Eli Mandel

Last updated March 4, 1997
Primary Sources

Mandel, Eli. "Train Wreck." Northern Review 5.1 (1951): 22.
Mandel, Eli. Trio. Toronto: Contact, 1954.
Mandel, Eli. "Saint Johns Near Montreal" and "Palinode." Pan-Ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems. Ed. Irving Layton. Pan 2 (1958). n.p.
Mandel, Eli. "Toward a Theory of Cultural Revolution: The Criticism of Northrop Frye." Canadian Literature 1 (1959): 58-67.
Mandel, Eli. "Giants, Beasts, and Men in Recent Canadian Poetry." Queen's Quarterly 67.2 (1960): 285-93.
Mandel, Eli. Fuseli Poems. Toronto: Contact, 1960.
Mandel, Eli. Review of Winter Sun, by Margaret Avison. Queen's Quarterly 67.4 (1960-61): 704-5.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. with Jean-Guy Pilon. Poetry 62. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961.
Mandel, Eli. Preface. Poetry 62. Eds. Eli Mandel and Jean-Guy Pilon. Toronto: Ryerson, 1961. [i-ii].
Mandel, Eli. "Lapwing You Are. Lapwing He -- A Note on Icarus in Myth and Poetry." Alphabet 4 (1962): 59-62.
Mandel, Eli. Review of Creative Writing in Canada (revised edition), by Desmond Pacey. The Fiddlehead 53 (1962): 61-4.
Mandel, Eli. Black and Secret Man. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964.
Mandel, Eli. "A Lack of Ghosts: Canadian Poets and Poetry." Humanities Association Bulletin 16.1 (1965): 59-67.
Mandel, Eli. Criticism: The Silent-Speaking Words. Toronto: CBC Publications, 196l.
Mandel, Eli. An Idiot Joy. Edomonton: Hurtig, 1967.
Mandel, Eli. "Poet of the Obvious." Review of Figures in a Landscape, by David Helwig. Canadian Literature 39 (1969): 87-8.
Mandel, Eli. Irving Layton. Toronto: Forum House, 1969.
Mandel, Eli. "Toward a criticism." The Canadian Forum (April - May 1970): 50-2.****
Mandel, Eli. "Modern Canadian Poetry." Twentieth Century Literature 16 (July 1970): 175-83.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. Five Modern Canadian Poets. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
Mandel, Eli. Rev. of Creation. University of Toronto Quarterly 60 (1971): 316-8.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1971.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. with Desmond Maxwell. English Poems of the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Macmillan, 1971.
Mandel, Eli and Irving Layton."Nietzche and Poetry: A Discussion." The Malahat Review 24 (1972): 23-9.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960-1970. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. Eight More Canadian Poets. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972.
Mandel, Eli. "Romance and Realism in Western Canadian Fiction." Prairie Perspectives 2. Ed. Anthony W. Rasporich and Henry C. Klassen. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 197-211.
Mandel, Eli. Crusoe: Poems Selected and New. Toronto: Anansi, 1973.
Mandel, Eli. Stony Plain. Toronto: Porcepic, 1973.
Mandel, Eli and Rudy Wiebe. "Where the Voice Comes From." Quill and Quire 40.12 (1974): 4, 20.
Mandel, Eli. "Theories of Voice in Eighteenth-Century Poetry: Gray and Smart." Fearful Joy. Eds. James Downey and Ben Jones. Montréal and London: McGill-Queen's, 1974. 103-18.
Mandel, Eli. "Ecological Heroes and Visionary Politics: Contemporary Primitivism in Canadian Writing." Rune 2 (1975): 55-67.
Mandel, Eli. "Foreword" to Irving Layton, The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems 1969-1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. x-xi.
Mandel, Eli. "Atwood Gothic." Malahat Review 41 (1977): 165-74.
Mandel, Eli. "Writing West: On the Road to Wood Mountain." The Canadian Forum 67 (1977): 25-9.**
Mandel, Eli. "The Politics of Art." The Canadian Forum 57.674 (1977): 28-9.**
Mandel, Eli. "beginnings:" Salt 17 (1977): 3-5.
