A Book of Hours, David Helwig. Oberon, 1979.
The Ghosts Call You Poor, Andrew Suknaski. Macmillan, 1978.
reviews
Lependu, Don McKay, Nairn Publishing House, 1978.
Don McKay has written a remarkable sequence of prose and poetry in Lependu.
Poems New & Selected, Patrick Lane. Oxford University Press, 1978
Bulletin: Poems and New & Selected is not Patrick Lane's latest book.
Alden Nowlan, Smoked Class, Double Exposure
Michael Brian Oliver, Poets Progress: The Development of Alden Nowlan's Poetry.
The Fugitive, Marie-Claire Blais, trans. David Lobdell. Oberon Press, 1978.
The back cover of the fugitive indicates, rightly, that Marie-Claire Blais is concerned with "The difference between outward appearances and inner truth."
Poets of the Capital: II, eds. W. Glenn Clever and Frank M. Tierney. Borealis Press, 1978.
The "Capital" is Ottawa.
Graceful Kindlings
Sparks, Michael Harris. New Delta. 1976.
Soviet Poems, Ralph Gustafson, Turnstone Press, 1978.
The Journey Back and Other Poems, Christopher Levenson. Sesame Press, 1978.
Selected Poems, Robert MacLean. Outland Press, 1977.
Robert MacLaren may well turn out to be one of our best poets, but his Selected Poems has problems which may prevent it from being taken as seriously as it should be.
"Praising Water and Friendship, Praising Love"
At Marsport Drugstore, Al Purdy, The Paget Press, 1977.
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