reviews

Ladies and Escorts, Audrey Thomas. Oberon Press, 1977.

here and Now, Eds. Clark Blaise and John Metcalf. Oberon Press, 1077

Hugh Hood's fourth and most interesting collection of short stories, Dark Glasses is a carefully crafted verbal structure that expresses in both its content and formal patterns.

Elizabeth Brewster is a consummate mistress of the type of poetry that relies upon a thorough mastery of grammar, a simple basic vocabulary, and the rhythmic control of free-verse lines that vary from cadenced verse to imagism.

When Tom Wayman was poet-in-residence at the University of Windsor, he often visited my graduate workshop in poetry.

Dance me outside, W.p. Kinsella. Oberon Press, 1977.

In her latest volume of poems, Homecomings, M' Travis Lane exploits and extends her special concerns as a writer.

Of all contemporary quebecois novelists, Marie-Claire Blais is probably the most frequently translated and the most widely known beyond Quebec.

George Bowering, at one time,Earle birney's student, has written a poem "Earle Birney," which begins: Why does he keep seeming to know less and less?

The Only Country in the World Called Canada, Doug Beardsley, Sesame Press, 1976/