Canada

Introduction

The Canadian literary world lost several of its most renowned authors in 2012. Czech author Josef Skvorecky, who died on 3 January, was a world-famous dissident writer and publisher who fled to Canada in the wake of the 1968 Soviet invasion of his homeland. His novel The Engineer of Human Souls won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1984. Jay Macpherson, who died on 26 March, was one of the nation’s finest poets and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for her 1957 collection, The Boatman. She emigrated from England to Canada as a child and taught at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, where she was friends with the eminent literary critic Northrop Frye who became a major influence on her poetry. Daryl Hine, who died on 20 August, was a celebrated poet and translator who wrote many collections of poetry, as well as several plays and prose works. His collection &: A Serial Poem was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010. The beloved children’s writer Joyce Barkhouse, who died on 2 February in her native Nova Scotia, was best known as the author of the award-winning novel Pit Pony which was made into a popular film and series. She became a member of the Order of Canada in 2009.

In the field of fiction several authors were honoured with national awards. Many of their works were superb narratives which dealt with traumatic periods in world history. Linda Spalding’s The Purchase won the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her novel, which focuses on the pioneer life of a young Quaker family and a slave boy in eighteenth-century Virginia, was singled out by the award jury for its compassion, dignified prose and non-judgmental treatment of historical events. An award finalist, Dr. Brinkley’s Tower by Robert Hough, is set in a Mexican border town where a doctor establishes a giant radio tower to broadcast his revolutionary goat-gland cure for impotence. He changes the fortunes of the community, but not all for the good. The book’s ingenious characters and imaginative storytelling were especially praised. Vincent Lam’s The Headmaster’s Wager, also on the award shortlist, deals with the tragedy of a school headmaster’s attempts to extricate his son from the turmoil of the Vietnam War in Saigon. Many critics lauded the superb craftsmanship of the narrative as well as its gripping political and emotional suspense. Much of the plot of The Juliet Stories, an award finalist by Carrie Snyder, also occurs within a war context. Told in stream-of-consciousness prose, the novel describes the tumultuous life of a young girl with her peace-activist family in war-torn Nicaragua during the 1980s and her subsequent problematic adulthood in Canada. The author’s thoughtful and imaginative exploration of both historical events and family relationships received many accolades. The shortlisted Siege 13, by Tamas Dobozy, is a collection of thirteen linked stories set against the background of the Soviet Army’s siege of Budapest beginning in 1944. This cycle of narratives about a terrible period in history and its legacy of political and emotional trauma was highly acclaimed for its remarkable character portrayals and complex storytelling.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction was awarded to Will Ferguson’s 419 which traces a young woman’s attempt to demystify the connection between her father’s death and an international Internet swindle. The award jury heralded the work as an innovative global novel that combined an epic sweep of events with an intimate portrayal of humanity’s suffering. An award finalist, Nancy Richler’s The Imposter Bride unravels the mystery of a young Jewish woman who arrives in post-war Montreal as a victim of the Holocaust and then disappears, leaving her family to solve the riddle of her stolen identity. The narrative’s nuanced treatment of family secrets won high praise. Another shortlisted work, Alex Ohlin’s Inside, follows the complex lives of four characters – two psychotherapists and two patients with whom they are emotionally entwined. The novel was singled out for its elegant prose and astute exploration of human foibles and moral responsibility. Kim Thúy’s Ru was an award finalist that is a translation of a French story about a young girl’s traumatic journey from a palatial life in Saigon, to a squalid existence in Malaysian refugee camp, and then to a hopeful future in Quebec. This autobiographical novel was praised for its powerful and sensitive depiction of the violence of history and the triumph of psychic survival. Russell Wangersky’s Whirl Away, another runner-up, is a collection of short stories that focus on protagonists who imprison themselves within worlds of self-deception when their personal coping skills collapse. These vignettes of regrets, mistakes and accidents were praised for their artful and vivid language and their skilful depiction of characters.

Fictional works by two of Canada’s most celebrated authors are noteworthy. Alice Munro’s Dear Life, a collection of short stories which contain some autobiographical elements, was warmly praised as a masterfully-crafted work. The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji tells the dark tale of a Canadian doctor of Kenyan descent who returns to his homeland to find his childhood sweetheart, only to lose himself in Africa’s darkest corners. Critics described the novel as haunting and seductive.

The Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry was won by Julie Bruck’s Monkey Ranch. Her verses, rendered in an accessible hybrid of lyric and narrative styles, are conversational vignettes that focus on daily rituals and family life. The award jury singled out her poetry for its deft artistry and a lucid sensibility that leads readers to contemplate larger themes about the human condition. Lisa Pasold’s Any Bright Horse, an award finalist, is an epic prose poem in six parts that uses Marco Polo’s memoirs of his travels to Afghanistan, Russia and China as a springboard to contemplate the transformative nature of journeys. Critics lauded the poet’s artistry with words and imaginative storytelling in her exploration of geographic and psychic realms. The short-listed Li’l Bastard by David McGimpsey (2011) is a work of confessional poetry that traces the author’s midlife crisis through his obsessions with popular culture, his fixations on America and Canada, and various explorations on themes connected with aging, love and death. The collection, which is based on what the poet describes as “chubby sonnets” – sixteen-line poems organized into eight longer sequences – employs a wide range of tones and artistic strategies. It was widely praised for its ingenuity and hilarious originality. Another finalist, The New Measures, was written by the eminent Canadian poet A. F. Moritz. Focusing on visionary themes that aspire to the perfection of both the human and the natural worlds, his collection won many accolades for its polished rhetoric and passionate, mythic qualities. The poems in James Pollock’s Sailing to Babylon, the fifth award finalist, deal with themes of journeys and discovery, particularly by focusing on figures from Canadian history such as wilderness explorers like Henry Hudson and John Franklin, as well as mental adventurers like Northrop Frye and Glenn Gould. The work won many positive reviews for its clear style and haunting poetic language.

David McFadden’s What’s the Score won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His collection of ninety-nine mock-earnest and irreverent poems targets a culture consumed by wealth and prestige. The work was especially praised for its playful offbeat style, wry humour and clear language. The poems in Ian Williams’ Personals are voiced by a variety of speakers who search for intimacy and love in the era of the digital age. Written in a wide range of both traditional and invented poetic forms, the author’s collection received positive reviews for its inventiveness and musicality. James Pollock’s Sailing to Babylon was also shortlisted for the prize.

Several very unique works were contenders for the Governor General’s Literary Award for drama. The award winner, Catherine Banks’ It Is Solved by Walking, evokes the inspired love story of a woman’s former marriage through a retelling of the sensations of Wallace Stevens’ poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The play received many positive reviews for its beautiful writing and inspired concept. Anusree Roy’s shortlisted work Brothel #9 presents the story of Rekha, an Indian girl who goes to find work in Calcutta and instead finds herself sold to a brothel by her brother-in-law. Critics praised the drama’s vivid reality and its compelling portrayal of the young protagonist’s struggles to find inner liberty. Another award finalist, Drama: Pilot Episode by Karen Hines, satirizes Canada’s migration west through the story of a disillusioned forensic psychiatrist who moves from Toronto to Calgary to seek a hopeful new beginning and instead finds a soulless post-boom oil town. The work was lauded as cutting-edge theatre for its piercing wit and innovative dialogue. Lost: A Memoir by Cathy Ostlere and Dennis Garnhum, also on the award shortlist, is based on the true story of a woman’s search for her lost brother and the truth behind his mysterious life. This one-woman show about the heroine’s journey of self-discovery was positively reviewed for its brilliant conception and riveting theatricality. The fifth award finalist, Trina Davies’ The Romeo Initiative, is part romantic comedy and part spy thriller. It is set in 1970s West Germany and explores a West German woman’s uneasy relationship with her “perfect” partner, a handsome and mysterious East German businessman who has pursued her. Based on a real Cold War program developed by the East German Stasi to penetrate West German culture, the work was acclaimed as a brilliant and provocative dramatization about the parallels between love and war.

Notable autobiographies and biographies about several eminent Canadian authors appeared this year. Pinboy is a raunchy memoir about the early adolescence of former Poet Laureate George Bowering. Sandra Djwa’s Journey with No Maps is a substantial critical biography of P. K. Page, the brilliant and influential poet who broke new ground for female authors in Canada. Based on Page’s diaries, letters, writings and interviews, as well as the observations of her contemporaries, Djwa presents a fascinating exploration of the poet’s complex life and career as well as a detailed portrait of Canadian cultural life in the second half of the twentieth century. For her in-depth biography about Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man, author Sylvie Simmons interviewed more than a hundred people connected with the poet’s life and work. Her exploration of Cohen’s artistic evolution was heralded as an enlightening and elegantly written chronicle.

