The convenient contrast between the relative sobriety of David William's The River Horsemen and spiritedness of Don Gutteridge's All in Good Time is balanced in their attemps to extend traditional narrative form.
No Man's Meat & The Enchanted Pimp, a short story from 1931 and a novella from 1978, have distinct parallels with some earlier Callaghan pieces, as well as being tales about loving the consequences of impulse.
Robert Kroetsch's poem, F.P. Grove: The Finding, in the Stonehammer poems is an appropriate introduction to the paradoxical substance of What the Crow Said in its characteristic concern with denial and subversion of the conventions of the writer's medium.