BIBLIOGRAPHY – JOHN STEFFLER
Please note that the following bibliography covers the time period leading up to and including the poet’s term as Parliamentary Poet Laureate. The bibliography does not include works published after the Poet Laureate’s term has ended.
BOOKS
Helix: New and Selected Poems. Montreal: Vehicule Press, Signal Editions, 2002, 130pp. (poetry).
That Night We Were Ravenous. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998, 118pp. (poetry).
The Afterlife of George Cartwright. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992, 296 pp. (novel). New York: Henry Holt, 1993. Toronto: M&S, New Canadian Library edition, 1999.
The Wreckage of Play. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988, 101 pp. (poetry).
Flights of Magic. Victoria: Press Pocepic, 1987, 48 pp. (illustrated children's story).
The Grey Islands. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985, 174 pp. (poetry). London, Ont.: Brick Books, 2001.
An Explanation of Yellow. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1981, 62 pp. (poetry).
OTHER WRITING:
The Visitor, opera libretto, music by Michael Parker, performed by Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia Sept. 22, 2000, Corner Brook; Sept. 23, 2000, St. John’s.
POETRY IN PERIODICALS
“Under Mad Dog Lake,” “Battle at Halfway Point,” “Bear Brains,” and “Smudging the Map” forthcoming in The Malahat Review (Victoria, BC) Spring, 2009.
“A10-142 Settlement at Mount Moriah,” “A30-160 Building the Paper Mill,” “A30-161 Mill Manager’s House,” and “B10-40 Exploits River” in Riddle Fence, pp. 86-90 (St. John’s, NL) No. 2, Fall, 2008.
“Beating the Bounds” in Literary Review of Canada, p. 17 (Toronto, ON) Vol. 16, No. 8, October, 2008. “Book Rock,” “Notes on Burnt Cape,” “Arctic Willow,” “The Role of Calcium in Evolution,” “Cape Norman,” “Wind Shadow,” and “Warm Shallow Sea” in The Malahat Review, pp. 27-33 (Victoria, BC) No. 154, Spring, 2006.
“Blomidon Head,” “Lean-to,” “Without Maps,” “Tomb of Clytemnestra,” “Location,” “Mystra,” and “Mycenae” in The Malahat Review, pp. 16-23 (Victoria, BC) No. 142, Spring 2003.
"Humber Arm" and "Hungry Moon" in The Fiddlehead, pp. 52-55 (Fredericton, NB) No. 212, Summer 2002.
Archives in The Malahat Review, pp. 102-109 (Victoria, BC), No. 131, Summer 2000.
"Marine Drive" in Windsor Review, pp. 86-88 (Windsor, ON), Vol. 33, No. 1, 2000.
“Collecting, Bay of Islands, 1998,” “Removals,” and “It is a blue dome” in The Malahat Review, pp. 99-104 (Victoria, BC), No. 125, Winter 1998.
“Cedar Cove,” “I Didn’t Know This Would Happen,” and “Flower Bed” in The Fiddlehead (Fredericton, New Brunswick), No. 196, Summer 1998.
"Invited In," "In the First Week of June," and "Granary" in The Malahat Review, pp. 48-51 (Victoria, British Columbia), No. 118, Spring 1997.
"The Green Insect," "Work," "Eclipse," and "Neighbouring State" in Event (Vancouver, British Columbia), Vol. 25/No. 3, Winter 1996/97.
"In a Makeshift Blind," "Sour Fire," "Boulder Poem," "Traveller's Guide to the Geology of Newfoundland," "Self-portrait as Saint George," and "The Lanes" in TickleAce, pp. 82-91 (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 31, Spring/Summer 1996.
"In Waterloo," "The Birds Have Not Destroyed Their Culture," and "March 22, 1994" in Poetry Canada Review (Kingston, Ontario), Vol. 15, No. 4, Summer 1995.
"Noon" and "Street-lights, Leaves" in Slow Dancer (Nottingham, England), No. 29, Spring 1993.
"Corner Brook to Athens," "Thorns and Abrasion," "Repairs," "Hammering," "There Is Nothing Waiting to Emerge," and "Broken Sleep" in TickleAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 25, Spring/Summer 1993.
"Street-lights, Leaves," "Noon," and "Stepping into the Night" in TickleAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 24, Fall/Winter 1992.
"Leaving the Great Plains," "For My Execution," "Lifting the Lid," "At the Foot of a Wall," and "Wind" in The Fiddlehead (Fredericton, New Brunswick), No. 173, Autumn 1992. "Tell Me I'm Not Making This Up," "Alban Berg," "On a Lawn Chair at Night," and "The Breeze Itself" in Poetry Canada Review (Kingston, Ontario), Vol. 12, Nos. 3 & 4, 1992.
