by John Metcalf
Thrand of Gotu. George Johnston. 1994.
How Insensitive. Russell Smith. 1994.
A Litany in Time of Plague. K. D. Miller. 1994.
Lives of the Mind Slaves. Matt Cohen. 1994.
Popular Anatomy. Keath Fraser. 1995.
On earth as it is. Steven Heighton. 1995.
Driving Men Mad. Elise Levine. 1995.
The Lusty Man. Terry Griggs. 1995.
Influence of the Moon. Mary Borsky. 1995.
Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. Gil Adamson. 1995.
Lovers and Other Strangers. Carol Malyon. 1996.
Sailor Man. Leo Simpson. 1996.
Telling My Love Lies. Keath Fraser. 1996.
The Garden of Earthly Delights. Meeka Walsh. 1996.
Kiss Me. Andrew Pyper. 1996.
The Porcupine’s Quill Reader. Eds. Tim Inkster and John Metcalf. 1996.
Dancer. Shelley Peterson. 1996.
Buying on Time. Antanas Sileika. 1997.
If I Were Me. Clark Blaise. 1997.
Small Change. Elizabeth Hay. 1997.
Sleeping Weather. Cary Fagan. 1997.
Jacob’s Ladder. Joel Yanofsky. 1997.
Promise of Shelter. Robyn Sarah. 1997
Collected Poems (Vol. 1). P. K. Page. 1997.
Collected Poems (Vol. 2). P. K. Page. 1997.
The Schemers and Viga Glum. George Johnston. 1997.
Learning to Live Indoors. Alison Acheson. 1998.
Love in a Warm Climate. Kelley Aitken. 1998.
The Bubble Star. Lesley-Anne Bourne. 1998.
Belle of the Bayou. Joanne Goodman. 1998.
The King of Siam. Murray Logan. 1998.
Mixed-Up Grandmas. Carol Malyon. 1998.
Ripostes. Philip Marchand. 1998.
Noise. Russell Smith. 1998.
Aquarium. Mike Barnes. 1999.
Devil’s Darning Needle. Linda Holeman. 1999.
Give Me Your Answer. K. D. Miller. 1999.
Old Flames. Kim Moritsugu. 1999.
Abby Malone. Shelley Peterson. 1999.
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen. Ray Smith. 1999.
One Last Good Look. Michael Winter. 1999.
Crossing the Salt Flats. Christopher Wiseman. 1999.
Southern Stories. Clark Blaise. 2000.
Kurgan. Don Coles. 2000.
Walking in Paradise. Libby Creelman. 2000.
How Did You Sleep? Paul Glennon. 2000.
Oxygen. Annabel Lyon. 2000.
Carnival. Harold Rhenisch. 2000.
This Is Our Writing. T. F. Rigelhof. 2000.
Great Expectations. Grant Robinson. 2000.
The One with the News. Sandra Sabatini. 2000.
Love Street. Susan Perly. 2001.
Facsimiles of Time. Eric Ormsby. 2001.
Gambler’s Fallacy. Judith Cowan. 2001.
Dr. Swarthmore. Alexander Scala. 2001.
Pittsburgh Stories. Clark Blaise. 2001.
A Kind of Fiction. P. K. Page. 2001.
Dove Legend. Richard Outram. 2001.
Holy Writ. K. D. Miller. 2001.
The Lover’s Progress. David Solway. 2001.
13. Mary-Lou Zeitoun. 2002
When Words Deny the World. Stephen Henighan. 2002.
Seasoning Fever. Susan Kerslake. 2002.
A Tourist’s Guide to Glengarry. Ian McGillis. 2002.
The Understanding. Jane Barker Wright. 2002.
The Stand-In. David Helwig. 2002.
The Deep. Mary Swan. 2002.
Uncomfortably Numb. Sharon English. 2002.
The Syllabus. Mike Barnes. 2002.
For Biblioasis
Catalogue Raisonne. Mike Barnes. 2005.
Bright Objects of Desire. Michele Adams. 2005.
Airstream. Patricia Young. 2006.
Hitting the Charts. Leon Rooke. 2006.
Saltsea. David Helwig. 2006.
Time’s Covenant: Selected Poems. Eric Ormsby. 2007.
Little Eurekas. Robyn Sarah. 2007.
The Flush of Victory. Ray Smith. 2007.
Boys. Kathleen Winter. 2007.
The Goldfish Dancer. Patricia Robertson. 2007.
Cold-Cocked. Lorna Jackson. 2007.
Once. Rebecca Rosenblum. 2008.
Dragonflies. Grant Buday. 2008.
Selected Essays. Clark Blaise. 2008. (with J.R. Struthers).
The Lily Pond. Mike Barnes. 2008.
Three Balconies. Bruce Jay Friedman. 2008.
Flirt: The Interviews. Lorna Jackson. 2008.
Thought You Were Dead. Terry Griggs. 2009.
The English Stories. Cynthia Flood. 2009.
What Boys Like. Any Jones. 2009.
Brown Dwarf. K.D. Miller. 2010.
The End of the Ice Age. Terence Young. 2010.
