WRITING
As Jane Barker Wright:
Upcoming: Common Knowledge Poetry
Novels:
The Understanding (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2000)
www.sentex.net/~pql
ISBN 0-88984-242-6
The Tasmanian Tiger (Polestar Press, 1988)
ISBN 0-919591-312-0
(further works below)
Reviews:
“Wright develops her subject, the permutations and consequences of motherhood, stylishly and creates a tense mood of anxiety and foreboding. Her prose is spare, carefully pruned and epigrammic: less, here, is definitely more.”
-Books in Canada
“…one of the most believable stories is also one of the bloodiest. Jane Barker Wright’s Stitch and Bitch provides a swift –butnot easy- solution to the problem of domestic violence combined with a deadpan acceptance of the way things really are.”
-Erica Wagner
The Times of London,
Sunday Books
“Barker Wright throws a cool eye over those who would deceive themselves into thinking they can be anything other than their true selves.”
- The Globe and Mail
“Barker Wright creates a domestic microcosm that exposes ‘the light that failed’ at its most basic, intimately human and ultimately tragic core.”
- John Moore,
The Vancouver Sun
“The Understanding deserves special notice for being a rare tough look at the utopian idealism of the West Coast, but it’s a compelling novel by any standards.”
-Jack Illingworth,
Amazon.ca
Anthologies:
Stitch and Bitch, Valentine’s Day
(ed. Alice Thomas Ellis, Duck Editions, UK, 2000)
A Surfeit of Democracy, Barbed Lyres
(ed. Margaret Atwood, Key Porter, 1990)
Criticism:
Horticulture Magazine (Primedia Inc. USA)
Book Columnist since 1984
Essays:
“Henry Mitchell”* (Horticulture, Summer 2005)
*from Patchwork: Essays on Gardening Literature of the
20th Century , an ongoing project.
Short Stories:
The Woods (Quarry, 1988)
The Green Hand (Room of One’s Own, 1989)
Watercolour Workshop (Grain, 1987)
Margaret Falls (Room of One’s Own, 1987)
The Poor Guys in Toronto (The Bellingham Review, ’86)
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