Books: Poetry:
D-Day and After.
Vancouver: Tishbooks, 1962. 32 pp.
City of the Gulls and Sea . Victoria, 1964. 34 pp.
Bridge Force.
Toronto: Contact Press, 1965. 77 pp.
The Scarred Hull . Calgary: Imago, 1966. 40 pp.
Four Myths for Sam Perry . Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1970. 28 pp.
Weeds . Toronto: Coach House Press, 1970. 30 pp.
Griffon . Toronto: Massassauga Editions, 1972. 16 pp.
King of Swords . Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1972. 38 pp.
L’an trentiesme: Selected Poems 1961-70 . Vancouver: Vancouver Community
Press, 1972. 82 pp.
Arcana . Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973. 77 pp.
The Clallam . Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1973. 42 pp.
War Poems . Toronto: Coach House Press, 1979. 45 pp.
The Arches: Selected Poems, edited and introduced by bpNichol. Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 1981. 105 pp.
Capitalistic Affection!.
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1982. 84 pp.
Edward & Patricia . Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984. 40 pp.
The Louis Riel Organ & Piano Company . Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1985. 77 pp.
The Abbotsford Guide to India . Victoria, B.C.: Press Porcépic, 1986. 104 pp.
Postcard Translations . Toronto: Underwhich Editions, 1988. 32 pp.
Postenska Kartichka Tolkuvanja , tr. Julija Veljanoska. Skopje: Ogledalo, 1989.
32 pp.
Popular Narratives . Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1991. 88 pp.
The Abbotsford Guide to India , Gujarati translation by Nita Ramaiya. Bombay:
Press of S.N.D.T. Women's University, 1995. 96 pp.
Cultural Mischief: A Practical Guide to Multiculturalism . Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 1996. 70 pp.
Dog.
Calgary: House Press, 2002. 12 pp.
Risky Propositions. Ottawa: above/ground press, 2005. 30 pp.
Back to the War. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. 126 pp.
Johnny Hazard!
Armstrong, BC: by the skin of me teeth press, 2009.
Lack On! London, ON: Massasauga, 2009.
How We Won the War in Iraq. Massassauga, 2009.
Bardy Google. Vancouver: Talonbooks, in press for 2010.
Literary Criticism and Theory
Five Readings of Olson’s ‘Maximus’ . Montreal: Beaver-Kosmos, 1970. 56 pp.
Earle Birney. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1971 (Studies in Canadian Literature 11).

128 pp.
From There to Here : A Guide to English-Canadian Literature since 1960 (Our
Nature/Our Voices, Vol. 2). Erin Ont.: Press Porcepic, 1974. 288 pp.
Louis Dudek and Raymond Souster . Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1981
(Studies in Canadian Literature 14). 200 pp.
The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem . Lantzville: Island Writing Series,
1983. 10 pp.
Surviving the Paraphrase : 11 Essays on Canadian Literature. Winnipeg:
Turnstone Press, 1983. 193 pp.
Margaret Atwood: a Feminist Poetics . Vancouver: Talonbooks 1984. 178 pp.
Reading Canadian Reading . Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1988. 278 pp.
Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novel Since
1967 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 278 pp.
Canadian Literary Power: Essays on Anglophone-Canadian Literary Conflict.
Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1994. 314 pp.
Cultural Criticism:
Reading ‘KIM’ Right.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1993. 175 pp.
Karla's Web: A Cultural Examination of the Mahaffy-French Murders . Toronto:
Viking/Penguin, 1994. Revised edition 1995. 361 pp.
Mr and Mrs G.G. Toronto: ECW Press, 2003. 247 pp.
Memoir:
How Linda Died: A Memoir. Toronto: ECW Press, 2002. 244 pp.
Books Edited
Tish 1-19, edited with an introduction and index. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1975.
433 pp.
Mrs. Duke’s Million by Wyndham Lewis, edited with an afterword. Toronto:
Coach House Press, 1977; London: Prior, 1978. 367 pp.
Given Names: New and Selected Poems 1972-1985 by Judith Fitzgerald, edited with an introduction. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1985. 126 pp.
Deeds/Abstracts by Greg Curnoe, edited with an introduction. London: Brick
Books, 1995. 200 pp.
With Neal Ferris, Deeds / Nations by Greg Curnoe, with a foreword by Frank
Davey. London, ON, London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society,
1996. 240 pp.
Poems in Eight poems in J.R. Colombo and J. Godbout, ed., Poetry/Poesie 64
Anthologies: (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1963), pp. 61-68.
“Sam Perry: Terram Intravit,” in F. Wolven et al, ed., The New Generation of
Frank Davey: Publications 2