Mandel, Eli. "Prologue to Bloodlines. Salt 17 (1977): 6-10.
Mandel, Eli. "Life Sentence: Contemporary Canadian Criticism." Laurentian University Review 10.2 (1978): 7-19. A paper originally given at the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures conference in Fredericton, Spring 1977.
Mandel, Eli. Another Time. Erin, Ont.: Porcepic, 1977. (Three Solitudes: Contemporary Literary Criticism in Canada, Vol. 3).
Mandel, Eli. Out of Place. Toronto: Porcepic, 1977.
Mandel, Eli. "Introduction." The Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 4-8.
Mandel, Eli. "The Inward, Northward Journey of Lawren Harris." Arts/Canada 34-5 (1978): 17-24.
Mandel, Eli. "Leonard Cohen's brilliant con game." Saturday Night (Nov 1978): 51-3.
Mandel, Eli. "Seed Catalogue: Poems by Robert Kroetsch." The Globe and Mail (Saturday, Feb. 11 1978): 45.
Mandel, Eli. "The Ethnic Voice in Canadian Writing." In Diane Bessai and David Jackel, eds. Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1978. 264-77.
Mandel, Eli. "How Poems Happen." Transitions III: Poetry. A Source Book of Canadian Literature. Vancouver: CommCept Publishing, 1978. 261.
Mandel, Eli. "A Comprehensible World: The work of Cicansky, Thauberger, Yuristy and Fafard." Arts Canada 230-231 (1979): 15-9.
Mandel, Eli. "Library checks out poet." Quill & Quire (1979): 12.
Mandel, Eli. "Masks of Criticism: A.J.M. Smith as Anthologist." Canadian Poetry 4 (1979): 17-28.
Mandel, Eli. "The Border League: American 'West' and Canadian 'Region.'" Ed. Dick Harrison. Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American and Canadian Western Literature. Edmonton: U of Alberta, 1979. 105-21.
Mandel, Eli. "Strange Loops: Northrop Frye and Cultural Freudianism." Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 5.3 (1981): 33-43.
Mandel, Eli. Life Sentence, Poems and Journals: 1976-1980. Toronto: Porcepic, 1981.
Mandel, Eli. Dreaming Backwards: The Selected Poetry of Eli Mandel. Don Mills, Ont.: General, 1981.
Mandel, Eli. "Estevan, 1934," "Near Hirsch A Jewish Cemetery," "On the 25th Anniversary of The Liberation Of Auschwitz," and "In My 57th Year." The Spice Box: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Writing. Eds. Gerri Sinclair and Morris Wolfe. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1981. 116-121.
Mandel, Eli. Preface. Field Notes1-8 a continuing poem: The Collected Poetry of Robert Kroetsch. Don Mills, Ont.: General, 1981. [5-8].
Mandel, Eli. "The Regional Novel: Borderline Art." Ed. Charles Steele. Taking Stock: The Calgary Conference on the Canadian Novel. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1982. 103-21.
Mandel, Eli. "The Language of Literature: Fantasy and History." The Commonwealth in Canada, University of Winnipeg October 1-4, 1981: Proceedings. Winnipeg: Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Ed. Uma Parameswaran. n.d. 13-21.****
Mandel, Eli. "Atwood's Poetic Politics." Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System. Eds. Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir. Vancouver: UBC, 1983. 53-66.
Mandel, Eli. "Auschwitz: Poetry of Alienation." Canadian Literature 100 (1984): 213-8.
Mandel, Eli. "The Post Structural Scene in Contemporary Canadian Poetry: A Note." Poetry Canada Review 5.4 (1984): 10-1.
Mandel, Eli. "The Death of the Long Poem." Open Letter. Long-Liners Conference Issue. Sixth Series. 2 - 3 (1985): 11-23.
