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Sweetland 2018-2019
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Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch 2022-2023
How to Pronounce Knife 2021-2022
Foe: A Novel 2020-2021
This Accident of Being Lost 2019-2020
Sweetland 2018-2019
Love Enough 2017-2018
Station Eleven 2016-2017
Mãn 2015-2016
Sisters Brothers 2014-2015
Indian Horse 2013-2014
The Cat's Table 2012-2013
The Bone Cage 2011-2012
The Golden Mean 2010-2011
Cellist of Sarajevo 2009-2010
Lullabies for Little Criminals 2008-2009
Sweetness in the Belly 2007-2008
Oryx and Crake 2006-2007
Black Bird 2005-2006
Deafening 2004-2005
Life of Pi 2003 - 2004
Monkey Beach 2002 - 2003
Mercy Among the Children 2001-2002
Chorus of Mushrooms 2000-2001
Englishman's Boy 1999-2000
Icefields 1998 - 1999
Medicine River 1997-1998
The MacEwan Book for 2018 - 2019 is Michael Crummey's Sweetland
Reviews
From a variety of newspapers and magazines
Interviews and Videos
Crummey, Michael. Interviewed by Angela Antle. " Newfoundland Writer Michael Crummey Won the Inaugural Writers' Trust Fellowship This Week." CBC Radio Weekend Arts Magazine, 28 Nov. 2015, http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2679613477
Crummey, Michael. Interviewed by Karin Wells. CBC Radio Sunday Edition, 12 Oct. 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/sweetland-author-michael-crummey-interview-1.2744054
"Knowlton Lit Fest: Michael Crummey Part #1: On Being a Poet and a Novelist" YouTube, uploaded by Knowlton Literary Festival, 27 Dec. 2016, https://youtu.be/N5lSTaRZFi8
Scholarly Articles
Laurie, Brinklow. "A Man and His Island: The Island Mirror in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland." Island Studies Journal, vol 11, no. 1, 2016, pp. 133-144. Directory of Open Access Journals.
Chafe, Paul. "Entitlement Anxieties of Possession, and (Re)Working Place in Michael Crummey's Sweetland." Newfoundland & Labrador Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2017, pp. 7-41. America: History and Life with Full Text.
Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders In Literature
Chafe, Paul. "Newfoundland Poetry as 'Ethnographic Salvage': Time, Place, and Voice in the Poetry of Michael Crummey and Mary Dalton." Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 32, no. 2, 2007.
Crummey, Michael and Greg Locke. Newfoundland : Journey into a Lost Nation. M&S, 2004. Print Call Number FC2167.5 .C78 2004.
Delisle, Jennifer B. The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013. Print Call Number PS8131 .N4 D45 2013
Finch, Robert. "Flat Time: The Ebb and Flow of Life in a Newfoundland Fishing Village." American Scholar, vol. 75, no. 1, pp 75-83. JSTOR.
Hernáez Lerena, María Jesús. Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. EBSCO Host E-book, https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/nlebk/1077490. Accessed 22 May, 2018.
Johnston, Andrea G. Walking with the Archives: Mapping Newfoundland Identity Through Ghost Stories and Folklore. Thesis, University of Alberta, 2016. ERA, 2016.
Edmonton Public Library - Michael Crummey's Favourite Books about Newfoundland
Themes
Goldman, Marlene. Dispossession : Haunting in Canadian Fiction. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. Proquest Ebook Central, https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/cat00565a/7513742. Accessed 14 June 2018.
Keating, Norah, et al. "Aging in Rural Canada: A Retrospective and Review." Canadian Journal on Aging, vol. 30, no. 3, 2011, pp. 323-338. Health Policy Reference Centre, doi: 10.1017/S0714980811000250.
Marris, J. E. Pausing Encounters with Autism and Its Unruly Representation: An Inquiry Into Method, Culture and Academia in the Making of Disability and Difference in Canada. Thesis, Trent University, 2014.
O'toole, Roger. "Myth, Magic and Religion in Secular Literature: The Canadian Case." Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 10, no. 3, 1995, pp. 297- 307. ATLA Religion Database, doi: 10.1080/13537909508580748.
Sikorska, Liliana and Agnieszka Rzepa. Eyes Deep with Unfathomable Histories: The Poetics and Politics of Magic Realism Today and in the Past. Warsaw: Peter Lang. Proquest Ebook Central, https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/cat00565a/8331861. Access
Other Works by Michael Crummey
Crummey, Michael, writer. 54 Hours, National Film Board of Canada, 2014.
Crummey, Michael and Brian McKenna, writers and director. Newfoundland at Armageddon, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2016.
Novels and Poetry
'Fact in Fiction' Newfoundland in the News
Barry, Garrett. "Reinvent Don't Resettle In Rural Communities CBC N.L. Forum Told." CBC News, 30 November 2017.
Boone, Marilyn. "Emotional Return to N.L. for Tamils Rescued 30 Years Ago." CBC News, 11 Aug. 2016.
Jones, Lindsay. "Is the Sun Setting on Outport Newfoundland?." Globe and Mail, 15 Sept. 2017.
Lagerquist, Jeff. "Money to Move: N.L. Offers Up to $270K Per Home to Clear Out Tiny Towns." CTVNews, 5 April 2018.
Metcalfe, Zac. "The Local Climate Bison Blunder." The Advocate: Pictou County's Weekly, 18 January 2020.
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