97 Canadian Literature A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Summer 200 8 $19 Ca n a d ian 97 Literature predators and gardens predators Predators and Gardens Playwrights Canada Press The Betty Lambert Reader edited by Cynthia Zimmerman Includes short stories, novel excerpts and full plays: “The Pony”; The Dark Corner; Falconer’s Island; “On Writing Plays for Children”; The Riddle Machine; The Good of the Sun; Once Burnt, Twice Shy; Sqrieux-de- Dieu; “Guilt”; Crossings; Grasshopper Hill; Jennie’s Story and Under the Skin. ISBN 978-0-88754-862-8 $45.00 Carole Fréchette: Two Plays translated by John Murrell Finalist for the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award. John and Beatrice: Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to reply to her ad. Helen’s Necklace: Helen’s world is irrevocably changed by her search for a trinket. 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ISBN 978-0-88754-813-0 $16.95 Playwrights Canada Press The Canadian Drama Publisher 416-703-0013 playwrightscanada.com Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 97, Summer 8, Predators and Gardens Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Margery Fee Associate Editors: Laura Moss (Reviews), Glenn Deer (Reviews), Larissa Lai (Poetry), Réjean Beaudoin (Francophone Writing), Judy Brown (Reviews) Past Editors: George Woodcock (959–977), W.H. New (977–995), Eva-Marie Kröller (995–3), Laurie Ricou (3–7) Editorial Board Heinz Antor Universität Köln Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Carole Gerson Simon Fraser University Coral Ann Howells University of Reading Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph Jon Kertzer University of Calgary Ric Knowles University of Guelph Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Louise Ladouceur University of Alberta Patricia Merivale University of British Columbia Judit Molnár University of Debrecen Leslie Monkman Queen’s University Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Élizabeth Nardout-Lafarge Université de Montréal Ian Rae McGill University Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Patricia Smart Carleton University David Staines University of Ottawa Penny van Toorn University of Sydney David Williams University of Manitoba Mark Williams University of Canterbury Editorial Margery Fee Predators and Gardens 6 Articles Karen Charleson Re-considering Margaret Horsfield’s Cougar Annie’s Garden 12 Cinda Gault Marian Engel’s Bear: Romance or Realism? 29 Sean Somers Anne of Green Gables/Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness 42 Lee Spinks Sense and Singularity: Reading Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 62 Jordana Greenblatt Something Sadistic, Something Complicit: Text and Violence in Execution Poems and Thirsty 80 197 final.indd 1 10/22/08 3:05:58 PM Articles, continued Robert McGill No Nation but Adaptation: “The Bear Came over the Mountain,”Away from Her, and What It Means to Be Faithful 98 Poems Laurie Kruk 10 Wangshu Dai 96 Gillian Jerome 28 Wenting Liao 96 Allan Brown 41 Michael Bullock 96 Meredith Quartermain 61, 79 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at http://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed Glen Robert Gill 136 Angie Abdou 112 Greg Gillespie 175 Alison Acheson 113 Robert Giroux 156 Donald Alarie 179 Pierre Gobeil 179 François Barcelo 115 François Gravel 138 John Barton 122 Stephen Guy-Bray 122 Réal Bélanger 126 Christopher S. Hale 149 Robin Blaser 116 Elizabeth Hay 139 Tim