In the field of literary criticism, several outstanding scholarly works about Canadian theatre and drama appeared. The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History, 1945-1953 by Susan McNicoll is a comprehensive history about the development of professional Canadian theatre. Specific movements in national drama are the focus of essay collections such as New Canadian Realisms edited by Roberta Barker and Kim Solga and Theatre and Performance in Toronto edited by Laura Levin.

Issues of ethnicity and gender were themes in numerous critical studies published this year. Socio-cultural traditions in the literature of Canada’s diverse communities are examined in works such as Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature by the eminent author George Elliott Clarke and Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature by Keavy Martin. The essays in Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall and Melina Baum Singer explore more broadly how aspects of critical debate in Canadian literary and cultural studies have changed with respect to race, nation and difference. The influence of Canadian women writers in the development of a particular literary genre is examined in Tanis MacDonald’s The Daughter’s Way: Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies. Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and by Robert Zacharias is a an outstanding collection of essays which describe how interdisciplinary studies have shaped and changed the study of Canadian literature.

Several excellent critical studies of Canada’s eminent writers were published. The major works of Margaret Atwood are the focus of Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction by Gina Wisker and of The Political in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction: The Writing on the Wall of the Tent by Theodore F. Sheckels. The essay collection Margaret Atwood: Critical Insights edited by J. Brooks explores a wide range of her prose and poetry. Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke edited by Joseph Pivato presents insightful critiques of Clarke as a writer of diversity. In Northrop Frye in Context Diane Dubois examines the thinker’s oeuvre in relation to his biographical circumstances. Elena Lamberti’s study, Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origin of Media Studies, analyzes how McLuhan’s communication theories were heavily influenced by literature and the arts. Two publications that focus overdue substantial critical attention on two major Canadian novelists are A Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W. P. Kinsella by William Steele and Thomas King: Works and Impact edited by Eva Gruber.

Ross King’s Leonardo and the Last Supper won the Governor General’s Literary Award in non-fiction. Several other publications in this category are also noteworthy. These include two explorations of Canadian publishing, Ruth Panofsky’s The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture and Rowland Lorimer’s Ultra Libris: Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada. L. W. Conolly’s The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years is a beautifully written and lavishly illustrated chronicle of one of Canada’s most famous theatrical festivals.

In the realm of bibliographical works, two publications appeared that would please Canadian literary scholars, especially Northrop Frye specialists. Both the Index to The Collected Works of Northrop Frye: Vol. 30 compiled by Jean O’Grady and The Northrop Frye Handbook: A Biographical and Bibliographic Guide by Robert D. Denham are invaluable research aids for the study of the literary critic.

Bibliographies

Bibliographies Published Serially

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

Bibliographies of Individual Writers

The Northrop Frye Handbook: A Biographical and Bibliographic Guide Robert D. Denham 326pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $95.

Research Aids

AMICUS Web Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus

Index to The Collected Works of Northrop Frye: Vol. 30 comp Jean O’Grady 584pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $125.00.

Poetry

Eaton, Winnifred Acorn, Milton In a Springtime Instant: The Selected Poems of Milton Acorn, 1950-1986 ed James Deahl 245pp Mosaic (Oakville, ON) Pb $24.95.

Atwood, Margaret The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie illus Charles Pachter Cormorant (Markham, ON) Hb $45 [first pub 1970 as The Journals of Susanna Moodie].

Avasilichioaei, Oana We, Beasts 124pp Wolsak & Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $19.

Bachinsky, Elizabeth I Don’t Feel So Good 59pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $16.

Ball, Jonathan The Politics of Knives 96pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Ball, Nelson In This Thin Rain 82pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Barbour, Douglas and Sheila E. Murphy Continuations 2 139pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Barger, John Wall Hummingbird 78pp Palimpsest (Kingsville, ON) Pb $18.

Barton, John For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin 160pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $19.95.

Bitar, Walid Divide and Rule 64pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Bitney, Katherine Firewalk 120pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.

Blodgett, E. D. Apostrophes VI: Sleep You a Tree 78pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [2011].

— Phrases 124pp BuschekBooks (Ottawa) Pb $17.50.

Blomer, Yvonne The Book of Places 95pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $15.95.

Borson, Roo Rain; Road; An Open Boat 82pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

Bowering, Marilyn Soul Mouth 120pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95.

Boyd, Alex The Least Important Man 60pp Biblioasis [Emeryville, ON) Pb $17.95.

Broadbent, Laura Oh There You Are I Can’t See You Is It Raining? 75pp Snare (Montréal) Pb $12.

Browne, Colin The Properties illus164pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Bruck, Julie Monkey Ranch 85pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Butler, Jenna Wells 68pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Chan, Weyman Chinese Blue 113pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Chenette, Sue The Bones of His Being 93pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Choyce, Lesley I’m Alive: I Believe in Everything 112pp Breton (Wreck Cove, NS) Pb $16.

Clewes, Rosemary Once Houses Could Fly: Kayaking North of 79 Degrees ed George Payerle 107pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Cole, Stewart Questions in Bed 80pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Coleman, Victor ivH: An Alphamath Serial 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18 [book-length poem].

Colman, Robert Little Empires 100pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.94.

Conn, Jan Edge Effects 95pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Cox, Dina E. Small Flames 95pp ed George Payerle Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Crozier, Lorna Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things 131pp Greystone (Vancouver) Hb $19.95 [prose meditations].

Cull, Kerri Soak 64pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $15.95.

Day, David Nevermore: A Book of Hours illus Maurice Wilson 193pp Fourfront (Toronto) Pb $20.

Deahl, James Rooms the Wind Makes 159pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

De Leeuw, Sarah Geographies of a Lover 57pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $14.95.

Downe, Lise This Way 79pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18 [2011].

Downie, Glen Left for Right 101pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Dunn, Mark D. Fancy Clapping 94pp Scrivener (Sudbury, ON) Pb $17.95.

Durnford, Robin A Lovely Gutting 86pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $16.95.

Fetherling, George Plans Deranged by Time: The Poetry of George Fetherling select introd A.F. Moritz 61pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $16.95.

Flanagan, Robert Giant Sky of the Shepherds 128pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Forsythe, Jaime Sympathy Loophole 62pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Friesen, Patrick A Dark Boat 119pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $16.

Gillis, Susan The Rapids 103pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Glickman, Susan The Smooth Yarrow 62pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Goldstein, Mark Form of Forms 97pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.

Gould, Nora I See My Love More Clearly from a Distance illus 111pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Harris, Maureen Slow Curve Out 93pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Hausner, Beatriz Enter the Raccoon 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Henderson, Mathew The Lease 72pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Hilles, Robert Time Lapse 67pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17 [2011].

Holmes, Nancy The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems 108pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.

Hutchinson, Chris A Brief History of the Short-Lived 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

James, Candice Midnight Embers 117pp Libros Libertad (Surrey, BC) Pb $18.

Karasick, Adeena This Poem 95pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.

Kasturi, Sandra Come Late to the Love of Birds 125pp Tightrope (Barrie, ON) Pb $16.95.

Kern, Tanya The Rose in Winter 62pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Knight, Erin Chaser 91pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Landale, Zoe Einstein’s Cat 80pp Wolsak & Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Lane, M. Travis Ash Steps 85pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $18.

Langhorst, Barbara Restless White Fields 91pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $14.95.

Langille, Carole Glasser Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems 93pp Pedlar (Toronto, ON) Pb $20.

Lau, Evelyn A Grain of Rice 96pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $17.95.

Lavorato, Mark Wayworn Wooden Floors 95pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $16.95.

Layton, Max When the Rapture Comes 80pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Lee, Dennis Testament 130pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Lilburn, Tim Assiniboia: Two Choral Performances and a Masque 84pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

Loveys, Grant Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed 68pp Misfit/ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Lynes, Jeanette Archive of the Undressed 80pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

MacLean, Kath Kat Among the Tigers 81pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [2011].

Main-Van Der Kamp, Hannah J. Slow Sunday on the Malaspina Strait 95pp St. Thomas Poetry Series (Toronto) Pb $25.

Manolis Mythography illus Ken Kirkby 175pp Libros Libertad (Surrey, BC) Pb $30.

Markotić, Nicole Bent at the Spine 143pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.

Marques, Irene The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit 120pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Marshall, Tom The Essential Tom Marshall select David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje 63pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $14.95 [includes bibliographical references].

Matuk, Nyla Jean Sumptuary Laws 94pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

McCann, Marcus The Hard Return 78pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $16.95.