Poets Anthology (Brooklyn: Black Sun Press, 1969), 5 pp.
“The Fact,” in A.W. Purdy , ed., Fifteen Winds (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969), p. 31.
“A Song for Mary,” in J.R. Colombo, ed., How Do I Love Thee (Edmonton:
Hurtig, 1970).
“Happy Are the Lonesome Pines,” in Maurice Gibbons and John Southward, ed.,
Solo Flight (Vancouver: Resource Publications, 1970), p. 10.
“West Coast,” in W.H. New and Jack Hodgins, ed., Voice and Vision (Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart 1972).
11 poems in Eldon Garnet, ed., Where: the Other Canadian Poetry (Erin, Ont.:
Press Porcépic, 1974), pp. 103-116.
“Vancouver I,” in John Stevens, ed., The Urban Experience (Toronto:
Macmillan, 1975), pp. 104-106.
“The Deal,” in Gary Geddes, ed., Skookum Wawa (Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1975), p. 285.
“The Atalanta,” in Geddes, pp. 66-67.
“West Coast,” in Jack Hodgins, ed., The West Coast (Toronto: Macmillan, 1976).
“Bust,” in Western Windows: a Comparative Anthology of Poetry in British
Columbia (Vancouver: Commcept Publishing, 1977).
“The Mirror: XIV,” in J.R. Colombo, ed., The Poets of Canada (Edmonton:
Hurtig Publishers, 1978), p. 242.
“King of Swords,” in Michael Ondaatje, ed., The Long Poem Anthology
(Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1979), pp. 181-202.
“The Carelmapu,” in Richard Woolatt and Raymond Souster, ed., Poems from a
Snow-eyed Country (Toronto: Academic Press Canada, 1980, pp. 140-141.
“At the Drive-in,” in Douglas Barbour and Stephen Scobie, ed., The Maple Laugh
Forever (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1981), pp. 158-159..
“Edward Sticks it In,” in Barbour and Scobie, pp. 159-160.
“The Piano,” in Margaret Atwood, ed., The New Oxford Anthology of Canadian
Verse . Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 375-376 (invited).
“She’d Say,” in Atwood, pp. 377-78 (invited).
“The Garden,” in Donna Bennett and Russell Brown, ed., An Anthology of
Canadian Literature in English.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983: p.
549 (invited).
“The Bandit,” in Bennett and Brown, pp. 549-50 (invited).
“Weeds,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 550 (invited).
“The Reading,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 550 (invited).
“What is in the Sky is not Brown,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 552 (invited).
“Mealtimes,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 551 (invited)
“The Place,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 551 (invited).
“A Yellow Page,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 551 (invited).
“The Rock,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 552 (invited).
“Them Apples,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 552 (invited).
“I Do Not Write Poems,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 552 (invited).
Frank Davey: Publications 3

“Red,” in Bennett and Brown, p. 553 (invited).
“The Mirror,” in Bennett and Brown, pp. 553-558 (invited).
“Ballad of the Blue Mumu,” in George Bowering, ed., The Contemporary
Canadian Poem Anthology (Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1983), p. 81
(invited).
“A Vancouver History,” in Bowering, p. 82 (invited).
“The Bridegroom,” in Bowering, p. 83 (invited).
“A Song for Mary,” in Bowering, pp. 84-85 (invited).
“Watts, 1965,” in Bowering, p.86. (invited).
“Moon-Shot,” in Bowering, p.86 (invited).
“Weeds,” in Bowering, p. 87 (invited).
“Red,” in Bowering, p. 87 (invited).
“The Deal,” in Bowering, p. 88 (invited).
“To Win at Cards,” in Bowering, p. 89 (invited).
“The Tower,” in Bowering, p. 90 (invited).
“The Caughnawaga Bell,” in Bowering, pp. 91-92 (invited).
“The Locks,” in Bowering, p. 92 (invited).
“The Piano,” in Bowering, pp. 93-94 (invited).
“The New Car,” in Bowering, pp. 94-95 (invited).
“Vancouver I,” in James MacNeill, ed., Sunburst . Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1983
(invited).
“She’d Say,” in Glen Kirkland and Richard Davies, ed., Inside Poetry (Toronto:
Academic Press Canada, 1984 (invited).
“The Piano,” in Kirkland and Davies (invited).
“The Piano,” in Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson, ed., The New Wind
Has Wings , second edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 86-87 (invited).
“Edward Has Too Much,” in John Schoutsen et al., Prism International Anthology
(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984) (invited).
“The Condor,” in Florence McNeil, ed., Here is a Poem (The League of Canadian
Poets, 1983), p. 60 (invited).
“Riel,” in George Amabile and Kim Dales, ed., No Feather, No Ink (Saskatoon:
Thistledown Press, 1985) pp. 171-177.
“She’d Say,” in Ken Sherman. ed., Relations (Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1987, pp.
22-23 (invited).
“Sarnath,” in Frank Davey and Fred Wah, ed., The Swift Current Anthology
(Toronto: Coach House Press, 1986), pp. 11-16.
“She’d Say,” in Richard Davies and Glen Kirkland, ed., Connections , Book 2,
Toronto: Gage Publishing, 1989 (invited).
“The Piano,” in Alan Dawe and Wayne Tefs, ed., Copyright Canada , Toronto:
Gage Publishers, 1990 (invited).
“She'd Say,” in Judith Barker-Sandbrook, ed., Thinking Through Your Writing
Process . Toronto: McGraw- Hill Ryerson, 1990 (invited).
“How and Why John Loves Mary,” in Linda Svendsen, ed., Words We Call Home .
Frank Davey: Publications 4

