Anthologies

★ Writing Home: A Pen Canada Anthology

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

Suggestive Poses: Artists and Critics Respond to Censorship

By Lorraine Johnson, ed.

This anthology presents a range of takes on and experiences with censorship in recent Canadian history, most of them by people who have been on the cultural “front lines.” From John Greyson’s preface “Don’t Cry ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

West by Northwest: British Columbia Short Stories

By David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson,eds.

The 31 stories in this collection – all chosen for their ability to sound the province’s sense of place, its physical and social geography, its history as a destination, a haven and a cornucopia – ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction

By Ian Colford, ed.

This collection presents short stories by 16 writers, mostly young and emerging, who call Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island home. Ian Colford, who compiled and edited Water Studies, also edits Pottersfield Portfolio, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada

By Diane Schoemperlen,ed.

Short fiction – recently mourned as something no one was reading much any more – appears to be undergoing a renaissance among Canadian writers, and many of the newest and smartest practitioners of these compressed ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America

By Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird,eds.

Cherokee writer Betty Louise Bell says she writes “because [her] mother could not.” Reclamation – of individual voice and collective experience, the personal and political – is a central theme in this anthology of poetry, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada

By Hal Niedzviecki, ed.

There’ve been a few mutterings here and there that the venerable M & S is grasping for a degree of hipness in publishing Concrete Forest, but I say, “Bravo!” Bravo, that is, to the idea ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Journey Prize Anthology 9

By Selected with Nino Ricci

The ninth annual pack of stories, chosen by editors of Canadian literary magazines as the year’s best, does precisely what a Journey Prize Anthology claims to do: it lauds the role journals play in the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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★ Writing Home: A Pen Canada Anthology

★ The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd Edition

The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women

Suggestive Poses: Artists and Critics Respond to Censorship

West by Northwest: British Columbia Short Stories

Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction

Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America

Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada

The Journey Prize Anthology 9

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