1466. The Handmaid’s Tale. [Motion picture]. Screenplay by Harold Pinter; directed by Volker Schlondorff. United States: Cinecom Entertainment Group, 1990. 12 reels of 12 on 6 (ca. 9324 ft.).
Halliwell’s Film Guide 1994. Ed. John Walker. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. 517.
~ 1995 ~
Atwood’s Works
1467. A impostora. Lisboa: Édição Livros do Brasil, 1995. Portuguese translation of The Robber Bride by Eduardo Saló.
1468. “The Age of Lead.” The Best of Best Short Stories of 1986-1995. Ed. Gordon and David Hughes. London: Minerva, 1995. 21-34. Reprinted from New Statesman and Society 3 (20 July 1990): 24-29. Also appears in Wilderness Tips.
1469. “Autobiography.” Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem. Selected and ed. Stuart Friebert and David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 1995. 238. Prose poem. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.
1470. “Ava Gardner Reincarnated as a Magnolia.” Michigan Quarterly Review 34.4 (Fall 1995): 582-585. Poem. Reprinted from Morning in the Burned House.
1471. “Bad News.” Mississippi Review (October 1995): s.p. Reprinted from Good Bones. Source: http://www.mississippireview.com/1995/07atwood.html (1 May 2006).
1472. “Before.” Antigonish Review 102-103 (Summer 1995): 219-220. Poem.
1473. “Before the War.” Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem. Selected and ed. Stuart Friebert and David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 1995. 241. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.
1474. “Bodily Harm.” For She Is the Tree of Life: Grandmothers through the Eyes of Women Writers. Ed. Valerie Kack-Smith. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1995. 159-164. Reprinted from 1983 Atwood novel.
1475. “The Bog Man.” The Cosmopolitan Book of Short Stories. Ed. Kate Figes. London: Penguin, 1995. 147-163. Reprinted from Wilderness Tips. Bloomsbury, ©1991.
1476. Bones and Murder. London: Virago, 1995. Stories, poems, drawing, musings elected from two earlier collections, Good Bones and Murder in the Dark.
1477. “Bored.” The Best American Poetry of 1995. Ed. Richard Howard and David Lehman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 21-22. Poem. Originally published Atlantic Monthly 274.6 (December 1994): 102.
1479. “The Boys’ Own Annual, 1911.” From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories. Selected by Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: Vintage, 1995. 62-63. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, © 1983.
1480. “Canada Council Wants Writers’ Money.” Globe and Mail 10 May 1995: A13. Letter re: Canada Council wanting to take over the administration of the Public Lending Right Commission.
1481. “Cannibal Lecture: How Could a Culture So Apparently Boring as Ours Have Embraced the Flesh-Devouring Wendigo?” Saturday Night 110.9 (November 1995): 81-82, 84, 87+. Reprinted from Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, ©1995.
1482. Cat’s Eye. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
1483. Cat’s Eye. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Caruso. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books; Oxford: Isis Audio Books, 1995. Compact disc, 14 sound discs (15 hr., 15 min.)
1484. “Christmas Carols.” Mother Songs: Poems for, by and about Mothers. Ed. Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and Diana O’Hehir. New York: Norton, 1995. 330-331. Reprinted from Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986, ©1987.
1485. “A Christmas Lorac.” Globe and Mail 23 December 1995: C1, C15. Short story.
1486. “Come Back Madame Benoit.” Globe and Mail 4 November 1995: C1, C8. A cookery expert has much in common with politicians.
1487. “Death by Landscape.” The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. 385-400. Short story reprinted from Wilderness Tips, ©1991.
1488. Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe: Roman. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995. German translation of Life Before Man by Werner Waldhoff.
1489. “Dream 2: Brian the Still-Hunter.” Women on Hunting. Ed. Pam Houston. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. 19-20. Poem. Reprinted from The Journals of Susanna Moodie, ©1970.
1490. “[Excerpt].” Bite to Eat Place: An Anthology of Contemporary Food Poetry and Poetic Prose. Ed. Andrea Adolph, Donald L. Vallis, and Anne F. Walker. Oakland, CA: Redwood Coast Press, 1995. 171-173. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.
1491. “[Excerpt].” Motherhood from 1920 to the Present Day: Women’s Voices. Ed. Vivien Devlin. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1995. 166. Reprinted from Surfacing, ©1972.
1492. “Fainting.” Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem. Selected and ed. Stuart Friebert and David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 1995. 240. Prose poem. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.