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990, pp. 30-32 (invited).
“Dead in France,” in Douglas Barbour, ed., Beyond Tish . Edmonton: NeWest
Press, 1991, pp. 11-21 (invited).
“The Piano,” in Kathy Evans, ed., The Issues Collection: Music . Toronto:
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1993 (invited).
“The Piano,” in Jerry George, et al., ed, On Common Ground . Toronto: Oxford
UP, 1994: 114-115 (invited).
Excerpts from “Dead in France.” In Cary Fagan, ed., A Walk by the Seine:
Canadian Poets on Paris .
Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1995: 89-93 (invited).
“Multiple Choice Games for Hiroshima Day,” in Jack Kimball and David
Bromige, ed. New Poetry from Canada, on-line anthology published by the
East Village Poetry Web, Vol 4 (March 1999). (invited.) http://www.theeastvillage.com/vc.htm
“To the Lions Gate Bridge,” “A Vancouver History,” “West Coast,” and
“Vancouver to Vancouver on Leaving. In Meredith Quartermain, ed.,
Vancouver Writing Vancouver. On-line anthology. (Invited) http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/Vancouver.htm
“Nice Things.” The Poet Laureate's Poem of the Week, March 22-29, 2004.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/poet/index-e.htm
“The News.” In Conny Steenman-Marcuse and Aritha Van Herk, ed., Building
Liberty: Canada and World Peace, 1945-2005. Gronigen: Barkhuis, 2005:
320.
“The DP’s.” In Conny Steenman-Marcuse and Aritha Van Herk, ed.: 321-2
“The Bad Men.” In Conny Steenman-Marcuse and Aritha Van Herk, ed: 323-4.
“She’d Say.” In Moma Dime ƒ , ed. Remnants of Light: Poets from Abroad 1964-
2004. Belgrade: Writers Association of Serbia, 2005: 212-213.
Poems in Seventeen poems, Tish [Vancouver]1-4 (1961).
Periodicals: “For the Guitar Girls,” Delta [Montreal] 18 (June 1962), p. 1.
Two Poems, The Canadian Forum [Toronto], May 1962, p. 37.
Three Poems, Prism [Vancouver], Winter 1962, pp. 40-42.
Four Poems, Evidence [Toronto] 4 (Winter 1962), pp. 18-20.
“Dawn,” South and West [Aluquerque], Winter 1962, pp. 6-7.
“Bridge Force,” Delta 19 (October 1962), p. 4.
“A Vancouver History,” Delta 19, p. 11.
“Fairview,” Delta 19, pp. 35-36.
“A Vancouver History,” Blue Grass [Boise]1 (1962), p. 26.
Three Poems, Mountain [Hamilton, ON] I (May 1962), n.p.
Thirty-one poems, Tish 5-16 (1962).
“D-Day,” Lahar Hindi Monthly [Hyderabad], June-July, 1963, p. 72.
Five Poems, Tish 17-20 (1963).
“Vancouver II,” The Fiddlehead [Fredericton], Summer 1964, pp. 21-22.
Frank Davey: Publications 5

Three poems, Evidence 6 (1964), pp. 91-95.
Two poems, Island [Toronto]I (September 1964), pp. 34-41.
Three poems, Sum [Albuquerque] 3 (1964), n.p.
Two poems, Tish 24 (May 1964), pp. 2-3.
“Victoria II,” Imago [Calgary] 2 (1964), pp. 42-43.
“Bridge Force VII,” Genesis West: a Supplement [Deep Springs, CA], August
1964, pp. 28-29.
“Mrs. Wilson and the Fall of Capitalism,” The Canadian Forum [Toronto],
November 1964, p. 191.
“Totems,” The Literary Review [Teaneck, NJ] VIII: 4 (Summer 1965), pp. 525-526.
Three Poems, Island 5 (1965).
Two Poems, Tish 30 (June 1965), p. 8.
“Image: the Secretary,” Magdalene Syndrome Gazette [San Francisco] 1 (1966), n.p.
“Gloria,” Poesia de Venezuela [Caracas] 22 (November-December, 1966), p. 8.
“In Stereo,” C.B.C. Radio Anthology, October 20, 1966.
“The Crossing,” El Corno Emplumado [Mexico City]19 (1967), p. 55.
“The Night,” El Corno Emplumado 19 (1967), p. 56.
“In Stereo,” Prism International [Vancouver], Spring 1967, pp. 62-67.
“Duty and Valor,” Prism International , Spring 1967, p. 61.
“The Room in the Garden,” Tamarack Review [Toronto] 49 (1969), pp. 60-63.
“A Light Poem,” Imago [Montreal] 13 (1970), pp. 30-34.
Six Poems, The Georgia Straight Writing Supplement [Vancouver], 6-13, 1970, p. 3 (invited).
“From Weeds ,” Is [Toronto] 8 (Spring 1970), pp. 17-31 (invited).
Five Poems, Is 10 (Spring 1971) (invited).
Five Poems, Boundary 2 [Binghamton, NY] , #1 (Fall 1972), pp. 73-77.
Three Poems, Boundary 2 , III:1 (Fall 1974), pp. 102-104.
Five Poems, White Pelican [Edmonton], 1975, pp. 38-43 (invited).
Three Poems, Existere [Toronto] I:1 (Fall 1980), p. 3 (invited).
Four Poems, Cross-Country [Montreal] 13-15 (1980), pp. 119-125 (invited).
“The Wooden Sidewalk,” Rampike [Toronto] 1 (Spring 1981), p. 2.
Three poems, Island [Toronto] 10 (Fall 1981), pp. 63-66 (invited).
Two Poems, Prism International XX:2 (Winter 1982), pp. 11-14 (invited).
Four Poems, Writing [Nelson, BC] 5 (Spring 1982), pp. 3-5 (invited).
“Edward Has Too Much,” Prism International XX:3 (Spring 1982) (invited).
“Thunder,” Rampike II:1-2 (1982), 23 (invited).
“The Lone Ranger,” The Literary Half-Yearly [Mysore, INDIA], Fall 1982
(invited).
“The Perfect Woman,” Rampike II:3 (1983), pp. 30-31 (invited).
“Patricia Frowns,” Rampike , III:1 (1983), pp. 31-32.
“!,” Rampike , III:2 (1983), p. 12 (invited).
“Riel,” Canadian Literature [Vancouver] 100, Spring 1984, pp. 84-89 (invited).
Frank Davey: Publications 6

