Bibliography of Works by Kristjana Gunnars

Stranger at the Door: Writers and the Act of Writing. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004. (Essays & creative non-fiction)

Night Train to Nykøbing a Novel. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1998. [Novel]

The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1996. [Essay]

The Substance of Forgetting. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1992. [Novel]

The Guest House and Other Stories. Concord: House of Anansi Press, 1992. [Short Stories]

Zero Hour. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1991. [Creative non-fiction]

The Prowler: A Novel. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1989. [Novel]

The Axe’s Edge. Toronto: Press Porcépic, 1983. [Short Stories]

Silence of the Country. Regina: Coteau Books, 2002.

Exiles Among You. Regina: Coteau Books, 1996.

Carnival of Longing. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1989.

Water, Waiting. Toronto: Underwhich Editions, 1987. [Chapbook].

The Night Workers of Ragnarök. Toronto: Press Porcépic, 1985.

Wake-pick Poems. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1981.

Settlement Poems 2. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1980.

Settlement Poems 1. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1980.

One-eyed Moon Maps. Victoria: Press Porcépic, 1980.

Degré zéro: roman. (Translation into French of Zero Hour.) Trans. Anne Malena. Montréal: Leméac Éditeurs, 1998.

La maraude: roman. (Translation into French of The Prowler.) Trans. Anne Malena. Montréal: Leméac Éditeurs, 1995.

Stephansson, Stephan G. Stephan G. Stephansson: Selected Prose and Poetry. Trans. Kristjana Gunnars. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1988.

Gudmundsson, Finnbogi. Stephan G. Stephansson: In Retrospect. Seven Essays. Trans. Kristjana Gunnars. Reykjavík: Icelandic Cultural Fund, 1982.

Stranger At The Door: Writers and the Act of Writing. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.

Transient Questions: Essays on the Writing of Mavis Gallant. Ed. Kristjana Gunnars. Amsterdam: Rodopi. In Progress.

Unexpected Fictions: New Icelandic Canadian Writing. Ed. and Intro. Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1989.

Crossing the River: Essays in Honor of Margaret Laurence. Ed. and Intro. Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1988.

The Papers of Dorothy Livesay. Co-Authored with Richard Bennett and Pamela Banting. Winnipeg: Department of Archives and Special Collections, U of Manitoba Libraries, 1986.

Redhead the Whale and other Icelandic Folk Tales. Trans. Helga Miller and George Houser. Ed. Kristjana Gunnars. Illus. Helga Miller. Winnipeg: Queenston House, 1985.

"Winter Gales." The Capilano Review 2.30 (2000): 88-97.

"Zoo." Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing from Alberta. Ed. Srdja Pavlovic. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1999. 169-176.

"Forged Letters." Inter-Plays: Works and Words of Writers and Critics. Eds. Rolf Althof, Rurick von Antropoff and Klaus Peter Muller. St. John's: Breakwater, 1994. 215-219.

"Night Flight." Exile 18.1 (1994): 67-82.

"Dreamwoman." Boundless Alberta: An Anthology of Alberta Writing. Ed. Aritha Van Herk. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1993. 387-398.

"The Falls." Prairie Schooner 67.4 (1993): 126-133.

"Postcards." Canadian Fiction Magazine 82 (1993): 34-43.

"Sorrow Cow." North Dakota Quarterly (1993): 86-89. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 49-56.

"Mass and a Dance." Out of Place. Eds. Ven Begamudré and Judith Krause. Coteau Books, 1991. 49-55. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 73-86. Rpt. in Pens of Many Colors. Eds. Eva C. Karpinski and Ian Lea. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. 352-359. Also translated into Chinese 1994.

"Cocoon." Hard Times: A New Fiction Anthology. Ed. Beverly Daurio. Stratford: The Mercury Press, 1990. 86-90.

"The Empty Schoolroom." Canadian Forum 71.783 (Oct. 1990): 23-6. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 33-48.

"Water." Massachusetts Review 31.1-2 (1990): 144-152. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 19-32.

"Guest House." Canadian Fiction Magazine 70 (1990): 33-41. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 1-18.

"Rain." Secrets from the Orange Couch 3.1 (1990): 25-27.

