John Metcalf

• Cuento canadiense contemporáneo. John Metcalf (compilador). Traducción : Juan Carlos Rodriguez. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996
• The New Story Writers. Quarry Press, Kingston, 1992.
• How Stories Mean. (with J.R. "Tim" Struthers) Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill Press, 1993.
• The Macmillan Anthology 3. Toronto: Macmillan, 1990 (with Kent Thompson).
• The Macmillan Anthology 2. Toronto: Macmillan, 1989 (with Leon Rooke).
• The Macmillan Anthology 1. Toronto: Macmillan, 1988 (with Leon Rooke).
• Writers in Aspic. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1988.
• Carry on Bumping. Toronto: ECW Press, 1988.
• The Bumper Book. Toronto: ECW Press, 1987.
• The New Press Anthology: Best Canadian Stories, Vol. II.

Toronto: General Publishing, 1985 (with Leon Rooke).
• The New Press Anthology: Best Canadian Stories, Vol. I.

Toronto General Publishing, 1984 (with Leon Rooke).
• Making It New. Toronto: Methuen Publishing, 1982.
• Best Canadian Stories 1982. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1982 (with Leon Rooke).
• Third Impressions. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1982.
• Second Impressions. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1981.
• Best Canadian Stories 1981. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1981 (with Leon Rooke).
• First Impressions. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1980.
• Best Canadian Stories 1980. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1980 (with Clark Blaise).
• Best Canadian Stories 1979. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1979 (with Clark Blaise).
• Best Canadian Stories 1978. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1978 (with Clark Blaise).
• Best Canadian Stories 1977. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1977 (with Clark Blaise).
• Here and Now: Canadian Stories. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1977.
• Best Canadian Stories 1976. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1976.

Books Edited for The Porcupine's Quill

Short Story Collections

• Give Me Your Answer. K. D. Miller (coming Fall 1999).
• Aquarium and Other Stories. Michael Barnes (coming Fall 1999).
• Devil's Darning Needle. Linda Holeman, 1999.
• One last Good Look. Michael Winter, 1999.
• Love in a Warm Climate. Kelley Aitken, 1998.
• Learning to Live Indoors. Alison Acheson, 1998.
• The King of Siam. Murray Logan, 1998.
• Promise of Shelter. Robyn Sarah, 1997.
• Small Change. Elizabeth Hay, 1997.
• Buying on Time. Antanas Sileika, 1997.
• The Porcupine's Quill Reader. ed. Tim Inkster and John Metcalf, 1996.
• Kiss Me. Andrew Pyper, 1996.
• The Garden of Earthly Intimacies. Meeka Walsh, 1996.
• If I Were Me. Clark Blaise, 1996.
• Telling My Love Lies. Keath Fraser, 1996.
• Lovers and Other Strangers. Carol Malyon, 1996.
• Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. Gil Adamson, 1995.
• Influence of the Moon. Mary Borsky, 1995.
• Driving Men Mad. Elise Levine, 1995.
• On earth as it is. Steven Heighton, 1995.
• Lives of the Mind Slaves. Matt Cohen, 1994.
• A Litany in Time of Plague. K.D. Miller, 1994.
• City of Orphans. Patricia Robertson, 1994.
• Shooting the Stars. John Metcalf, 1993.
• Bad Imaginings. Caroline Adderson, 1993.
• Man and His World. Clark Blaise, 1992.
• Flight Paths of the Emperor. Steven Heighton, 1992.
• The Happiness of Others. Blue Husbands. Don Dickinson, 1991.
• Quickening. Terry Griggs, 1991.
• Victims of Gravity. Dayv James-French, 1990.
• Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada. Ray Smith, 1989.

Poetry Collections and Sagas

• Crossing the Salt Flats. Christopher Wiseman (coming Fall 1999).
• The Hidden Room. P.K. Page, 1997.
• The Schemers & Viga Glum. (Icelandic Sagas) George Johnston, 1997.
• Thrand of Gotu. (Icelandic Sagas) George Johnston, 1994.
• Mogul Recollected. Richard Outram, 1993.
• Apology for Absence. Forests of the Medieval World. Don Coles, 1993.
• While Breath Persist. Gael Turnbull, 1992.
• Dance With Desire. Irving Layton, 1992.
• The Improved Binoculars. Irving Layton, 1991.
• Europe. Louis Dudek, 1991.
• Endeared by Dark: The Collected Poems of George Johnston. 1990.

