THE NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY:

POETRY AND SHORT FICTION IN ENGLISH

Edited, by ROBERT LECKER & JACK DAVID • CONTENTS •

Preface xi

Introduction GEORGE WOODCOCK xiii •

POETRY

ISABELLA VALANCY The Forsaken 35 CRAWFORD (1850-87) On the Way to the Mission 37 The Roman Rose-Seller 4 At Gull Lake: August, 1810 39 The Dark Stag 5 Said the Canoe 7 E. J. PRATT (1882-1964) The Lily Bed 9 Newfoundland 44 The Shark 46 CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS From Brebeuf and His Brethren 47 (1860-1943) The Truant 53 Tantramar Revisited 13 Missing: Believed Dead: The Sower 15 Returned 58 The Potato Harvest 16 In an Old Barn 16 W. W. E. ROSS (1894-1966) (1861-1929) The Creek 60 Low Tide on Grand Pr6 18 The Diver 61 A Vagabond Song 20 This Form 62 I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Rocky Bay 63 Ago 20 Vestigia 21 F. R. SCOTT (1899-1985) The Canadian Authors Meet 65 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN (1861-99) March Field 66 Among the Timothy 23 Trans Canada 66 Heat 26 ~ Overture 67 In November 27 Lakeshore 68 On the Companionship with Nature 31 The City of the End of Things 29 A.J. M. SMITH (1902-80) Winter Uplands 32 The Lonely Land 71 Swift Current 72 Like an Old Proud King in a (1862-1947) Parable 73 The Onondaga Madonna 34 News of the Phoenix 73

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The Archer 74 MARGARET AVISON (b. 1918) Metamorphosis 74 Voluptuaries and Others 121 Butterfly Bones or Sonnet Against EARLE BIRNEY (b. 1904) Sonnets 122 Bushed 76 The Swimmer's Moment 123 The Bear on the Delhi Road 77 Black-White Under Green: May 18, El Greco: Espolio 79 1965 123 Billboards Build Freedom of Stone's Secret 125 Choice 80 Canada Council 82 (b. 1918) Father Grouse 82 The Pomegranate 128 My Love Is Young 83 from Europe 129 Coming Suddenly to the Sea 130 A. M. KLEIN (1909-72) Tao 130 Heirloom 85 Portrait of the Poet as Landscape 86 AL PURDY (b. 1918) The Rocking Chair 91 The Country North of Belleville 132 Political Meeting 92 The Cariboo Horses 134 Sestina on the Dialectic 93 Eskimo Graveyard 136 DOROTHY LIVESAY (b. 1909) Wilderness Gothic 138 Fire and Reason 97 Lament for the Dorsets 139 Green Rain 97 Bartok and the Geranium 98 RAYMOND SOUSTER (b. 1921) Lament 99 Yonge Street Saturday Night 143 On Looking into Henry Moore 101 Downtown Corner Newsstand 143 Ice Age 102 Study: The Bath 144 Two Dead Robins 145 (b. 1912) Pigeons on George Street 146 The Swimmer 105 The Cold Green Element 105 (b. 1922) The Bull Calf 107 Notes from the Underground 149 The Fertile Muck 108 The Double World: 150 Whatever Else Poetry Is ~ In My 57th Year 151 Freedom 109 "Grandfather's Painting": David Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959 111 Thauberger 151

P. K. PAGE (b. 1916) MILTON ACORN (1923-86) Stories of Snow 113 Charlottetown Harbour 154 T-Bar 115 I've Tasted My Blood 155 After Rain 116 The Idea 155 After Reading Albino Pheasants 117 The Natural History of Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree 118 Elephants 156 CONTENTS—ix

JAMES REANEY (b. 1926) Thru 212 Antichrist as a Child 161 Summer Solstice 213 The Red Heart 161 The Sundogs 162 JOHN NEWLOVE (b. 1938) The Alphabet 164 The Flowers 218 Samuel Hearne in Wintertime 221 ROBERT KROETSCH (b. 1927) Crazy Riel 223 "A," "N," and "W" from The Sad Driving 225 Phoenician 168 The Green Plain 225 Mile Zero 171 The Permanent Tourist Comes Home 228 (b. 1927) Marvell's Garden 185 (b. 1939) from The Kropotkin Poems 187 This Is a Photograph of Me 231 Messages 188 The Animals in That Country 232 Leaning 189 Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer 233 Departure from the Bush 236 JAY MACPHERSON (b. 1931) There Is Only One of The Anagogic Man 193 Everything 238 The Boatman 193 Trainride, Vienna-Bonn 239 What Falada Said 194 Umbrella Poem 195 DAPHNE MARLATT (b. 1942) So Cocksure 243 ALDEN NOWLAN (1933-83) Imagine: A Town 244 The Bull Moose 197 Seeing Your World from the The Execution 198 Outside 245 The Mysterious Naked Man 199 From Somewhere 246 The Broadcaster's Poem 199 Delphiniums Blue & Geraniums Red 247 LEONARD COHEN (b. 1934) I Have Not Lingered in European (b. 1943) Monasteries 202 — King Kong Meets Wallace For E. J. P. 203 Stevens 250 What I'm Doing Here 204 White Dwarfs 251 Two Went to Sleep 205 'The Gate iri His Head' 252 "Welcome to these lines" 206 The Cinnamon Peeler 253

GEORGE BOWERING (b. 1935) bpNICHOL (b. 1944) Grandfather 208 1335 Comox Avenue 256 Against Description 209 Dada Lama 258 The House 210 Blues 263 X—CONTENTS

A Small Song That Is His 264 ROO BORSON (b. 1952) Two Words: A Wedding 265 At Night You Can Almost See the Corona of Bodies 274 MARY DI MICHELE (b. 1949) Now and Again 277 The Disgrace 267 Jacaranda 278 Poem for My Daughter 270 Gray Glove 279 As in the Beginning 272

SHORT FICTION

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS MORDECAI RICHLER (b. 1931) (1860-1943) The Summer My Grandmother Was Do Seek Their Meat from God 282 Supposed to Die 374

ETHEL WILSON (1888-1980) LEON ROOKE (b. 1934) From Flores 288 The Problem Shop 385

MORLEY CALLAGHAN (b. 1903) RUDY WIEBE (b. 1934) Now That April's Here 297 Where Is the Voice Coming From? 401

SINCLAIR ROSS (b. 1908) AUDREY THOMAS (b. 1935) The Painted Door 306 Dejeuner sur l'Herbe 411

MAVIS GALLANT (b. 1922) JOHN METCALF (b. 1938) The Accident 322 Keys and Watercress 424

MARGARET LAURENCE (1926-87) MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939) A Bird in the House 334 The Sin Eater 433

HUGH HOOD (b. 1928) CLARK BLAISE (b. 1940) Ghosts at Jarry 350 ~The Bridge 443

ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931) KEATH FRASER (b. 1944) Boys and Girls 361 Taking Cover 450

Acknowledgements 457

Index 463