Anthologies

The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995

When Robertson Davies died last December, it wasn’t difficult to predict that posthumous work would soon begin to appear. The Merry Heart, which collects speeches and articles from the novelist’s last 15 years, is the ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-canadian Literature

By George Elliott Clarke, ed.

How do you create literature in a way that is obviously “African-Canadian”? You simply can’t. African-Canadian writers such as Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand have produced some of the most poignant literature tackling themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Best Canadian Stories 96

By Douglas Glover, ed.

The short story is not, despite reports, Canadian by birth or naturalization. Still, every so often you’ll hear us claiming custody, ready to point to some quasi-demographic mirage showing that Canadians produce more extraordinary writers ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Coming Attractions 96

By Diane Schoemperlen, ed.

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Gifts to Last: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

By selected by Walter Learning

The broadcast industry has perfected the rerun, so we shouldn’t be surprised book publishers are following suit. They’ve put their own spin on the strategy, but the basic idea is the same: if something sells ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories

By selected by Stuart McLean

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

An Evening with W.O. Mitchell: A Collection of the Author’s Best-loved Performance Pieces

By Barbara & Ormond Mitchell,eds.

An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a collection of some of the author’s favourite “performance pieces” – Mitchell has been a celebrated reader of his own work for much of his writing career. In fact, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Writing Home: A Pen Canada Anthology

By Constance Rooke, ed.

Just “home,” please, whatever that conjures up, Constance Rooke said. Her 40 contributors took the direction seriously. Cuteness, on the “Home Is…” model, doesn’t come in to it. Reminiscences of warm radiators and laps, yes, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd Edition

By Eugene Benson and William Toye,eds.

Where are we in our literary history? It’s a question that comes up. People want to know. They see Canadian novels sprouting like never before, they notice Canadian writers finding foreign readerships, winning international prizes. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women

By Denise Chong, ed.

Non-fiction writer and now editor Denise Chong, likes short stories because: (a) she can “hold completely within [her] imagination from the first word to the last the characters around whom events swirl,” and (b) she ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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