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Most Recent Publication -- Poetry:
FACELESS, poetry, 2007 "As a central metaphor, “faces” are an interesting one to explore, ripe with echoes of surface and depth, geography and biology, semantics and connotations. Faceless explores these themes with vigor and scope, collecting almost every poetic angle on the subject of the face into a group of image driven, largely narrative pieces. . . This is a book about conjoining memories to landscapes, spaces to letters, fusing poetic techniques to linear and lyric storytelling." - The Dansforth Review, November 2007
Fiction:
HUNGERS, short story collection “Gunn's wonderfully quirky and rigorous imagination, her unquenchable curiosity, her poet-passion for the plasticity of language, her knack for twinning grit and intelligence, are alive and kicking in Hungers..." - The Globe & Mail, November 2002 “Few contemporary writers can match Gunn in irony and searing characterization.” - The Star, September 2002 "Gunn is the ultimate connoisseur of language, giving each reader a taste, using the medium of her art to explore the range of human response." - Quarter After Eight, March 2004. "Gunn unfolds the story carefully, exposing the characters' mutual betrayals with the well-paced control of a strip-tease." -- Quill & Quire, September 2002 "Gunn's no-nonsense stories have a hard, shining edge for all their lack of sentiment." -- The Toronto Star, September 2002 “What is evident in [Hungers] is Gunn's craftsmanship and control.” - Uptown, September 2002
TRACING IRIS, novel "Writing on many levels at once is a skill that Gunn draws on with great success . . . Gunn develops a lively cast of characters – a collection of idiosyncrasies rife with strengths, weaknesses, fault lines and hidden passages – to create multi-dimensional, heartbreakingly human people. . . the way Gunn enfolds you into the mindset of her main characters is particularly moving, and her sensitive rendering of love and loss is remarkably astute.” -subTerrain, Fall/Winter 2002 “In her latest novel, Tracing Iris . . . Gunn confirms her special skill for weaving complex narrative patterns.” - Books in Canada, September 2002 “Gunn is a skilled layerer of foundations . . . If one of the chief jobs of a novelist is to raise as many questions as she answers (and stimulate further reading), Gunn definitely achieves this . . . Tracing Iris digs deep. There’s little comic relief in this harrowing novel by a gifted West Coast writer.” - The Globe & Mail, November 2001 “Gunn is. . . interested in probing Kate’s emotional wilderness...and deftly selects words for their sound as much as for their meaning. She introduces sections with italicized poetic meditations, soothing and jarring the reader by turns, a device that aptly reflects Kate’s tormented inner world." - Quill & Quire, October 2001 "Gunn, an accomplished jazz singer as well as a writer, tells this story of relationships and sleuthing..." - The Vancouver Sun, December 2001 "In her writing, Genni Gunn goes in search of the mother within her, the mother of all literary dreams, the mother that we all want to be and are not. The grace and perseverance with which she follows this missing mother are at the origin of her elegant, impulsive and disciplined writing." -- Dacia Maraini in Studi Canadesi
ON THE ROAD, short story collection "Deftly using the first person limited, Gunn demonstrates again her acute sensitivity to language's potentialities and weaknesses in the communication of human desire tempered by pain...Gunn has her own style marked out very distinctly and successfully." – University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall 1992, Vol. 62, No. 1 "What Genni Gunn's terse, wry narratives have in common with Jack Kerouac's better known work of the same name is a knowledge that "the road" is not simplistically the road to freedom, but freedom itself. On The Road is a densely crafted book about love and illusion..." – The Vancouver Sun, January 1992 "Gunn's stories have a good back beat and lively, feminist syncopation." – The Globe & Mail, August 1991
"The calibre of Gunn's writing is exceptional."
-The Windsor Star, July 1991
"Gunn has created an enjoyable character whose cynicism educates, and whose perseverance inspires." -- Canadian Book Review Annual 1991
"Realistic surrealism would be an appropriate
label for the collection, which captures the rock music world better than
anything I've previously read." -- Saint John Telegraph, 1992 "Gunn's approach in this book is one of a writer-poet, not a journalist's overview. She is a talented writer; her specific style and syntax lifts the book into an artistic work of poetic prose." -- Night Moves, 1991 "Agile, stark, without embellishment, the language lingers in the dissection/reconstruction of words which assume multiple meanings, a characteristic in the works of Genni Gunn, who is often defined as a feminist writer, just as she has been and is a woman who is a musician outside stereotypes." -- Lifestyles, 1992
THRICE UPON A TIME, novel
Finalist for the COMMONWEALTH PRIZE - BEST FIRST NOVEL (Canada/Caribbean Division) (1990)
"Thrice Upon a Time is a wildly inventive novel..." – The Ottawa Citizen, Fall 1991
"There's a far-reaching imagination at work in this book.." The Globe & Mail, August 1990
"Genni Gunn's fine novel, Thrice Upon a Time, is a challenging combination of narratives that rewards the extra effort needed to read it...This novel is a creation of much originality, very successful in its newness, and well arranged -- the sort of book one wished would continue another hundred pages." – University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall 1991 "Thrice Upon a Time is impressive in both craft and complexity." – Books in Canada "What is fascinating in the knitting, unravelling and reknitting pattern of this story is the orchestration of voices. Gunn is a trained musician with a perfect ear. She knows these women and they are right on pitch." -- The Vancouver Sun, November 1990 "The poet in Gunn transforms the terrain into a magical and memorable landscape." – Kingston's Alternative Bi-weekly "... a beautifully written, many-layered novel." -- The Whig-Standard Excerpt not available at this time.
