ESSAYS AND BOOK REVIEWS:(click on the blue titles to read the relevant articles)
2009 “A Precise Woman,” in How Poems Work at Arc Magazine online.
2008 Angels, Not Polarities: Poetry and Prose in the Work of Bronwen Wallace, presented at the Common Magic Conference at Queen’s University, March 8, 2008.
2005 Obituary for Sheldon Zitner, Books in Canada (June 2005), 34.
“The Better Mother,“Maisonneuve (June-July 2005), 14-19.
2004 “Found Money,” Maisonneuve (December 2004),14. To be reprinted in Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Non-Fiction, ed. Zoe Landale and Luanne Armstrong, Toronto: Wolsak and Wynne, 2011.
“Why does a poet start writing fiction?”Books in Canada (September 2004), 37-8.
2002 “My Life with Northrop Frye,”Books in Canada (September 2002), 39-40.
1999 “The Violin in History: A Preface to The Violin Lover,” Brick 63 (Fall 1999), 27.
1998 Review of Gary Geddes’ Active Trading: Selected Poems 1970-1999, The Journal of Canadian Poetry 11 (1996), 91-4.
1994 Review of Michael Ondaatje’s The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, The Journal of Canadian Poetry 8 (1993), 85-91.
1991 “The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodie’s ‘Enthusiasm’,”Canadian Literature 130 (1991), 7-26.
“Speaking in Tongues: The Poetry of Erin Mouré,” Essays on Canadian Writing 43 (1991), 133-43
Review of new editions of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Rising Village and Standish O’Grady’s The Emigrant, The University of Toronto Quarterly 61 (1991), 152-5.
Review of Peter Dale Scott’s Coming to Jakarta, The Journal of Canadian Poetry 8 (1993), 113-21.
1990 “Canadian Prospects: Abram’s Plains in Context,” The University of Toronto Quarterly 59 (1990), 498-515.
“On the Line,” Poetry Canada Review 11#13 (1990), 8-11.
“Praising ‘ the form before form,’” (review of Patrick Lane’s Winter. Event 19 #3 (1990), 119-2.
“A Note on Teaching Poetry,” Event 19 #1 (1990), 13-14.
“Distance and Desire: Two Versions,” (review of Don Coles’ K. in Love and David Solway’s Modern Marriage). Essays on Canadian Writing 40 (1990), 147-52.
1989 “Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues au sujet de littérature Canadienne-anglaise,” Poetry Canada Review 10#2 (1989), 23.
Review of Paulette Jiles’ The Jesse James Poems. Canadian Literature 122-3 (1989), 148-50.
“Afterword,” to Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie, New Canadian Library edition. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989, 535-45.
“Roberts as an Editor: Shelley’s ‘Adonais and Alastor,’” Canadian Poetry 25 (1989), 56-65.
“Carman’s ‘Shelley’ and Roberts’ ‘Ave,’ Canadian Poetry 24 (1989), 20-8.
1988 “Driving Home with John Newlove,” Essays on Canadian Writing. 36 (1988), 95-109.
“Second Person Impersonal,” Quarry 37#4 (1988), 77-86.
“The Ring and the Book: Fact and Fiction in Canadian Poetry,” Event 17#3 (1988), 105-9.
Review of Ralph Gustafson’s Winter Prophecies and Plummets and Other Partialities. Books in Canada (1988), 29-30.
1987 “Proceeding Before the Amorous Invisible: Phyllis Webb and the Ghazal,” Canadian Literature 115 (1987), 48-65.
“All in War with Time’: The Poetry of Don Coles,” Essays on Canadian Writing 35 (1987), 156-70.
Review of Gwendolyn MacEwen’s Afterworlds, Books in Canada (1987), 26 .Rpt.Contemporary Literary Criticism, Detroit: Gale, 1990.
Review of Nadine McInnis’s Shaking the Dreamland Tree and Lianne Heller’s Who’s to Say? Poetry Canada Review 8#4 (1987).
Review of Diana Hartog’s Candy from Strangers, Poetry Canada Review 8#2-3 (1987), 42-3.
1986 “Indirection: Truth to Life in Fiction,” Poetry Canada Review. 7#4 (1986), 28.
Review of Miodrag Pavlovic’s A Voice Locked in Stone, Poetry Canada Review 7#4 (1986), 36-7.
“From ‘Philoctetes on the Island’ to ‘Tin Roof’: The Emerging Myth of Michael Ondaatje,” Spider Blues: Essays on Michael Ondaatje, ed. Sam Solecki, Montreal: Véhicule, 1986, 70-81.
“On Finding Oneself in Mexico,” Brick. 28 (1986), 47-9.
Review of Anne Szumigalski’s INSTAR, Poetry Canada Review 8#1 (1986), 31-2.
1985 Review of Robyn Sarah’s Anyone Skating on that Middle Ground, Poetry Canada Review 7#2 (1985-6), 38-9.
1983 “The World as Will and Idea: A Comparative Study of An American Dream and Mr. Sammler’s Planet,” Modern Fiction Studies 28 (1982-3); 569-82, rpt. Saul Bellow in the 1980s: A Collection of Critical Essays, eds. G.L. Cronin and L.H. Goldman, Ann Arbor: Michigan State University Press, 1989, 209- 21.
1981 “Seduction and Betrayal at the RestWay Motel: Kent Thompson’s Shacking Up, Waves 9 (1981), 89-92.
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES IN WHICH MY WORK APPEARS:
Being Alive ed. Neil Astley, London: Bloodaxe, 2004.
Poetry International 7-8: English Language Poetry from Around the World, San Diego: San Diego State UP, 2004.
The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 6th ed., New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Contre-Tailles: Poèmes choisis de vingt-cinq auteurs canadiens anglais, trans. Pierre DesRuisseaux, Montréal: les editions Triptyque, 1996.
The Signal Anthology, ed. Michael Harris, Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1993.
Sudden Miracles: Writings by Eight Women Poets, ed. Rhea Tregebov, Toronto: Second Story Press, 1991.
Companeros: An Anthology of Writings about Latin America, eds. Gary Geddes and Hugh Hazleton, Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant, 1990.
Frictions: Short Fiction by Canadian Women, ed. Rhea Tregebov, Toronto: Second Story Press, 1989
Canadian Women Poets, ed. Rosemary Sullivan, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Celebrating Canadian Women Writers, ed. Greta Hoffman Nemeroff, Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1989.
Anything is Possible: A Selection of Eleven Women Poets, ed. Mary di Michele, Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic, 1984.
BOOKS I’VE EDITED FOR MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Four Historical Definitions of Architecture, by Stephen Parcell, 2012
Rediscovering Reverence: The Meaning of Faith in a Secular World, by Ralph Heintzman, 2011
Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew, by Maria Meindl, 2011
Georges and Pauline Vanier: Portrait of a Couple, by Mary Frances Coady, 2011
Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950, by Marylin J. McKay, 2011.
Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment, by Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, and Alice de Wolff, 2011
The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal, by Sean Mills, 2010
Winner First Book Prize Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards (2010)
Shortlisted Sir John A. Macdonald Prize Canadian Historical Association (2011)
Marian and the Major: Marian Engel’s “Elizabeth and the Golden City,” edited by Christl Verduyn, 2010
Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British-Atlantic World 1770-1850, by Kevin Hutchings, 2009.
Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece, by Anne L. Klinck, 2008
The Geography of Aging: Preparing Communities for the Surge in Seniors, by Gerald Hodge, 2008
Mr Charlotte Bronte: The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls, by Alan H. Adamson, 2008