"Edge of a Field," "Over Northern Ontario," "New Desert," and "Primitive Renaissance" in TickleAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 23, Spring/Summer, 1992.
"Little Wren" and "The Lady with the Pet Dog" in The New Quarterly (Waterloo, Ontario), Vol. XI, No. 3, Fall 1991.
"Green Giving" and "The Cobs Fatten" in Orbis (Nuneaton, England), No. 80/81, Spring/Summer 1991.
"Still Loose and Circling You," "Caught," and "Eating Outdoors" in TickleAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 19, Spring/Summer 1990
"Leaving Deer Lake by Air," "The Point of Combustion," "At the Pigi Cafe, Anno Potamia," and "That Night We Were Ravenous" in The Malahat Review (Victoria, British Columbia), No. 88, Fall 1989.
"Vacation" in riverine 3 (Waterford, Ireland), Autumn 1989.
"Not Yet Landed" and "They Will Hound You yet through Seas and Island Cities" in The Fiddlehead (Frederiction, New Brunswick), No. 157, Autumn 1988.
"Cannibals of Different Kinds" in Event (New Westminster, British Columbia), Vol. 17/ No. 3, Winter 1988/89.
"Green and Modern," "Rains," and "Grey Islands Harbour" in Rubicon (Montreal, Quebec), No. 10, Fall 1988.
"That the Cat Sleeps," "Bits of Moss," and "Labrador Road" in TickleAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 15, Spring/Summer 1988.
"A Sense of Place Gives You Tangible Imagery" in The Dinosaur Review (Drumheller, Alberta), No. 10, Spring 1988.
"The Cobs Fatten, but Every so Often," "Walls of Sound," and "Green Giving" in Canadian Literature (Vancouver, British Columbia), No. 117, Summer 1988.
"Voices: Grey Islands Harbour," "That the Cat Sleeps," and "What the Earth Dreamt and Did" in Riverine 2 (Waterford, Ireland), Winter/Spring 1988.
"Lepidoptera," "For a Photographer," and "Vacation" in The Antigonish Review (Antigonish, Nova Scotia), No. 71-72, Autumn 1987, Winter 1988. "Burrowing" and "The Giving of Names" in The New Quarterly (Waterloo, Ontario), Vol. VII, No. 4, Winter 1988.
"Darkness," "Boiler Room Men," "After the Dance-filled Rooms, the Smoke," and "Does the Leopard Enjoy His Spots?" in TicklAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 14, Fall 1987.
"Hollis Street Square, Halifax," and "Halifax by Bus" in TickleAce (St. John's, Newfoundland), No. 13, Spring 1987.
"Me Mother Kept a Boarding House," "Squeezed under the Roof," "End of the Day-shift," "After Supper the Daughters All Fight," "Coming Back Late," "I Shut My Door. Nice Sleep!" and "Cyril: We Was Froze in Seven Months of the Year." in Descant (Toronto, Ontario), Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 1985.
"Hunting Country," "Scoured Sky. Wind," "I Thought I Was Headed for Silence," "Who Were These People?" "Cliffs," "Not Only the Beach-rock Road," "Looking South," "What Can We Do in Such Elements?" and "Clear Day" in Poetry Canada Review (Toronto, Ontario), Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring, 1985.
"Baker's Brook. North," "Down the Last Hill," "He's out There the Kids Say Pointing," "Good Early Sun," "Cliffs," "Dark Falling," and "I Thought I Was Headed for Silence" in Queen's Quarterly (Kingston, Ontario), Vol. 91, No. 4, Winter, 1984.
"Was on the Water Most of the Day," "Vast Bare Plain of Galloping Animals," "An Adventure for Me," "Up. Down. Up. Down.," "Knees on the Rolling Gunnels," "The Cod, by the Look of Them," and "Five Tons of Fish" in The Fiddlehead (Fredericton, New Brunswick), No. 142, Winter, 1984.
"On the Line," "Ducks Swoop Low," and "Down Bag over My Head" in Newfoundland Quarterly (St. John's, Newfoundland), Vol. LXXIX, No. 2, Fall, 1983.
"Bay of Islands," "Sally's Cove," "Young Woman: Daguerreotype 1850," "Daguerreotypes," "Things That Might Go Wrong," "Monster Bait," "The Glass House," "Sullivan Sets His Thoughts in Order," "On This Day of Sun and Showers," "Western Brook," "A Visit on the River," and "The Horses" in CV/II (Winnipeg, Manitoba), Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring, 1982.
