GP Lainsbury: Publications

A. Monographs
-Versions of North. Caitlin Press, 2011. 88 pages. Reviewed by John Harris in dooney's cafe (November 5, 2011), by Robert Miltner in Buried Letter (August & September 2012), and by Brent Wood in "Letters in Canada 2011: Poetry" (University of Toronto Quarterly 82/3, Summer 2013, 400-30.
-The Carver Chronotope: Inside the Life-World of Raymond Carver's Fiction. Studies in Major Literary Authors, Volume 23. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. 204 pages.

B. Chapbooks
-Scenario 3: Dreams of Exile. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2011. 20 pages.
-Forensic Versions of North: Revised, Projected &/or Distorted. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2011. 12 pages.
-Scenario 6: coyote::moose::deer::dog. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2009. 28 pages.
-Scenario 5: Three Cantos. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2007. 28 pages.
-a draft of scenario 5: one of a number of versions of the north. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2006. 12 pages.
-Scenario 5: & Them w/an Ontological Stake in the Past. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2004. 28 pages.
-This Year's Canto: A Prick for Your Balloon. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2002. 16 pages.
-Versions of the North: Three Cantos. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2001. 24 pages.
-Art Weighs Down the Thinker's Heart. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2000. 36 pages.
-Songs for Schlagenhamer and Other Early Morbid Poems. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2000. 24 pages.
-Songs for Schlagenhamer: or, Digging Your Own Hole. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 1999. 24 pages.
-Wasted: Early Morbid Poems. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 1996. 16 pages.

C. Chapbooks (Edited)
-An FSJPRG Sampler, by Tanya Clary, Hardy Friedrich & GP Lainsbury. Fort St. John, B.C.: FSJ Poetics Research Group, 2007. 12 pages.
-My Ass Poems ... and More, by Tanya Clary. Fort St. John, B.C.: FSJPoetics Research Group, 2003. 16 pages.
-"If I Had My Say" by David Cotter and General Purpose Literary (devices). Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2001. 8 pages. Also published in Nasty.
-P.O.P. A.R.T. by Dante Acuna. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2001. 16 pages.
-Twilight of the (Pre-Pubescent Suburban Sex) Idyll, by Tanya Clary-Vandergaag. Fort St. John, B.C.: Cosmodemonic Poetics, 2001. 16 pages.

D. In Collections
-excerpts from Half-Life, in Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia. Eds. Paul Nelson, George Stanley, Barry McKinnon & Nadine Maestas. Lantzville, B.C.: Leaf Press, 2015.
"Scorched Earth Policy," in DiVerseCities II Anthology. Ed. Henry See. Fort St John, B.C.: Retro Relics FSJ, 2011.
"The Psychopathology of (Northern) College Life" and "Oil Wives," in Post North III: The Truth. Ed. Alex Buck. Prince George, B.C.: postnorthpress, 2011.
"Reconnaissance," in DiVerseCities: Pieces of the Peace Anthology. Ed. Henry See. Fort St John, B.C.: Retro Relics FSJ, 2009.
-"Generation X and the End of History," in GenXegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture. Eds. John M. Ulrich and Andrea L. Harris. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
-"Versions of the North (Scenario 3: Dreams of Exile)," in Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001.
-"Another Dreary Introspective and Over-Intellectual Lyric Poem," in the longest road home: a festschrift for Barry McKinnon. Prince George: Roaring Heart Press, 2001.
-"Fools Vaulting" and "Bogwalk," in From Moberly Lake: Summer 2000. Dawson Creek: purple donut press, 2000.

E. In Periodicals
I. Prose Fiction
-A story, "Cleaned Out," Reflections on Water, 1/2 (March 2000).
-A story, "A Shoplifter's Guide to the Bookstores of Calgary," Canadian Fiction Magazine, 89 (1995).
-A story, "From the Waiting and the Heat," in Dandelion, 21/2 (December 1994).
-A story, "Habib George," in Nexus, 7/1 (SFU: Summer 1994).
- "Excerpts from The Prison Journals," in Nexus, 6/1 (Spring 1993).
-A story, "The Will Bane Garage Incident," in The Lyre (Capilano College: Fall 1992/Spring 1993).
-A story, "The Apparition of this Wilbur," in Nexus, 4/1 (October 1990).
-A story, "The Laborer's Tale," in Vox (Calgary: January 1990) and in Reflections on Water, 2/1 (December 2000).