Bowling 118 Susan Helwig 128 Stephen R. Bown 120 James Heneghan 140 Di Brandt 119 Lawrence Hill 141 Hugh Brewster 175 Polly Horvath 143 Nicky Brink 120 Andrew Houston 161 Michael Byers 144 John Ibbitson 144 Jean-Claude Castex 121 José E. Igartua 144 Richard Cavell 122 Marie Jakober 147 David Chariandy 164 Beth E. Janzen 128 Hoi F. Cheu 124 Marthe Jocelyn 140 Don Coles 169 Monica Kidd 183 Paul Comeau 125 Verena Klein 148 Ramsay Cook 126 Arthur Kroeger 149 Mary Dalton 128 Laurie Kruk 194 Leslie Dawn 129 Robert Laliberté 151 Guy Delisle 193 Shaena Lambert 153 Joël Des Rosiers 131 Harry Lane 154 Peter Dickinson 122 Yves Laroche 156 M.T. Dohaney 132 Mona Latif-Ghattas 156 Lori Emerson 171 Hélène Leclerc 151 Louise H. Forsyth 154 Michel Leclerc 174 Marian Botsford Fraser 133 Jean-Marc Lefebvre 156 Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon 174 Hélène Lépine 180 Li-Ping Geng 148 Patricia Léry 131 Bertrand Gervais 135 Ute Lischke 157 197 final.indd 2 10/22/08 3:05:58 PM John Sutton Lutz 159 Herb Wyile 197 Roger Maunder 113 Tim Wynne-Jones 143 Michael McKinnie 161, 185 Lorraine York 198 David T. McNab 157 George Melnyk 163 Reviewers Nega Mezlekia 164 Douglas Barbour 116 Christian Milat 151 Gisèle M. Baxter 140 Rutu Modan 166 Gregory Betts 144 L.M. Montgomery 167 Gordon Bölling 197 Susanna Moodie 167 Emily Carr 185 Andrea Moorhead 174 Donna Coates 153 Marina Nemat 169 Cheryl Cundell 175 bpNichol 171 Jennifer Bowering Delisle 132 Miriam Nichols 116 Kit Dobson 164, 171 Billeh Nickerson 122 Claire Duncan 112 Michael Ondaatje 172 Janice Fiamengo 126 Eric Ormsby 183 Elizabeth A. Galway 113, 143 Fernand Ouellette 174 Jane Lytton Gooch 120 Pierre Raphaël Pelletier 151 Sherrill Grace 139 Michael Peterman 167, 175 Leslie-Ann Hales 192 Guy Poirier 177 Thomas Hodd 136 Anna Porter 133 Adele Holoch 138 Joël Pourbaix 151 Graham Huggan 188 André Pronovost 135 Martin Jalbert 115 Ginny Ratsoy 178 Tim Kaposy 129 Aurélie Resch 179 Afra Kavanagh 141 Martine Richard 180 Rosalind Kerr 178 Laurie Ricou 181 Michelle La Flamme 157 Heather Robertson 175 Vincent Charles Lambert 131 Paul Rowe 132 Carlo Lavoie 179 Mary Henley Rubio 167 Katja Lee 169 Robyn Sarah 183 Monika Lee 183 Shelley Scott 185 Benjamin Lefebvre 190 Peter Seixas 187 Farah Leplat 180 Christine Smart 194 Andrew Lesk 122 David Suzuki 188 Sylvain Marois 156 Joseph Yvon Thériault 189 Sophie McCall 159 Madeleine Thien 172 Brian McIlroy 163 Hildi Froese Tiessen 190 Laurie McNeill 133 Paul Gerard Tiessen 190 Janice Morris 166 Harry Thurston 195 Marilou P.-Lajoie 135 Sherri Vanderveen 132 Malcolm Page 161 M.G. Vassanji 164 Samuel Pane 118 Eleanor Wachtel 192 Barbara Pell 119, 147 Chris Ware 193 Owen Percy 198 Terry Watada 194 Judith Plessis 124 Elizabeth Waterston 167 Guy Poirier 121 Andrew Wedderburn 140 Laurent Poliquin 151 Darren Wershler-Henry 171 Gillian Roberts 172 Ethel Wilson 148 Sabine Schlüter 154 A.S. Woudstra 195 Jennifer Scott 167 197 final.indd 3 10/22/08 3:05:58 PM Reviewers, continued Pamela V. Sing 189 Jimmy Thibeault 177 Sue Sorensen 149 Jean-Sébastien Trudel 174 David Stouck 148 Nancy J. Turner 181 Nora Foster Stovel 125 Anne F. Walker 194 Lisa S. Szabo 195 Emily Wall 128 Liane Tanguay 187 Andrew Yang 193 Canadian Literature, a peer-reviewed journal, welcomes original, unpublished submissions of articles, interviews, and other commentaries relating to writers and writing in Canada, and of previously unpublished poems by Canadian writers. The journal does not publish fiction. 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