One of the goals of The Danforth Review is to encourage conversation about books in Canada. A simple mantra: Focus on issues, not personalities, please.

Send all correspondence to danforthreview @ canada [dot] com. TDR reserves the right to edit letters for clarity.

As always, opinions expressed are those of the writer only.

• July 2000: Terry Barker on Shane Nielson's review of After Acorn
• December 10, 2001: Paul Vermeersch on Shane Nielson's review of the I.V. Lounge Reader
  • December 18, 2001: Shane Neilson responds to Paul Vermeersch
• January 26, 2002: Alex Boyd on Michael Bryson's article on the Canadian Writers' Coalition
• March 19, 2002: Michael Twist on Michael Bryson's review of High's and Lows: A personal approach to living with diabetes
• March 22, 2002: David Hickey on TDR's micro press feature
• July 16, 2002: Kathleen Lippa on TDR's interview with Paul Vermeersch
• September 5, 2002: Mark McCawley on TDR
• November 16, 2002: Crissandra Ayroso on Aidan Baker's review of 13 by Mary Lou Zeitoun
• November 27, 2002: Silas White on Mark Sampson's review of The Empty Cafe by Michael Hoffman
• January 2003: On the Canada Council's report on "Teaching Canadian literature"
  • ALL LETTERS on this subject can be found following the above link.
• January 16, 2003: Harold Spout on George Bowering on spoken word
• January 26, 2003: Sharon H. Nelson on Shane Neilson's "Political Poetry and the Canadian Tradition"
• February 28, 2003: Mark Chesser on TDR as a teaching resource
• March 16, 2003: Ed Parker on Alex Boyd's review of Ivan E. Coyote's One Man's Trash
• March 2003: OPEN LETTER to the Ontario Minister of Culture on the Trillium Award's decision not to award a prize in English for a first book of poetry
• June 2, 2003: Katie McCullough on Michael Bryson's review of Does Canada Matter?
• June 20, 2003: John MacKenzie on Shane Neilson's interview with David Solway
  • June 24, 2003: Shane Neilson responds to John MacKenzie
  • July 26, 2003: Zach Wells on Shane Neilson's response to John MacKenzie
• July 27, 2003: Tim Bowling on Geoff Cook's review of Darkness and Silence
• August 11, 2003: Kathy Gilder on TDR's Ted Plantos feature
• September 5, 2003: Your reviews are sooooo refreshing!
• October 10, 2003: Barbara Fletcher on Tom Henihan's "Poetry Readings - Stand Up and be Counted"
• October 14, 2003: Kris Northey on Barbara Fletcher on Tom Henihan...
• October 16, 2003: Mary Peever on Tom Henihan...
• October 17, 2003: Martin Wallace on Tom Henihan...
• November 23, 2003: Stacey Lynn Newman on Tom Henihan...
• December 6, 2003: bastiaan wever on Tom Henihan...
• December 9, 2003: Susan Ioannou on "Mea Culpa: I review books"
• December 12, 2003: Alex Boyd on "Mea Culpa: I review books"
• December 13, 2003: Steve Clackson asks: Are Canadian publishers too dependant on grants and furthering Literary Snobbery?
• January 1, 2004: Shane Neilson offers advice to John MacKenzie
  • John MacKenzie responds
• January 12, 2004: Martin Wallace on Shane Neilson on John MacKenzie
  • Neilson responds
• February 9, 2004: Craig Davidson on reviews by Kane X. Kaucher
• February 10, 2004: Zach Wells on reviews by Kane X. Kaucher
• February 11, 2004: A.E.M. responds to Craig Davidson
  • Kane X. Faucher responds
  • Craig Davidson responds
• February 19, 2004: Abel Rechaufe on Kane X. Kaucher's review of Solid as Echo
• February 24, 2004: Paul Lowrie on Kane X. Kaucher's reviews
• February 27, 2004: ... on Kane X. Kaucher's reviews
  • Kane X. Faucher responds
• March 3, 2004: Anthony De Sa's story "Only a Boy"
• March 9, 2004: Mike Morey on TDR's review of Uncle Dirty
• March 9, 2004: Nicole Visscher on TDR's review of Reconciliation
• March 12, 2004: Anthony De Sa's story "Only a Boy"
• March 16, 2004: Anthony De Sa's story "Only a Boy"
• March 18, 2004: Anthony De Sa's story "Only a Boy"
• April 12, 2004: Review of Elle by Lori Hahnel
• April 27, 2004: Shaun Smith on TDR Interview with Michael Holmes
• May 2, 2004: Alex Boyd asks: Is TDR helping to make the Canadian poetry community appear "small, bitter, and useless"?
• May 4, 2004: TDR review of Christopher Dewdney's The Natural History
• May 5, 2004: University of Calgary searching for poets
• May 7, 2004: Michael Holmes responds to Shaun Smith
• May 7, 2004: Michael Holmes responds to Alex Boyd
• May 8, 2004: Carmine Starnino on what he has written and hasn't
• May 8, 2004: Matt Stranach on Aiden Baker's review of Spells: "miserable, stunted, culture deprived..."
• May 9, 2004: Stephen Brockwell on Holmes, Starnino, Solway, Purdy, etc.
• May 10, 2004: Alex Boyd responds to Michael Holmes
• May 12, 2004: Open Letter from Michael Holmes
• June 21, 2004: Karl H. Siegler on "Mr. Shane Neilson's Yellow Journalism"
  • Shane Neilson responds
• June 22, 2004: rob mclennan on Shane Neilson
• June 23, 2004: Zachary Houle says, "Fer crying out loud, Bryson" [removed at request of author]
  • See also Zach Wells' take on "the mess at TDR" (from BookNinja)
• June 24,2004: Editor's confession -- Offending comments removed
• September, 1, 2004: Exchange: Pain Not Bread -- Andy Patton and J. Mark Smith on what is and isn't a "translation"
• February 22, 2005: Comment (very late) on J.M. Smith's review of Dewdney
  • March 4, 2005: J. Mark Smith replies
  • March 13, 2005: John Baglow replies
  • April 14, 2005: J. Mark Smith replies again
  • May 1, 2005: John Baglow replies again
• September 22, 2005: Sandra Chmara on the death of the short story