Books
The
Forest (Montreal, Harvest House, 1977, 168 pp), a
novella by Georges Bugnet, translated from the original La
Foret ).
Jokes
for the Apocalypse (Toronto, McClelland & Stewart,
1985, 189 pp), two linked novellas.
Jewels
(Toronto, Porcupine's Quill, 1986, 157 pp), a novella.
God's
Bedfellows (Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1988,
216 pp), a collection of short stories.
Writing
Home (Fifth House, 1994, 187 pp), a collection of
literary and familiar essays.
Fishing
in Western Canada (Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre,
2000, 214 pp), a how-to book on catching, cooking and bragging
about fish.
Courting
Saskatchewan (Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre,
1996, 194 pp), a collection of personal essays. Winner of
the Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction, 1997.
Banjo
Lessons (Regina, Coteau Books, 1997, 281 pp), a novel.
Winner of the City of Edmonton Book Prize, 1998.
Trout
Stream Creed (Regina, Coteau Books, 2003, 114 pp), Carpenter’s
only collection of poems. Nominated for the Saskatchewan Book
of the Year.
The
Ketzer (Regina, Hagios Press, 2004), a novella. Winner
of the Canadian National Novella Contest sponsored by Descant.
Luck
(Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications, 2005, 240pp). The first
instalment of Carpenter's new Bill Shmata mystery series.
Periodical
Publications of Note
(A Selection)
"Protection,"
Saturday Night (January, 1981), pp. 42-50.
"God's
Bedfellows," Saturday Night (October, 1984),
pp. 56-69.
"Geopiety,"
("With some exceptions, Canadian literature as a whole
reflects a severely qualified, lukewarm affection for the
terrestrial home of its authors. As such, Canadian literature
could be described as a literature of abandonment, a literature
lacking in a sense of geopiety.") First published in
Mosaic, 1984.
"Spectator,"
Saturday Night (September, 1987).
"Afterword"
for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai
Richler," in McClelland & Stewart's New Canadian
Library Classic series, 1989.
"What
We Talk About When We Talk About Carver," in William
Stull's Remembering Ray (Los Angeles, 1993); first
published in Descant.
"Tyee,"
Western Living, August, 1992. [This article won the
Western Magazine Awards first prize for 1993.]
"Nom
de Plume," on Georges Bugnet, author of La Foret,
in Writing Home (Calgary: Fifth House, 1994).
"Hoovering
to Byzantium," on plagiarism, literary influences,
Herodotus, Robertson Davies, Irish Murdoch, and a little on
Carp, too. In Taking Risks, Banff Centre Publications,
1998.
"Minding
Your Manners in Paradise," in Fishing in Western
Canada (Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2000). Reminiscences
of fly-fishing on Johnson Lake in Banff.
“North
Carolina I Did Go,” in Explore, October, 2001.
“The
Cabin That Saskatchewan Built,” in Western Living,
June, 2002.
“Saskatchewan,”
in John Conway’s Saskatchewan Topographics
(Edmonton, U. of A. Press, 2005).
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