Mandel, Eli. ""Rabbi Berner's Farm." Mirror of a People: Canadian Jewish Experience in Poetry and Prose. Eds. Sheldon Oberman and Elaine Newton. Winnipeg: Jewish Educational Publishers. 1985. 43.
Mandel, Eli. "Day of Atonement: Standing." Mirror of a People: Canadian Jewish Experience in Poetry and Prose. Eds. Sheldon Oberman and Elaine Newton. Winnipeg: Jewish Educational Publishers. 1985. 121.
Mandel, Eli. "Psalm 24." Mirror of a People: Canadian Jewish Experience in Poetry and Prose. Eds. Sheldon Oberman and Elaine Newton. Winnipeg: Jewish Educational Publishers. 1985. 139.
Mandel, Eli. The Family Romance. Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1986.
Mandel, Eli. "The New Phrenology: Developments in Contemporary Canadian Writing." The Greenfield Review 13.3-4 (1986). 46-59.
Mandel, Eli. "Imagining Natives: White Perspectives on Native Peoples. The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives. Thomas King, Cheryl Claver, and Helen Hoy, eds. Toronto: ECW, 1987. 34-49.
Mandel, Eli. Ed. with David Taras. A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies. Toronto: Methuen, 1987.


Secondary Sources:

Anonymous. "An Interview with Eli Mandel." NeWest Review 3.9 (1978): 3, 10.
Anonymous. Conversation with Rudy Wiebe. "Where the voice comes from." Quill & Quire 40.12 (1974): 4,20.
Anonymous. "The Valentine Journals: A talk with Eli Mandel." Rampike 4.2-3 (n.d.[circa 1985]): 10.
Andre, Michael. Review of Crusoe and Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960-1970, ed. by Eli Mandel. Queen's Quarterly 80.4 (1973): 658-60.
Anonymous. Review of Trio. Canadian Forum 34 (1955): 257-9.
Anonymous. Review of Fuseli Poems. Alphabet 3 (1961): 39-42.
Arnason, David, Dennis Cooley, and Robert Enright. "Interview with Eli Mandel, March 16 / 78." Essays on Canadian Writing 18 / 19 (1987): 70-89.
Atwood, Margaret. "Eli, from Time to Time." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 67-8.
___. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: Anansi, 1972. 118-9, 132.
___. "Four Poets from Canada: Jones, Jonas, Mandel, and Purdy." In Atwood, Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (Toronto: Anansi, 1982). 55-62, pp. 58-60 dealing with Mandel. Orig pub Poetry 114.3 (1969): 202-7.
Barbour, Douglas. "Canadian Poetry Chronicle: IX, Part I." West Coast Review 15.1 (1980). 73-80. P. 77 includes a note on Mandel.
___."Mandel's Selves." A review of Dreaming Backwards and Life Sentence. Canadian Literature 95 (1982): 125-8.
___. Review of An Idiot Joy. The Canadian Forum 48 (1968): 119-20.
___. Review of Black and Secret Man. Quarry 15.4 (1966): 46-7.
___. "Rhetorical Strategies: Some Notes on Eli Mandel." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 125-30.
___. "Something about Eli: The Writer as Teacher." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 33-6.
Bates, Ronald. Review of Black and Secret Man. The Canadian Forum 45 (1966): 259-60.
Beattie, A. Munro. "Poetry 1950-1960." In Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Ed. Carl F. Klinck et al. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965: 793-4.
Beddoes, Julie. Introduction. Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 1-15.
___. "Eli Mandel, 1922-1992." Canadian Literature 136 (1993): 193-4.
Bemrose, John. "Poetry." Includes a review of Dreaming Backwards. The Globe and Mail (Sept 26 1981): 41.
Bennett, Donna. "A Formal Madness." Rev of Eli Mandel, Stony Plain and Eli Mandel, Crusoe. The Lakehead University Review 7.1 (1974): 119-23.
___, and Russell Brown. "Eli Mandel." An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Vol II. Eds. Bennett and Brown. Toronto: Oxford, 1983. 115-6.
Bessai, Diane. "Interior Travel." Review of Out of Place. The Canadian Forum 67.679 (1978): 33.
