200% Cracked Wheat

Anne Burke is the editor of the Prairie Journal Press and author of
Prairie Journal Prose.

This new collection follows on the heels of 100% Cracked Wheat, a
Canadian bestseller. This time there are 77 authors from Saskatchewan,
Alberta, Manitoba, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories (there are
no biographical notes). The CCIP entry says it all: Canadian wit and
humor, Prairie provinces. The preface consists of a dramatic dialogue
among the editors. All 10 chapters, accompanied by cartoonish
illustrations by Bill Johnson, have topical titles: from “When I Grow
Up, I Wanna Be a Station Wagon” and “If You’re This Close, We
Should Be in Bed” to “Give Me Space Pizza Face!” and “Support
Wild Life—Throw a Party.”

Highly recommended are Aritha van Herk’s hilarious white Porche
(“Allowances”), Glen Sorestad and his pub poems, Lorna Crozier’s
“Getting Pregnant,” Mick Burr’s “Insomniac’s Guide to TV
Movies,” Birk Sproxton’s “The Hockey Fan as Professor,” Sheldon
Oberman’s “Angel with a Full House,” and Rhona McAdam’s
“Another Life to Live at the Edge of the Young and Restless Days of
Our Lives.”