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#105 (Summer 1985)
Poets & Politics

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Editorial

W. H. New

• Real Nice (p. 2 - 5)
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Articles

Robert Bringhurst

• Breathing Through the Feet: An Autobiographical Meditation (p. 7 - 15)
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Edward Kamau Brathwaite

• Dionne Brand's Winter Epigrams (p. 18 - 30)
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Joseph Kertes

• "Brief Are the Days of Beauty": The Wisdom of Irving Layton's "The Gucci Bag" (p. 32 - 42)
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Jeni Couzyn

• An Account of Some Pits and Peaks in a Three-Week Poetry Reading Tour of Canada (p. 47 - 57)
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M. Travis Lane

• Troll Turning: Poetic Voice in the Poetry of Kristjana Gunnars (p. 59 - 68)
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M. Torres

• Octave Crémazie and His Return to Mother Death (p. 69 - 97)
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Ronald Ewing

• Griffin Creek: The English World of Anne Hébert (p. 100 - 110)
• (LITERARY CRITICISM)
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F. R. Watt

• The Plot Against Smith (p. 111 - 131)
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Poems

P. K. Page

• In Class We Create Ourselves Having Been told to Shut Our Eyes and Given a Piece of Plasticene with which to Model a Person (p. 6)

Robert Bringhurst

• Riddle (p. 15)

James Larsen

• Icarus (p. 16 - 17)

W. J. Keith

• Archibald Lampman (p. 17)

Seymour Mayne

• Going Up (p. 30)

Seymour Mayne

• Another Son (p. 31)

Irving Layton

• Dionysians in a Bad Time (p. 43)

Patrick Friesen

• Fool's Week (p. 43 - 45)

Harold Rhenisch

• Rose (p. 45 - 46)

P. K. Page

• Suffering (p. 58)

George Bowering

• Brown Cup, Dirty Glasses (p. 68)

Heather Spears

• Procedure (p. 97 - 98)

Heather Spears

• Fox Cubs at Play (p. 98)

Heather Spears

• 2nd Letter for Steen (p. 99) Show/hide Poem

  • The trees are no longer lineal, crisp; their edges
    swell into the fog, at the top of the wood
    no view but visible yellowish air.
    The clean beck brims, the dogs
    wade and lap, the mud's yellow, the old snow's
    yellow. The horn at the lighthouse
    goes on, goes off, mournful. Mette's in again, a year ago
    we thought it passing. And now another good friend.
    Unseasonable. Am I exempt? There was a gale warning
    earlier, but nothing moves, drops hang
    on the grass, fall vertical under the branches.
    I feel your large hand where it touched my shoulders,
    flat and protective.
    Pretend you have answers.
    The open fields are utterly forsaken, the stench
    of spring is everywhere. I will not walk
    farther than this, I am going back.

Heather Spears

• Letter for Steen (p. 99)

Harold Rhenisch

• The Year (p. 131 - 134)

Fred Cogswell

• A Tribute (p. 134 - 135)

Eric Trethewey

• What Remains (p. 135) Show/hide Poem

  • Whitened by frost and salt, narrow roads
    stitch what remains of these farms to the landscape
    in patterns as precise, from above, as maps.
    Seen from down here, they inhabit us,

    refuse the impartial view. Though we can't
    define exactly the season's dry obsession
    with stalk and branch, we see the gist
    of alders advancing past lines of downed fence

    and sense something in the way buildings
    dispose themselves at dusk—barns leaning,
    houses with windows boarded, shingles rotted,
    hollow gestures against December's threat.

    Bucket in hand, the only man we've seen
    all day, rounds the corner of a swaybacked shed,
    stares hard as we drive past—
    my dead grandfather
    come back in his old red mackinaw
    to finish the evening chores, remind me again
    of something important I neglected to do.