“Three India Poems,” Rampike V:II (1986). p. 6.
“Sake: a Story,” Line [Burnaby, BC], 9, Spring 1987, p. 7.
“Postcard Poems,” Rampike VI:1 (1987), pp. 6-7.
“War Memorial,” “Captured Tiger Tank,” “Heinkel 111 at Aviation Museum,
Frankfurt Airport,” “The Synagogue at Augsburg.” Somewhere Across the
Border [Orono ME] , Spring 1990.
“Three Postcards,” Hole [Ottawa], Second Issue (Winter 1990), pp. 1-3.
“Walking CanLit in India,” Canadian Literature [Vancouver] 127 (Winter 1990, pp. 109-113.
“How & Why John Loves Mary,” Rampike [Sault Ste Marie], VII:2 (1991), p. 25.
“Agnes Bernauer,” Writing [Vancouver] 26 (1991), pp. 90-93.
“The Statue,” Rampike VII:3 (1992), p. 38.
“Fashion News,” Rampike VIII: 1(1995), p. 9.
“Narcissus Copies,” West Coast Line [Burnaby, BC] 30, 1 (Spring 1996), 48-51.
“A Small History of Quebec.” Paragraph [Stratford, ON] 21 (1997): 17-20.
“Propositions Concerning Class, Gender, and Sexuality at a Canadian Dog
Show.” Rampike 9: 1 (1997): 33.
“Italian Multiculturalism,” Mattoid [Geelong, AUSTRALIA] 52-53 (1998), 220-
225.
“Extreme Possessions,” Queen Street Quarterly [Toronto] , Summer 1998.
“Advice from the Minutes of the 1997 General Assembly,” Queen Street
Quarterly, Summer 1998.
“Never Reigned but Pours Concrete Poetically,” Rampike 10: 2 (1999): 17.
“Number One Great Dane.” Rampike 13:2 (2004), 21.
“The Battleship.” Sources [Orléans, FRANCE] 17 (automne 2004): 66.
“The Saboteur.” Sources [Orléans, FRANCE] 17 (automne 2004): 67.
“The Mole.” Sources [Orléans, FRANCE] 17 (automne 2004): 67.
“The Photo Album.” Sources [Orléans, FRANCE] 17 (automne 2004): 68
“The Airplane.” Sources [Orléans, FRANCE] 17 (automne 2004): 69
“The Compost Pile.” Sources [Orléans, FRANCE] 17 (automne 2004): 70-71.
“CanaDada Dog.” Queen Street Quarterly 7:4 (2005): 46.
“Specialty Dog Show, Fall 2002.” Queen Street Quarterly 7:4 (2005): 47.
“’Covering the Death of Derrida.” Rampike 14:1 (2005): 5-6.
“Wishes.” Literary Review of Canada 13:2 (March 2005): 16.
“Dogs and Ethnicity.” Filling Station 33 (2005): 8-9.
“Hindu Cremation.” Rampike 15:1 (2006): 12.
“Beggars.” Rampike 15:1 (2006): 13.
“Type of Parsee Beauty.” Rampike 15:1 (2006): 14.
“Interior of Dilwara Temple.” Rampike 15:1 (2006): 15.
“Our Servants.” Rampike 15:1 (2006): 16.
“Canadian Baptist Missionary Boats.” West Coast Line 57 (Spring/Summer
2008): 57.
“Canadian Pacific Railway, SS ‘Empress of India.’” West Coast Line 57
(Spring/Summer 2008): 59.
Frank Davey: Publications 7

“The Imaginaries.” Rampike 18:1 (2009): 30-32.
“Sorry.” Rampike 18:2 (2009): 5-7.
Book “Anything but Reluctant: Canada’s Little Magazines,” in Louis Dudek and
Chapters: Michael Gnarowski, ed. The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada (Toronto:
Ryerson Press, 1967), pp. 222-227.
“Rime: a Scholarly Piece,” in Dudek and Gnarowski, pp. 295-300.
“Statement,” in Dudek and Gnarowski, p. 300.
“Leonard Cohen,” “Louis Dudek,” “Irving Layton,” “Eli Mandel,” and “Alden
Nowlan” in William E. Toye, ed., Supplement to the Oxford Companion to
Canadian Literature and History (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973).
“E.J. Pratt: Apostle of Corporate Man,” in George Woodcock, ed., Poets and
Critics (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974), pp. 1-13.
“Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan: Poetry and the Popular Song,” in Michael
Gnarowski, ed., Leonard Cohen (Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1976), pp. 111-124.
“Black Days on Black Mountain,” in C.H. Gervais, ed., The Writing Life
(Coatsworth, Ont.: Black Moss Press,1976), pp. 117-127.
“Anything But Reluctant,” in Gervais, pp. 136-142.
“Introducing Tish ,” in Gervais, pp. 150-161.
“Rime: a Scholarly Piece,” in Gervais, pp. 165-171.
Review of Irving Layton’s The Collected Poems , in Seymour Mayne, ed., Irving
Layton (Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1978), pp. 205-207.
“Three Canadians,” in Richard Kostelanetz, ed., The Younger Critics of North
America (Milwaukee: Margins, 1977).
“The Coach House Press,” in Michael Tarachow, ed., Toward a Further
Definition (Milwaukee: Pentagram Press,1977).
“Atwood’s Gorgon Touch,” in Jack David, ed., Brave New Wave (Windsor, Ont.:
Black Moss Press, 1978), pp. 171-195.
“Margaret Atwood,” in Jeffrey Heath, ed., Profiles in Canadian Literature , First
Series (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1981), pp. 57-64.
“Margaret Atwood,” in Margaret Atwood (Cardiff: Welsh Arts Council, 1982).
With bpNichol, “The Prosody of Open Verse,” in George Bowering, ed., The
Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology (Toronto: Coach House Press,
1983), pp. 357-366.
“Disbelieving Story: a Reading of Hodgins’ The Invention of the World ,” in
Present Tense , anthology edited by John Moss (Toronto: NC Press, 1985), pp. 29-44.
Entries on Earle Birney, Dave Godfrey, Dorothy Livesay, Raymond Souster,
Sheila Watson, Irving Layton, Alden Nowlan, W.D. Valgardson, David
McFadden, Joe Rosenblatt, Jack Hodgins, Tish , Alphabet , Direction , CIV/n ,
Combustion , Delta , Contact , Blew Ointment , Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel,
Louis Dudek, Leon Rooke, Daphne Marlatt, Lionel Kearns, Emblem Books,
Frank Davey: Publications 8

