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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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