Bishop, A.G. "Crusoe: Poems Selected and New." Quill & Quire 39.5 (1973): 27.
Blodgett, E.D. "'Distinctively Canadian': Thematic Criticism of English-Canadian Literature." 100 Years of Critical Solitudes: Canadian and Québécois Criticism from the 1880s to the 1980s. Ed. Caroline Bayard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. 136-154. Pp. 147-8,150 on Mandel.
Bouraoui, H.A. "Eli Mandel: Another Time." Waves 6.2 (1978): 76-8.
Bowering, George. "Eli and Irving." Review of An Idiot Joy. Canadian Literature 39 (1969): 74-76.
Bryant, Ben. "Eli Mandel: A Preliminary Checklist of Publications By and About Him." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 131-150.
Burrs, Mick. "Celebrating Eli." Poetry Canada Review 6.4 (1985): 21.
Butt, William. "Contexts of Fuseli Poems." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 71-82.
Cameron, A. Barry. Review of Crusoe: Poems Selected and New and Stony Plain. The Canadian Forum 53 (1973): 34-35.
Cogswell, Fred. Review of Poetry 62. The Fiddlehead 52 (1962): 62-64.
Cogswell, Fred. Review of Black and Secret Man. The Canadian Author and Bookman 40.3 (1965): 14-15.
Colombo, John Robert. "Mandel, Eli(as Wolf)." Contemporary Poets. Eds. James Vinson and D.L. Kirkpatrick. Fourth Edition. New York: St. Martin's, 1985. 535-6.
Cook, Gregory M. Review of An Idiot Joy. Dalhousie Review 49.1 (1969): 147.
___. "Sweetness and Light: Postmodern Politics and the Arts." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 83-104.
Cooley, Dennis. "Double or Nothing: Eli Mandel's Out of Place and Another Time." Essays on Canadian Writing 10 (1978): 73-81.
___. "eli". In his Passwords. Trier, Germany: Verlag, 1996. 259-62.
___. "estevan fair." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 229-31.
___. Personal Interview with Eli Mandel. Mar 14, 1988.
___. "The First Four Books." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 37-66.
___. "'This mute, instransigent place': Eli Mandel in Out of Place." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 93-104.
Corsillo, Maria Donata. "Eli Mandel Reflects Imperialist Culture." Alive 4.30 (n.d.) : 17-9.
Davey, Frank. From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960. Erin, Ont.: Press Porcepic, 1974. 189-93.
___. "Mandel, Eli." Supplement to the Oxford Comapnion to Canadian History and Literature. Ed. William Toye.Toronto: Oxford, 1973. 227-8.
___. "Mandel, Eli." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford, 1983. 503-4.
___. "'Minotaur Poems': Language, Form and Centre in Eli Mandel's Poetry." Sagetrieb 7.1 (1988): 47-56.
___. "'Minotaur Poems': Language, Form and Centre in Eli Mandel's Poetry." In his Reading Canadian Reading. Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1988. 199-211.
___. "'Minotaur Poems': Language, Form and Centre in Eli Mandel's Poetry." Ambivalence: Studies in Canadian Literature. Eds. Om P. Juneja and Chandra Mohan. New Delhi: Allied Publishing, 1990. 183-93.
___. "'Minotaur Poems': Language, Form, and Centre in Eli Mandel's Poetry." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 69-79.
Dempster, Barry. Rev of Dreaming Backwards." Poetry Canada Review 3.3 (1982): 3.
Dorscht, Susan Rudy. "A Way of Writing I(t) Again: The Concept of Agency in Eli Mandel's The Long Poem: Journal and Origin." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 53-60.
___. "The Concept of Agency in Eli Mandel's 'The Long Poem: Journal and Origin'." Canadian Literature 131 (1991): 251-7.
Draper, Gary. "Style and Substance." Rev of The Family Romance. Books in Canada (1987). 29-31.