Andreas Schroeder, The Coach House Press, Open Letter , in William Toye, ed., The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1983).
“Editorial,” in Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman, ed., Towards a Canadian
Literature Vol. 2 (Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1985), pp. 494-495.
“More Heat on Daedalus,” in Daymond and Monkman, pp. 495-497.
“One Man’s Look at ‘Projective Verse,’” in Daymond and Monkman, pp. 451-
459.
“Surviving the Paraphrase,” in Daymond and Monkman, pp. 428-437.
“The Database as a Literary Magazine,” The Canadian Conference on Electronic
Publishing: a Selected Proceedings . Vancouver, 1986.
“SwiftCurrent: a Canadian Experiment in On-Line Literary Texts,” in Frank
Davey and Fred Wah, ed., The SwiftCurrent Anthology . Toronto: Coach
House Press, 1986, pp. 112-118.
“Translating Translating Apollinaire: the Problematizing of Discourse in Some
Recent Canadian Texts,” in Mirko Jurak, ed., Cross-Cultural Studies:
American, Canadian and European Literatures: 1945-1985 (Ljubljana:
Edvard Kardelj University, 1988), pp. 41-46.
“Exegesis/Eggs à Jesus: The Martyrology as a Text in Crisis,” in Roy Miki, ed.,
Tracing the Paths: Reading … Writing ‘The Martyrology’ (Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 1988), pp. 38-51.
“Savremena Kanadanska Poezija” (“Modern Canadian Poetry”), translated by
Dragoslav Andric, in Zbornik, Saopstenja Kanadadskoj Knjizevnosti 1988 ,
[Beograd]: Drustvo za Knjizevnosti Kulturu Jugoslavija-Kanada, 1989.
“Writers and Publishers in English Canada,” in E.D. Blodgett and A.W. Purdy, ed., Questions of Funding, Publishing and Distribution: towards a History of the Literary Institution in Canada 2 (Edmonton: Research Institute for
Comparative Literature, 1989), pp. 13-26.
“‘Minotaur Poems’: Language, Form and Centre in Eli Mandel’s Poetry,” in Om
P. Juneja and Chandra Mohan, ed., Ambivalence: Studies in Canadian
Literature (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1990), pp, 183-193.
“Rich Like Whom: Reading the Author ‘Nayantara Sahgal’”, in Harold Coward, ed., Peace, Development and Culture: Comparative Studies of India and
Canada.
([Calgary]: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, 1990), pp. 107-114.
“Reading Upon Reading: The Preface in English-Canadian Literary Criticism,” in
E.D. Blodgett and A.W. Purdy, ed., Prefaces and Critical Manifestoes,
Towards a History of the Literary Institution in Canada 3 (Edmonton:
Research Institute for Comparative Literature, 1990), pp. 127-145.
“The Conflicting Signs of As For Me and My House, ” in David Stouck ed., As
For Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1991), pp. 178-189 (invited).
“Uvod” [foreword], in Branko Gorjup and Ljiljanka Lovrincevic, ed., Antologija
Kanadske Pripovijetke [anthology of Canadian short stories]. Zagreb:
Nakladni Zavod Matice Hrvatske, 1991 [1992].
Frank Davey: Publications 9

“This Land that Is Like Every Land: Obasan.
” Zbornik: Vikend Kanadske
Literature . Beograd: Društvo za Književost i Kulturu Jugoslavija-Kanada,
1992: 53-68 (invited).
“Some Deeds on Deeds.” In Greg Curnoe, Deeds Abstracts . London: Forest City
Gallery, 1992: 1-5 (invited).
“What's in a Genre: Margaret Atwood’s ‘Notes Towards a Poem’.” In W.H. New, ed., Inside the Poem . Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1992: 48-54 (invited).
“The Conflicting Signs of As For Me and My House ,” in John Moss, ed., From the Heart of the Heartland: the Fiction of Sinclair Ross . Ottawa, U of Ottawa
P, 1992 [1993]: 124-39 (adjudicated).
“Canadian Criticism in English,” in Martin Kreiswirth and Michael Groden, ed.,
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins UP, 1993: 131-34 (invited).
“Art Objects as Supplements to Language in Margaret Atwood’s Wilderness
Tips ,” in Jean-Michel Lacroix, ed., Récit et Image . Paris, Presses de la
Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1993: 15-30 (adjudicated).
“Foreword,” in M.F. Salat, The Canadian Novel: A Search for Identity . Delhi,
B.R. Publishing, 1993 (invited).
“Agony Envy: Margaret Atwood’s ‘Notes Towards a Poem.’” In Manorama
Trikha, ed., Canadian Literature: Recent Essays. Delhi: Pencraft
International, 1994: 249-259 (invited).
“The Literary Politics of Canadian Multiculturalism.” In Hans Braun and
Wolfgang Klooss, ed., Multiculturalism in North America and Europe.
Trier,
Wissenshaftlicher Verlag, 1995: 103-114 (adjudicated).
“(Con)figuring a Canada.” In Kenneth McRoberts, ed. Beyond Quebec: Taking
Stock of Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1995: 117-136. (Invited.)
“The Narrative Politics of The Imperialist.
” In Thomas E. Tausky, ed., The
Imperialist , by Sara Jeannette Duncan. Canadian Critical Edition. Ottawa:
Tecumseh Press, 1996, pp. 422-436. (Commissioned.)
“The Canadas of Anglophone-Canadian Fiction 1967-90.” In Peter Easingwood,
Konrad Gross, and Lynette Hunter, ed., Difference and Community: Canadian and European Cultural Perspectives. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 3-12.
(Refereed.).
“Beyond Disputation: Anglophone-Canadian Artists and the Free Trade Debate.”
In Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee, and J.R. (Tim) Struthers, ed., New
Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1997, pp.
132-145. (Solicited.)
“Autobiographical Metafiction in some Texts by Daphne Marlatt and Gail Scott.”
In Marta Dvorak, ed., La Création Biographique / Biographical Creation.
Rennes: Presses Universitaire Rennes et Association Française d’Etudes
Canadiennes, 1997, pp. 127-34. (Refereed.)
“Writing a Life,” in Shelley Andrews, ed., Contemporary Authors Autobiography
Series, Vol. 27. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997: 83-113. (Invited.)
Essays on Earle Birney, Dave Godfrey, Dorothy Livesay, Raymond Souster,
Frank Davey: Publications 10

