken Babstock” Karen Solie Brick 87 pp144-157.

Baldwin, Shauna Singh “The Violence of Memory: Renarrating Partition Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers” Deepti Misri Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 11(1) pp1-25.

Bissett, Bill Textual Vyshyuns: Image and Text in the Work of Bill Bissett Carl Lynden Peters 224pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $24.95.

Brand, Dionne “Transatlantic Poetics of Haunting” Franca Bernabei Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives 8(4) pp485-506.

Clements, Marie “Celebrating Indigeneity: Contemporary Aboriginal Playwriting in Canada and Australasia” Marc Maufort pp91-108 in Theatres in the Round: Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama ed introd Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort 232pp Peter Lang (New York, NY) Pb $52.95.

Clifford, Wayne Fatherhood: The Poetry of Wayne Clifford Shane Neilson 36pp Frog Hollow (Victoria, BC) Hb $12.50.

Coady, Lynn “‘It’s No Different than Anywhere Else’: Regionalism, Place, and Popular Culture in Lynn Coady’s Saints of Big Harbour” Douglas Ivison Canadian Literature 208 pp109-125.

Coupland, Douglas “‘A Kingdom of a Thousand Princes but No Kings’: The Postsuburban Network in Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs Tim Foster Western American Literature 46(3) pp302-324.

Cumyn, Alan “Truth Commission Thrillers” Shameem Black Social Text 29(2 [107]) pp47-66.

Dabydeen, Cyril “Glimpses of Paradise: Hope in Short Stories of Migration by M. G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner Hospital” Helga Ramsey-Kurz pp237-257 in Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature ed introd Helga Ramsey-Kurz ed Geetha Ganapathy-Doré 277pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $90.

Davies, Robertson “Saying Goodbye to Mariposa: Robertson Davies’s Deptford and the Small-Town Convention” Ryan Porter Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp163-185.

Dewdney, Christopher “The Poetics of Overcoming: Christopher Dewdney’s Transhumanism and Dionisio D. Martinez’s Transnational Cultural Contamination” Youngmin Kim Journal of English Language and Literature 57(6) pp1089-1109.

Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio Pier Giorgio Di Cicco: Essays on His Works ed Joseph Pivato 283pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Di Michele, Mary “Mary di Michele’s Elegies” Nathalie Cooke pp232-239 in American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana’s Best Writings on Women ed introd Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore 363pp Fordham Univ Press (New York, NY) Pb $28.

Engel, Marian “De-Metaphorizing and Becoming Animal: When the Animal Looks Back: A Reading of Marian Engel’s Bear” Alessandra Meoni Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture 33(1) 89-95.

Frye, Northrop The Necessary Unity of Opposites: The Dialectical Thinking of Northrop Frye Brian Russell Graham 137pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto, ON) Hb $45.

Gallant, Mavis “The Promise and the Apology: Speech-Acts, Ethics, and Reading in Mavis Gallant’s ‘The Pegnitz Junction’” Margaret E. Toye Papers on Language and Literature 47(2) pp162-195.

— “The True Voice of a Canadian Expatriate: Mavis Gallant, ‘Home Truths’ (1981)” Aleksander Kustec Acta Neophilologica 44(1-2) pp81-92, 164-165.

Glassco, John A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator and Pornographer Brian Busby 398pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) Hb $34.95.

Glover, Douglas “Bears, Bodies and Boundaries in Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Novel” Rūta Šlapkauskaitė Transnational Literature 4(1).

Gowdy, Barbara “‘Greening’ Postcolonialism: Ecocritical Perspectives” Graham Huggan pp171-176 in Literature and Globalization: A Reader ed introd Liam Connell and Nicky Marsh 391pp Routledge (London, England) Pb $48.95.

Grant, George Parkin “‘Not Heaven-Endowed to Run the World’: The British Empire in the Early Thought of George Grant” Scott Staring Journal of Canadian Studies 45(1) pp33-57.

Hage, Rawi “Imaginative Migrations: An Interview with the Lebanese-Canadian Writer Rawi Hage” Rita Sakr Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47(3) pp343-351.