"This Time" in Ariel (Calgary, Alberta), Vol. 13, No. 2, April, 1982.
"Us Plumbers" and "You Can't Step Back" in Grain (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), Vol. IX, No. 3, August, 1981.
"In Class," "My Father's Lunch," and "Parent Problem" in The Pottersfield Portfolio (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Vol. 2, 1980-81.
"Point Victory, April 25 1984" in Northern Light (Winnipeg, Manitoba), No. 5, Summer, 1980. "Daguerreotypes" in Queen's Quarterly (Kingston, Ontario), Vol. 87, No. 3, Autumn, 1980.
"Night Fish" in CV/II (Winnipeg, Manitoba), Vol. 4, No. 4, Spring, 1980.
"Power Failure" and "My Latest Invention" in Quarry (Kingston, Ontario), Vol. 28, No. 4, Autumn, 1979.
"The Sky Had Found a Voice" in Ariel (Calgary, Alberta), Vol. 10, No. 1, January, 1979.
"Western Brook" and "Reading Late" in Queen's Quarterly (Kingston, Ontario), Vol. 85, No. 4, Winter, 1978/79.
"Rain Saints," "What I See Sitting Here," and "Looking Back on a Conference Trip with Sister Williamina" in The Antigonish Review (Antigonish, Nova Scotia), No. 36, Winter, 1979.
"August" in Waves (Toronto, Ontario), Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall, 1978.
"Bay of Islands" and "Butterflies" in The Fiddlehead (Fredericton, New Brunswick), Fall, 1977.
"Mycerinus and His Queen" and "Madonna" in Quarry (Kingston, Ontario), Spring, 1976.
"The Stainless Vane" in The Dalhousie Review (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Spring, 1975.
"New Year" and "Anton My Friend" in Catalyst (Toronto, Ontario), No. 6, Winter, 1969-70.
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES
A Sea’s Voice: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Nature Writing. Halifax: Nimbus, 2005. (poetry)
However Blow the Winds: An Anthology of Poetry and Song from Newfoundland & Labrador and Ireland. Waterford, Ireland and Corner Brook, Newfoundland: Scop Publications, 2004. (poetry)
The New Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002. (poetry)
Coastlines. Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2002. (poetry)
Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2001. (prose fiction)
Land, Sea & Time. St. John's: Breakwater, 2001. (poetry)
Landmarks. Charlottetown: Acorn Press, 2001. (poetry) Why I Sing the Blues. Vancouver: Smoking Lung Press, 2001. (poetry)
Writing Home: A PEN Canada Anthology. Toronto: M&S, 1997. (essay)
Wild on the Crest. St. John's: Jeroboam Books, 1995. (poetry)
Poetry and Knowing. Kingston: Quarry Press, 1995. (essay)
From the Country: Writings About Rural Canada. Kingston: Camden House Press, 1991. (poetry)
The Moosehead Anthology. Montreal: DC Books, 1989. (poetry)
The Atlantic Anthology: Volume 2/Poetry. Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1985. (poetry)
The Maple Laugh Forever. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1981. (poetry)
31 Newfoundland Poets. St. John's: Breakwater Books, 1979. (poetry)
ARTICLES
“A Piece of Hard Light” in Labour/Le Travail, 50th issue, Fall 2002.
“Changing Places: The Importance of Place in My Work,” Montreal Gazette, 19 Aug., 2000.
"The Painted Poem," text of a catalogue to accompany a travelling exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings by Kent Jones, October, 1996.
"Poetic Knowledge: Language as Matter" Poetry Canada (Kingston Ontario), 14:3, 1994.
"Bruckner KO'd by Uncle Al" in Essays on Canadian Writing (Toronto, Ontario), No. 49, Summer 1993, “Al Purdy Issue”.
"Puppetry in Place of the Solo Voice" in Event, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 1990.
"Bridging the Gulf", Poetry Canada Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring, 1986.
REVIEWS
"Kent Jones: Paintings and Drawings," Artsatlantic, No. 52, Spring/Summer 1995.
"Because of the Light" (on Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams), Brick, Winter, 1987. "Far Away Places" (a review of Charles William Rendell's Half Hitches 'Round the Stem Head and Elmer M. Abear's Oriental Short Stories and Selected Light Verses), The Atlantic Provinces Book Review. Vol. 11, No. 3, September-October, 1984.
"Touching an Untouched Haven" (a review of Claire Mowat's The Outport People), The Atlantic Provinces Book Review. Vol. 10, No. 2, September-October, 1983.
"Indian River Revisited" (a review of Alden Nowlan's Miracle at Indian River), The Atlantic Provinces Book Review. Vol. 10, No. 1, April-May, 1983.