Political Radicalism
Feminism, Class Organizing, Community Activism, Anti-War, and Environment
Acorn, Milton. The Brain’s the Target. Toronto: Ryerson, 1960. [Poetry]
---. I Shout Love and Other Poems. Ed. James Deahl. Toronto: Aya, 1987. [Poetry]
---. The Island Means Minago. Toronto: NC Press, 1975. [Poetry]
---. I’ve Tasted My Blood: Poems 1956-1968. 1969. Toronto: Steel Rail Educational, 1978. [Poetry]
---. “The Assassination of Kennedy.” I’ve Tasted 105.
---. “The Canadian Statue of Liberty Speaks to the U.S. Draft Dodgers.” I’ve Tasted 95.
---. “Cynicism.” I’ve Tasted 45.
---. “The Fights.” I’ve Tasted 42-43.
---. “I Shout Love.” I’ve Tasted 65.
---. “I Will Arise and Go Now.” I’ve Tasted 44.
---. “Idyl.” I’ve Tasted 72.
---. “Knowing I Live in a Dark Age.” I’ve Tasted 72.
---. “Passage to Hong Kong.” I’ve Tasted 97.
---. “Poem with Fat Cats in the Background.” I’ve Tasted 56.
---. “Ridgeway (Westmoreland) Becomes Chief of Staff.” I’ve Tasted 94.
---. “The Tolerant Philistine.” I’ve Tasted 28.
---. “Where Is Che Guevara?” I’ve Tasted 98-100.
---. Jawbreakers. Toronto: Contact, 1963. [Poetry]
---. More Poems for People. Rev. ed. Toronto: NC Press, 1973. [Poetry]
---, and Cedric Smith. The Road to Charlottetown. Ed. James Deahl. Hamilton, ON: UnMon Northland, 1998. [Poetry]
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri. “stray bullets (oka re/vision).” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 321-22. [Poetry]
---. “turtle island holocaust.” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples 9 (Fall 1998): 27-28. [Poetry]
Alfred, Taiaiake. Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto. Toronto: OUP, 1999. [Personal Essay]
Allan, Ted, and Sydney Gordon. The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune. Boston: Little, 1952. [Life Writing]
Allan, Ted. This Time a Better Earth.New York: Morrow, 1939. [Novel]
Armstrong, Jeannette. “Death Mummer.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 108-9. [Poetry]
---. “History Lesson.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 110-11. [Poetry]
---. “Indian Woman.” An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. 2nd ed. Ed. Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie. Toronto: OUP, 1998. 229-30. [Poetry]
---. Slash. Rev. ed. Penticton, BC: Theytus, 2000. [Novel]
At the Mermaid Inn: Wilfred Campbell, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott in The Globe 1892-93. Comp. Barrie Davies. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1979. [Life Writing]
Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin. Toronto: McClelland, 2000. [Novel]
---. “Notes Toward a Poem that Can Never Be Written.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 356. [Poetry]
Baird, Irene. “Sidown, Brothers, Sidown.” Revue de l’Université Laurentienne / Laurentian University Review 9.1 (Nov. 1976): 81-86. [Personal Essay]
---. Waste Heritage. New York: Random, 1939. [Novel]
Bergren, Myrtle. A Bough of Needles: Eleven Canadian Short Stories. Toronto: Progress, 1964. [Short Story]
Bethune: The Making of a Hero. Dir. Phillip Borsos. Filmline International, August 1st Film Studio, and Parmentier/Belstar Productions, 1990. [Film]
Birney, Earle. Down the Long Table. Toronto: McClelland, 1955. [Novel]
Callaghan, Morley. “I Should Have Been a Preacher.” Unpublished short story. Scribner’s Papers, Princeton U, 1923. [Short Story]
---. Strange Fugitive. 1928. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973. [Novel]
---. Such Is My Beloved. Toronto: McClelland, 1957. [Novel]
---. They Shall Inherit the Earth. 1934. Toronto: McClelland, 1962. [Novel]
---. “A Windy Corner at Yonge – Alberta.” Toronto Star Weekly 6 Aug. 1921: 17. [Short Story]
Carter, Dyson [Warren Desmond]. Fatherless Sons. Toronto: Progress, 1955. [Novel]
---. The Governor’s Mistress. Toronto: Export, 1950. [Novel]
---. Night of Flame. Toronto: McLeod, 1942. [Novel]
---. Russia’s Secret Weapon. Winnipeg, MB: Contemporary, 1942. [Novel]
Chevalier, Henri-Émile. Poignet-d’acier ou Les Chippiouais [microform]. Paris: Lévy, 1875. [Novel]
Class Is the Issue. Spec. issue of Fireweed 25 (Fall 1987). [Special Issue]
Crate, Joan. “Can you hear me?” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 229. [Poetry]
Crémazie, Octave. Poésies de Octave Crémazie. Montréal: Beauchemin, 1925. [Poetry]
---. “Le Drapeau de Carillon.” Poésies 143-51.
---. “Le Vieux soldat canadien.” Poésies 125-26.