Books in Review

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Kaleidoscope (p. 136 - 138)

by Evelyne Voldeng

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Life by Drowning by Jeni Couzyn (House of Anansi Press)

The Elusive Source Text (p. 138 - 139)

by Evelyne Voldeng

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. These Our Mothers or: The Disintegrating Chapter by Nicole Brossard and Barbara Godard (Coach House Books)

Necessary Shorthand (p. 139 - 140)

by Robert Gibbs

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Panic Field by Douglas Lochhead (The Fiddlehead)
2. The Panic Field by Douglas Lochhead (Goose Lane Editions)

Filters of Time (p. 140 - 142)

by Kenneth Meadwell

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. A Coastal Range by Charles Lillard (Sono Nis Press)
2. In a Canvas Tent by Robert MacLean (Sono Nis Press)
3. Dreaming of Rivers by Eric Trethewey (Poetry Cente)

Demythologizing Father (p. 142 - 144)

by Joseph Gold

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Sir Charles G. D. Roberts Symposium by Glenn Clever (University of Ottawa Press)

Poet's Lives (p. 144 - 146)

by C. McLay

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Louis Dudek: A Biographical Introduction to his Poetry by Susan Stromberg-Stein (Golden Dog Press)
2. Morning and It's Summer by Al Purdy (Quadrant Editions)

Poetry & Painting (p. 146 - 148)

by Jack Warwick

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Surrealism and Quebec Literature: History of a cultural revolution by Mark Czarnecki and Andre-G. Bourassa (University of Toronto Press)

Conflicts Unresolved (p. 149 - 150)

by Michael Darling

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Real Places and Imaginary Men by Barry Dempster (Oberon Press)
2. The Mikveh Man and Other Stories by Sharon Drache (Aya Press)

Black Comedy (p. 151 - 152)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. My Present Age by Guy Vanderhaeghe (Macmillan of Canada)

Little Magazine of the Air (p. 152 - 153)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Anthology Anthology by Robert Weaver (Macmillan of Canada)

Franco-Ontarienne/Manitobaine (p. 153 - 157)

by Bertille Beaulieu

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Persévérance by Michel Dachy (Éditions du Blé)
2. La Page tournée by Laurent Grenier (Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa)
3. Visions outaouaises/Ottawax by Andre Duhaime (Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa)
4. Et d'ailleurs by Jean Marc Dalpe (Éditions Prise de Parole)

Inside Volcano (p. 157 - 158)

by Ronald Binns

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. A Companion to "Under the Volcano" by Chris Ackerley and Lawrence J. Clipper (University of British Columbia Press)

Impalpable Jamaica (p. 158 - 159)

by Cyril Dabydeen

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Heartlands by Philip Kreiner (Oberon Press)

Aphoristic Soundings (p. 159 - 161)

by Doug Daymond

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. A Climate Charged by B. W. Powe (Mosaic Press)

The Wilde Side (p. 161 - 163)

by Margery Fee

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Oscar Wilde by Felix Paul Greve (William Hoffer/Tanks)

Herself in Place (p. 163 - 165)

by Janet Giltrow

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Elizabeth Stories by Isabel Huggan (Oberon Press)
2. In a Bright Land by Alan Pearson (Golden Dog Press)

The Gaiety of Dread (p. 165 - 166)

by Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Sing Me No Love Songs I'll Say You No Prayers: Selected Stories by Leon Rooke (General Publishing)

Sketches & Jokes (p. 167 - 168)

by Peter Hinchcliffe

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Will Ye Let the Mummers In? by Alden Nowlan (Irwin Publishing)
2. The Man Who Sang in His Sleep by Robin Skelton (Porcupine's Quill)

Armageddon (p. 168 - 169)

by Kieran Kealy

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Thrill of the Grass by W. P. Kinsella (Penguin Books)

Esprit/Eau-de-vie (p. 169 - 171)

by Camille R. La Bossiere

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Crache à Pic by Antonine Maillet (Éditions Leméac)

