Malahat Review 167 (Summer 2009) Print Edition

• • • Mark Abley, “Efenechtyd”
    • Lynne Burnett, “On Hearing that a Friend’s Husband Died in his Sleep”
    • Barry Butson, “Milton in his Garden”
    • Sara Cassidy, “The Children, Sleeping” and “Night”
    • Anne Compton, “What the construction worker said”
    • Matthew Godden, “Island Poem #1,”

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To Learn to be With You: two love poems,

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The Big Date

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• Ruth Johnston, “Preface to Cassanova’s Histoire de ma Vie”
• Susanne Kort, “Vespers”
• Katherine Leyton, “Lower Forms of Life”
• P. K. Page, “Cullen in Old Age” (Won silver in poetry at the 2010 National Magazine Awards)
• Marion Quednau, “Paradise, Later Years” (Won gold in poetry at the 2010 National Magazine Awards)
• matt robinson, “Against the Hard Angle”
• Patrick Walsh, “Meditations of a Sniper”

• Randy deVita, “Bites”
• Correction
• Stephen Henighan, “Who Killed Martin Coombs?”

• Jane Finlayson, “Remains”
• Elizabeth Haynes, “The Alchemist”

• Poetry

• Daphne Marlatt, The Given (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008). Paperbound, 120 pp., $17.99.
• Daphne Marlatt, Robert Minden, and Carla Hallett, Like Light Off Water (Vancouver: Otter Bay Productions). Audio CD, 28 min., $15.00.
• Don McKay, Songs for the Songs of Birds (Tors Cove: Rattling Books). Audio CD, 78 min., $19.95.
• David O’Meara, Noble Gas, Penny Black (London: Brick Books). Paperbound, 70 pp., $18.00.
• Sue Sinclair, Breaker (London: Brick Books). Paperbound, 96 pp., $18.00.
• (All reviewed by Jay Ruzesky)
• Tanis Macdonald, Rue the Day (Winnipeg: Turnstone, 2008). Paperbound, 96 pp., $16.95. (Reviewed by Jamie Dopp).
• Barbara Colebrook Peace, Duet for Wings and Earth (Winlaw: Sono Nis, 2008). Paperbound, 63 pp., $14.95. (Reviewed by Amy Reiswig)

• Fiction

• Donna Morrissey, What They Wanted (Toronto: Viking, 2008). Hardbound, 327 pp., $32.00. (Reviewed by Mark Dickinson)
• Betsy Trumpener, The Butcher of Penetang, (Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin, 2008). Paperbound, 152 pp., $17.95.
• Ivan E. Coyote, The Slow Fix (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp, 2008). Paperbound, 152 pp., $18.95.
• (Both Reviewed by Jessica Fish)
• Barbara Romanik, 10 Things to Ask Yourself in Warsaw and Other Stories (Winnipeg: Enfield & Wizenty, 2008). Hardbound, 190 pp., $29.95.
• Harold Hoefle, The Mountain Clinic (Ottawa: Oberon, 2008). Paperbound, 109 pp., $18.95.
• (Both Reviewed by Candace Fertile)

• Non-Fiction

• Lynne van Luven and Bruce Gillespie (Eds.), Nobody’s Father: Life Without Kids (Surrey: Touchwood, 2008). Paperbound, 240 pp., $19.95. (Reviewed by Jay Ruzesky)