II. Poetry
-"The Psychopathology of (Northern) College Life," in Geist 96 (Spring 2015): 32.

-excerpts from Half-Life, in "Northern BC Folio," Lemon Hound (May 2015): http://lemonhound.com/2015/05/07/g-p-lainsbury-from-half-life/
-A part ("II. Zones of Contact: the Homeless Mind") of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 3: Dreams of Exile," in filling station, No. 55 (2013): 35-37.
-A part ("II. There Is No God & Humans Are Essentially Evil) of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 6: coyote::moose::deer::dog," in The Quint, Vol. 4 No. 2 (March 2012): 73-80.
-A part ("III. Zones of Contact") of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 6: coyote::moose::deer::dog," in House Organ (Youngstown, NY), No.75 (Summer 2011).
-A part ("I. End of the Postwar Communicative Pact") of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 6: coyote::moose::deer::dog," in House Organ (Youngstown, NY), No.71 (Summer 2010).
-A part ("II. Nowhere, Everybody Knows This Is") of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 5: & Them w/an Ontological Stake in the Past," in stonestone, (Winter 2007).
-A part ("III. An Infernal History") of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 5: & Them w/an Ontological Stake in the Past," in Norther, No.2 (May 2006).

-A part ("I. Nowhere, Our Mutual & Eternal Origin") of a poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 5: & Them w/an Ontological Stake in the Past," in stonestone, (Winter 2004).

-A poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 4: The Problem of Everyone Else," in The Capilano Review, 2/43 (Winter 2004): 81-87.
-A poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 4: The Problem of Everyone Else," in stonestone, (Fall 2002).
-A poem, "Unnaturlich Kunstler Ich," in "Queen Street Quarterly", 5/2 (Summer 2001).
-A poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 1: The Energetic City," in It's Still Winter, 4/2 (Summer 2001).
-A poem, "Trips Downtown," in Reflections on Water, 1/1 (December 1999).
-A poem from Versions of the North, "Scenario 2: Consumerland," in It's Still Winter, 2/2 (Spring 1999).
-A poem, "Act of Faith," in The Fiddlehead, No. 199 (Spring 1999).
-Two poems: "Alienation" and "Bogwalk," in The New Quarterly, 17/1 (Spring 1997).
-A poem, "Petty Bourgeois Miracles," in sub-Terrain, #20 (Summer 1996).
-A poem, "Fools Vaulting," in Caffeine, #13 (Los Angeles: 1995).
-Two poems: "Born to Dig" and "The Roofers," in sub-Terrain, #9 (Winter 1992-93).
-A prose-poem, "The Museum of Exotic Travel," in Dandelion, 18/1 (Spring-Summer 1991).
-Three poems: "Sonnets From Hell" (.2, .3, .4), in Nexus, 4/3 (Fall 1991).
-Two poems: "Hark! A breaking the storm" and "Afterthought," in Nexus, 4/2 (Spring 1991).
-Five poems: "Moral Paralysis," "Can't Afford to go to the Dentist Blues," "Premature Morality and Early Sorrow," "The poet-guy in the laundromat" and "The Poet at 62 Degrees North," in Secrets From the Orange Couch, 2/1 (Calgary: April 1989).
-A poem, "Rimbaud's Cat," in Blue Buffalo, 6/2 (Calgary: Summer 1988).
-A poem, "Omnigomp," in Dandelion, 15/1 (Spring-Summer 1988).
-A poem, "An Ode (Upon the Occasion of Myself, My Sickness)," in Ariel, 19/2 (April 1988).
-Three poems: "0, if it would only cease its pressing-us-down," "Introduction to an Infinite Series" and "Sonnet from Hell .1," in august 10th at 8:01/apartment 304 (Calgary: November 1987).