Dudek, Louis. "Two Canadian Poets: Ralph Gustafson and Eli Mandel." Culture 22 (1961): 145-51.
___. Review of Fuseli Poems. Canadian Literature 7 (1961): 760-78.
Dyck, Ed. "The Rhetoric of Eli Mandel's Imagination." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 31-42.
Fee, Margery. "An Interview with Eli Mandel." Essays on Canadian Writing l.1 (1974): 2-13.
___. "Retrieving the Canadian Critical Tradition as Poetry: Eli Mandel and Northrop Frye." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 235-5
Fetherling, Doug. "A poet for all traditions." Rev of Eli Mandel, Crusoe: Poems Selected and New and Stony Plain. Saturday Night 88.7 (1973): 40.
Fetherling, Doug. "Mandel Remembered." Books in Canada 22.1 (1993): 56.
___. "Mandel's two minds and Woodcock's single purpose." Quill & Quire 53.5 (1987): 20. In part a rev of The Family Romance.
Gibson. Kenneth. Rev. of An Idiot Joy. Quarry 18.4 (1969): 54-6.
Godard, Barbara. "Critical Fictions: Phenomenology, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Feminism." 100 Years of Critical Solitudes: Canadian and Québécois Criticism from the 1880s to the 1980s. Ed. Caroline Bayard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. 248-83. Pp. 276-7 on Mandel.
Greenstein, Michael. "Canadian Poetry after Auschwitz." Canadian Poetry 20 (1987): 1-16.
Frey, Cecilia. "Woman in the Cave: The Silent Space of Eli Mandel." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991 2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 156-71.
Frye, Northrop. Review of Trio. In "Poetry" section of "Letters in Canada: 1954." University of Toronto Quarterly 24.3 (1955): 254-5.
___. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: Anansi, 1972. 42ff, 124, 177, 189-93.
Geddes, Gary. "Lyrical Half-Mad Visions of a Bruised Eye." Review of Stony Plain. The Globe and Mail 5 May 1973: 37.
___. Eli Mandel. Notes on the Poets. 15 Canadian Poets X 2. Ed Gary Geddes. Toronto: Oxford, 1988. 546-7.
Gibson, Kenneth. Review of An Idiot Joy. Quarry 18.4 (1969): 54-6.
Greenstein, Michael. "Canadian Poetry after Auschwitz." Canadian Poetry 20 (1987): 1-16. Pp. 10-4 on Mandel.
Hornyansky, Michael. "Poetry." "Letters in Canada 1973." University of Toronto Quarterly 43.4 (1974): 356-7.
Hosek, Chaviva. "Poetry in English 1950 to 1982: 2." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford, 1983. 663.
Jewinski, Ed and Andrew Stubbs, eds. The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992.
Jewinski, Ed and Andrew Stubbs. Foreword. The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. xv-xvii.
Jewinski, Ed. "'this poem is built to / to see through'." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 43-52.
Jones. Rev of George Woodcock Northern Spring and Mandel's The Family Romance. What 11/12 (July/Aug , Sept/Oct 1987): 17.
Jones, B. W. Review of Black and Secret Man. Queen's Quarterly 72.4 ( 1966): 696.
Kamboureli, Smaro. "Locality as Writing: A Preface to the 'Preface' of Out of Place." Open Letter. Sixth Series 2-3 (1985). Long-Liners Conference Issue: 267-77.
___. "The Critic as Poet: Eli Mandel's The Family Romance." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 105-20.
Keith W. J. "Turning New Leaves (2)." Canadian Forum 41 (1961): 44-5.
Kertzer, Jon. "Historical Literary Criticism in English Canada: Within, Beyond, and Back into the Past." 100 Years of Critical Solitudes: Canadian and Québécois Criticism from the 1880s to the 1980s. Ed. Caroline Bayard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. 98-121. P 119 on Mandel.
___."Responsible Dreams." A review of Dreaming Backwards. The Canadian Forum 61.714 (1981): 41.
Krause, Pat. "authentic speech: Eli Mandel in Conversation with Pat Krause." Freelance (1979): 9-14.
