Anthologies

Suggestive Poses: Artists and Critics Respond to Censorship

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

Everybody’s Favourites: Canadians Talk About Books That Changed Their Lives

By Arlene Perly Rae, ed.

Reading this book is like eavesdropping at a party where the guests discuss a single theme: important books in their childhood. What fun to learn that Timothy Findley’s childhood favourite, Wild Animals I Have Known, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Mothers & Daughters: An Anthology

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

While the premise of Alberto Manguel’s silkenly stitched together anthologies seems simple – parents and children – the depth of both books prevents nostalgia or superficiality from fogging the excellence of the 20 short stories ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies