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David Solway : Publications

Poetry

A. Books

In My Own Image; McGill Poetry Series, 1961, Montreal.
The Crystal Theatre; Fiddlehead Books, 1971, Fredericton, N.B.
Paximalia; Fiddlehead Books, 1972, Fredericton, N.B.
The Egyptian Airforce; Fiddlehead Books, 1973, Fredericton, N.B.
The Road To Arginos; Delta Canada, 1976/77, Montreal.
Anacrusis; Fiddlehead books, 1977, Fredericton, N.B.
Twelve Sonnets; Mansfield Book Mart, 1978, Montreal.
Mephistopheles And The Astronaut; Mosaic Press, 1979, Toronto.
The Mulberry Men; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1982, Montreal.
Selected Poetry; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1982, Montreal.
Stones In Water; Mosaic Press, 1983, Toronto.
Modern Marriage; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1987/88, Montreal.
Bedrock; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1993, Montreal.
Chess Pieces, McGill-Queen�s University Press, 1999, Montreal.
Saracen Island: The Poems of Andreas Karavis, Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2000, Montreal.
The Lover�s Progress, The Porcupine�s Quill, 2001, Erin. (Dramatized by Curtain Razors Theatre Group, Regina, November 21-23, 2002.)
Franklin�s Passage, McGill-Queen�s University Press, 2003, Montreal and Kingston.
Po�mes choisis (trans. by Yves Gosselin), �ditions du Noro�t, 2004, Montréal.
The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, Goose Lane Editions, 2005, Fredericton.
Demilunes (translation of 32 Québécois poets), Frog Hollow Press, 2005, Victoria.
Reaching for Clear, Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2006, Montreal.

Forthcoming:

The Properties of Things, Biblioasis, 2007, Windsor.

B. Anthologies and Textbooks

(Editor):

4 Montreal Poets; Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973, Fredericton.

Forthcoming:

8 Po�tes Anglophones Montréalais, �ditions du Noro�t, 2007, Montréal.

(Contributor):

Canada First; House of Anansi, 1969, Toronto.
Five Canadian Poets In Greece; Ministry of Culture and Sciences, 1974, Athens.
Ten Montreal Poets; Delta Canada, 1975, Montreal.
The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse; Penguin, Revised Edition, 1975, London.
Montreal English Poetry of the Seventies; Véhicule Press, 1977, Montreal.
The Poets of Canada; Hurtig Press, 1978, Edmonton.
Anthology of Magazine Verse; Monitor Press, 1981, Beverly Hills.
Cross/cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry; Véhicule Press, 1982, Montreal.
The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse; Penguin, New Revised Edition, 1983, London.
Inside Poetry; Academic Press, 1985, Toronto.
Essential Voices: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry; Oberon Press, 1985, Ottawa.
The New Canadian Poets; McClelland and Stewart, 1985, Toronto.
Antologia De La Poesia Anglocanadiense Contemporanea; Los Libros de la Frontera, 1985, Barcelona.
Anthology of Magazine Verse; Monitor Press, 1988, Beverly Hills.
The Other Language; The Muses Company, 1989, Montreal.
Cycles 8; Prentice Hall, 1989, Toronto.
5 Canadian Poets in Greece, II; University of Athens, 1992.
The Signal Anthology; Signal/Véhicule, 1993, Montreal.
The Age of Koestler; Practices of The Wind, 1994, Kalamazoo.
Border Lines: Contemporary Poetry in English; Copp Clark, 1995, Toronto.
The Bedford Introduction to Literature; Fourth Edition, St. Martin's Press, 1996, Boston.
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature; St. Martin�s Press, 1996, Boston.
Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry; Véhicule Press, 1996, Montreal.
Parole Sull�Acqua, Empiria, 1996, Bologna.
The Bedford Introduction to Literature; St. Martin�s Press, Fifth Edition, 1998, Boston.
Poetry: An Introduction; Bedford Books, 1998, Boston.
Anthology of 20th Century Poetry of the Eastern Townships; �ditions Triptyque/ Bishop�s University, 1999, Lennoxville.
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature; Bedford/St. Martin�s, Fifth Edition, 1999, Boston.
Co-incidences: Po�tes anglophones du Québec; Les �ditions Triptyque, 2000, Montreal.
Poetry: An Introduction; Bedford/St. Martin�s, Sixth Edition, 2001, Boston.
The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing; Bedford/ St. Martin�s, 2001, Boston.
Public Schools of North Carolina: Reading Selection; 2002, Raleigh.
The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing; Bedford/St. Martin�s, Sixth Edition, 2002, Boston.
Poetry: An Introduction; Bedford Books, 2006, Boston.
The Bedford Introduction to Literature; St. Martin�s Press, Eighth Edition, 2006, Boston.

C. Magazines (1990s/2000s)

Partisan Review; Winter, 1990.
Poetry Canada Review; Summer 1991, Vol. II, no. 3.
Canadian Literature; no. 136, 1993.
Nimrod:International Journal of Prose & Poetry, Vol. 37, no. 2., 1994.
La Traducti�re, no. 12-13, 1995. (Paris.)
Canadian Literature, no. 152/153, 1997.
The Atlantic Monthly, May, 1997.
The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1997.
The Formalist, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 1997.
The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1998.
The Formalist, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 1998.
The Malahat Review, no. 123, Summer, 1998.
The Fiddlehead, no. 198, Winter 1999.
The Sewanee Review, Winter 1999.
Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 24, no.1, 1999.
Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 7, no. 9, 1999.
The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1999.
Books in Canada, October 1999.
Matrix, no. 55, 1999/2000.
Estuaire, no. 101, Spring 2000.
The Fiddlehead, no. 204, Summer 2000.
The Antigonish Review, no. 123, Autumn 2000.
Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 25, nos. 1 & 2, 2001.
liberté, Vol. 43, no. 3, 2001.
Slope On-Line Magazine, #13, 2001.
Vallum 1:1, Spring 2001.
Montreal Serai On-Line, Vol. 14, no. 4, Fall 2001.
Canadian Literature, 170/171, Autumn/Winter 2001.
The Fiddlehead, no. 209, Autumn 2001.
liberté, Vol. 44, no. 4, 2002.
Descant 119, Winter 2002, Vol. 33, no. 4.
Books in Canada, Vol. 32, no. 3.
Descant 121, Summer 2003, Vol. 34, no. 2.
The Danforth Review, June 2003.
Matrix, no. 64, 2003.
The Fiddlehead, no. 217, Autumn 2003.
The Antigonish Review, no. 137, Spring 2004.
Maisonneuve, Issue 10, August/September 2004.
The Atlantic Monthly, October 2004.
Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Autumn 2004.
Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 66, 2004.
The Mitre (Bishop�s University), 2005.
Maisonneuve, Issue 14, April/May 2005.
Contre-Jour, Numero 6, 2005.
The Antigonish Review, no. 140, Spring 2005.
The New Quarterly, no. 95, Summer 2005.
Pretext (U.K.), no. 11, Summer 2005.
Books in Canada, Vol. 35, no. 1.
Saranac Review, Issue 2, Vol. 2.
Bamboo, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 2006.
The Antigonish Review, no. 146, Summer 2006.

Forthcoming:

The Fiddlehead. The Sewanee Review.

Prose

A. Books

Education Lost; OISE Press, 1989, Toronto.
The Anatomy of Arcadia (travel); Véhicule Press, 1992, Montreal.
Lying About The Wolf: Essays in Culture and Education; McGill-Queen�s University Press, 1997, Montreal and Kingston.
Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism; McGill-Queen�s University Press, 1997, Montreal and Kingston.
An Andreas Karavis Companion; Véhicule Press, 2000, Montreal.
The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age; McGill-Queen�s University Press, 2001, Montreal and Kingston.
Director�s Cut (literary essays); The Porcupine�s Quill, 2003, Erin.
On Being a Jew (chapbook); David Mason Books, 2003, Toronto.

Forthcoming:

The Big Lie: Reflections on Terror, Antisemitism and Identity; Lester, Mason & Begg, 2007, Toronto.
Essais sur l�éducation et la culture (translation), Fides, 2007/8, Montréal.
Anatomie d� Arcadie (translation), �ditions du Noro�t, 2007/8, Montréal.

B. Articles, Essays, Reviews and Excerpts

Introduction to 4 Montreal Poets; Fiddlehead Books, 1973, Fredericton, N.B.
"Hydra"; The Antigonish Review, no. 12, 1973.
"The Flight From Canada"; CV II; reprinted in The Insecurity of Art: Essays on Poetics; Véhicule Press, 1982, Montreal.
"Intoxicated Words: Language in Shakespeare's Late Romances"; The Sewanee Review, Fall 1987.
"The End of Poetry"; Canadian Literature, no. 115, 1987.
"Summer in The Aegean"; Aegean Review, 1988.
"The Pursuit of Absence: Culling and Dereading"; The Antigonish Review, no. 77/78, 1989.
"Greek Food: An Arcadian Rhetoric"; The Antigonish Review, no. 81/82, 1990.
"The Experience of The Surface"; Zymergy 10, Fall 1991.
"Que Signifie ��tre Juif�?", Actes du Colloque, Université de Montréal, 1991.
"The Word and the Stone"; Canadian Literature, no. 129, 1991/2.
"The Anecdotal Function"; Interchange, (University of Toronto), 1992.
"Framing Layton"; Matrix, no. 38, 1992. (Reprinted in Concordia University Festschrift for Irving Layton, published as Raging Like a Fire, Véhicule Press, 1993, Montreal.)
"Pronominal Debris"; Errata, Vol. 1, no. 3, 1993.
"Dead Teachers Society"; Matrix, 44, 1994.
"Pericles as Dream"; The Sewanee Review, Winter 1997.
"Education and the Fetish of Reform"; Policy Options: Institute on Research in Public Policy, Vol. 18, no. 3, 1997, Montreal and Ottawa.
"On Modern Poetry"; Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 54, 1998.
"A Referential Tragedy"; International Journal of Applied Semiotics, Vol. 1, Special Issue, 1999, Kent State University/University of Toronto.
"The Pelagic Bard of Calypso�s Isle" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 28, no. 7.
"Ardor Illuminates" (review); The Sewanee Review, Winter 2000.
"The Montreal Forties" (review); Montreal Review of Books, Spring & Summer, 2000.
"Jumping off the Titanic: Reflections on Education and Education Writing" (essay); Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 57, 2000.
"Investing (in) Paradise" (review); Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 18, no. 1, May 2000.
Excerpt from The Book of Angels, novel-in-progress, Matrix 57, 2000.
"Living in a House of Words" (review); The Fiddlehead, no. 205, Autumn 2000.
"Medicine for the CanLit Soul" (essay); National Post, January 6, 2001.
"Reflections on the Laureateship" (essay); National Post, April 21, 2001.
"Charlie�s Angels: Four Swinging Poets" (review); National Post, April 23, 2001.
"Louis Dudek: A Personal Memoir"; Quill & Quire, May, 2001.
"Commentary on Spielraum and Teaching, or Driving in Mexico" (essay); Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 31, no. 2, Summer 2001.
"Standard Average Canadian" (essay); Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 59, 2001.
"The Problem with Al Purdy" (essay); National Post, June 23, 2001.
"The Trouble with Annie" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 30, no. 1.
"Acorn, Lemm and Ojibway" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 30, no. 2.
"Writing in Double Exile" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no.1.
"Peter Van Toorn" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no. 2.
"On Being a Jew" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no. 3.
"The Colour of Literature" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no. 4.
"More in Love than Anger: A Recollection of Milton Acorn" (essay); Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 61, 2002.
"Wilted Laurels" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no. 6.
"Reading Norm Sibum" (review); PN Review 147.
"The Greek Experience" (review); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no. 8.
"Seeking Prester John: Umberto Eco and His Messenger" (essay/review); Books in Canada, Vol. 31, no. 9.
"The Book of Canadian Poetry" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 32, no. 2.
"Irving Layton" (essay); Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century, Routledge, New York and London, 2003.
"The Sonnet as Mathematical Object" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 32, no. 3.
"Recollections of a Pseudo-Philospher" (essay); Arts & Opinion, Vol. 2, no. 2, 2003.
"Quebec and L�Affaire Richler" (essay); Arts & Opinion, Vol. 2, no. 3, 2003.
"On Text and Hypertext" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 32, no. 6.
"Reading Richard Outram" (essay); Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 63, 2003.
"Platform (review); Books in Canada, Vol. 32, no. 8.
"Getting on the Gravy Train" (essay); Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 64, 2003.
"The Higher Transvestism" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 33, no. 3.
"Framing Layton" (reprint); Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2004.
"The Devil�s Polymer" (review); Books in Canada, Vol. 33, no. 6.
"Mirabel" (review); Books in Canada, Vol. 34, no. 1.
excerpt from On Being a Jew; Broken Pencil, Issue 28, 2005.
"Conference Days" (article); Manuscript, Issue 2, Summer 2005.
"An Ambassador of Sorts" (essay); Books in Canada, Vol. 34, no. 7.
"A Note on Eric Ormsby" (essay); Canadian Notes & Queries, no 68, 2005.
"Remembering Layton" (eulogy); Books in Canada, Vol. 35, no. 1.
"Reading the Encyclopedia Dementia"(essay); Arts & Opinion,Vol.5, no.2, 2006.
"Conversations"; The Norwich Exchanges, Pen & Inc Press, Norwich, 2006.
"Jonas� Masque" (review); Books in Canada, Vol. 35, no. 6.

Forthcoming:

"Pericles as Dream" (reprint); Shakespeare Criticism, Gale.
"The Problem of Henry VIII" (essay); Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
"Revisiting Hydra Post-Chernobyl" (essay); MondoGreco.
"On Terror and Liberalism" (essay); Books in Canada.
La recherche d�une voix (essay); La Revue des sciences humaines.
"A Letter to Robert Melan�on" (verse-letter); Chemin de traverse (Noro�t).
"Double Exile and Montreal English-Language Poetry" (revised and reprinted); English Poetry in Quebec: 1976-2001. (Véhicule Press)
"Double Exile and Montreal English-Language Poetry" (new revision and translation); Autres voix de dedans: la littérature anglo-québécoise (�ditions Nota Bene).

Works In Progress

Reading, Riting and Rhythmitic (education)
Peregrines (literary essays)
Living in the Valley of Shmoon (political essays)
Lenses and Reflections: Greek Island Sketches (travel)
Scattered Rhymes (poetry)
The Book of Angels (novel)