Halfe, Louise “Listening to Bones that Sing: Orality, Spirituality, and Female Kinship in Louise Halfe’s Blue Marrow” Azalea Barrieses and Susan Gingell Studies in American Indian Literatures 23(3) pp69-93.

Highway, Tomson “The Ambivalence of Cultural Syncreticity in Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Van Camp’s The Lesser Blessed” Sylvie Vranckx pp291-305 in Old Margins and New Centers: The European Literary Heritage in an Age of Globalization/Anciennes marges et nouveaux centres: L’Héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisation ed introd Marc Maufort ed Caroline De Wagter 346pp Peter Lang (New York, NY) Pb $60.95.

— “Old Margins, New Centres: (W)righting History in August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Tomson Highway’s Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout” Caroline De Wagter Old Margins and New Centers pp307-323 [see “The Ambivalence of Cultural Syncreticity”, this section].

Hildebrandt, Walter “Mythical Margins in the Poetic Expression of the ‘Nothingness/Somethingness’ of the Canadian Prairie” Franca Bellarsi Old Margins and New Centers pp273-289 [see Highway, Tomson, this section].

Hill, Lawrence “Fictional Revisions of Slavery and Genealogy in Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood” Nadine Flagel 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies 26.

— “Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna” Natalie Wall 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies 26.

Hopkinson, Nalo “Salt Roads to Mercy” Keren Omry pp85-100 in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: Critical Approaches ed introd Shirley A. Stave and Justine Tally 152pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $52.99.

Hospital, Janette Turner see Dabydeen, Cyril, this section

Johnson, Pauline “Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison” Beth H. Piatote American Quarterly 63(1) pp95-116.

Johnstone, Jim Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone Jason Guriel and Shane Neilson 32pp Frog Hollow (Victoria, BC) Pb $12.50.

Keefer, Janice Kulyk “TIXE YLNO or Redefining Identities” Janice Kulyk Keefer pp301-312 in Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life ed introd Stefan Helgesson 315pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $89.

Klein, A. M. Failure’s Opposite: Listening to A. M. Klein ed introd Norman Ravvin and Sherry Simon 267pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $29.95.

Kogawa, Joy “The Double Wound: Shame and Trauma in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan” Sinéad McDermott pp141-164 in Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion ed introd Willemijn Ruberg ed Kristine Steenbergh 245pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $73.

— Joy Kogawa: Essays on Her Works Sheena Wilson 363pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Lai, Larissa “Diffuse Connections: Smell and Diasporic Subjectivity in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl” Stephanie Oliver Canadian Literature 208 pp85-107.

Macbeth, Madge Hamilton “Anti-Modernist Paradox in Canada: The Graphic Publishers (1925-32) and the Case of Madge Macbeth” Jody Mason Journal of Canadian Studies 45(2) pp96-122.

MacLeod, Alistair “Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition” Douglas S. Mack pp57-69 in Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives ed introd Michael Gardiner ed Graeme Macdonald Niall O’Gallagher 284pp Edinburgh Univ Press (Edinburgh) US $105.

Majzels, Robert “The Victim as Mishnah” Kitty Millet pp291-298 in From Ritual to Romance and Beyond: Comparative Literature and Comparative Religious Studies ed introd Manfred Schmeling and Hans-Joachim Backe foreword Hendrik Birus 316pp Königshausen & Neumann (Würzburg, Germany).

Michaels, Anne “Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne

Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces” Joshua Getz pp135-154 in Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Others ed introd Helen Vella Bonavita 217pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $69.

Moodie, Susanna “Trans-Colonial Collaboration and Slave Narrative: Mary Prince Revisited” Michelle Gadpaille ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 8 pp63-77.

Montgomery, L. M. “Growing up in Nature: Health and Adolescent Dance in L. M. Montgomery’s Emily Series” Jen Macquarrie Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp34-50.

— “Mobilizing the Power of the Unseen: Imagining Self/Imagining Others in L. M.

Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables” Lesley Clement Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp51-68.

Mootoo, Shani “‘Courting Strangeness’: Queerness and Diaspora in “Out on Main Street” and He Drown She in the Sea”, Emily L. Taylor Journal of West Indian Literature 19(2) pp68-84.