McCaslin, Susan Demeter Goes Skydiving Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [2011].

McEwan, Andrew Repeater 91pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

McFadden, David W. What’s the Score? 150pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

McGrath, Donald The Port Inventory 81pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $18.

McIlwraith, Naomi L. Kiyam 163pp AU Press (Edmonton) Pb $16.95 [includes bibliographical references; some text in Cree].

McKay, Don Paradoxides 85pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

McNair, Christine Conflict 130pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

McNamara, Eugene Dreaming of Lost America 85pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Milman, Isa Something Small to Carry Home 89pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Moore, Jessica Everything, Now 103pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Moore, Robert John The Golden Book of Bovinities illus Chris Lloyd 79pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.95.

Mordecai, Pamela Subversive Sonnets 112pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Moritz, A. F. The New Measures 79pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Moses, Daniel David A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems 120pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95.

Mouré, Erin The Unmentionable 121pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Mulhern, Mary Ann Brides in Black 78pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Murray, George Whiteout 64pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Nichol, B. P. Organ Music: Parts of an Autobiography 62pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17 [new edition of book first pub 1988].

Nickerson, Billeh Impact: The Titanic Poems 93pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $14.95.

Noyes, Steve Rainbow Stage-Manchuria 128pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $18.95.

Owen, Catherine Trobairitz 156pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $18.

Pasold, Lisa Any Bright Horse 112pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $15.95.

Pinder, Sarah Cutting Room 72pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Pollock, James Sailing to Babylon 61pp Able Muse (San Jose, CA) Pb $12.95.

Pool, Sandy Undark: An Oratorio 80pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Porter, Pamela No Ordinary Place 103pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.

Price, Steven Omens in the Year of the Ox 103pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $19.

Purdy, Al Poems for All the Annettes introd Steven Heighton 136pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [first pub 1962].

Riley, Ali 33 Million Solitudes 80pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $15.95.

Rogers, Linda Homing 132pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $23.95.

Rose, Rachel Song and Spectacle 112pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $18.95.

Ross, Stuart You Exist. Details Follow 119pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $16.

Safarik, Allan Famous Road Kill 96pp Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.

Saikaley, Sonia Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter 104pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Samson, John K. Lyrics and Poems: 1997-2012 111pp Arbeiter Ring (Winnipeg) Pb $12.95.

Sanger, Peter John Stokes’ Horse 123pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $21.95.

Sarah, Robyn Digressions: Prose Poems, Collage Poems, and Sketches 100pp Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Markham, ON) Pb $15.

Savigny, Gillian Notebook M 88pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $16.95.

Schmidt, Brenda Grid 77pp Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.

Service, Robert W. Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose ed select introd Michael Gnarowski 396pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $26.99.

Sharpe, Jamie Animal Husbandry Today 96pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Sherman, Kenneth Words for Elephant Man etchings George Raab 87pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $16.95 [first pub 1983].

Sibum, Norm Sub Divo 112pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $18.95.

Smith, Jim Happy Birthday, Nicanor Para 104pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Smith, Michelle Dear Hermes 79pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Solway, David Habibi (My Beloved): The Diwan of Alim Maghrebi 78pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Sonik, Madeline The Book of Changes 95pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Steudel, Susan New Theatre 95pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Struthers, Betsy All That Desire 112pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Surani, Moez Floating Life 96pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Tierney, Matthew Frederick Probably Inevitable 96pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Tihanyi, Eva Flying Underwater 225pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Tregebov, Rhea All Souls’ 76pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Trotman, Mansa The Space That Connects Us 112pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Vickers, Janet Impermanence 64pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Walschots, Natalie Zina DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains illus Evan Munday 120pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $16.95.

Warner, Patrick Perfection 64pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Wayman, Tom Dirty Snow 111pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $16.95.

Wigmore, Gillian Dirt of Ages 79pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Williams, Ian Personals 100pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $16.95.

Williamson, David Yerex Hauntings 86pp Goldrock (Norway House, MB) Pb $14.95.

Wilson, Sheri-D. Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe 111pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $15.95.

Wing, John Almost Somewhere Else 90pp Mosaic (Oakville, ON) Pb $14.95.

Woodcock, Patrick Echo Gods and Silent Mountains 104pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Young, Patricia Night-Eater 100pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Zonailo, Carolyn Fight Fire with Spirit 218pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $25.95.

Drama

Ardal, Maja The Cure for Everything 76pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Banks, Catherine It Is Solved by Walking 76pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Brodie, Leanna The Book of Esther 116pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Burkett, Ronnie Penny Plain 106pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Carley, Dave The Final Hour 57pp One Act Play Depot (Spiritwood, SK) Pb $8.95.

Chafe, Robert Oil and Water 97pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Choi, Ins Kim’s Convenience 92pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Cooper, Beverley The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township 84pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Davies, Trina The Romeo Initiative 138pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Dykstra, Ted and Richard Greenblatt 2 Pianos 4 Hands 90pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Fennario, David Bolsheviki: A Dead Serious Comedy 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Fraser, Brad Five @ Fifty 168pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Gatchalian, C. E. Falling in Time 106pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Glass, Joanna M. Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily 64pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Gow, David Relative Good 81pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Hernandez, Catherine Kilt Pins 74pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Hines, Karen Drama: Pilot Episode 111pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Kirkham, Gary Pearl Gidley 97pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Koller, Katherine Voices of the Land; The Seed Savers and Other Plays introd Anne Nothof 193pp AU Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Macdonald, Ed Mutant Sex Party & Other Plays 120pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $16.

MacIvor, Daniel Trigger 90p Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Martini, Clem Martini with a Twist: 5 Plays 235pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Melfi, Mary Foreplay: Followed by My Italian Wife 138pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $12 [two plays].

Ostlere, Cathy and Dennis Garnhum Lost: A Memoir 62pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95 [based on book with same title by Ostlere pub 2008].

Panych, Morris Gordon 127pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95 [2011].

Roy, Anusree Brothel #9 100pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Scollard, Rose Tango Noir: Three Plays 88pp Frontenac House (Calgary) Pb $19.95 [includes Tango Noir, Bête Blanche, and Preservation Blues].

Ursell, Geoffrey The Walnut Tree 106pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Wagner, Colleen Down from Heaven 79pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [2011].

Williams, Kenneth T. Gordon Winter 78pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

Yee, David Paper Series 67pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [series of six monologues].

Fiction

Abbott, Linda The Loss of the Marion 224pp Flanker (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Abray, Tom Pollen 181pp DC Books (Montréal) Pb $18.95 [stories; 2011].

Almond, Paul The Pilgrim: Book Four of the Alford Saga 250pp McArthur (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Atkinson, William Illsey Tommy: A World War II Novel 182pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Baggio, Allison In the Body 291pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [stories and a novella].

Baldwin, Shauna Singh The Selector of Souls 547pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Bell, Wade Tracie’s Revenge & Other Stories 126pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Bergen, David The Age of Hope 287pp HarperCollins Canada (Toronto) Hb $27.99.

Berger, Tamara Faith Maidenhead 171pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Birrell, Heather Mad Hope 223pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95[stories].

Bischoff, Theanna Swallow 283pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Bonny, Sandra Marie The Sometimes Lake 153pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [stories; includes bibliographical references].

Bowling, Tim The Tinsmith 311pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Boyko, C. P. Psychology and Other Stories 304pp Biblioasis (Ottawa, ON) Pb $19.95.

Brennan, Binnie A Certain Grace 124pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [short stories].

Butler, Paul Titanic Ashes 149pp Pennywell (St. John’s, NL) Pb $17.95.

Campbell, Gillian The Apple House 231pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Capilongo, Domenico Subtitle & Other Stories 181pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Card, Liam Exit Papers from Paradise 236pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Celona, Marjorie Y 350pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $30.

Chute, Arthur Hunt The Crested Seas introd Gerald Hallowell 258pp Formac (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [first pub 1928].

Clark, Heather Chai Tea Sunday 298pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Colford, Ian The Crimes of Hecto Tomás 414pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Collins, Gerard Finton Moon 333pp Killick (St. John’s NL) Pb $19.95.

Comeau, Joey The Complete Lockpick Pornography 168pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [two novellas].

Cook, Méira The House on Sugarbush Road 311pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Hb $29.95.

Cotton, Brad A Work in Progress 234pp NON Canada (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.

Cox, Daniel Allen Basement of Wolves 151pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.

Cram, Buffy Radio Belly 215pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Crewe, Lesley Kin 409pp Vagrant (Halifax) Pb $19.95.