Intercomprehensions (p. 171 - 173)

by Virginia Harger-Grinling

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Le choc des patois en Nouvelle-France: essai sur l'histoire de la francisation au Canada by Philippe Barbaud (P.U.Q.)
2. Roman Québécois contemporain et clichés by Patrick Imbert (Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa)

Sentiment & Sensibility (p. 173 - 174)

by Tom Middlebro'

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Swim For Your Life by Don Bailey (Oberon Press)
2. Eathen Vessels by Ann Copeland (Oberon Press)

Different Worlds (p. 175 - 176)

by Shirley Neuman

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. A Fair Shake: Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women by Margaret Gillet and Kay Sibbald (Eden Press)

Affectionate Life (p. 176 - 179)

by Shirley Neuman

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. William Arthur Deacon: A Literary Life by Clara Thomas and John Lennox (University of Toronto Press)

Bad Batch (p. 179 - 181)

by Kristoffer F. Paulson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Canadide: A Patriotic Satire by Eric Nicol (Macmillan of Canada)
2. The Long (And Glorious) Weekend of Raymond (And Bingo) Oblongh by Kenneth Dyba (November House)

Sympathetic Magic (p. 181 - 183)

by Bruce Pirie

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Amorous Unicorn by Florence Vale (Porcupine's Quill)
2. Binding Twine by Penny Kemp (Ragweed Press)
3. Auras, Tendrils: Poems of the North by Ann Fox Chandonnet (Penumbra Press)
4. On Nights Like This by Marianne Bluger (Brick Books)

Poetasting (p. 183 - 186)

by P. Matthew St. Pierre

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Ritual Murders by Steven Smith (Turnstone Press)
2. Edward and Patricia by Frank Davey (Coach House Books)
3. Settlement in a School of Whales by Roger Nash (The Fiddlehead)
4. Wilderness Images by St. John Simmons (The Fiddlehead)
5. Knowledge Never Knew by Steve McCaffery (Véhicule Press)
6. Ideas for Poetry by Louis Dudek (Véhicule Press)

Covering Kids (p. 186 - 188)

by Judith Walker

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Crazy Ideas by Ken Roberts (Groundwood)
2. Beyond the Door by Jacqueline Nugent (Groundwood)
3. In the City of the King by William Pasnak (Groundwood)

Limits of Feeling (p. 188 - 190)

by Christopher Wiseman

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Prisoner of the Rain by Michael Bullock (Third Eye Publications)
2. A Sparrow's Food by Gerry Shikatani (Coach House Books)
3. Personal Luggage by Marlene Cookshaw (Coach House Books)
4. Prophecies: Near the Speed of Light by Eva Tihanyi (Thistledown Press)
5. Frieze by John Lent (Thistledown Press)

In Minor Key (p. 188 - 190)

by Christopher Wiseman

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Prophecies: Near the Speed of Light by Eva Tihanyi (Thistledown Press)
2. Frieze by John Lent (Thistledown Press)
3. From the Bedside Book of Nightmares by Suniti Namjoshi (The Fiddlehead)
4. From the Bedside Book of Nightmares by Suniti Namjoshi (Goose Lane Editions)
5. Gearing of Love: Poems and Photographs by John Oughton (Mosaic Press)
6. Piling Blood by Al Purdy (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Monsters Within (p. 190 - 192)

by Lorraine M. York

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. From the Bedside Book of Nightmares by Suniti Namjoshi (The Fiddlehead)
2. From the Bedside Book of Nightmares by Suniti Namjoshi (Goose Lane Editions)
3. Gearing of Love: Poems and Photographs by John Oughton (Mosaic Press)

Vintage (p. 192 - 195)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Piling Blood by Al Purdy (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Opinions and Notes

Douglas Barbour

• F. R. Scott 1899-1985 (p. 196)

Cathy N. Davidson

• To Bee or Not to Bee (p. 197 - 200)