Fiction & Poetry

Books

Origins. Kingsville, ON: Palimpsest Press. April 2012. In press.

The Push & the Pull: A Novel. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions. April 2008. 321pp.

A Sharp Tooth in the Fur: Stories. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2003. 188pp.

Fiction and Poetry in Anthologies

“The Organic Milk Rapist.” Best Canadian Stories ’05. Ed. Douglas Glover. Ottawa: Oberon, 2005. 66-79.

“bombs are over.” The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War. Eds. Mark Higgins, Stephen Pender, Darren Wershler-Henry. Toronto: Three Squares, 2003. 114.

“Kermit Is Smut.” Coming Attractions ‘98. Ed. Maggie Helwig. Ottawa: Oberon, 1999. 113-127 (Rpt.)

“Sitting Up.” Coming Attractions ‘98. Ed. Maggie Helwig. Ottawa: Oberon, 1999. 96-112 (Rpt.)

“To Take a Man on a Hill.” Coming Attractions ‘98. Ed. Maggie Helwig. Ottawa: Oberon, 1999. 128-143.

Fiction in Journals

“Letters to Her Dead.” Prairie Fire. 28.4 (January 2008): 74-79.

“Cedar Gravities.” Filling Station. 33 (Summer 2005): 43.

“Callus the Pipe.” The Windsor Review. 37.1 (Spring 2004): 105-06.

“Kwump, Kwump, Kwump.” The New Quarterly. 84 (Fall 2002): 142-51.

“The Body Machine.” The Windsor Review. 35.2 (2002): 91-98.

“Apples That Don’t Want to Get Eaten.” broken pencil 16.2 (2001): 78-80.

“A Peg and One Fin.” The Fiddlehead 210 (Winter 2001): 60-79.

“A Sharp Tooth in the Fur.” The Danforth Review. Jan. 2001

“Kermit Is Smut.” Dandelion 25.2 (1999): 170-81.

“Grey Hound.” Zygote 6.3 (Fall 1999): 22-23.

“Tomorrow’s Soldier.” Exile 22.2 (1999): 37-52.

“Profanity Issues, —S.” PRISM International 37.3 (1999): 56-72.

“Hand, Please.” Blood & Aphorisms 20.3 (Autumn 1995): 11.

“Part of Your Own Bones.” TickleAce 30 (Fall/Winter 1995): 124-28.

Poetry in Journals

“Bicycle.” The Fiddlehead. In press.

“Sex: the Selfish Gene, the XX, and a Bottle of Shiraz,” “History.” Descant. 155 (Winter 2011): 60-62.

“The Softer Fossils at Joggins.” The Fiddlehead. 247. (Spring 2011): 50-51.

“The Selfish Gene(s).” ARC. 65. (Winter 2011): 73.

“Over Under Over.” All Rights Reserved. 1 (Winter 2010): 25.

“Spiral Jetty,” “Privileged Young Men Who Hate Creativity,” “Boss Point Grindstones,” “The Cottage,” “The God Delusion,” “The Corrections.” Numéro Cinq. 19 Dec. 2010.

“Fossils II: Take a Chance on We.” The Nashwaak Review. 24/25.1 (Summer/Fall 2010): 442-43.

“Fog (Subtraction by Addition).” The New Quarterly. 115 (Summer 2010): 75.

“Malthus’s ‘Essay on the Principle of Population’” “Charles Darwin,” “Seed Catalogue.” Exile. 34.1 (Summer 2010): 82-88.

“Country Dog.” The Wascana Review. 42.1. (Aug. 2010). 57-58. Hear it!

“Marry, Not Marry.” Prairie Fire. 31.1 (Spring 2010): 12-13.

“Mary Anning and Some Members.” The Fiddlehead. 241 (Autumn 2009): 89-90.

“Coprolites.” The Toronto Quarterly. 4 (Fall 2009): 33.

“On the Origin of the Origin of Species,” “Pitfalls, Denning.” The Antigonish Review. 157 (Spring 2009): 52-54.

“Emails Enlargement to Your Inbox Now,” “Emails Enlargement to Your Inbox Soon,” “Emails Enlargement to Your Inbox Never.” Kiss Machine. 18 (Fall 2008): 7.

“Summer and Everything.” Paperplates. 3.3 (1999): 17.

+ some others I’m too embarrassed to list.

Visual Art

obvious losses. Projected Sidewalk Long-Poem. eyelevel gallery, Halifax, NS. 28 Sept.—11 Oct., 2003. 160 slides.

Miscellaneous and Tremendously Fun

“‘His Word against Mine’: Envy and Friendship in Literature.” The Believer. May 2008. 2 pp. In press.

Refereed Scholarly Essays

“Pounding the Concrete: Williams’ Paterson as Typographical Pastoral.” William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry. Eds. Burton Hatlen and Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation Press, 2002. 257-72. Rpt. in Sagetrieb 18.2&3: 257-72.

“‘Dismantling Ondaatje’s ‘Terrible Letters’: a Narratological Study of the Metonymical Use of Metaphor in the English Patient.” Re-Constructing the Fragments of Michael Ondaatje’s Works/La diversité déconstruite et reconstruite de l’oeuvre de Michael Ondaatje. Ed. Jean-Michel Lacroix. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1999. 195-218.

“Telling Firozsha Baag: Space, Migration, and Storyscape in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales From Firozsha Baag.” Journal of Indian Writing in English (January 1999): 9-22.

“Michael Ondaatje’s ‘International Bastards’ and their ‘Best Selves’: an Analysis of the English Patient as Travel Literature.” English Studies in Canada 23.4 (1997): 1001-1015.

“The Birds, the Bees and Kristeva: an Examination of Sexual Desire in the Nature Poetry of Daphne Marlatt, Robert Kroetsch and Tim Lilburn.” Studies in Canadian Literature 21.2 (1996): 37-48.

Scholarly Encyclopedia Entry

“Michael Ondaatje.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century World Fiction. Ser. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2009. In press.

Interviews in Refereed Journals

“Already Begun: an Interview with Robert Kroetsch.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Sudien 36.2 (1999): 31-36.

“Listening With Courtesy: a Conversation with Tim Lilburn.” Studies in Canadian Literature 22.1 (1997): 135-44.

“In the Language of Schoemperlen.” Studies in Canadian Literature 21.1: (1996): 133-41.