Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing from Alberta

R. Gordon Moyles is professor emeritus of English at the University of
Alberta, the co-author of Imperial Dreams and Colonial Realities:
British Views of Canada, 1880–1914, and the author of The Salvation
Army and the Public.

This anthology of stories, poems, and creative nonfiction admirably
achieves the editor’s aim “to recognize the vitality of interest in
the roots of Alberta’s literary tradition and search for new forms of
expression.” Such award-winning writers as Rudy Wiebe, Greg
Hollingshead, and Ted Blodgett are balanced by talented new voices like
Roberta Rees, Peter Oliva, Norm Sacuta, and Alice Major. In between are
more than 20 established Alberta writers, including Bert Almon, Fred
Stenson, Fred Wah, Thomas Wharton, Kristjana Gunnars, and Doug Barbour.
The writing is wonderfully varied, with settings ranging from Paul
Kane’s prairies of the 1850s to modern-day Dar Es Salaam and styles as
rich and multilayered as the Alberta landscape itself.