Combat Camera. A.J. Somerset. 2010.
The Meagre Tarmac. Clark Blaise. 2011.
Suitable Precautions. Laura Boudreau. 2011.
The Big Dream. Rebecca Rosenblum. 2011.
Something about the Animal. Cathy Stonehouse. 2011.
Lucky Bruce. Bruce Jay Friedman. 2011.
In the Field. Claire Tacon. 2011.
All the Voices Cry. Alice Petersen. 2012.
Malarky. Anakana Schofield. 2012.
Blood Secrets. Nadine McInnis. 2012.
Canary. Nancy Jo Cullen. 2013.
Keeping the Peace. Colette Maitland. 2013.
The Monkey Puzzle Tree. Sonia Tilson. 2013.
The Pope’s Bookbinder. David Mason. 2013.
The Strength of Bone. Lucie Wilk. 2013.
Red Girl Rat Boy. Cynthia Flood. 2013.
Paradise & Elsewhere. Kathy Page. 2014.
The Freedom in American Songs. Kathleen Winter. 2014.
The Video Watcher. Shawn Stibbards. 2015.
Backspring. Judith McCormack. 2015.
Biblioasis Short Fiction Series
Balduchi’s Who’s Who. Leon Rooke. 2005.
Saturday Night Function. Annabel Lyon. 2005.
The Sociology of Love. Clark Blaise. 2005.
Mr. Justice. Caroline Adderson. 2005.
A Theory of Probablility. Judith McCormack. 2005.
Bigmouth. Terry Griggs. 2005.
Reynolds and the Theory of Dream. Russell Smith. 2006.
Graves of the Heroes. Patricia Robertson. 2006.
The Flying Woman. Sharon English. 2006.
1957 Chevy BelAir. Guy Vanderhaeghe. 2007.
Speck’s Idea. Mavis Gallant. 2008.
Reading Series Publications
the magnum book store readings
Acts of Kindness and of Love. John Metcalf.
Daddy Stump. Leon Rooke.
Sixty Billion Humans. Hugh Hood.
A Night at the Opera. Ray Smith.
Contacts. Dayv James-French.
Tag. Terry Griggs.
Trouble. Diane Schoemperlen.
Passages. Rohinton Mistry.
Extracts from Works-in-Progress. Joan MacLeod.
An Excerpt from the Redeemer. Doug Glover.
A Selection of Poems. Irving Layton.
Fragment of a Novel-in-Progress. Jane Urquhart.
An Excerpt from In the Time of the Angry Queen. Mark Frutkin.
An Excerpt from a Novel-in-Progress. Don Dickinson.
I Had a Father. Clark Blaise.
For Gods and Fathers. Steven Heighton.
From a Family Album. Norman Levine.
Keys. Carol Shields.
Dusters. Gael Turnbull.
Provençal Songs. George Elliott Clarke.
Waiting for Angel. Matt Cohen.
; An Extract from Graven Images. Audrey Thomas.
Seven Stories. Yann Martel.
How I Got Started and Why I Can’t Stop. Isabel Huggan.
Extract from Black Nightingale. John Mills.
Poems. John Newlove.
the food for thought reading series
The Lady and the Servant. Norman Levine.
Landscape with Poisoner. Caroline Adderson.
The Boy from Moogradi. Leon Rooke.
Lieutenant Lukac’s Cat. John Metcalf.
Hiram and Jenny. Richard Outram.
Provence and Mystery Stories. David Helwig.
Delirium. Cynthia Holz.
Our People. Carol Shields.
Berry Season. Patricia Robertson.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks are due to the many Canadian writers who have granted me permission to quote from their work. Especial thanks to Patrick Toner (If I Could Turn and Meet Myself), Ray Smith (“Ontological Arseholes: Life with Montreal Story Teller”), and Robert Giddings (You Should See Me in Pyjamas), who granted me also ghastly flashes of my younger self.
I have kindly been given permission to reprint from the following: P.J. O’Rourke, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, copyright 1995, reprinted by permission of Random House Canada; John Mills, review of Morley Callaghan’s Close to the Sun Again, from Queen’s Quarterly; Keath Fraser, Le Mal de l’air; Leon Rooke, introduction to Macmillan Anthology (2); Barry Cameron, introduction to On the Edge: Canadian Short Stories for The Literary Review (Fairleigh Dickinson University); the Tanks Campaign, from William Hoffer’s catalogues; Michael Darling’s review of Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag, in Macmillan Anthology (1); Mistry, Such a Long Journey; Lisa Moore, quoted in Quarry Magazine, 1992; Hoffer, “Cheap Sons of Bitches: Memoirs of the Book Trade,” written for Carry On Bumping; Mark Abley’s review of George Johnston’s Endeared by Dark; Don Coles, “My Son at the Seashore, Age Two”; Richard Outram, “Techne”; Steven Heighton, The New Quarterly; the Porcupine’s Quill Press and K.D. Miller; Terry Griggs; Annabel Lyon; Russell Smith, Noise; Judith McCormack, “The Cardinal Humours”; Ken Rockburn, Medium Rare.