1493. “Favorite Words.” Sun (Baltimore) 3 December 1995: Section: Perspective: 4j. “30 years ago, my favorite words were ‘Chthonic’ and ‘igneous’ (I was in my Pre-Cambrian Shield phase). They then became ‘Jungoid,’ ‘musilagenous,’ and ‘larval.’ (Biology took over). Right now they are ‘diaphanous’ and ‘lunar.’ The latter especially, as it combines rock and light, solidity and inaccessibility, with a suggestion of tidal and howling wolves.” Reprinted from The Logophile’s Orgy: Favorite Words of Famous People. By Lewis Burke Frumkes. New York: Delacorte, 1995. 3-4.
1494. “February: A Poem.” Financial Post 21 January 1995: 32.
1495. “Foreword.” The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group. 2nd ed. Ed. Ellen Slezak. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1995. ix-xi. In the section on “What to Read,” several Atwood titles are recommended.
1496. “Foreword/Preface.” People Who Make a Difference / Des gens peu ordinaires. Ed. Irene Carroll. Toronto: Penguin, 1995. 1-2. Book of celebrity photographs, proceeds of which go to AIDS research. According to Carroll, Atwood’s “participation was key” in making this book happen. See Montréal Gazette 8 October 1995: F3.
1497. “Frogless.” Los Angeles Times 24 September 1995: Section: Book Review: 6. Poem reprinted from Morning in the Burned House.
1498. “From Cave Series.” River Styx 42-43 (1995): 58.
1499. “Gertrude Talks Back.” Wicked: Women’s Wit and Humour from Elizabeth I to Ruby Wax. Ed. Fidelis Morgan. London: Virago Press, 1995. 282-283. Reprinted from Good Bones, Virago, ©1992.
1500. “Girl without Hands.” Carnage Hall 6 (1995): 16. Poem.
1501. Good Bones. [Sound recording]. Read by Deborah Kipp. [Toronto]: CNIB, [between 1992 and 1995]. 3 cassettes (1 container). 2:42 hours.
1502. Good Bones & Simple Murders. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Large Print Book Series also published in Rockland, MA, by Wheeler. Short-story pieces and prose poems. “The US collection contains work reprinted from both Murder in the Dark (published in Canada by Coach House Press in 1983, and in England by Virago in 1994) and Good Bones (published in Canada by Coach House Press in 1992, in England in hardcover by Bloomsbury in 1992, and in paperback by Virago in 1993).” (Atwood homepage).
1503. Gute Knochen. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1995. German translation of Good Bones by Brigette Walitzek.
1504. The Handmaid’s Tale. Brantford, ON: W. Ross MacDonald, 1995. 2 v. Large print edition.
1505. Het leven vóór de mens. Amsterdam: B. Bakker, 1995. Dutch translation of Life Before Man by Heleen ten Holt.
1506. “How Many Canadas?” New York Times 5 November 1995: Section 4: 15: C2. On results of Quebec vote on separation. Reprinted as “Canada’s Gnawed Cuticles Point Towards the Future” in International Herald Tribune 7 November 1995: Section: Opinion.
1507. “If You Can’t Say Something Nice, Don’t Say Anything at All.” Meanjin 54.2 (1995): 197-[210]. Reprint of the essay on gender issues titled “If You Can’t Say Something Nice, Don’t Say Anything at All,” which appeared in Language in Her Eye: Views on Writing and Gender by Canadian Women Writing in English. Ed. Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard, and Eleanor Wachtel. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. 15-25.
1508. “In the Secular Night.” Poem. Appears http://www.library.
utoronto.ca/canpoetry/atwood/poem1.htm (1 May 2006) and is a reprint from Morning in the Burned House, ©1995.
1509. “Instructions for the Third Eye.” River Styx 42-43 (1995): 56-57.
1510. “International Book of the Year: Mr. Sandman by Barbara Gowdy.” Times Literary Supplement 1 December 1995: 12.
1511. “The Islands.” Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and the Group of Seven. Compiled by David Booth. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995. 20. Poem.
1512. “It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers.” Whole Earth Review 86 (22 September 1995): 77. Reprinted from Oxford Book of War Poetry. Ed. Jon Stallworthy. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, ©1984.
1513. Katzenauge: Roman. Frankfurt: Fisher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995. German translation of Cat’s Eye by Charlotte Franke.
1514. Kocie oko. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1995. Polish translation of Cat’s Eye by Magdalena Konikowska.