Sheila Watson, Irving Layton, Alden Nowlan, W.D. Valgardson, David
McFadden, Joe Rosenblatt, Jack Hodgins, Tish, Alphabet, Direction, CIV/n,
Combustion, Delta, Contact, Blew Ointment, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel,
Louis Dudek, Leon Rooke, Daphne Marlatt, Lionel Kearns, Emblem Books,
Andreas Schroeder, The Coach House Press, Open Letter, in Eugene Benson and William Toye, ed., The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997). (Solicited.)
“Towards the Ends of Regionalism.” In Christian Riegel and Herb Wyile, ed., A
Sense of Place: Re-Evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American
Writing.
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1998: 1-18 (refereed).
“Shooting the Falls of Anglo-Canadian Criticism.” In Caterina Ricciardi, Laura
Ferri, and Fabio Mugnani, ed., Acqua: Realta e Metaphora [Water in
Canadian Culture: Reality and Metaphor]. Rome: Semar, 1998: 119-126
(refereed). Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of the
Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi.
“Afterword: The Power to Bend Spoons.” In Beverley Daurio, ed., The Power to
Bend Spoons. Toronto: Mercury Press, 1998: pp. 210-230.
“The Hard-Won Power of Canadian Womanhood: Reading Anne of Green Gables
Today.” In Irene Gammel ad Elizabeth Epperly, ed., L.M. Montgomery and
Canadian Culture.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999: pp. 163-82
(refereed).
“Genre Subversion in the English-Canadian Short Story.” In Misao Dean, ed.,
Early Canadian Short Stories. Ottawa: Tecumseh Press, 2000: pp. 322-332.
(invited).
“ Beautiful Losers: Leonard Cohen’s Postcolonial Novel.” In Stephen Scobie, ed.,
Intricate Preparations: Writing Leonard Cohen.
Toronto: ECW Press, 2000:
12-23 (refereed).
“Louis Dudek’s Functional Poetry.” In George Hillebrand, ed. Louis Dudek :
Essays on his Works.
Toronto: Guernica, 2001: pp. 23-41(invited).
“Alternate Stories: The Short Fiction of Audrey Thomas and Margaret Atwood.”
In Jenny Cromie, ed., Short Story Criticism , Vol. 46. Detroit: Gale, 2001
(invited).
“The Short Stories of Margaret Atwood.” In Jenny Cromie, ed., Short Story
Criticism , Vol. 46. Detroit: Gale, 2001 (invited).
“Totally Avant-garde Woman: Gail Scott’s Heroine.
” In Lianne Moyes, ed., Gail
Scott: Essays on her Works. Toronto: Guernica, 2002: 52-71 (invited).
“The Prosody of Open Verse.” Co-authored with bpNichol. In Roy Miki, ed.,
Meanwhile: The Critical Writing of bpNichol.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2002:
301-311 (invited).
“The Book as a Unit of Composition.” Co-authored with bpNichol. In Roy Miki, ed., Meanwhile: The Critical Writing of bpNichol. Vancouver: Talonbooks,
2002: 378-387 (invited).
“Anglophone-Canadian Writing.” In W.H. New, ed., Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 22-29. (refereed).
Frank Davey: Publications 11

“Big, Bad, and Little Known: The Anglophone-Canadian Nancy Huston.” In
Marta Dvorak and Jane Koustas, ed., Vision/Division: l’oeuvre de Nancy
Huston.
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004: 3-23 (refereed).
“Canadian Theory and Criticism (English).” In Michael Groden, Martin
Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, ed., The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary
Theory and Criticism.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005: 170-73.
“Earle Birney in Holland.” In Conny Steenman-Marcuse and Aritha Van Herk, ed., Building Liberty: Canada and World Peace, 1945-2005. Gronigen:
Barkhuis, 2005: 237-252.
“Canadian Poetry and its Relationship to US Poetry.” In Jeffrey Gray, ed., The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of American poets and poetry.
Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2006: 229-335.
“Contact Press and the Publication of The Circle Game.” In Christine Evain and
Reena Khandpur, ed., Atwood on her Work.
Nantes: Université de Nantes,
2006: 23-34.
“Surviving the Paraphrase.” In Branko Gorjup, ed.
Northrop Frye’s Canadian
Literary Criticism and its Influence. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009. 133-143.
“The Early Visual-Verbal Productions of the Coach House Press.” In Héliane
Ventura and Philippe Mottet, ed., Pratiques de la transgression dans la littérature et les arts visuels. Québec: L’instant même, 2009. 63-77.
“This Gentleman, bpNichol.” In George Bowering and Jean Baird, ed., The Heart
Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning.
Toronto: Random
House, 2009. 99-112.
Articles in “The Problem of Margins,” Tish [Vancouver] 3 (November 1961), pp. 11-12.
Periodicals: “One Man's Look at Projective Verse,” Tish 5 (January 1962), pp. 5-10.
“The Present Scene,” Delta [Montreal] 19 (October 1962), pp. 1-2 (invited).
“Anything but Reluctant,” Canadian Literature [Vancouver] 12 (Summer 1962), pp. 39-44 (invited).
“British Columbia Printing and the Morriss Press,” B.C. Library Quarterly
[Vancouver], October 1964, pp. 17-24.
“Rime: a Scholarly Piece,” Evidence [Toronto] 9, pp. 78-103.
“Tribute to the Printer,” Canadian Literature 24 (Spring 1965), pp. 52-54
(invited).
“Black Days on Black Mountain,” Tamarack Review [Toronto] 35 (Spring 1965), pp. 62-71.
“How to Use a University,” Evidence 10 (1967), pp. 119-123 (invited).
“More Heat on Daedalus,” Open Letter 8 (November 1968),pp. 26-27.
“Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan: Poetry and the Popular Song,” Alphabet 17
(December 1969), pp. 12-19 (invited).
Frank Davey: Publications 12