— “In Her Own Words: Shani Mootoo on Migration, Writing and the Human Spirit” Caryn Rae Adams Journal of West Indian Literature 19(2) pp101-104.

— “Neocolonialism, Queer Kinship, and Diaspora: Contesting the Romance of the Family in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory” Meg Wesling Textual Practice 25(4) pp649-670.

— see Hill, Lawrence, “Passing, Performance, and Perversity”, this section.

— “Politicising Paradise: Sites of Resistance in Cereus Blooms at Night” Lorna Burns Journal of West Indian Literature 19(2) pp52-67.

— “Reading through Shame: Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Rebecca Ashworth Journal of West Indian Literature 19(2) pp34-51.

— “‘Softer than Cotton, Stronger than Steel’: Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Maite Escudero pp135-151 in The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond ed introd Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué 262pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $84.

— “(Un)Manacled Sexuality! Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night as a Queer

Bildungsroman” Eddie Whyte Journal of West Indian Literature 19 (2) pp 85-100.

— “Unveiling Everyday Traumas: Migrations in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Sophie Croisy India and the Diasporic Imagination pp111-126 [see Vassanji, M. G., this section].

Munro, Alice Alice Munro Writing Her Lives: A Biography Robert Thacker 649pp McClelland & Stewart Toronto, ON) Pb $24.99 [revised edition].

— Alice Munro’s Narrative Art Isla Duncan 184pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) Hb $92.

— “Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro” Katie Trumpener Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature pp43-56 [see General Studies].

— “Unadulterated Violence: The Hermeneutics of Hybridity in Native and Non-Native Fiction” Ventura, Héliane pp158-167 in Hybridity: Forms and Figures in Literature and the Visual Arts ed introd Vanessa Guignery and Catherine Pesso-Miquel ed François Specq 371pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.

Ondaatje, Michael “Event and Writing: Michael Ondaatje’s Ethics of Peaceful Co-existence in Divisadero” Hsu Shounan College Literature 38(4) pp181-201.

— “Herodotus and The English Patient” Jeffrey Meyers Notes on Contemporary Literature 41(5) pp2-4.

— Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing Milena Marinkova 208pp Continuum (New York, NY) US $110.

— “The New Cartographies of Re-Orientalism” Minoli Salgado Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46(2) pp199-218.

— “A Question of Scale? Lázló Almásy’s Desert Mapping and Its Postcolonial Rewriting” Isabel Capeloa Gil Journal of Romance Studies 11(1) pp63-77.

— “Representing ‘Other’ Diasporas in Recent Global Canadian Fiction” Eleanor Ty College Literature 38(4) pp98-114.

— “The Return of the Natives: Infernal Paradise in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Romish Gunsekera’s Heaven’s Edge” Pascal Zinck India and the Diasporic Imagination pp215-229, pp497-498 [see Vassanji, M. G., this section].

— “The Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The Cinnamon Peeler’” Ulla Ratheiser Projections of Paradise pp161-181 [see Cumyn, Alan, this section].

— “Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence” Marie-Luise Kohlke pp139-158 in Creating Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide ed preface Nancy Billias ed Leonhard Praeg 212pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $65.

— “Waters of Paradise: The English Patient” Ursula Kluwick Projections of Paradise pp183-197 [see Cumyn, Alan, this section].

Outram, Richard Daley Richard Outram: Essays on His Works ed introd Ingrid Ruthig 219pp Guernica (Toronto, ON) Pb $20.

Parkin, Andrew “Art and Ekphrasis in Andrew Parkin’s Poetry” Jack Stewart Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 11 pp245-264.

Richards, David Adams “A Conversation with David Adams Richards” Samuel Martin Image: Art, Faith, Mystery (Image) 70pp 55-63.

Richardson, John “John Richardson’s Unlikely Narrative of Nationhood: History, the Gothic, and Sport as Prophecy in Wacousta” Michael Buma Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp143-162.

Robertson, Lisa “Delirious Cities: Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture Geoffrey Hilbchuck Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp223-242.

— “Floating Grammar: Ghosts and Clouds in ‘Tuesday’ of Lisa Robertson’s The Weather” Indra Singh Open Letter 14(5) pp96-102.