Kreisel, Henry. "'I Suspect He Knew that Trunks Are Metaphors': Eli Mandel Recalled." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 152-5.
Kroetsch, Robert. "For Play and Entrance: The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem." Dandelion 8.1 (1981): 74, 76-7.
Kroetsch, Robert. "Mandel's Unwritten Text: Paradoxes of Archaeological Remains." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 121-3.
___. Preface. Dreaming Backwards: The Selected Poetry of Eli Mandel. By Eli Mandel. Don Mills, Ont.: General, 1981. [9-12].
Layton, Irving. "Thinking of Eli Mandel at York." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 232-4.
Lecker, Robert. Rev of Eli Mandel, Out of Place. The Fiddlehead117 (1978): 120-2.
Lent, John. "A Geography of Alienation." Freelance 9. 3-4 (1978): 41-4.
Levenson, Christopher. Review of Crusoe: Poems Selected and New and Stony Plain. Canadian Literature 62 (1974): 91-9.
Lewis, Kevin. Review of Dreaming Backwards. Quill & Quire (1982): 37.
Lowey, Mark. "'The best book is coming'." A Profile of Eli Mandel. Calgary Herald Nov 25 1984: B3.
Lund, K. A. Review of An Idiot Joy. The Canadian Author and Bookman 43.2 (1967): 21.
Luxton, Steve. "Insides Full of Origin." Rev of Out of Place. Matrix 6-7 (1978): 129-31.
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Mathews, Lawrence. "The Martian of Estevan." Essays on Canadian Writing 37 (1989): 155-60.
McCarthy, Brian. "Poetry Chronicle." Tamarack Review 36 (1965): 64-75. Includes a couple of paragraphs about Black and Secret Man on pp. 73-4.
McMaster, R. D. "The Unexplained Interior: A Study of E. W. Mandel's Fuseli Poems." Dalhousie Review 40 (1960): 392-6.
Meyer, Bruce & Brian O'Riordan. "Eli Mandel: Double Vision." Interview. In Their Words: Interviews with Fourteen Canadian Writers. Toronto: Anansi, 1984. 106-23.
Mezei, Kathy. "'Dreaming Backwards': Eli the Pragmatist / Eli the Imaginative Eclectic." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 202-4.
Miki, Roy. "Talking West: An Interview with Eli Mandel." Line 1 (1983): 26-43.
Miki, Roy. "Prairie Poetics: An Interchange with Eli Mandel and Robert Kroetsch." Dandelion 10:2 (1983): 82-92.
Monk, Patricia. "'Yung and Easily Freudened': The Text and Its Psychological Context in Canadian Literary Criticism (1945 to 1975)." 100 Years of Critical Solitudes: Canadian and Québécois Criticism from the 1880s to the 1980s. Ed. Caroline Bayard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. 180-210. P. 187 on Mandel.
Mulcahy, Gloria Alveraz. "The Birth of a Poet: Life as Experienced and Retold." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 21-30.
Munton, Ann. "Silence as Creative Fount and Constant Framem in the Poetry of Eli Mandel." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 94-124.
___. "The Structural Horizons of Prairie Poetics: The Long Poem, Eli Mandel, Andrew Suknaski, and Robert Kroetsch." Dalhousie Review 63.1 (1983): 69-97.
Munton, Ann. "Eli Mandel." The New Canadian Anthology: Poetry and Short Fiction in English. Eds. Robert Lecker and Jack David. Nelson: Scarborough, Ont., 1988. 147-8.
New, W.H. "Remembering India." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 89-93.
___. "This Year Country." Editorial. Canadian Literature 77 (1978): 2-3.
New, W.H. "Interim Conclusion: Reading Eli Mandel's 'The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo'." Ed. W.H. New. Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens. Oxford: Toronto, 1992., 160-6.
Nowlan, Alden. Review of Fuseli Poems. The Fiddlehead 53 (1962): 59-60.
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___. "Turning New Leaves." Review of Poetry 62. The Canadian Forum 42 (1962): 17-9.