Novels

• The Man Who Loved Jane Austen. Ray Smith, 1999.
• The Bubble Star. Lesley-Anne Bourne, 1998.
• Belle of the Bayou. Joanna Goodman, 1998.
• Noise. Russell Smith, 1998.
• Jacob's Ladder. Joel Yanofsky, 1997.
• Sleeping Weather Cary Fagan, 1997.
• Dancer Shelley Peterson, 1996.
• Sailor Man. Leo Simpson, 1996.
• Popular Anatomy Keath Fraser, 1996.
• The Lusty Man. Terry Griggs, 1995.
• How Insensitive. Russell Smith, 1994.
• Onlyville. Cynthia Holz, 1994.
• From a Seaside Town. Norman Levine, 1993.
• A Night at the Opera. Ray Smith, 1992.
• Lunar Attractions. Clark Blaise, 1990.

Essays/Photographs

• Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature. Philip Marchand, 1998.
• Canada Made Me. Norman Levine, 1993.
• How Stories Mean. ed. John Metcalf and J.R. "Tim" Struthers, 1993.
• Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits. John Mills, 1992.
• Portraits of Canadian Writers. Sam Tata, 1991.

Books Edited (texts)

• Canadian Classics. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1993.
• Making It New. Toronto: Methuen, 1982 (trade and university text).
• New Worlds. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1980 (Canadian stories, Grades 8- 9).
• Stories Plus. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1979 (Canadian stories, Grades 10-12).
• The Speaking Earth. Toronto: Van Rostrand Reinhold, 1972 (Canadian poetry, Grades 9-11).
• Kaleidoscope. Toronto: Van Rostrand Reinhold, 1972 (Canadian short stories,

junior high school).
• The Narrative Voice. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1971 (Canadian short stories, university text).
• Sixteen by Twelve. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1971 (Canadian short stories, Grades 10-12).
• Salutation. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970 (anthology of world poetry, Grades 10-12).
• Rhyme and Reason. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969 (poetry text book, Grades 8-10).
• Wordcraft. (Books 1-5) Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1967-77

(vocabulary and comprehension books, Grades 7-11).

Criticism

• Special "Metcalf" issue of The New Quarterly, Fall 1996.
• The John Metcalf Papers: An Inventory of the Archive at the University of Calgary Library. Comp. Jean M. Moore and Marlys Ceevrefils. Ed. Apollonia Steele. Biocritical Essay by Louis K. MacKendrick. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1996.
• Reverberations: Explorations in the Canadian Short Story. Simone Vauthier. Toronto: Anansi, 1993.
• Profiles in Canadian Literature (8). Ed. Jeffrey M. Heath. Toronto and Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1991.
• The Literary History of Canada (Volume 4). University of Toronto Press, 1991.
• Coming of Age: John Metcalf and the Canadian Short Story. ed. J.R. "Tim" Struthers,

Red Kite Press and the University of Guelph.
• John Metcalf A.B. Cameron, Twayne's World Authors Series. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
• The Montreal Story Tellers. ed. J.R. "Tim" Struthers. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1985.
• On the Line: Studies in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf and Hugh Hood.

Toronto: ECW Press, 1982.
• An essay by Douglas Rollin in Canadian Writers and Their Works. Toronto: ECW Press.
• Special "Metcalf" issue of Fiddlehead Magazine.
• Special "Metcalf" issue of The Malahat Review.

Reference

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Quotes

 I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance. I wanted nothing "small" about this small press. I wanted the press to become something of a "movement." Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. I wanted our writers to draw strength from community. I wanted each to embolden the next. I wanted writers who loved language and who would swagger and flaunt. I wanted elegance. I wanted sophistication. I wanted a press crackling with energy. I wanted to draw together into one place so many talented writers that we would achieve critical mass and explode upon Canadian society in a dazzling coruscation (Take that, Steve Heighton!) showering it with unquenchable brilliance.

 Metcalf, John: "An Aesthetic Underground," The New Quarterly Volume XVI Number 3 (Fall 1996), p. 35.

"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate."

 John Metcalf quoted in Hinchcliffe, Peter: "Performing Prose: Breakfast with John Metcalf," The New Quarterly Volume XVI Number 3 (Fall 1996), p. 20.

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