— “History and Hysteria: Reading the Aeneid and Freud in Lisa Robertson’s Debbie: An Epic” Bronwyn Haslam Open Letter 14(5) pp56-71.

— “‘Identity Sequins’: Collision of Ornate, Classical, and Radical in the Work of Lisa Robertson” Laynie Browne Open Letter 14(5) pp53-55.

— “Lisa Robertson, Ezra Pound, and Preposterous Classicism” Brian Reed Open Letter 14(5) pp42-52.

— “Lisa Robertson’s Feminist Poetic Landscapes” Laurel Peacock Open Letter 14(5) pp85-95.

— “On Lisa Robertson: Re Writing” Meredith Quartermain Open Letter 14(5) pp116-127.

— “The Paradox of Thrift: An Ursay Regarding the Work of Lisa Robertson” Elisa Sampedrin Open Letter 14(5) pp128-132.

— Pataphysics and Biosemiotics in Lisa Robertson’s ‘Office for Soft Architecture’ Adam Dickinson Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18(3) pp615-636.

— “Lyric’s Dream” Charles Legere Open Letter 14(5) pp32-41.]

— “This Animal, the Pronoun: An Interview” Ted Byrne Capilano Review 3(15) pp13-42.

— “‘Words Are Fleshy Ducts’: Lisa Robertson and the Runnel Theory of Poetry” Erin Gray Open Letter 14(5) pp72-84.

Robinson, Eden “The Transposition of Law and Literature in Delgamuukw and Monkey Beach Cheryl Suzack South Atlantic Quarterly 110(2) pp447-463.

Scofield, Gregory A. “Gifts of Maskihkîy: Gregory Scofield’s Cree Métis Stories of Self-Acceptance” June Scudeler pp190-210 in Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature ed introd Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley and Scott Lauria Morgensen 249pp Univ of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ) Pb $34.95.

Sears, Djanet “Land and Cultural Memory: Djanet Sears’s The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God and Diane Glancy’s Jump Kiss: An Indian Legend” Caroline De Wagter Theatres in the Round pp55-69 [see Clements, Marie, this section].

Shields, Carol “Writing about a Woman Writer’s Writing: On Gender Identification(s) and Being a Male Critic of Carol Shields’s Work” Alex Ramon Text Matters 1(1) pp170-182.

Short, Donn “Peterborough in Memoriam” P. K. Brask Canadian Theatre Review 145 pp52-55.

Smith, A. J. M. “The Sacrificial Poetics of A. J. M. Smith” Claudine Gélinas-Faucher Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp186-203.

Thomas, Audrey Callahan “’We Will Call This “Doing our Exorcises”’: Abjecting Mrs. Blood” Sofie De Smyter English Text Construction 4(2) pp186-203.

Toews, Miriam “Hello, Abattoir!: Becoming through Slaughter in Miriam Toew’s A Complicated Kindness” Ella Soper Studies in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp86-99.

— “‘The Tail End of a Five-Hundred-Year Experiment That Has Failed’: Love, Truth and the Power of Stories” Christoph Wiebe trans Gerhard Reimer Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing 3(2) pp1-11.

Urquhart, Jane “‘Alternative Selves’ and Authority in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart” Dorota Filipczak Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 1(1) pp 27-43.

Van Camp, Richard see Highway, Tomson, “The Ambivalence of Cultural Syncreticity, this section.

Van Herk, Aritha “The Literary Text as Talking Cure: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Restlessness” Hilde Staels Mosaic 44(2) pp53-66.

Vassanji, M. G. “The Eternal Other: The Authority of Deficit Masculinity in Asian-African Literature” Justus K. Siboe Makokha pp139-152 in Men in African Film & Fiction ed introd Lahoucine Ouzgane 180pp Currey (Woodbridge, England) US $80.

— see Dabydeen, Cyril, this section

— “The (Im-)Possibility of Backtracking in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall” Chun Fu pp183-198 India and the Diasporic Imagination/L’Inde et l’imagination diasporique ed introd Rita Christian and Judith Misrahi-Barak 521pp Presse Univ de la Méditerranée (Montpellier, France).