Cuthand, Beth. “Fire and Ice.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 129-30. [Poetry]
---. “Post-Oka Kinda Woman.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 132-33. [Poetry]
Davidson, Judson France. Muse Whangs: Poems Amorous, Bacchanalian, Political, Memorial, Humorous, and Miscellaneous. N.p.: n.p., 1887. [Poetry]
Davis, N. Brian, ed. The Poetry of the Canadian People, 1720-1920: Two Hundred Years of Hard Work. Toronto: NC Press, 1976. [Poetry]
---, ed. The Poetry of the Canadian People, 1900-1950. Toronto: NC Press, 1978. [Poetry]
Doody, Carolyn Ann. “What We Are Not.” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples 9 (Fall 1998): 12. [Poetry]
Douglas, Orville Lloyd. You Don’t Know Me. Toronto: TSAR, 2005. [Poetry]
---. “I Am Not Black.” You Don’t 1-3.
---. “My Name Is Orville.” You Don’t 37-38.
---. “Unspoken Truths.” You Don’t 16-17.
Dumont, Marilyn. A Really Good Brown Girl. 1996. London, ON: Brick, 2005. [Poetry]
---. “The Devil’s Language.” A Really Good 54-55.
---. “Helen Betty Osborne.” A Really Good 20.
---. “Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald.” A Really Good 52.
Endres, Robin Belistky. “Why I Left ‘The Left’ to Write.” Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed. Ed. Makeda Silvera. Toronto: Women’s P, 1986. 13-20. [Personal Essay]
Evans, Hubert. Mist on the River. 1954. Toronto: McClelland, 1973. [Novel]
Fairley, Margaret, ed. Spirit of Canadian Democracy: A Collection of Canadian Writings from the Beginnings to the Present Day. Toronto: Progress, 1945. [Personal Essay]
---. “A Woman’s Confession.” Canadian Forum 1 (Aug. 1921): 333. [Poetry]
Fife, Connie. “Communications Class.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 302-3. [Poetry]
Gallant, Mavis. What Is to Be Done? Dunvegan, ON: Quadrant, 1983. [Play]
George, Chief Dan. “A Lament for Confederation.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 129-30. [Poetry]
George, William. “this generation.” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples 9 (Fall 1998): 36-37. [Poetry]
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Rising Village. Ed. Gerald Lynch. 1825. London, ON: Canadian Poetry, 1989. [Poetry]
Groulx, Lionel. L’Appel de la race. 1922. Montréal: Fides, 1956. [Novel]
Hansen, Ann. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2001. [Life Writing]
Harvey, Jean-Charles. Les Demi-civilisés. Montréal: Éditions de l’Homme, 1962. [Novel]
---. Les Grenouilles demandent un roi. Montréal: Éditions du Jour, 1943. [Novel]
Hertel, François. O Canada, mon pays, mes amours. 2nd ed. Paris: Diaspora française, 1959. [Personal Essay]
Innis, Mary Quayle. “The Gift.” Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930s. Ed. Donna Phillips.Toronto: New Hogtown, 1979. 143-50. [Short Story]
---. “Holiday.” The Depression in Canadian Literature. Ed. Alice K. Hale and Sheila A. Brooks. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976. 3-8. [Short Story]
---. “The Party.” Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930s. Ed. Donna Phillips.Toronto: New Hogtown, 1979. 151-57. [Short Story]
---. “Staver.” Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930s. Ed. Donna Phillips.Toronto: New Hogtown, 1979. 173-81. [Short Story]
Joe, Rita. Lnu and Indians We’re Called. 1991. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed, 1999. [Poetry]
---. “Analysis of my poem: 1.” Lnu and Indians 13.
---. “Atlantic Mission Conference, Burnt Church, N.B.” Lnu and Indians 11.
---. “I Do Not Like Hearing the Wrong.” Lnu and Indians 15.
---. “Lnu and Indians We’re Called.” Lnu and Indians 10.
---. “Prejudice Is Something We Can Do Without.” Lnu and Indians 53.
---. “Proposal for a Grant.” Lnu and Indians 27.
---. Song of Eskasoni: More Poems of Rita Joe. 1988. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed, 1999. [Poetry]
---. “Eskasoni.” Song of Eskasoni 55.
---. “I Lost My Talk.” Song of Eskasoni 32.
---. “Legacy.” Song of Eskasoni 47.
---. “Warriors.” Song of Eskasoni 63.
