THE MALAHAT REVIEW AT FIFTY
Canada’s Iconic Literary Journal
Edited by John Barton
2017
ISBN 9781550586169 (paperback), 9781550586176 (PDF)
76 pages
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This publication commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of The Malahat Review. Edited by John Barton, editor of The Malahat Review from 2004-2018, the publication features essays, critical commentaries, and memoirs from past and present editors, contributors, and editorial board members, as well as nationally prominent writers with long associations with the magazine. It outlines the magazine’s fifty-year history, its role in the lives of Canadian writers, and its international legacy.
Subjects: Malahat Review, Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, Criticism and interpretation, periodicals
Edited by John Barton
THE MALAHAT REVIEW AT FIFTY: Canada’s Iconic Literary Journal
SHELAGH ROGERS | A Long Future
JONATHAN BENGTSON | An Arc Across the Landscape
JOHN BARTON | Cultivating a Taste for Honey
The Malahat Leadership
RHONDA BATCHELOR | Robin Skelton
ROBIN SKELTON | John Peter
CAROL MATTHEWS | Constance Rooke
JOHN BARTON | Derk Wynand and Marlene Cookshaw
NEILE GRAHAM | John Barton
The Malahat Experience
PATRICIA YOUNG | A Poet’s Thoughts
EVE JOSEPH | Seeing
YANN MARTEL | How the Words Came
ANITA LAHEY | One Reader’s Sneak Peek: On Reviewing
JAY RUZESKY | We Are the Board
ELIZA ROBERTSON | Who Rang That Bell?
Thinking About the Malahat
PHILIP KEVIN PAUL | From Here in Saanich
NICHOLAS BRADLEY | Islands and Empires: Beginnings
KARYN WISSELINK | A Brief History of the Malahat’s Early Internationalism
JAMIE DOPP | A Bush Garden by the Sea
NATALIE BOLDT | Margaret’s Malahat
CAROLINE RIEDEL | Ever More Distinctly Canadian: The Malahat’s Relationship with the Visual Arts
JIM BENNETT | The Malahat Look
HEATHER DEAN | Proof Positive: The Malahat Review Archives
JAN ZWICKY | Why Do I Keep Reading the Malahat?
ROSS LECKIE | At the Centre: A Legacy and Its Significance
SIKU ALLOOLOO | An Indigenous Triumph
Acknowledgements
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