— “An Interview with M. G. Vassanji” Rachel Bower, Désha Amelia Osborne and Oliver Ross Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing 26(2 [66]) pp3-7.

— “Locating Cultural Ambivalence and Afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as Heterotopia in the Fiction of Dawood and Vassanji” Godwin Siundu pp259-280 in Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore ed Jennifer Wawrzinek ed introd J. K. S. Makokha foreword Simon Gikandi 371pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $104.

— “No Place to Call Home: Citizenship and Belonging in M. G. Vassanjis The In-Between World of Vikram Lall” Nalini Iyer Negotiating Afropolitanism pp205-214 [see “Locating Cultural Ambivalence”, this section].

Wagoner, David “The Fat Man on Snow Dome: Surprise and Sense of Place (or, Reading Laurie Ricou’s David Wagoner)” Nicholas Bradley Western American Literature 46(2) pp116-141.

Wah, Fred “Following the Race Track? Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Swedish in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah” Elisabeth Mårald Exit pp187-201 [see Keefer, Janice Kulyk, Exit, this section].

Wershler-Henry, Darren “Transformations of the Poetry Book as General Economy: Darren Wershler-Henry’s the tapeworm foundry” Susan Vanderborg Contemporary Literature 52(1) pp146-174.

Wiebe, Rudy “‘I Feel the Land’: Contradictions of Place in Rudy Wiebe’s Mennonite Novels” Janne Korkka Projections of Paradise pp217-235 [see Dabydeen, Cyril, this section].

— “Memoir and the Re-reading of Fiction: Rudy Wiebe’s of this earth and Peace Shall Destroy Many” Paul Tiessen Text Matters 1(1) pp199-213.

— “Rudy Wiebe’s Reconstruction(s) of the Indian Voice” Wolfgang Hochbruck Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing 3(2) pp1-5.

Non-fiction

Afflictions & Departures: Essays Madeline Sonik 182pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.

After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region Wayde Compton 239pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.

Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-telling Stories in a Changing Landscape ed Kathleen Garay and Christl Verduyn 303pp Fernwood (Winnipeg) Pb $29.95 [inicludes bibliographical references].

Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules Jared Bland 320pp Emblem (Toronto) Pb $24.99.

First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship Sophie McCall 254pp Univ of British Columbia Press (Vancouver) Hb $85.

The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit J.J. Lee 304pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb 29.95.

One Story, One Song Richard Wagamese 201pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Hb $29.95 [essays, memories and stories about Ojibwa life and philosophy; 2010].

Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould: The Grandmother I Thought I Knew Maria Meindl 300pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press 300pp (Montréal) Hb $34.95.

Raise You Twenty: Essays & Encounters, 1964-2011 Barry Callaghan 401pp McArthur (Toronto) Pb $29.95.

Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s ed preface Robert D. Denham 229pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $56.19 [includes diary excerpts].

Stories about Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others Douglas Gibson illus Anthony Jenkins 380pp ECW (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Workbook: Memos & Dispatches on Writing Steven Heighton 74pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

A Writer’s Life: The Margaret Laurence Lectures Writers’ Trust of Canada 393pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $24.99.

Writing the Revolution Michele Landsberg 335pp Second Story (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Journals

Special Issues

Canadian Literature ed introd Roxanne Rimstead and Deena Rymhs special issue Prison Writing 208 pp6-125

Canadian Theatre Review ed introd Pil Hansen and Bruce Barton special issue Memory 145 pp 3-101.

Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing ed Ann Hostetler and Gerhard Reimer special issue Transatlantic Conversations: German Scholars on Canadian Mennonite Writers 3(2)

Journal of West Indian Literature ed introd Denise DeCaires Narain, Alison Donnell and Evelyn O’Callaghan special issue Shani Mootoo: Writing, Difference and the Caribbean 19(2) pp1-104.

Open Letter ed introd Angele Carr and Heather Milne special issue Lisa Robertson 14(5) pp7-134.

Studies in Canadian Literature ed introd Heather Snell, Heidi Butler, John Clement Ball, and Jennifer Andrews special section Adolescence in Canadian Literature 36(1) pp5-141.