1515. La troisième main. Lachine, QU: La pleine lune, 1995. French translation of Good Bones by Hélène Filion.
1516. “Late August.” Bite to Eat Place: An Anthology of Contemporary Food Poetry and Poetic Prose. Ed. Andrea Adolph, Donald L. Vallis, and Anne F. Walker. Oakland, CA: Redwood Coast Press, 1995. 52. Excerpt from You Are Happy (Oxford UP) and Selected Poems 1965-1975 (Oxford UP).
1517. “Livre de voûte: Un livre clé.” Sabord 41 (Autumn 1995): 33-34. James Reaney’s The Bully was an influential book on Atwood.
1518. Loupení jehnátek: Román o lstivosti, kráse a svedených muzích. Prague: Sulc a spol., 1995. Czech translation of The Robber Bride by Drahomíra Hlínková.
1519. “Making Poison.” Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem. Selected and ed. Stuart Friebert and David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 1995. 237. Prose poem. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.
1520. “Marrying the Hangman.” This Ain’t No Healing Town: Toronto Stories. Ed. Barry Callaghan. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1995. [15]-18. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984, ©1990.
1521. “Me, She, and It.” Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I with Self-Portraits. Ed. Daniel Halpern. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. 16-18. Features sketch of Atwood by herself, with autograph.
1522. Morning in the Burned House. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; Boston: Hough-ton Mifflin; London: Virago, 1995. Poetry. Contains the following: “Asparagus” (13), “Ava Gardner Reincarnated as a Magnolia” (30), “Bored” (91), “Cell” (47), “Cressida to Troilus: A Gift” (28), “Dancing” (90), “Daphne and Laura and So Forth” (26), “Down” (72), “February” (11), “A Fire Place” (116), “Flowers” (93), “Frogless” (56), “Girl Without Hands” (112), “Half-Hanged Mary” (58), “Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing” (33), “In the Secular Night” (6), “King Lear in Respite Care” (85), “The Loneliness of the Military Historian” (49), “Man in a Glacier” (81), “A Man Looks” (37), “Manet’s Olympia” (24), “Marsh Languages” (54), “Miss July Grows Older” (21), “The Moment” (109), “Morning in the Burned House” (126), “Oh” (101), “The Ottawa River by Night” (103), “Owl Burning” (70), “A Pink Hotel in California” (76), “Red Fox” (16), “Romantic” (45), “A Sad Child” (4), “Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed Goddess of War, Violent Storms, Pestilence, and Recovery from Illness, Contemplates the Desert in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” (39), “Shapechangers in Winter” (120), “The Signer” (114), “Statuary” (118), “The Time” (98), “Two Dreams” (96), “Two Dreams, 2” (99), “Up” (110), “Vérmilion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona” (107), “A Visit” (88), “Waiting” (8), “Wave” (83), “You Come Back” (3).
1523. Morning in the Burned House. [Sound recording]. Vancouver, BC: Crane Library, 1995. Recorded from book, 1995.
1524. “Morning in the Burned House.” The Independent 21 May 1995: Section: Review: 30. The poem. Also published in North American Review 280.4 (July 1995): 11.
1525. “Murder in the Dark.” This Ain’t No Healing Town: Toronto Stories. Ed. Barry Callaghan. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1995. 189-190. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, 1983.
1526. “The Nature of Gothic.” Carnage Hall 6 (1995): 16. Poem.
1527. New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories. Toronto; New York; Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. Co-edited with Robert Weaver. Contains “Introduction” by Atwood (xii-xv) and “True Trash” (247-266), reprinted from Wilderness Tips.
1528. “Not So Grimm: The Staying Power of Fairy Tales.” Los Angeles Times 29 October 1995: Section: Book Review: 1. Review of Marina Warner’s From the Best to the Blond: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. (1468 w). Reprinted in Philadelphia Inquirer 12 November 1995: Section K:2 C:1 and Toronto Star 30 December 1995: G14.
1529. “Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later.” Paper Guitar: 27 Writers Celebrate 25 Years of Descant Magazine. Ed. Karen Mulhallen. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1995. 15-20. Poem.
1530. “A Parable.” [Title romanized]. Najkrace price na svetu. Belgrade: Cicero, 1995. 155. Serbo-Croation (Cyrillic) translation of “A Parable” from Wilderness Tips.
1531. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Vol. 1: The Early Years; Vol. 2: The Later Years [Braille ed.]. Toronto: CNIB, 1995. Co-edited with Barry Callaghan.