"Insomnia." Unexpected Fictions: New Icelandic Canadian Writing. Ed. Kristjana Gunnars. Turnstone P, 1989. 43-52. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 87-96. Rpt. in JON A B E GISA 1 (1997): 81-85.

"Pall Johansson, Fatalist." Puzzle. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1986. 65-73. Vol. 3 of Pieces of the Jigsaw / Puzzle: A Multicultural Anthology for Young Readers. 3 Vols. 1986.

"Tomas Jonasson, Jazz." Arts Manitoba 3.1 (1982): 65-69. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 77-84.

"Holiday, My Bone." Lögberg-Heimskringla 3 Dec. 1982: 4-5, 8. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 85-93.

"The Song of the Reindeer." Icelandic Writing Today Sept. 1982: 34-36. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Guest House 97-112.

"Sveinborg Sigfusdottir, Grasses." Lögborg-Heimskringla 14 May 1982: 6, 8. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 61-68.

"Petúr Árnason, Roundup." Lögborg-Heimskringla 9 Oct. 1981: 5-6. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 17-22.

"Timminn og Vindurinn." Trans. Kristjan Jonsson. Lesbok Morgunbladsins 39, 5 Dec. 1981.

"Halfdán Sigmundsson, Guest." Canadian Fiction Magazine 36 / 37 (1980): 39-45. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 37-46.

"Kolla, Ticks." NeWest Review 5.6 (1980): 8-9. Rpt. in Sundogs: Stories from Saskatchewan. Ed. Robert Kroetsch. Regina: Coteau Books, 1981. 49-54. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 69-76. Rpt. in The Last Map is the Heart. Eds. G. Sorestand, P. O'Rourke and A. Forrie Saskatoon: Thistledown P, 1989. 88-93.

"Fridrik Sviensson, Mice." The Canadian Forum 59.694 (Nov. 1979): 20-22. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Axe’s Edge 29-36. Rpt. as "Mice" in Manitoba Heritage Review 1.1 (1984): 14-17.

"light." New Delta Review 19.1 (2001): 41.

"that is not a dream, this." The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems. Ed. Tom Wayman. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Pub., 2001. 66-67. Rpt. from Gunnars, Exiles Among You 51.

"the real postmodern." Prairie Fire 22.1 (2001): 53. Rpt. in Gunnars, Silence of the Country 48.

"silence of the country," "ink stains." Poetry Wales 36.2 (2000): 8-9. Rpt. in Gunnars, Silence of the Country 10, 27.

"millennium," "compass." Contemporary Verse Two 22.4 (2000): 7-9.

"city fog." Dandelion 25.2 (1999): 66. Rpt. in Gunnars, Silence of the Country 3.

"at the beach" and "quiet of the morning." ARC Canada’s National Poetry Magazine 41 (1998): 40-41. Rpt. in Gunnars, Silence of the Country 20, 22.

"millenium," "street corner," and "Arctic cathedral." Antigonish Review 115 (1998): 30-32. Rpt. in Gunnars, Silence of the Country 18, 9, 17.

"Selections from 'Photographic Memory.'" Mattoid 52-53 (1998): 145-147.

"'2,' '7,' '15,' '47,' and '64,' from Exiles Among You." Passeport: la poésie moderne de langue anglaise au Canada. Ed. Endre Farkas. Trans. into French by Émile Martel. Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Pub., 1998. 144-147.

"Depoe Bay." Wascana Review 32.3 (1997): 71. Rpt. from Wascana Review 12.2 (1977):49-51.

"Exiles Among You '61,' '62,' '63,' '64,' '65.'" Rampike 8.2 (1997): 68-69. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"23." The Globe and Mail 16 Mar. 1996: C19. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"those subjected to radioactivity who did not die were marked for life." Global Matters. Ed. Ian Waldron and Nancy Steinhauer. New York: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995. 26-7. Rpt. from Gunnars, The Night Workers 96.

"'35,' '36,' and '38,' from Exiles Among You." ARC: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine 34 (1995): 40-42. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"'25,' and '26,' from Exiles Among You." Dandelion 22.1 (1995): 10-11. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"'9,' '10,' '11,' '12,' '13,' from Exiles Among You." Matrix 44 (1994): 62-63. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"'46,' '47,' '50,' from Exiles Among You." The Antigonish Review 99 (1994): 39. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"Selections from Exiles Among You." Poetry Canada Review 15.1 (1994): 6-7. Rpt. in Gunnars, Exiles Among You.

