Publications
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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.
Niceman
Cometh (Toronto, Porcupine's Quill, 2008)
Welcome
to Canada (Toronto,
Porcupine's Quill, 2009). Winner of the IPPY (Independent
Publishers of North America) gold medal for Canada-West –
Best Regional Fiction.
A
Hunter's Confession (Vancouver,
Greystone Books, 2010)
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Periodical
Publications of Note
(A Selection)
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"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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