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Book Review Macmillan anthology a weak effort By ALLAN Each spring for the past three years Macmillan has been putting out a decently priced hansomely designed and often richly rewar ding paperback of recent Canadian fiction poetry essays reviews and more The latest The Third Macmillan Anthology pages is arguably the least suc cessful of the trio which might possibly be due to the choices of editors John Metcalf and Kent Thompson or more than likely the weakness of most of the material sent to them Theres a lot of chaff here A few examples might explain ones initial disappointment with this years bouquet In the second collection released in 1989 there were two astonishing stories by the awesomely talented Alice Munro which were later anthologized in her latest brilliant collection Friend of My Youth Simply to leaf through a gathering of Canadian writing and encountering some Munro was like raking ones garden and coming across several gold coins But it wasnt only Munro The second anthology also had several dozen pages of some utterly fascinating quotations from a large number of famous and not- sofamous Canadian writers talk ing about why I write and how I write It was irresistible and made that anthology a must for any fan or new writing coming out of our country And sadly this latest anthology has nothing similar in either quality of in dividual writer or collections of in teresting creative statements HILARIOUS This is not to say that the Third Macmillan Anthology is not without its rewards however Or even its occasional star For in stance the last pages are on The Year in Review with Kevin Con nolly Michael Darling and Sutherland all of them intelligent and thoughtful critics reviewing novels and poetry Connollys devastating attack on one poet is almost worth the price of this fair ly priced paperback Poetry is to the eighties what was to the seventies one can only hope that a sense of event arising from the passing of a decade encourages some of these 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magazines or working at Harbour- front is the opening of Birthday Poem for John And poem to wife No is quite disarming I take my Anna everywhereShe is so beautiful she can breaka mans heart with a proud thrust of her shoulder But the most fun are his two highly autobiographical poems Thoughts of Titling My Next Book Bravo and of Bravo The lat ter begins if highly predictably Home of The Best Country Music For Years I JULY 17 18 Special Surprise Guest JULY Roger Queen St E Brampton AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO otU FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST 8773388 OVER 30000 BOOKS IN STOCK All COMPUTER CATALOGUED We Buy Sell New Used Records Tapes CDs and Books hTh TAXI 1 10 ST GEORGETOWN ONTARIO l LTD I 8771234 PARCEL DELIVERY Boo Boo Boo In this book Layton has stripped awayall the trappings of restraint and decency Pretty obvious but most entertaining Layton has written world class poetry in his nearly eight decades and although none of these come even close its good to see him still churning out his unique anger fury and sexual ranting Canada has no one else like him What then to say about this latest anthology of new Canadian writing by Macmillan That its uneven hitandmiss flawed but often sur prisingly satisfying And that I look eagerly forward to No in 1991 in spite ofbecause of it all Allan Gould a Torontoarea writer is the author of 16 books in cluding the coauthored First Stage The Making of the Stratford Festival Ills latest book or humorparody satire is Canned Lit about Canadian literature out this fall Thomson News Service Cable Program Listings for Halton Community Television Cable 700- 928- 730- 900- 730- 700- ISt- 730- 752- 933- 700- 928- 700- 912- JULY 18 Witts Up PSA No TV No Glimpses Into Medicine PSA No 12 No Seniors TV Productions Anatomy of the mind No A Taste Wine No 1 Closing THURSDAY JULY 19 Vocational Training Docoment PSA No Journey PSA No 1 This Is The Life No 1 PSA Alice The Red Cross InAction PSA No MSPSA 1 Minute 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