"Selections from 'Scent of Cedar.'" Prairie Fire 15.1 (1994): 27-41.

"in this kitchen." Kitchen Talk: Contemporary Women’s Prose and Poetry. Eds. Edna Alford and Claire Harris. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1992. 178.

"Excerpts from the Poem 'Sunlamp.'" Canadian Woman Studies 9.2 (1988): 82-3. Rpt. in Gunnars, Carnival 47-65.

"casualty." Verse 4.1 (1987): 13.

"beneath discourse." Contemporary Verse Two 10.2 (1986): 34-37.

"Field Guide to Havoc." Lögborg-Heimskringla 12 Sept. 1986: 7.

"Whale Constellations 3 and 4." Ariel 17.2 (1986): 15-16.

"Letter to Sigridur." Northern Light 36 (1985): 36-37.

7 Poems from Mistaken Masters: "Revealing Horse," "A Long Production," "From a Distance," "William Blake Receding," "Dead Splendour," "untitled," and "untitled." Poetry Canada Review 6.3 (1985):13.

"blueprint of St. Francis" and "self-asteroids." Dandelion 2.2 (1984-5): 8-10.

"Milky Way Vegetation II (excerpts)." Women and Words: The Anthology. Ed. West Coast Editorial Collective. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1984. 1-2. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Night Workers 27-31.

"north country wake '10,' '16,' and '18.'" Contemporary Verse Two 8.3 (1984): 27. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Night Workers 63-70.

"north country wake '6,' '8,' and '9.'" NeWest Review 9.9 (1984): 19. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Night Workers 63-70.

"north country wake '17,' '20,'and '21.'" Poetry Canada Review 6.1 (1984): 26. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Night Workers 63-70.

"Reef." Cycle of 24 Poems. Paunch (1984): 5-29.

"Wild Waters." Prairie Fire 5.2-3 (1984): 38-40.

"Wordsketch on Indian Summer." With Andrew Suknaski. Prairie Fire 5.2-3 (1984): 30-31.

"Epistle of Wilderness." Northward Journal 27 (1983): 26-47.

"'the dots of de dondi' from 'Mistaken Masters.'" Agenda 84. Montreal: The Muse’s Company. July 1983.

"sea urchins." The Icelandic Canadian 41.3 (1983): 27.

"Selections from The Night Workers of Ragnarök." Northern Light 9 (1983).

"Gaelic love stories I, II, III and IV." Contemporary Verse Two 6.4 (1982): 14-15.

"milky way vegetation II, I." Waves 2.1 (1982): 70. Rpt. in Gunnars The Night Workers 70.

"sea kale." Lögborg-Heimskringla 12 Feb. 1982: 3.

"Stone Bridge Poems: summer awning." Canadian Ethnic Studies 14.1 (1982): 93. Rpt. in Gunnars, The Night Workers 35.

"Changeling / Monkshood." The Canadian Forum 61.709 (May 1981): 22-23.

"Selections from 'Whale Constellations.'" Canadian Literature 90 (1981): 107-110.

"From Memory VII, X and XII." NeWest Review 5.7 (1980): 7.

"Winnipeg Wake." Lögborg-Heimskringla 94.3 Feb. 1980.

"Gleneden, Oregon," "in dad’s geology lab." The Fiddlehead 121 (1979): 80-82.

"Haiku." Dragonfly 7.1 (1979): n.p.

"Ilya," "Patricia." Concerning Poetry 12.2 (1979): 15-16.

"talking with a famous poet at the Globe." Canadian Author and Bookman 54.3 (1979): 27.

"to an anthropologist." Smoke Signals. Regina: Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Annual Literary Competition, 1979. 9.

"sister." Salt 18 (1978): 14.

"June 17, Pense Saskatchewan." The Icelandic Canadian 37.2 (1978): 31.

"passage," "thorsgata." Grain 6.3 (1978): 8-10.

"Depoe Bay," "after reading a children’s nature journal: Japan issue." Wascana Review 12.2 (1977): 49-51.

"making discards." Quarry 26.4 (1977): 62.

"a new life, for my father," "in spate." Prism International 15.1 (1976): 84-85.

"Keflavik," "Drangey." Luckiamute Summer 1972: n.p.

