reviews

Our Checklists fo fiction and poetry published in Atlantic Canada will be a regular feature of Atlantic Soundings from now on.

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CVII's Spring (1982) issue edited by Adrian Fowler, Randall Maggs and John Steffler is devoted to current Newfoundland poetry

This work is a fictional diary ostensibly written by Peter Thallman, a Connecticut farmer who moves his family to the Gaspereau Valley of Nova Scotia in 1759.

As one reads Robin Skelton's work, one feels that there is a craftsman, a man to whom the production of a good poem is more important than the initial impulse that brought the poem into being;

Through dance or the ingenuity of the editor, these diverse novels all explore social problems.

After reading The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, one definitely does not feel the urge to ask

The convenient contrast between the relative sobriety of David William's The River Horsemen and spiritedness of Don Gutteridge's All in Good Time is balanced in their attemps to extend traditional narrative form.

In spite of its title and contens, T.D. MacLulich's Voyages poses something of a problem.