Crosbie, Lynn Life Is about Losing Everything 348pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Dagg, Mel Passage on the Cardena 217pp TouchWood (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Dearing, Sarah The Art of Sufficient Conclusions 222pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

De Mariaffi, Elisabeth How to Get Along with Women 192pp Invisible (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [stories].

Dixon, Nicole High-Water Mark 151pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Dobozy, Tamas Siege 13 360pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [linked stories].

Dodd, D. O. The Immigrant’s Handbook 179pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [2011].

Donoghue, Emma Astray 288pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99 [stories].

Dower, Tricia Stony River 350pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.

Drache, Sharon Abron Barbara Klein-Muskrat, Then and Now 192pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [stories].

Dubé, Peter The City’s Gates 327pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $22.

Dueck, Dora What You Get at Home 176pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19 [stories].

Duffus, Helen Milecete The Strawberry Girls introd Janet B. Friskney 252pp Formac (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [reprint of lost classic of Canadian literature].

Dugan, Melanie Dead Beautiful 169pp Upstart (Kingston, ON) Pb $19.95.

Eaton, Winnifred Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model illus Henry Hutt introd Karen E.H. Skinazi 307pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $24.9 [first pub 1908].

Fagan, Cary My Life among the Apes 192pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $22 [stories].

Fallis, Terry Up and Down 414pp Douglas Gibson (Toronto) Pb $29.99.

Fazlul, Safia The Harem 180pp Tsar (Toronto) Pb $20.95.

Ferguson, Will 419 399pp Viking Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.

Fielding, Joy Shadow Creek 384pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Fleming, Anne Gay Dwarves of America 208pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $21 [stories].

Fletcher, Crystal Beauty beneath the Banyan 336pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Fotheringham, Scott The Rest Is Silence 329pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Hb $29.95.

Fragoulis, Tess The Goodtime Girl 322pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $21.

Frutkin, Mark A Message for the Emperor 187pp Esplanade (Montréal) Pb $19.95.

Gaston, Bill The World 353pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $32.

Ghatage, Shree Thirst 284pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Gilbert, Sky Come Back 206pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Glickman, Susan The Tale-Teller 215pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $21.95.

Gordon, Spencer Cosmo 218pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Gudgeon, Chris Song of Kosovo 328pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Hb $29.95.

Hage, Rawi Carnival 289pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Heighton, Steven The Dead Are More Visible 260pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Pb $22 [stories].

Helwig, David Simon Says 109pp Oberon (Ottawa) Pb $19.95 [stories written in dialogue].

Hill, Miranda Sleeping Funny 320pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95 [stories].

Holeman, Linda The Lost Souls of Angelkov 400pp Random House (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Hood, Andrew The Cloaca 160pp Invisible (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [stories].

Horsdal, Marlyn The Judge and the Lady 217pp TouchWood (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Hough, Robert Dr. Brinkle’s Tower 418pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Howard, Barb Western Taxidermy 208pp NeWest (Edmonton, AB) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Janusz, Barbara Mirrored in the Caves 244pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Johnston, A. J. B. Thomas: A Secret Life 287pp Cape Breton Univ Press (Sydney, NS) Pb $19.95 [includes bibliographical references].

Johnston, Faith Only Man in the World 176pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.

Jordan, Rosa The Woman She Was 376pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $21.95.

Juby, Susan Bright’s Light 279pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $19.99.

Kelly, Kerry The Family Album 187pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Kenyon, Michael A Year at River Mountain 271pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95.

Kilanko, Yejide Daughters Who Walk This Path 329pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.

Kimmel, Fran The Shore Girl 229pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Klonsky, Ken Life Without 124pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [novella].

Lam, Vincent The Headmaster’s Wager 393pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Lambert, Barbara The Whirling Girl 395pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $22.

Lapointe, Annette Whitetail Shooting Gallery 228pp Anvil (Vancouver) $20.

Lee, Rebecca Bobcat 209pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Pb $22. [stories].

Leedahl, Shelley A. Listen, Honey 228pp DC Books (Montréal) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Lennox, Matt The Carpenter 322pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Lent, John The Path to Ardroe 340pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95.

Leslie, Alex People Who Disappear 256pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Lewis, Naomi K. I Know Who You Remind Me Of 229pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Hb $29.95 [stories].

Lin, Julia Miah 172pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $20.95 [stories].

Livingston, Billie One Good Hustle 271pp Random House (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Lyon, Annabel The Sweet Girl 236pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

MacDonald, D.R. Anna from Away 304pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

MacGregor, Roy The Last Season 382pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99 [classic Canadian novel on hockey; first pub 1983].

MacIntyre, Linden Why Men Lie 368pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $32.

MacKinnon, David Leper Tango 300pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Maclear, Kyo Stray Love 317pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Madden, Stacey Poison Shy 161pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Madott, Darlene Stations of the Heart 236pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Maksimowska, Aga Giant 211pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $22.

Malcolm, Edeana A Garden in the Wilderness 218pp Borealis (Ottawa) Pb $19.95.

Malla, Pasha People Park 484pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Marche, Stephen Love and the Mess We’re In 259pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $28.95.

Margoshes, Dave A Book of Great Worth 250pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $18.95 [linked stories].

Marston, Missy The Love Monster 240pp Esplanade (Montréal) Pb $19.95.

Martin, Samuel Thomas A Blessed Snarl 285pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Matthews, James The Mean Time 178pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

McCluskey, Elaine Valery the Great 200pp Anvil (Vancouver, BC) Pb $20 [short stories].

McInnis, Nadine Blood Secrets 240pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

McIsaac, Julie Entry Level 162pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

McKenzie, Catherine Forgotten 368pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.98.

McWhirter, Teresa Five Little Bitches 295pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.

Meades, Christopher The Last Hiccup 232pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Mihali, Felicia The Darling of Kandahar 126pp Linda Leith (Montréal) Pb $16.95.

Moore, Lisa The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore introd Jane Urquhart 278pp A List (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Morrissey, Donna The Deception of Livvy Higgs 274pp Viking Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.

Mukherjee, Sam In the Name of Love 240pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Munro, Alice Dear Life 319pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.99 [stories].

Musgrave, Susan Given 268pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95.

Nanayakkara, Tara Priya’s World 312pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Nattel, Lilian Web of Angels 343pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.

Oakes, Julie Hooks 214pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

O’Connell Grace Magnified World 338pp Random House (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Ohlin, Alix Inside 257pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

— Signs and Wonders 261pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Onstad, Katrina Everybody Has Everything 300pp Emblem (Toronto) Pb $22.

Organ, Phil Little One 136pp Breton (Wreck Cove, NS) Pb $16.95.

Palka, Kurt Patient Number 7 365pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

Paré, Arlene Leaving Now 162pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $18.95.

Perović, Lydia Incidental Music 263pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Peters, Sheila The Taste of Ashes 272pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $24.95.

Petersen, Alice All the Voices Cry 158pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Pettit, Mary Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway? illus 284pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Phillips, Edward O. A Month of Sundays 224pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $22.95.

Piatigorsky, Anton The Iron Bridge 272pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Pountney, Christine Sweet Jesus 309pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $22.99.

Ravel, Edeet The Cat 221pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.

Richardson, C. S. The Emperor of Paris 288pp Doubleday (Toronto) Hb $25.

Richler, Nancy The Imposter Bride 360pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Ricketts, J. A. The Badger Redemption 378pp Flanker (St. John’s, NL) Pb $24.

Rideout, Tanis Above All Things 357pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $22.

Riedweg, Doris Water in the Wilderness 220pp Libros Libertad (Surrey, BC) Pb $23.

Robinson, J. Jill More in Anger 237pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Rotchin, B. Glen Halbman Steals Home 184pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Rowe, Bill Rosie O’Dell 299pp Flanker (St. John’s, NL) Pb $24.

Ryan, Garry Blackbirds 225pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Ryan, Lesleyanne Braco 355pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Saikaley, Sonia The Lebanese Dishwasher 146pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [novella].

Sapergia, Barbara Blood and Salt 423pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $21.95.

Saul, John Ralston Dark Diversions 321pp Viking (Toronto) Hb $30.

Schnell, Melanie While the Sun Is above Us 239pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Schofield, Anakana Malarky 222pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95.

Schultz, Emily The Blondes 386pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Sheard, Sarah Krank: Love in the New Dark Times 201pp Seraphim (Woodstock, ON) Pb $19.95.

Slinger, Joey Nina, the Bandit Queen 269pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Snyder, Carrie The Juliet Stories 324pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Somer, Bradley Imperfections 256pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $21.95.

Sooley, Jill Baggage 352pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Spalding, Linda The Purchase 352pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Spoon, Rae First Spring Grass Fire 142pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $14.95 [stories].

St. John Mandel, Emily The Lola Quartet 288pp McArthur (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Stachniak, Eva The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great 444pp Doubleday (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Stephenson, Ben A Matter of Life and Death or Something 246pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $22.95.

Stocks, Cassie Dance, Gladys, Dance 341pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Strowbridge, Nellie P. Maiden from the Sea 221pp Flanker (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Strube, Cordelia Milosz 280pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Svendsen, Linda Sussex Drive 353pp Random House (Toronto) Pb $22.

Swan, Susan The Western Light 358pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Hb $29.95.

Szymanski, Andrew The Barista and I 131pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Tester, Royston Fatty Goes to China 150pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Thanh, Yasuko Floating like the Dead 232pp Emblem (Toronto) Pb $22 [stories].

Tregebov, Michael The Shiva 272pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $21.

Van Camp, Richard Godless but Loyal to Heaven 198pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Hb $29.95 [stories].

Vassanji, M.G. The Magic of Saida 305pp Doubleday (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Vigna, John Bull Head 202pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $15.95 [stories].

Wagamese, Richard Indian Horse 220pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $21.95.

Wangersky, Russell Whirl Away 207pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Ward, Donald The Weeping Chair 230pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Watson, Sophie B. Cadillac Couches 217pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Webster, Barry The Lava in My Bones 377pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.

Whyte, Jack The Renegade: A Tale of Robert the Bruce 720pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Hb $34.

Williams, Jim Rock Reject 256pp Fernwood (Halifax, NS) Pb $19.95.

Williamson, Dave Dating 339pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.

Wilson, Julie Seen Reading 189pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Wood, Benjamin The Bellwether Revivals 420pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Wyatt, Rachel Suspicion 237pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $19.95.

York, Sarah Kathryn The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré Coteau (Regina) Pb $16.95.

Zwicky, Jan The Book of Frog 93pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Translations

Blais, Marie-Claire Mai at the Predators’ Ball trans Nigel Spencer 240pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [trans of French novel Mai au bal des prédateurs].

Blodgett, E. D. Praha trans Marzia Paton illus Robert Kessner 146pp AU Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [bilingual poetry in English and Czech; 2011].

Dickson, Robert Human Presences and Possible Futures trans Jo-Anne Elder 120pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [bilingual collection of French poetry].

Fréchette, Carole The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs; Thinking of Yu trans John Murrell 146pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [trans of French plays La petite pièce en haut de l’escalier and Je pense à Yu].

Kirby, William The Golden Dog: A Legend of Quebec ed Mary Jane Edwards 969pp

McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $39.95 [critical edition and trans of French-Canadian novel Le chien d’or first pub 1877].

Lavoie, Marie-Renée Mister Roger and Me trans Wayne Grady 233pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [trans of French novel La petite et le vieux].

Manguel, Alberto All Men Are Liars trans Miranda France 296pp Penguin (Toronto) Pb $18 [trans of Spanish novel Todos los hombres son mentirosos].

Renaud, Yannick All Is Flesh trans Hugh Hazelton 153pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95 [trans of French poetry collections Taxidermie and La disparition des idées; 2011].

Saucier, Jocelyne And the Birds Rained Down trans Rhonda Mullins 160pp Coach House Toronto) Pb $18.95 [trans of French novel Il pleuvait des oiseaux].

Thúy, Kim Ru trans Sheila Fischman 141pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $25 [trans of French novel with same title].

Tremblay, Jennifer The List trans Shelley Tepperman 65pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [trans of French drama La liste].

Zeller, Ludwig The Rules of the Game trans A.F. Moritz 150pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [trans of Spanish poetry].

Letters and Autobiography

Apostolides, Marianne Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life 158pp

BookThug (Toronto) Pb $23.

Bowering, George Pinboy: A Memoir 276pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Hb $29.95.

Curtis, Wayne Of Earthly and River Things: An Angler’s Memoir 239pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Fawcett, Brian Human Happiness 260pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $24.95 [2011].

McElroy, Gil Cold Comfort: Growing Up Cold War 251pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.

Savage, Candace A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape 213pp Greystone (Vancouver) Hb $26.95.

Anthologies

Best Canadian Stories 2012 ed John Metcalf 165pp Oberon (Ottawa) Hb $39.95.

Bravo!: A Selection of Prose and Poetry by Italian Canadian Writers ed Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni 124pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

The Cuffer Anthology Volume IV: A Selection of Short Fiction from Newfoundland and Labrador ed Pam Frampton 150pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $16.95.

CVC Book 2 select preface Gloria Vanderbilt 287pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Desperately Seeking Susans ed Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang 143pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $19.95 [poetry by women].

The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2012: A Selection of the Shortlist Judges of the Griffin Prize 128pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

In the Black: New African Canadian Literature ed Althea Prince 224pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95 [short fiction and poetry].

Journey Prize Stories 24: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada’s New Writers select Michael Christie, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer and Kathleen Winter 272pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $17.99.

The Mill conceived by Daryl Cloran and Matthew MacFadzean 346pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.95 [dramas including Matthew MacFadzean’s Now We Are Brody, Hannah Moscovitch’s The Huron Bride, Tara Beagan’s The Woods and Damien Wood’s Ash, 2011].

Modern Canadian Plays ed Jerry Wasserman 5th ed 2 vols Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $29.95 per vol.

New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays ed Roberta Barker and Kim Solga Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $29.95.

Poet to Poet: Poems Written to Poets and the Stories that Inspired Them ed Julie Roorda and Elana Wolff 185pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [includes bibliographical references].

Rites of Passage: Three Plays from Roseneath Theatre David S. Craig and Chris Craddock 130pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [includes Craddock’s Wrecked; Craig’s Smokescreen and Napalm the Magnificent; 2011].

The Touch of a Moth ed Claudia Coutu Radmore and Marco Fraticelli Scrivener (Sudbury, ON) Pb $19.95 [haiku].

An Unfinished War: Poems, Stories, Essays and Excerpts from Novels and Plays on the War of 1812 in the Western District of Upper Canada ed John B. Lee 196pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.

V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside ed John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner 150pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.

Criticism

General Studies

Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation Eva C. Karpinski 271pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $39.95.

Canadian Self-Perception and Self-Representation in English-Canadian Drama after 1967 Marc A. Bauch 274pp WiKu-Verlag für Wissenschaft und Kultur (Cologne, Germany).

Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada Alan Filewod 364pp Between the Lines (Toronto) Pb $29.95 [2011].

Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue ed Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorak 321pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Hb $85.

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada ed Christine Kim, Sophie McCall and Melina Baum Singer 274pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $49.95.

The Daughter’s Way: Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies Tanis MacDonald 269pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Hb $85.

Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature George Elliott Clarke 320pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $95.

DisPossession: Haunting in Canadian Fiction 370pp Marlene Goldman McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $95.

Dramatic Licence: Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada Louise Ladouceur trans Richard Lebeau 279pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton, AB) Pb $34.95 [trans from French of Making the Scene: La Traduction du théâtre d’une langue officielle à l’autre au Canada].

Eyes Deep with Unfathomable Histories: The Poetics and Politics of Magic Realism Today and in the Past ed introd Liliana Sikorska and Agnieszka Rzepa 162pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt, Germany) US $60.95.

Lazy Bastardism: Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry Carmine Starnino 263pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $27.95.

Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual ed Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy 380pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Hb $85.

Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction Colin Hill 286pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $50.

“Modernism, Antimodernism, and the Song Fishermen” Bart Vautour Canadian Poetry 70 pp15-44.

Narratives of Crisis-Crisis of Narrative ed introd Martin Kuester, Françoise Le Jeune, Anca-Raluca Radu and Charlotte Sturgess 232pp Wissner (Augsburg, Germany).

New Canadian Realisms ed Roberta Barker and Kim Solga 280pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25 [essays on theatre].

The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History, 1945-1953 Susan McNicoll 327pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $24.95.

“The Presence of Robert Burns in Victorian and Edwardian Canada” Carole Gerson and Susan Wilson pp117-130 in Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture ed introd Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Faith Nelson 302pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $119.95.

Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels Michael Buma 324pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $29.95.

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies ed Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias 348pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $42.95.

Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature Keavy Martin 180pp Univ of Manitoba Press (Winnipeg) Pb $27.95.

Theatre and Performance in Toronto ed Laura Levin 210pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25 [2011].

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada ed Eva Darias-Beautell 243pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Hb $85.

Words, Words, Words: Essays and Memoirs George Bowering 226pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $19.

