Love From Backfields, Greg Cook. Breakwater, 1980. So the Night World Spins, Jim Stewart. Breakwater, 1980.
East of Myloona, Andrew Suknaski. Thistledown Press, 1979. A Balancing Act, Florence McNeil. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
"The Most Permanent Things Cry out": Cooked Poems from Turnstone Press Leaving, Dennis Cooley. Turnstone Press, 1980.
The Sad Phoenician, Robert Kroetsch. Coach House Press, 1979. The Crow Journals, Robert Kroetsch. NeWest Press, 1980.
Voices of Discord, edited by Donna Phillips, New Hogtown Press, 1979. Best Canadian Stories: '79, edited by Clark Blaise and John Metcalf, Oberon, 1979.
Dragon Lady, Silver Donald Cameron. McClelland and Stewart, 1980. Needles, William Deverell. McClelland and Stewart, 1980.
From Jericho to Montreal: Richler's Latest Homecoming Joshua, Then and Now, Mordecai Richler. McLelland and Stewart, 1980.
Kowalski's Last Chance, Leo Simpson. Clarke, Irwin, 1980. Simpson glories in "last chances": his comic demon feeds the apocalypse.
The Mad Trapper, Rudy Wiebe. McLelland and Stewart, 1980 On the day the Mad Trapper was formally pub lished (13 September 1980), the Toronto Globe and Mail reported that Frank Hersey, last survivor of the party that hunted down Albert Johnson in 1932, had condemned the book as "inaccurate and ridiculous."
Divinations and Shorter Poems 1973-1978, M. Travis Lane. Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1980. The new volume of verse by MN. Travis Lane corroborates her status as one of our most accomplished poets.