reviews

James houston's Soirit Wrestler illustrates the virtue and dangers in establishing a style to express an alien point of view.

The Con Man, Ken Mitchell. Talonbooks, 1979.

Writing about this book is difficult because it evokes such mixed responses from me.

Whoever wrote the extravagantly complimentary blurb on the back-cover of Gentle Sinners managed a particle of truth in otherwise predicatably outlandish blather.

In the title poem of this humane, dynamically graceful collection, Lee's reflective voice dwells on the modern impotence of language to transmit, as it once did, the potency of "godforce"

This Dorothy Livesay Issue marks the beginning of the fifth year of publication for Room of One's Own.

The Garden of Delights, Roch Carrier, trans. Sheila Fischman, Anansi, 1978.

To read Soucy's novel is to be carried back in time.

Nights in the Underground, Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Ray Ellenwood. musson, 1979.

Holes in Space, R. A. D. Ford. Hounslow Press, 1979.