“Writing the Aboriginal North or ‘The Aesthetics of Survivance’” Renate Eigenbrod pp62-79 in The Fictional North: Ten Discussions of Stereotypes and Icons above the 53rd Parallel ed preface Sue Matheson ed introd John Butler 152pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $52.99.

You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada James Pollock 221pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $22.95.

You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Ideology, Ideolect and Aesthetic Conscience in Canadian Poetry Reviews since 1961 Donato Mancini 148pp Book Thug (Toronto) Pb $24.

Studies of Individual Writers

Alexie, Robert Arthur “‘Never Meant to Be’: Porcupines and China Dolls as a Fetal-Alcohol Narrative” Helen Hoy Mosaic 45(2) pp95-112.

Armstrong, Jeannette “An Indian Encounter: A Conversation with Jeannette Armstrong” Prem Kumari Srivastava Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp232-243.

Atwood, Margaret “Atwood’s Duality of Poetic Vision” Saman Khalid and Irshad Ahmad Tabasum ELF Annual Research Journal 14 pp73-82.

— “A Beast or a God? Margaret Atwood’s Vision of Posthuman Consciousness” Daphne Grace pp40-49 in Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts ed introd Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe 342pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99 [2011].

— “Blakean Intertexts in The Year of the Flood” Danette DiMarco pp316-336 in Inhabited by Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold ed introd Nancy A. Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco 376pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.

— “Ethics in The Penelopiad” Debarati Bandyopadhyay Inhabited by Stories pp174-193 [see “Blakean Intertexts”, this section].

— “Framed Identity: Finding Lucy in Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape’” Debrah Raschke Mosaic 45(3) pp65-80.

— “From Childhood to Retrospective: Portrait of an Artist in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye” Christiane Bimberg Anglistik und Englischunterricht 81 pp69-90.

— “Future Shock: Rewriting the Apocalypse in Contemporary Women’s Fiction” Susan Watkins Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 23(2) pp119-137.

— “Hope, but Not for Us: Ecological Science Fiction and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood” Gerry Canavan Lit 23(2) pp138-159.

— Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction Gina Wisker 233pp Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, England) US $75 [2011].

— Margaret Atwood: Critical Insights J. Brooks Bouson 391pp Salem (Ipswich, MA) US $85.

— “Pleeblands, Compounds and Prejudice: Utopian and Dystopian Spaces in Oryx and Crake” Peter Marks pp214-224 in Literature and Politics: Pushing the World in Certain Directions ed introd Peter Marks 229pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $59.99.

— The Political in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction: The Writing on the Wall of the Tent Theodore F. Sheckels 188pp Ashgate (Burlington, VT) US $104.95.

— “Regeneration through Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture” Raymond Malewitz PMLA 127(3) pp526-541.

— “Science Fiction and Classical Reception in Contemporary Women’s Writing” Sarah Annes Brown Classical Receptions Journal 4(2) pp209-223.

— “Secular Apocalypses: Darwinian Criticism and Atwoodian Floods” Andrew Hoogheem Mosaic 45(2) pp55-71.

— “‘Strong Myths Never Die’: Margaret Atwood’s Subversion of Myth in The Tent” Emilie Péneau pp253-263 in Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel ed José Manuel Losada Goya, and Marta Guirao Ochoa 523pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $82.99.

— “‘We’re Here Too, the Ones without Names’: A Study of Female Voices As Imagined by Margaret Atwood, Carol Ann Duffy, and Marguerite Yourcenar” Susanna Braund Classical Receptions Journal 4(2) pp190-208.

— “Wilderness Survival: Future Natures in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” Kylie Crane pp157-180 in Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada Kylie Crane 228pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) US $86.

— “‘Witness Is What You Must Bear’: Politics in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry” Pilar Somacarrera pp565-586 in Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century ed introd Bill Ashcroft 665pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $189.

— “Women’s Art of Telling Li(v)es: Female Artist Figures in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin” Brigitte Glaser Anglistik und Englischunterricht 81 pp91-111.

Baldwin, Shauna Singh “The Trauma of Partition in Some Indo-English Fiction” Eve Hanquart-Turner pp111-124 in On the Move: The Journey of Refugees in New Literatures in English ed Geetha Ganapathy-Doré and Helga Ramsey-Kurz 185pp Cambridge Scholars Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $59.99.

Bannerji, Himani “From Great Expectations to Harsh Reality: Immigrant Experience in Himani Bannerji’s On a Cold Day” Milena Kostić pp 61-71 in Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses ed introd Vesna Lopičić and Biljana Mišić Ilić 341pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.

Barnard, Leslie Gordon “Mainstream Magazines, Middlebrow Fiction, and Leslie Gordon Barnard’s ‘The Winter Road’” Michelle Smith Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp7-30.

Berton, Pierre “Pierre Berton, Celebrity, and the Economics of Authenticity” Geoff Martin Canadian Literature 212 pp50-66.

Bök, Christian “Un(decidable), Un(creative), Un(precedented), Un(readable), Un(nerving): Christian Bök, Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place” Hélène Aji Etudes Anglaises 65(2) pp162-180.

Boyden, Joseph “Masculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction” Sam McKegney Literature for Our Times pp357-367 [see Atwood, Margaret, “‘Witness Is What You Must Bear’”, this section].

— “‘They Will Never Let Me Die in Their Country’: Aboriginal Hospitality and Surviving in the North in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers and Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road” Nicole Brandsma The Fictional North pp121-129 [see “Writing the Aboriginal North, General Studies].

Brand, Dionne “Beyond the Multiculture: Transnational Toronto in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For” Joanne Leow Studies in Canadian Literature 37(2) pp192-212.

— “The Queer Racing of Children in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For” Jennifer Blair Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp47-65.

Braun, Jan Guenther “Between European Past and Canadian Present: Lesbian Mennonite Writing and Collective Memory” Martin Kuester pp129-137 in Engaging with Literature of Commitment Vol 2: The Worldly Scholar ed introd Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Anne Fuchs and Bénédicte Ledent 415pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $121.50.

Carson, Anne “Hero versus Monster: Post-epic Masculinity in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red” Katharine Burkitt pp107-142 in Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique: Epic Proportions 162pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $99.95.

— “An Interview with Anne Carson” Eleanor Wachtel Brick 89 pp29-47.

— “Look at the Wall: Reading the Unsayable in Duras and Carson” Leah Souffrant 4(1) pp63-72.

— “Sublime Disembodiment? Self-as-Other in Anne Carson’s Decreation” Dan Disney Orbis Litterarum 67(1) pp25-38.

Clarke, George Elliott Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke ed Joseph Pivato 342pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Cohen, Leonard “Sweeping up the Jokers: Leonard Cohen’s ‘The Stranger Song’” Brian Howe pp225-231 in The Poetics of American Song Lyrics ed Charlotte Pence 288pp Univ Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS) Pb $35.

— “‘Who is the Lord of the World?’: Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and the Total Vision” Medrie Purdham Canadian Literature 212 pp86-102.

Crawford, Isabella Valancy “Colonial Contracts: Marriage, Rape, and Consent in Malcom’s Katie” Manina Jones Canadian Literature 212 pp68-84.

Crummey, Michael “‘Our Symbiotic Relationship with the Stories That We Tell’: An Interview with Michael Crummey” Cynthia Sugars Canadian Literature 212 pp105-119.

Dabydeen, Cyril “A Portrait of the Artist: Sam Selvon in the Work of Cyril Dabydeen and Kamau Brathwaite” Melanie Otto Journal of West Indian Literature 20(2) pp38-53.

De la Roche, Mazo “The Returning Reader: Canadian Serial Fiction and Mazo de la Roche’s Jalna Novels” Candida Rifkind pp171-186 in Middlebrow Literary Cultures: The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960 ed introd Erica Brown and Mary Grover 244pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) US $90 [2011].

Dudek, Louis “Towards the ‘Infinite Poem’: Reality and the Imagination in the 1950s and 1960s Meta-Poetry of Louis Dudek” Graham H. Jensen Canadian Poetry 70 pp45-76.

Duncan, Sara Jeannette “Duncan’s Folly: The Murchison House as Mock Ruin” Brooke Pratt Canadian Literature 213 pp59-81.

Findley, Timothy “‘Double-Voicing’ Family in Findley’s Short Fiction: Pinking the Triangle, Drawing the Circle” Laurie Kruk Canadian Literature 212 pp34-48.

Foster, Theoda Davis “Unmasking The Literary Garland’s T. D. Foster” Jennifer Harris Canadian Literature 213 pp84-98.

Frye, Northrop “Afterword: Of Greatness in Criticism” Gordon Teskey University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp174-186.

— “Blazing with Artifice: Light from the Northrop Frye Notebooks” Michael Dolzani University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp17-28.

