(I'll keep adding more over time)
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)
"The Better Mother," Maisonneuve (March 2005)
2004 "Found Money," Maisonneuve (December 2004)
2002 "My Life with Northrop Frye," Books in Canada (September 2002)
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 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, 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 U Press, 1989, 209- 21.
1981 "Seduction and Betrayal at the RestWay Motel: Kent Thompson's Shacking Up," Waves 9 (1981), 89-92.
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES:
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.
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.
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.