reviews

All the time I was reading Carol Shields' second novel, The Box Garden, the title of her first, small Ceremonies, buzzed in my inner ear, a nagging reminder of the art that made the first novel such a pleasure to read and a touchstone by which to judge the success of the second.

The Broad Back of the Angel, Leon Rooke, Fiction Collective, 1977.

A Canadian writing about Louis Riel commits himself inevitably to a political or ideological position.

Seed Catalogue, Robert Kroetsch, Turnstone Press, 1977.

A New Athens, Hugh Hood. Oberon Press, 1977.

Withdrawal Symptoms or

Modern Romanian Poetry, ed. Nicholas Catanoy. Mosaic Press/Valley editions, 1977

The concrete Island / Montreal Poems 1967-1971, George Bowering. Vehicle Press, 1977.

Sandbars, Oonah, McCfee. Macmillan of Canada, 1977.

Report on the Death of REosenkavaliler, Jan Drabek. McClelland and Stewart, 1977.