— “Cosmopolitan and National Culture in Northrop Frye” Adam Carter University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp136-156.

— “Elephants Are Not Giraffes: A Conversation with Margaret Atwood, More or Less about Northrop Frye” Nick Mount University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp60-70.

— “Northrop Frye and the Book as Metaphor and Material Artefact” Travis DeCook University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp37-49.

— “Northrop Frye and Theories of Human Nature” Merlin Donald, Merlin University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp29-36.

— Northrop Frye in Context Diane Dubois 204pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $59.99.

— “Northrop Frye’s Musical Dimensions” Yves Saint-Cyr University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp123-135.

— “The Social Vision of Frye’s Criticism: The Scandal of Undiscriminating Catholicity” Jonathan Arac University of Toronto Quarterly 81(1) pp163-173.

Gallant, Mavis “Extreme Liminality: The Linked Stories of Edouard, Juliette, and Lena in Mavis Gallant’s Overhead in a Balloon” Kristjana Gunnars Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp87-104 [see Braun, Jan Guenther, this section].

Gowdy, Barbara “The Gothic and Grotesque in Barbara Gowdy’s Mister Sandman” Hilde Staels Studies in Canadian Literature 37(2) pp172-191.

Grove, Frederick Philip “Ethnic Performance and the Self-Representation of Frederick Philip Grove” Barbara Buchenau pp81-96 in American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival ed introd Renate von Bardeleben, Sabina Matter-Seibel and Klaus H. Schmidt 261pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt, Germany) US $64.95.

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler “On the Doctor and The Clockmaker: The Satire of the Classical Epigraph through Samuel Johnson and T. C. Haliburton” Duncan McFarlane Translation & Literature 21(1) pp1-20.

Harrison, Susie Frances “Taste and Colonial Conjugality in Susan Frances Harrison” Jennifer Henderson Canadian Literature 213 pp117-139.

Hearne, Samuel “Can Fur Traders Have Feelings? Sentiment in Samuel Hearne’s Journey to the Northern Ocean (1795)” Bruce Greenfield Studies in Canadian Literature 37(2) pp117-140.

Heavysege, Charles “Class, Culture, and Belief: The Contexts of Charles Heavysege’s

Christian Poetry” Heather Jones Canadian Literature 213 pp141-155.

Highway, Tomson “Multicultural Canada: Two First Nations Voices” Ošiņš Edgars American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival pp223-233 [see Grove, Frederick Philip, this section].

— “Punctured by Patriarchy: Theatricalizing the Christian Assault upon Native Mythology in Tomson Highway’s Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing” Christy Stanlake pp. 96-111 in Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays On Recent Plays ed introd Verna A. Foster 250pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $40.

Hopkinson, Nalo “Revolutionizing Pleasure in Writing: Subversive Desire and Micropolitical Affects in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads” Milena Marinkova pp181-198 in Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures ed introd Lorna Burns and Birgit M. Kaiser 220pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) US $85.

— “Tricksterism, Masquerades, and the Legacy of the African Diasporic Past in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber” Marlene D. Allen pp76-88 in Afterimages of Slavery: Essays on Appearances in Recent American Films, Literature, Television and Other Media ed Marlene D. Allen and Seretha D. Williams 236pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $40.

Hume, Mark “Wilderness Values (I): Aesthetic and Scientific Rhetoric in Mark Hume’s River of the Angry Moon” Kylie Crane Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives pp109-132 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Wilderness Survival”, this section].

Johnson, Pauline “Pauline Johnson and Celebrity in Canada: ‘The Most Unique Fixture in the Literary World of Today’” Carole Gerson pp219-232 in Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century ed Ann R. Hawkins ed introd Maura Ives 280pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $99.95.

— “Speaking Chinook: Adaptation, Indigeneity, and Pauline Johnson’s British Columbia Stories” Martha Viehmann Western American Literature 47(3) pp258-285.

King, Thomas “Ethnic Labeling and Imaging: Stereotyping by Branding vs. Native Counter-Narratives” Amina Grunewald pp323-340 in Transnational American Studies ed Udo J. Hebel 644pp Universitätsverlag Winter (Heidelberg, Germany).

— “Helen’s Quilt as Autobiographical, Social, and Political Text in Thomas King’s Truth and Bright Water” Deborah Weagel Mosaic 45(2) pp113-130.

— Thomas King: Works and Impact ed introd Eva Gruber 351pp Camden House (Rochester, NY) US $90.

— see Highway, Tomson, “Multicultural Canada”, this section.

— “Where Did All the Water Come From? How Water Crosses Boundaries in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water” Jiri Salamoun pp203-217 in Weaving New Perspectives Together: Some Reflections on Literary Studies ed María Alonso Alonso, Jeannette Bello Mota, Alba de Béjar Muíños and Laura Torrado Mariñas 254pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $59.99.

Kinsella, William Patrick A Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W. P. Kinsella William Steele 217pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) US $55 [2011].

Kroetsch, Robert “Robert Kroetsch: A Tribute” Shane Rhodes, Aritha Van Herk, Fred Wah and Rudy Wiebe Brick 88 pp146-153.

— “Robert Kroetsch and Rudy Wiebe: From Prairie Communities to Communities of Enlightened Readers” Janne Korkk pp219-237 in Literary Community-Making: The Dialogicality of English Texts from the Seventeenth Century to the Present ed introd Roger D. Sell 263pp Benjamins (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $143.

— “Robert Kroetsch’s Verbal Parody of The Studhorse Man in Seed Catalogue” Nathan Dueck Studies in Canadian Literature 37(2) pp154-171.

— “Spaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K” Nela Bureu Ramos Literature for Our Times pp69-87 [see Atwood, Margaret, “‘Witness Is What You Must Bear”, this section].

Laurence, Margaret “Margaret Laurence: The Woman and the Masks” Nora Foster Stovel Mosaic 45(4) pp155-174.

— “Writing the Self as a Life Narrative: Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners as Künstlerroman” Alexa Keuneke Anglistik und Englischunterricht 81 pp47-67.

LePan, Don “Becoming Mongrel: Grotesque Complicity in Don LePan’s Animals” Paul Keen Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp153-174.

Livesay, Dorothy “Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay: A Collective or a Private Record?” Fiona McMahon pp53-67 in Selected Poems: From Modernism to Now ed Hélène Aji and Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec 205pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US$67.99.

MacDonald, Ann-Marie “The Detection Plot as a Means of Testimony in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s The Way the Crow Flies” Heta Pyrhönen pp1-25 in Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot ed introd Peter Baker and Deborah Shaller 184pp Continuum (New York, NY) Pb $34.95.

MacLennan, Hugh “Somatic Nationalism and Spectacle in Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising” Robert McGill Studies in Canadian Literature 37(2) pp213-229.

Marlatt, Daphne “Dramatic Mode and the Feminist Poetics of Enactment in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic” Rebecca Waese Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp100-122.

Martel, Yann “States of Exception in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi” Arne De Boever pp13-39 States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald 159pp Continuum (New York, NY) US $100.

McKay, Don “Translating Wilderness: Negative Ecopoetics and the Poetry of Don McKay” Hugh Dunkerley pp210-219 in Poetry and Voice: A Book of Essays ed introd afterword Stephanie Norgate 259pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.

McKay, Leo Francis “Extraction, Memorialization, and Public Space in Leo McKay’s Albion Mines” Peter Thompson Studies in Canadian Literature 37(2) pp96-116.

McLuhan, Marshall Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origin of Media Studies Elena Lamberti 326pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Pb $32.95.

Meminger, Neesha “‘But That Was before 9/11’: The Work of Memory in Neesha Meminger’s Shine, Coconut Moon” Chandrima Chakraborty Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48(3) pp278-288.

Michaels, Anne “‘The Limits of My Language […].’ The Paradoxes of Memory in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces” Macarena Garcia-Avello ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa 33 pp81-96.

— “Cities under a Sky of Mud: Landscapes of Mourning in Holocaust Texts” Jenni Adams pp141-163 in Land & Identity: Theory, Memory, and Practice ed introd Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell and Robert Hudson 318pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $86.40.

— “Surviving Survival: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels” Helga Ramsey-Kurz On the Move pp27-43 [see Baldwin, Shauna Singh, this section].

— “‘These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears’: The Flow of Memory from Fugitive Pieces to Shakespeare” Barbara L. Estrin pp85-104 in Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots 255pp Univ of Delaware Press (Newark, DE) US $84.

Moodie, Susanna “The Romantic Aesthetics of Settlement in 19th Century Canada” D. M. R. Bentley Literature Compass 9(1) pp66-79.