1532. Politique de pouvoir. Montréal: L’Hexagone, 1995. Poetry. Bilingual edition. French translation of Power Politics by Louise Desjardins.
1533. Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. Toronto: Key Porter; New York: Workman Pub.; Bath, UK: Barefoot Books, 1995. Children’s book. Author donating proceeds to Woodcock Fund, which helps writers in mid-career who need money to finish their works.
1534. “Rage Deferred.” Women’s Review of Books 12.10-11 (July 1995): 28. With Jill Piggott.
1535. “Rape Fantasies.” Fiddlehead 185 (1995): 91-99. Short story.
1536. Robber Bride. Toronto: Seal Books; New York: Bantam, 1995. Paper edition. Reprint of 1993 hard-cover version.
1537. The Robber Bride. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Caruso. Oxford: Isis Audio Books, ©1995. 14 sound cassettes (1260 min.).
1538. Sabaibaru: Gendai Kanada bungaku nyumon. Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo, 1995. Japanese translation of Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature by Kato Yukako. Title romanized.
1539. “The Santa Claus Trap.” Favourite Christmas Stories from Fireside Al. Selected and introduced by Alan Maitland. Toronto; New York; London: Viking, 1995. [18]-28. Poem.
1540. “The Signer.” Toronto Star 11 February 1995: L3. Poem. Reprinted from Morning in the Burned House.
1541. “The Sin Eater.” This Ain’t No Healing Town: Toronto Stories. Ed. Barry Cal-laghan. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1995. 214-225. Reprinted from Bluebeard’s Egg, 1982 ©1977.
1542. “Spelling.” Mother Songs: Poems for, by and about Mothers. Ed. Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and Diana O’Hehir. New York: Norton, 1995. 89-90. Reprinted from True Stories (1981).
1543. “Statuary.” Toronto Star 11 February 1995: L3. Poem. Reprinted from Morning in the Burned House.
1544. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Toronto; New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Atwood writes of the imaginative mystique of the Canadian North. In discussing the work of writers like Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence, she talks of northern folklore, myth, and imagery. Originally presented as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University, 1991.
1545. “There Was Once.” Mississippi Review (October 1995): s.p. Reprinted from Good Bones. Source http://www.mississippireview.com/1995/07atwood.html (1 May 2006).
1546. “There Was Once.” Wicked: Women’s Wit and Humour from Elizabeth I to Ruby Wax. Ed. Fidelis Morgan. London: Virago Press, 1995. 153-155. Reprinted from Good Bones, Virago, ©1992.
1547. “The Trappers.” Women on Hunting. Ed. Pam Houston. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. [21]-22. Poem. Reprinted from The Animals in That Country, ©1968.
1548. “True Trash.” Favourite Summer Stories from Front Porch Al. Selected and introduced by Alan Maitland. To
ronto: Viking, 1995. 261-288.
1549. “Uglypuss.” Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories. Rev. ed. [Ed.] James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny. New York: Penguin, 1995. 484-507. Reprinted from Bluebeard’s Egg, 1983 ©1986.
1550. “Unpopular Gals.” Mississippi Review (October 1995): s.p. Reprinted from Good Bones. Source: http://www.mississippireview.com/1995/07atwood.html (1 May 2006).
1551. “The Victory Burlesk.” This Ain’t No Healing Town: Toronto Stories. Ed. Barry Callaghan. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1995. 157-158. Prose poem. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983. Index title: “At the Victory Burlesk.” Also in Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem. Selected and ed. Stuart Friebert and David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 1995. 239.
1552. “A Visit.” Atlantic Monthly (US) 275.5 (May 1995): 76. Poem.
1553. “When It Happens.” The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones. London: Viking, 1995. 279-289. Short story first published in Châtelaine 1975, collected in Dancing Girls and Other Stories, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, ©1977.
1554. Wilderness Tips. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; London: Bloomsbury Classics, 1995, 1991.
1555. “The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart.” On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays. New, revised, and expanded ed. Ed. Richard Reynolds and John Stone. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 362-363. Reprinted from “Two-Headed Poems” in Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986, ©1987.
1556. “You Come Back.” North America Review 280.5 (September 1995): 52.
1557. “You Could Say.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 20.1-2 (1995): 334-337. A meandering answer to the question: What is the difference between a poem and a novel?
Adaptations of Atwood’s Works
1558. First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors. [Sound recording]. Collected and ed. Paul Mandelbaum. Read by various narrators. Beverly Hills, CA: Dove Audio, 1995. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 6 hr.). Includes some selections from Atwood.
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