III. Reviews
-A review of Marley and Me (dir. David Frankel, 2008) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (6 January 2009).
-A review of Pineapple Express (dir. David Gordon Green, 2008) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (12 August 2008).
-A review of Next (dir. Lee Tamahori, 2007) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (3 May 2007).
-A review of Bridge to Terabithia (dir. Gabor Csupo, 2007) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (1 March 2007).
-A review of Night at the Museum (dir. Shawn Levy, 2006) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (4 January 2007).
-A review of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (dir. Larry Charles, 2006) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (16 November 2006).
-A review of Open Season (dirs. Rogers Allers and Jill Culton, 2006) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (5 October 2006).
-A review of Accepted (dir. Steve Pink, 2006) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (24 August 2006).
-A review of Cars (dirs. John Lasseter & Joe Ranft, 2006) on CBC Radio One Daybreak North (June 2006).
-"Getting Stoned on History." A review of The Pursuit of Oblivion, by Richard Davenport-Hines. Fast Forward. (Calgary: February 2002).
-A review of Scott C. Holstad's Places. Vox. Issue 146 (Calgary: April 1996).
-"Literature's Kids at Keyboard." A review of The Moosehead Anthology: Forbidden Fiction. The Prince George Citizen. (29 September 1995): 28.
-"Inward Looking Fiction." A review of Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Miss Hereford Stories, K.D. Miller's A Litany in Time of Plague, and Gayla Reid's To Be There With You. Event. 24/1 (Spring 1995): 120-23.
-"A Strong Beginning." A review of Douglas Fetherling's The File on Arthur Moss. The Prince George Citizen. (19 January 1995): 31.
-"Grey (ing) Eminence: Two New Books by Old (er) Poets." A review of Dennis Lee's Riffs and Don Coles' Forests of the Medieval World. Event. 23/1 (Spring 1994): 126-31.
-"Beyond Single Vision and Confessional Voice." A review of Douglas Bumet Smith's Voices From A Farther Room. Event. 22/2 (Summer 1993): 153-55.
-A review of Martin Gray's Death of Villeneuve and Other Poems. Vox. Issue 109 (March 1993 ).

IV. Articles
-"A Critical Context for the Carver Chronotope." Canadian Review of American Studies. 27/1 (1997): 77-91.
-"'Outside the Gates of Everything': The Problem of Tragic Sensibility in Jude the Obscure." The Thomas Hardy Yearbook. 23 (1996): 5-17.
-"Generation X and the End of History." Essays on Canadian Writing. 58 (Spring 1996): 229-40.
-"Review Essay on Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture." Textual Studies in Canada. 6 (1995): 109-16.
-"Hubris and the Young Author: the Problem of the Introduction to Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit." Notes on Contemporary Literature. 22/4 (September 1992): 2-3.

F. Conference Papers
-"Nobody Said Anything, asked "Where Are the Indians?" At Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Detroit, Michigan, November 2014.
-"Teaching in Carver Country." At American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, California, May 2010.
-"Reference does not equal Reduction: Literature & Life of Raymond Carver." At American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, California, May 2008 & International Raymond Carver Society Conference, Paris, June 2008.
-"Guilt & Responsibility, Expiation: Narrating a Psychology of Shame via the Carver Chronotope." At American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2007.
-"Some Poetics of Northern British Columbia." At Poetry and Public Language Conference, University of Plymouth, Devon UK, March 2007. Also in It's Still Winter (7/1, Spring 2007).
-"The Secret is Out: Critical Reception of the Utopian Impulse in Contemporary American Fiction." At Utopian Studies Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, October 2002.
-"'World Shut Your Mouth': Julian Cope and the Great Tradition." At Poetry &/or Music Conference, University of Liege, Belgium, April 2001.
-Commentary for session on Science and Science Fiction. At Joint Meeting of the Canadian Association for American Studies and the American Studies Association, Sheraton Centre, Montreal, October 1999.
-"'Nobody Said Anything': Raymond Carver and the Politics of Self-Censorship." At Joint Meeting of the Canadian Association for American Studies and the Western Literature Association, Banff Centre for Conferences, October 1998.
-"Generalities and Platitudes: or, Just Another Critical Re-Evaluation." At Conference of Western Canadian Graduate Students of English, University of Calgary, March 1991. (published in conference proceedings, Free Exchange '91, 33-37)

G. Institutional Writing
-w/Simon Thompson, "Creative Writing Credit Transfer Between B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions: A Report on the Feasibility of Pursuing a Flexible Pre-Major in the Discipline," for the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (17 September 2001).

H. Interviews
-by Sheryl MacKay, on CBC Radio One North by Northwest (25 November 2006).