Mootoo, Shani “Caribbean Queer: New Meetings of Place and the Possible in Shani Mootoo’s Volmiki’s Daughter” Alison Donnell Contemporary Women’s Writing 6(3) pp213-232.

— “India via Trinidad and Canada: Negotiating Hospitality in Shani Mootoo’s Short Stories” Chandrima Chakraborty Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp66-81.

— “Sex, Secrets, and Shani Mootoo’s Queer Families” Evelyn O’Callaghan Contemporary Women’s Writing 6(3) pp233-250.

— “Who Is a Victim? Difference and Accountability in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Cassel Busse Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp82-99.

Mouré, Erin “Lyric Fever: Erin Mouré and the Queer Anatomy of Lyric Life” Isabel A. Moore Mosaic 45(1) pp35-53.

Munro, Alice “Engagement via Emotional Heightening in ‘Passion’: On the Grammatical Texture of Emotionally-Immersive Passages in Short Fiction” Michael Toolan Narrative 20(2) pp210-225.

— “Munro’s Handling of Description, Focalization, and Voice in ‘Passion’” Per Winther Narrative 20(2) pp198-209.

— “Pockets of Nothingness: ‘Metaphysical Solitude’ in Alice Munro’s ‘Passion’” Michael Trussler Narrative 20(2) pp183-197.

— “The Short Story’s Way of Meaning: Alice Munro’s ‘Passion’” Charles E. May Narrative 20(2) pp172-182.

— “The Stories of ‘Passion’: An Empirical Study” Susan Lohafer Narrative 20(2) pp226-238.

Nichol, B. P. “Illusions of Simplicity: A Cognitive Approach to Visual Poetry” Mike Borkent pp5-24 in Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitive Linguistics ed Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte 198pp Benjamins (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $128.

Ondaatje, Michael “‘Here Then Is a Maze to Begin, Be In’: Michael Ondaatje’s Byronic Inheritance” Sarah Wootton pp163-174 in Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century ed introd Mark Sandy 223pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $114.95.

— “National Myth, Transnational Memory: Ondaatje’s Archival Method” Aarthi Vadde Novel 45(2) pp257-275.

— “Ondaatje’s Aesthetics of Efficiency: Modernity, Time, and the Body in the Early Ontario Poems” Carl Watts Canadian Poetry 70 pp77-92.

— “‘The Place One Had Been Years Ago’: Mapping the Past in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family” Marta Bladek Life Writing 9(4) pp391-406.

— “Poetic Realism: Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)” Julia Breitbach pp163-205 in Analog Fictions for the Digital Age: Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000 239pp Camden House (Rochester, NY) US $75.

— “The Social, the Spectral and the Specular in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family” Rūta Šlapkauskaitė pp138-152 in Literature in Society ed Regina Rudaitytė 264pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US$67.99.

Pollock, Sharon “Bloody Relations of Exchange: Sharon Pollock’s Revision of Legend and Feminine Myth in Blood Relations” Laura Snyder Dramatic Revisions of Myths pp211-224 [see Highway, Tomson, “Punctured by Patriarchy”, this section].

Qitsualik, Rachel “Reading Climate Change and Work in the Circumpolar North” Pavel Cenkl pp295-311 in The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place ed introd Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty and Karla Armbruster 438pp Univ of Georgia Press (Athens, GA) US $69.95.

Poole, Lee-Anne see MacLean, Mary Ellen, this section

Richler, Mordecai “The Hero-Figures as a Narrative Strategy in the Novels of Mordecai Richler” Shana Rosenblat Mauer Yiddish/Modern Jewish Studies 17(3-4) pp103-112.

Robertson, Lisa “‘She Encouraged the Separation’: Poetry and Gravity” Rusty Morrison Kenyon Review 34(2) pp62-76.

Robinson, Eden see Boyden, Joseph, “Masculindians”, this section.

— “On Judging with Care and the Responsibility of an Heir: Reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach” Lydia Efthymia Roupakia University of Toronto Quarterly 81(2) pp279-296.

Ruffo, Armand Garnet “Defusing Genre through Generic Interplay: Armand Ruffo’s Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney as a Long Poem” Maude Lapierre Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp215-231.

Traill, Catharine Parr see Moodie, Susanna, this section

Urquhart, Jane “Body/Landscape/Art: Ekphrasis and the North in Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter” Richard Brock Canadian Literature 212 pp11-32.

— “Entropy and the Totally Buried Home in Jane Urquhart’s A Map of Glass” David Callahan Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp139-156 [see Braun, Jan Guenther, this section].

Van Camp, Richard see Boyden, Joseph, “Masculindians”, this section

Van Herk, Aritha “Wilderness as Projection: Reading Practices and Aritha van Herk’s Places Far from Ellesmere” Kylie Crane Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives pp33-58 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Wilderness Survival”, this section].

Vassanji, M. G. “Exile and Estrangement in East African Indian Fiction” Dan Ojwang Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32(3) pp523-542.

— “Traditions, Trajectories and Transformative Migrations: The Multifarious Diasporic Contextualities of Nair, Nazareth and Vassanji’s Fictions” Aaron L. Rosenberg JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association 6(2) pp61-82.

Verdecchia, Guillermo “Staging a ‘Plurality of Vision’: Diasporic Performance in Polycharacter Monodrama” Elspeth Tilley Modern Drama 55(3) pp304-328.

Whyte, Jon “The Challenge of Writing Bioregionally: Performing the Bow River in Jon Whyte’s Minisniwapta: Voices of the River” Harry Vandervlist The Bioregional Imagination pp150-163 [see Qitsualik, Rachel, this section].

Wiebe, Rudy “Representing an Unknowable Space: Movement and Knowing in Rudy Wiebe’s Northern Writing” Janne Korkka The Fictional North pp94-107 [see “Writing the Aboriginal North”, General Studies].

— see Kroetsch, Robert, “Robert Kroetsch and Rudy Wiebe”, this section.

Wilson, Ethel “Screened Trauma: World War II, Dead(ly) Women, and Wilson’s Hetty Dorval” Christa Zeller Mosaic 45(2) pp165-180.

Winter, Kathleen “Inventions of Sexuality in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel” Mareike Neuhaus Studies in Canadian Literature 37(1) pp123-140.

Non-fiction

Aka bpNichol: A Preliminary Biography Frank Davey 338pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [includes bibliographical references].

Attack of the Copula Spiders: And Other Essays on Writing 214pp Douglas Glover Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $19.95.

Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities ed Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert and Tiffany Johnstone 272pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $27.95.

Here We Are Among the Living Samantha Bernstein Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $21.95 [memoir by daughter of poet Irving Layton].

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons 570pp Ecco (New York, NY) US $27.99.

In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body ed Lynne Van Luven and Kathy Page 231pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $24.95 [essays].

Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Sandra Djwa 418pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $39.95.

Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King illus 336pp Bond Street (Toronto) Hb $28.

The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture Ruth Panofsky 339pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto, ON) Hb $45.

The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories Keith Oatley 216pp Oxford Univ Press (New York)) Hb $29.95.

The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca Carol Bishop-Gwyn 423pp Cormorant (Toronto) Hb $36 [biography of founder of National Ballet of Canada; 2011].

The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years L. W. Conolly 312pp Oxford Univ Press (Toronto) Hb $50 [includes bibliographical references; 2011].

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age Modris Eksteins 341pp Knopf (Toronto) Hb $35 [includes bibliographical references].

Ultra Libris: Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada Rowland Lorimer 432pp ECW (Toronto) Hb $34.95 [includes bibliographical references].

What We Talk About When We Talk About War Noah Richler 370pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $24.95.

Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives that Changed Canada Sandra Martin 429pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Journals

Special Issues

Canadian Literature ed introd Janice Fiamengo and Thomas Hodd special issue New Work on Early Canadian Literature 213 pp1-204.

Canadian Theatre Review ed introd Moynan King special issue Queer Performance: Women and Trans Artists 149 pp3-72.

— ed introd Natalie Alvarez special issue Views and Reviews: Performance Studies in Canada 149 pp73-89.

— ed introd Natalie Alvarez and Jenn Stephenson special issue A Manifesto for Manifestos 150 pp3-106.Contemporary Women’s Writing ed introd Emily Taylor special issue Caribbean Queer 6(3) pp191-289.

Narrative introd Per Winther, Michael Trussler, Michael Toolan and Charles E. May introd pref Susan Lohafer special issue Alice Munro’s “Passion” 20(2) pp133-253.

University of Toronto Quarterly ed introd Germaine Warkentin and Linda Hutcheon special issue The Future of Northrop Frye: Centennial Perspectives 81(1) pp1-186.