Poetry:
FACELESS, poetry "As a central metaphor, “faces” are an interesting one to explore, ripe with echoes of surface and depth, geography and biology, semantics and connotations. Faceless explores these themes with vigor and scope, collecting almost every poetic angle on the subject of the face into a group of image driven, largely narrative pieces. . . This is a book about conjoining memories to landscapes, spaces to letters, fusing poetic techniques to linear and lyric storytelling." - The Dansforth Review, November 2007
MATING IN CAPTIVITY, poetry Finalist for the GERALD LAMPERT AWARD (1994)
"Genni Gunn's Mating in Captivity is a long self-documentary poetic cycle comprised largely of prose poems, with occasional poems in verse. Realism and surrealism alternate as the speaker confesses to the distances she has created between herself and others, and between her conscious life and her inner self..." -- Canadian Literature, Spring 1996
"Variations of Silence works especially well, with its combination of sharp images, sensual detail and emotion . . . Unified metaphor transforms this dense work into something resonant..." -- UBC Chronicle, Spring 1994
ACCOPPIARSI IN CATTIVITÀ, poetry
Italian translation of Mating in Captivity (Schifanoia, 2004)
Translations:
TRAVELING IN THE GAIT OF A FOX, poetry translation of Dacia Maraini's Viaggiando Con Passo Di Volpe Finalist for the PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE DIEGO VALERI literary translation prize (2002) Reviews unavailable at this time
DEVOUR ME TOO, poetry translation of Dacia Maraini's Mangiami Pure Finalist for the JOHN GLASSCO TRANSLATION PRIZE (1987) "This very readable translation of [Dacia Maraini's] third collection of poems by Genni Gunn offers an intriguing introduction to an Italian poet working in a mode not very common in English...there's something to learn from the ferocious and stylistically confident rush of her rhetoric." -- Poetry Canada Review, Vol 9, No, 3 "Devour Me Too is a startling and complex work, very much in the surrealist tradition. . .It is hoped that the English-speaking reader will have access to her other works of poetry in translations as superb as this." -- Canadian Book Review Annual, 1988
Other:
ALTERNATE VISIONS original opera libretto; music by John Oliver. Produced by Chants Libres (Montreal, 2007)
feature film in development optioned by Tracing Iris Productions Inc
Prose, Poetry and Translations in: THE AMARANTH REVIEW (Fall, 1989); THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW (No.61; 1985); BEST CANADIAN STORIES 88 (Oberon Press, Sept. 1988); BLACK APPLE (Spring, 1991); CCLOW (Fall, 1990; Summer, 1991); THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE (Winter 1989); CONTEMPORARY VERSE II (Fall 1985, Winter 1986, Summer 1987, Summer 1989, Spring 1990, Spring 1998); EVENT (Summer 1986, summer 2001, Summer 2005); FIDDLEHEAD (Spring 1985; Summer 1985); GRAIN (Fall 1992); GREENSBORO REVIEW (Winter 1987); HERIZONS MAGAZINE (July 1985); HONG KONG LITERATURE MONTHLY (#103 Summer 1993); INTERIOR VOICE (Spring/Summer 1982); MOONSTONE PRESS POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Sept. 1988); NEWEST REVIEW (April/May 1993; April/May 1996); THE NEW QUARTERLY (Spring 1989, Fall 1992, May 1993, Spring 1999, Winter 2001); THE NORTHERN REVIEW (Fall, 1990); PIERIAN SPRING (Fall 84, Summer 1983); POETRY CANADA REVIEW (7:2); POETS' GALLERY (Summer 1990); THE PRAIRIE JOURNAL OF CANADIAN LITERATURE (Sept. 1983); QUARRY (Summer 1983, Fall 1984, Fall 1985, Winter 1988, Spring 1989); RAMPIKE (Vol. 8, No. 2, April 1997); READERS' CHOICE (March 1983); ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (Spring 1988, FALL 2000, Summer 2002, Fall 2006); STORY (Summer 1997); TROIS (October 1989; April 1996); WAVES (Fall 1984); WEST COAST REVIEW (Fall 1985); WRIT (Spring 1987).
Works in Anthologies: SECOND CHAPTER The Canadian Writers Photography Project (Banff Centre Press, 2005) BRASS TACKS (Prentice Hall, 1996, 1998) prose CULTURES IN TRANSITION (McGraw Hill, 1995) prose THE JOURNEY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY (M&S, 1994) prose BREAKING FREE (Prentice Hall, 1994) prose PENS OF MANY COLOURS (Harcourt, Brace, 1993) prose WORDS WE CALL HOME (U.B.C. Press, 1990) prose BEST CANADIAN STORIES (Oberon Press, Ottawa, 1988) prose WRITERS IN TRANSITION (Guernica, 1990) essay AND OTHER TRAVELS (Moonstone Press, Ontario, 1988) poetry RICORDI (Guernica, Montreal, 1989) prose THE WRITER'S HANDBOOK (The Writer Inc., Boston, 1988, 1990) article
CREATIVE NON-FICTION: ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (Spring 2006)
Works Translated into foreign languages: Accoppiarsi in Cattività (Schifanoia, 2004) Translation of Mating in Captivity L'altra Storia [Anthology of Italian-Canadian Literature] (Monteleone, Italy, 1998) Altre Terre [Contemporary Stories from English Canada] (Supernova, Italy, 1997) story; Diario Della Settimana (Publikompass spa, Italy, 1996) novel excerpt; Hong Kong Literature Monthly (Hong Kong Literary Press, 1995) story
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