“E.J. Pratt: Apostle of Corporate Man,” Canadian Literature (Winter 1970), pp. 3-6.
“The Sono Nis Press: a Crisis in B.C. Letters?” B.C. Library Quarterly , April
1970, pp. 3-6.
“Play Ball: the Message of George Bowering,” U.B.C. Alumni Quarterly
[Vancouver] XXIV:2 (Summer 1970), pp. 13-15 (invited).
“A Note on Bowering’s Genève ,” Open Letter [Toronto], Second Series, No. 1
(Winter 1971-72), pp. 42-44.
“Reflections While Reading Canadian,” Open Letter , Second Series, No. 3 (Fall
1972), pp. 62-65; reprinted in Alive 29, pp. 17-18.
“Gwendolyn MacEwen: the Secret of Alchemy,” Open Letter , Second Series.
No. 4 (Spring 1973), pp. 5-23.
“Atwood Walking Backwards,” Open Letter , Second Series, No. 5 (Summer
1973), pp. 74-84.
“The Front Guard Review,” Margins [Milwaukee], December 1973, pp. 3-4.
“E.J. Pratt: Rationalist Technician,” Canadian Literature 61 (Summer 1974), pp. 65-78.
“Six Readings of Olson’s Maximus ,” Boundary 2 [Binghamton, NY] (Fall
1973/Winter 1974), pp. 291-321.
“Surviving the Paraphrase: Thematic Criticism and its Alternatives,” Canadian
Literature 70 (Autumn 1976), pp. 5-13.
“From Literature to Criticism, a Note,” Impulse [Toronto] IV:2 (Spring 1975)
(invited).
“Louis Dudek’s Functional Poetry,” Rune [Toronto] 4 (Spring 1977), pp. 63-79.
“Impressionable Realism: the Stories of Clark Blaise,” Open Letter (Spring
1976), pp. 65-74.
“Atwood’s Gorgon Touch,” Studies in Canadian Literature [Fredericton],
‘Minus Canadian’ issue (Summer 1977), pp. 146-163 (invited).
“Louis Dudek’s Red Truck,” Open Letter , Third Series, No. 8 (Fall 1978), pp. 71-86.
“Rereading Stead’s Grain ,” Studies in Canadian Literature , IV:1 (Winter 1979), pp. 7-25.
“The Explorer in Western Canadian Literature,” Studies in Canadian Literature ,
IV:2 (Summer 1979), pp. 91-100 (invited).
“Lady Oracle’s Secret: Atwood’s Comic Vision,” Studies in Canadian
Literature V:2 (Fall 1980), pp. 209-221.
“The Prosody of Open Verse” (with bpNichol), Open Letter , Fifth Series, No. 2
(Spring 1982), pp. 5-13.
“Notions of Image” (with bpNichol), Open Letter , Fifth Series, No. 7 (Spring
1984), pp. 75-82.
“The Book as a Unit of Composition” (with bpNichol), Open Letter , Sixth
Series, No. 1 (Spring 1985), 39-46.
“Countertextuality in the Long Poem,” Open Letter , Sixth Series, Nos. 2-3
(Summer-Fall 1985), 33-41.
Frank Davey: Publications 13

“George Bowering,” TVOntario: The Academy on Canadian Literature, Toronto,
1986. Videotape.
“Alternate Stories: the Short Fiction of Margaret Atwood and Audrey Thomas,”
Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986), pp. 5-16.
“Exegesis / Eggs à Jesus: The Martyrology as a Text in Crisis,” Open Letter ,
Sixth Series, Nos. 5-6 (Summer-Fall 1986), pp. 169-181.
“Die Tish-Bewegung,” Die Horen [Hanover, GERMANY]141 (1. Quartal 1986), pp. 135-141.
“Ideology and Visual Representation: Some Post Cards from the Raj,” Open
Letter , Seventh Series, No. 1 (Spring 1988), pp. 41-66.
“SwiftCurrent: A Canadian Experiment in On-Line Literary Texts,” The Serials
Librarian [New York], XIII:4 (December, 1987), 103-109 (invited).
“Fort and Forest: Instability in the Symbolic Code of E.J. Pratt’s Brebeuf and his
Brethren ,” Etudes Canadiennes/ Canadian Studies [Talence, FRANCE] 23
(1987), pp. 183-194).
“‘Minotaur Poems’: Language, Form and Centre in Eli Mandel's Poetry,”
Sagetrieb [Orono, ME], VII:1 (Spring 1988), 47-56 (invited).
“Discourse and Determinism in Nights Below Station Street ,” Open Letter ,
Seventh Series, No. 6 (Fall 1989), pp. 17-27.
“Words and Stones in How Hug a Stone ,” Line [Burnaby, BC]13, Spring 1989, pp. 40-46 (invited).
“ SwiftCurrent Returns,” Borderlines [North York, ON] 18 (Spring 1990), 15-16
(invited).
“Canadian Canons” (a response to Robert Lecker’s “The Canonization of
Canadian Literature: an Inquiry into Value”), Critical Inquiry [Chicago],
XVI:3 (Spring 1990), 672-681 (invited).
“Remembering Thinking Rewriting The Martyrology ,” West Coast Line
[Burnaby, BC] 25:2 (Fall 1991), 113-118 (invited).
“Politics and Canonicity in Recent English-Canadian Poetry,” British Journal of
Canadian Studies [Edinburgh, UK], VI: 1 (1991), 101-109 (refereed).
“Cultural Contestation, Literature, Technology,” Études Romanesques , 1992, pp.
41-52 (invited).
“Poetry, Audience, Politics and Region,” Canadian Poetry [London, ON] 30
Spring-Summer 1992, 6-17. (refereed).
“Minotaur Poems: Language, Form and Centre in Eli Mandel’s Poetry,” Essays in Canadian Writing [Toronto] 45-46, Winter-Spring 1992, pp. 69-79
(invited).
“English-Canadian Periodicals: Text, Personality and Dissent.” In Susan Rudy
Dorscht, Ashok Mathur, and Fred Wah, ed., Interventing the Text: The
Calgary Conference, 1991. Open Letter 8, 5-6 (Winter-Spring 1993): 67-78
(invited).
“Kim Campbell and the Endless Summer,” The Globe and Mail , 16 September
1993: A27 (adjudicated).
“The Canadian Literature of ECW Press,” The American Journal of Canadian
Frank Davey: Publications 14

Studies [Canton, NY], Spring 1994: 67-85 (invited).
“Greg Curnoe’s Last ‘Lettered Works’” Open Letter , Ninth Series, No. 3
(Summer 1995): 110-116 (refereed).
“Mapping Anglophone-Canadian Literary Conflict: Multiculturalism and After.”
Textual Studies in Canada [Kamloops, BC] 5 (1994): 124-34 (adjudicated).
“Editor’s Note” [to Deeds/Abstracts by Greg Curnoe]. Quarry [Kingston, ON]
44, 2 (1995): 21-23. With “From Deeds/Abstracts ” by Greg Curnoe, ed.
Frank Davey: 20, 24-45.
“American Alibis: A Search for Kroetsch’s Postmodernism.” Open Letter , Ninth
Series. Nos. 5-6 (Spring-Summer 1996), 241-251.
“‘AND Quebec’: Canadian Literature and its Quebec Questions.” Canadian
Poetry 40 (Spring/Summer 1997), 6-26 (refereed).
“The Beginnings of an End of Coach House Press.” Open Letter, Series 9, No. 8
(Spring 1997): 40-77.
“bpNichol + 10: Some Institutional Issues Associated with the Continued
Reading of Texts Known as ‘bpNichol’.” Open Letter, Tenth Series, No. 4
(Fall 1998): 5-13.
“ Beautiful Losers: Leonard Cohen’s Postcolonial Novel.” Essays on Canadian
Writing 69 (Winter 1999): 12-23.
“Ubiquitous Poetics.” West Coast Line [Burnaby, BC] 36 (Winter 2001-2): 8-24.
“Barcodes on Tish : Little Magazines, the Nation State, Global Capitalism.”
Rampike [Sault Ste Marie] 12: 2 (2002): 18-23. (invited).
“Al Purdy, Sam Solecki, and the Poetics of the 1960s.” Canadian Poetry 51
(Fall/Winter 2002): 39-57 (invited and refereed).
“French Theory, Canadian Poetics.” Etudes Canadiennes, [Paris, FRANCE] 52
(2002): 163-172 (refereed) .
“Greg Curnoe’s Early Letters Works.” Open Letter Eleventh Series, No 7 (Spring
2003): 17-32.
“Class, ‘Family Furnishings,’ and Munro’s Early Stories. Open Letter Eleventh
Series, No. 9, Twelfth Series, No 1 (Fall 2003-Winter 2004). Guest edited by
Héliane Ventura and Mary Condé. 78-88 (refereed).
“You, Fred Wah, Intermingler.” Open Letter, Twelfth Series, No 2 (Spring
2004) . Guest edited by Nicole Markotic and Susan Rudy: 25-31.
“Meandering Interview, with Fred Wah.” Open Letter, Twelfth Series, Number 3
(Summer 2004). Guest edited by Nicole Markotic and Susan Rudy: 98-122.
“Some Writing in Some of our Time.” [Rev. of Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy,
Writing in Our Time.
] Canadian Poetry 56 (Spring Summer 2005): 120-32.
“Thinking on Poetics.” Open Letter 12:8 (Spring 2006): 174-8.
“Roads Not Yet Taken.” [Rev. of Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, ed.,
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature.
] Canadian
Poetry 61 (Winter 2007): 94-100.
“Canadian Revisions of the Labyrinth.” Open Letter 13:2 (Spring 2007): 15-26.
“Ezra Pound in Canada: the Cases of Louis Dudek and Timothy Findley.”
Canadian Poetry, 60 (Spring-Summer 2007): 6-21.
Frank Davey: Publications 15

“Artists Statements and ‘The Rules of Art’.” Open Letter 13:4 (Fall 2007): 34-
.
44.
“Thanked by Barrie.” Open Letter 14:1 (Fall 2009): 52-70.
Frank Davey: Publications 16