___. Review of Black and Secret Man. The Fiddlehead 64 (1965): 71-5.
___. "Some Modern Poets." Includes a review of An Idiot Joy. Wascana Review 3.1 (1968): 90-4.
Plantos, Ted. "Mandel's past, Colombo's candy, Purdy's earth." Books in Canada 7.2 (1978): 16-7.
Reaney, James. Review of Fuseli Poems. Queen's Quarterly 67.4 (Winter 1960-1961): 703-4.
Scobie, Stephen. "If the Old Magic About Words Worked." Rev. of Dreaming Backwards. Island 13-4 (1983-4): 144-7.
Sherman, Kenneth. "Naming or Locating?" Rev of Eli Mandel, Out of Place. Waves 6.2 (1978): 79-81.
___. "Inside Out." A review of Life Sentence: Poems and Journals, 1976-1980. Waves 10.4 (1982): 77-80.
Siemerling, Winfried. "'The Place Where the Writing Takes Place': An Interview with Eli Mandel." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 16-36.
___. "'What Would Doc Savage Do in a Crisis of These Dimensions?': Voice and Place in the Work of Eli Mandel." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 182-201.
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Sorestad, Glen. "A Tribute to Eli Mandel: Estevan Homecoming, April 19 / 85." Unpublished.
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___. "That Thin Man." Canadian Literature 136 (1993): 194-5.
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___. "Poetry in English." In her The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford, 1967. 640-51. Mandel mentioned on p. 649.
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___. Myth, Origins, Magic: A Study of Form in Eli Mandel's Writing. Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1993.
___. "The Mandel Case: Notes Towards a Poetics of Persecution." The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's Poetry and Criticism. Cross / Cultures 8 Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Ed Jewinski and Andrew Stubbs. Amsterdam, Holland and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1992. 61-70.
___. "The Politics of Art: Eli Mandel's 'Journals.'" Canadian Literature 122-3 (Autumn-Winter 1989): 10-25
Suknaski, Andrew. "borges and i; mandel and me." Brick 9 (1980): 16-24
___. "Mandel Memoir." Essays on Canadian Writing 45-6 (1991-2). Eli Mandel Issue. Guest ed. Julie Beddoes. 172-81.
___. "out of narayan to bifrost/the word arresting entropy." Brick 14 (1982): 50-5.
___ Rev of Dreaming Backwards and Life Sentence. Brick 14 (1982): 30, 50-2, 54-5.
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Taylor, Micheal. Review of An Idiot Joy. The Fiddlehead 75 (1968): 72-3.
"The Valentine Journals: A Talk with Eli Mandel." Rampike 4.2-3 (n.d.): 10-1.
Ursell, Geoffrey and Barbara Sapergia. "Beginnings 12." Salt 17 (1977): 2.
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Waddington, Miriam. "Five Without a Common Song." Review of An Idiot Joy. The Globe and Mail Magazine 13 January 1968: 13.
Whiteman, Bruce. "Some books of Canadian Poetry in 1981." Includes a section on Life Sentence. Journal of Canadian Studies 17.2 (1982): 152.
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Wilson, Milton, "Poetry" in his "Literature in English." Canadian Annual Review for 1960. Ed. John T. Say. Toronto: U of Toronto, 1961. 316-7 includes remarks on Mandel.
___. Review of Poetry 62. University of Toronto Quarterly 31.4 (1962): 450-2.
___. "Poetry." In "Letters in Canada: 1964." Ed F. W. Watt. University of Toronto Quarterly 34.4 (1965): 354-55 being a review of Fuseli and Black and Secret Man.
___. "Poetry." In "Letters in Canada: 1960." Edited by F. W. Watt. University of Toronto Quarterly 30.4 (1961): 383-87 being a review of Fuseli Poems.
Wyke, C.H. Vote of Thanks to Professor Eli Mandel. The Commonwealth in Canada. Ed. Uma Parameswaran. n.p.: CACLALAS, n.d. 22.