Many of Gunnars poems have been anthologized.

"The House at the End of the Fjord." Prairie Fire 21.3 (2000): 14-22.

"Pensive Nude." Going Some Place. Ed. Lynne van Luven. Regina: Coteau Books, 2000. 25-35.

"Pebbles on the Beach." Writing Home: A PEN Anthology. Ed. Constance Rooke. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. 119-125.

"The Present." Language in Her Eye: Writing and Gender. Eds. Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard, and Eleanor Wachtel. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. 126-130.

"Essay Parcels from Andrew Suknaski" in Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing. Ed. Bill Sproxton. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1986. 187-191.

"Canonization Practices and the Canadian Bookshelf." Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 232-240.

"Writing and Silence." Skrivingens Rom. Trondheim, Norway: University of Trondheim, 1998.

"The Idea of North and the Disclosure of Agency." Canada and the Nordic Countries. Ed. Jørn Carlsen. Volume 12. Denmark: U of Aarhus, 1997. 7-19.

"Translation the Subaltern." Canadian Ethnic Studies 29.3 (1997): 75-82.

"Life as Fiction: Narrative Appropriation in Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa." Isak Dinesen and Narrativity: Reassessments for the 1990s. Ed. Gurli A. Woods. Ottawa: Carleton U P, 1994. 25-35.

"Ethnicity and Canadian Women Writers." Room of One’s Own: A Feminist Journal of Literature and Criticism 14.4 (1991): 40-50.

"Introduction." Double Danish: Contemporary Short Stories from Denmark. Ed. and Trans. Per Brask. Ottawa: Cormorant Books, 1991.

"The Hypothetical Text: Stephan G. Stephansson’s Autobiography." Canada and the Nordic Countries. Eds., Jørn Carlsen and Bengt Streijffert. Volume 2 of The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series. Lund: Lund UP; Chartwell-Bratt, 1988. 109-22.

"Shepherding the Self: Love in the Autobiography of Gudny Jonsdottir." Canadian Women’s Studies / Les Cahiers de la Femme 9.2 (1988): 50-53.

"Avoidance and Confrontation: Excerpts from Notes on a Longpoem Poetics." Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing. Ed. Bill Sproxton. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1986. 187-92.

"Laura Goodman Salverson’s Confessions of a Divided Self." A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing. Eds. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon, 1986. 148-153.

"Words on Multilingualism." Prairie Fire 5.2-3 (1984): 7-8.

"Laurence, Margaret (1926-87)" and "Valgardson, W.D." in Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London: Routledge, 1994.

"Stephansson, Stephan G." New Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1985.

Brask, Per, Ed. and Trans. Anthology of Modern Danish Literature. Introduction by Kristjana Gunnars. Ottawa: Cormorant Books, 1991.

Grove, Frederick Philip. Settlers of the Marsh. Afterword by Kristjana Gunnars. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989.

"The Search for Our Passion." The Globe and Mail 18 Aug. 1990: C15.

"Icelandic Writing Today." Lögborg-Heimskringla 12 Feb. 1982: 3.

"About the Poem." Lögborg-Heimskringla 20 Nov. 1981: 4, 8.

"Fear of Kroetsch: Response to 'Fear of Women in Prairie Fiction: Erotics of Space' by Robert Kroetsch." Freelance (Nov. 1978): 39-41.

"Interview with Greg Hollingshead." Prairie Fire 17.2 (1996): 6-18.

"Voyage on a Dark Ocean: Interview with W.D. Valgardson." Prairie Fire 10.2 (1989): 60-65. Rpt. in The Icelandic Canadian 67.3 (1989): 14-19.

"'Meditation on a Snowy Morning’: A Conversation with Robert Kroetsch." Prairie Fire 8.4 (1987-88): 54-67.

"Making Draft Horses Out of the Gods: An Interview with Robert Bringhurst." Prairie Fire 8.1 (1987): 4-15.

"Poetry is For People: An Interview with Dorothy Livesay." Co-Authored with Pamela Banting. Prairie Fire 7.3 (1986): 8-13. Rpt. in Writing and Gender. Ed. Libby Scheier. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990.

"Eg aetlast til ad allir viti hvar Skagafjordur er." Interview with Haraldur Bessason. Dagbladid-Visir 73/8 (86): 17 Apr. 1982.