Johnson, E. Pauline [Tekahionwake]. “The Cattle Thief.” Flint and Feather. 5th ed. Toronto: Musson, 1917. 22-26. [Poetry]
Jonas, George. “Portrait: The Freedom Fighter.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 310. [Poetry]
Keeshig-Tobias, Lenore. “(a found poem).” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 138-39. [Poetry]
Kennedy, Leo. The Shrouding: Poems.Toronto: Macmillan, 1933. [Poetry]
Knight, Phyllis, and Rolf Knight. A Very Ordinary Life. Vancouver: New Star, 1974. [Oral History]
Krawczyk, Betty Shiver. Lock Me Up or Let Me Go: The Protests, Arrest and Trial of an Environmental Activist. Vancouver: Press Gang, 2002. [Life Writing]
Kreisel, Henry. The Rich Man. Toronto: McClelland, 1948. [Novel]
Kroetsch, Robert. The Words of My Roaring. Toronto: Macmillan, 1966. [Novel]
Landsberg, Michele. Women and Children First: A Provocative Look at Modern Canadian Women at Work and at Home. Toronto: Macmillan, 1982. [Personal Essay]
Leslie, Kenneth. The Poems of Kenneth Leslie. Ladysmith, QC: Ladysmith, 1971. [Poetry]
Livesay, Dorothy. Call My People Home. Toronto: Ryerson, 1950. [Poetry]
---. Day and Night: Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1944. [Poetry]
---. Right Hand, Left Hand. Erin, ON: Porcepic, 1977. [Poetry]
---. Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan, 1932. [Poetry]
---. “The Waiting Room.” Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930s. Ed. Donna Phillips.Toronto: New Hogtown, 1979. 119-25. [Short Story]
Lowe, Mick. One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane. Toronto: Macmillan, 1992. [Life Writing]
Lowther, Pat. A Stone Diary. Toronto: OUP, 1977. [Poetry]
Lysenko, Vera. Men in Sheepskin Coats: A Study in Assimilation. Toronto: Ryerson, 1947. [Reportage]
---. Yellow Boots. Toronto: Ryerson, 1954. [Novel]
Mackenzie, William Lyon, and John Robert Colombo. The Mackenzie Poems. Toronto: Swan, 1966. [Poetry]
Maguire, Trevor. “O Canada!: A Tale of Canadian Workers’ [sic] Life.” The Worker (19 Feb.-3 Sept. 1927): n.pag. [Serialized Novel]
---. Unemployment. Canadian Labour Monthly (May-June 1928). Rpt in Eight Men Speak, and Other Plays from the Canadian Workers’ Theatre.Ed. Richard Wright and Robin Endres. Toronto: New Hogtown, 1976. 5-14. [Play]
Mandel, Eli. “The Madwoman of the Plaza de Mayo.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982.233. [Poetry]
Maracle, Lee. “War.” Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001. 183-84. [Poetry]
Montero, Gloria. We Stood Together: First-Hand Accounts of Dramatic Events in Canada’s Labour Past. Toronto: Lorimer, 1979. [Oral History]
Mowat, Farley. And No Birds Sang. Toronto: McClelland, 1979. [Life Writing]
Nolan, Faith. “Anna Mae Aquash.” Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing. Vol. 2 Ed. George Elliott Clarke. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield, 1992. 121-22. [Poetry]
Poor People’s Press. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal: N.D.G. Anti-Poverty League (Oct. 1989-Summer 1991). [Activist Newsletter]
Potrebenko, Helen. Hey Waitress and Other Stories. Vancouver: Lazara, 1989. [Short Story]
---. Life, Love and Unions. Vancouver: Lazara, 1987. [Poetry]
---. “My Mother, the Troublemaker.” This Is Class Too 54-65. [Short Story]
Sainte-Marie, Buffy. “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone.” It’s My Way. 1964. Vanguard, 1995. [Poetry/Song]
---. “The Universal Soldier.” It’s My Way. 1964. Vanguard, 1995. [Poetry/Song]
Sam, Lillian. “A Child of Six.” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples 9 (Fall 1998): 139-40. [Poetry]
Sime, J[essie] G[eorgina]. Sister Woman. 1919. Ottawa: Borealis, 1992. [Short Story]
Smith, A.J.M. “The Common Man.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 99-101. [Poetry]
---. “The Dead.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 101-2. [Poetry]
Sparshott, Francis. “Reply to the Committed Intellectual.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 259. [Poetry]
Stevenson, Sharon. Golden Earrings. Vancouver: Pulp, 1986. [Poetry]
The Stone, the Axe, the Sword, and Other Canadian Poems. Toronto: New Frontiers, 1955. [Poetry]
Sweatman, Margaret. Fox. Winnipeg, MB: Turnstone, 1991. [Novel]
This Is Class Too. Spec. issue of Fireweed 26 (Winter-Spring 1988). [Special Issue]
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre – Working Class Caucus. “Around the Kitchen Table.” This Is Class Too 69-81. [Reportage]
Vulpe, Nicola, and Maha Albari, eds. Sealed in Struggle: Canadian Poetry and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology. La Laguna, Canary Islands: Center for Canadian Studies, U de La Laguna, 1995. [Poetry]
Wallace, J.S. The Golden Legend. Moscow: Foreign Languages, 1964. [Poetry]
---. Joe Wallace Poems. Toronto: Progress, 1981. [Poetry]
---. A Reading Sphere. Moscow: Foreign Languages, 1964. [Poetry]
Woodcock, George. “Paper Anarchist Addresses the Shade of Nancy Ling Perry.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 160-61. [Poetry]
Wright, Richard, and Robin Endres, eds. Eight Men Speak, and Other Plays from the Canadian Workers’ Theatre.Toronto: New Hogtown, 1976. [Play]
Compiled by Amir Hossein Roostaee and Roxanne Rimstead