{"id":21,"date":"2008-04-12T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombo.ca\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2018-09-05T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T02:55:18","slug":"jrcs-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"JRC’s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Complete List<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a list of all the separate, book-length titles written, compiled, and translated by this productive author and anthologist. It has been said that Colombo is the country\u2019s most prolific author of serious books. Below his titles are arranged by category and by year of publication. The source is JRC\u2019s Self-Schrift<\/strong> (2015). The included works range from monographs to multi-volume tomes from 1959 to 2016. [Title count, July 1,\u00a02016: 231 titles]<\/p>\n

Totals by Category<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are\u00a0all of JRC’s books with numbers of titles arranged by category: <\/span>Poetry<\/strong> (53), Poetry Anthologies<\/strong> (11), Aphorisms<\/strong> (11), Canadiana<\/strong> (15), Quote Books<\/strong> (7), Reference<\/strong> (8),\u00a0Compilations <\/strong>(23), Fantastic Literature<\/strong> (12), Humour & Lore<\/strong> (27), East European Lore<\/strong> (5), Mysteries<\/strong> (21), Personal Accounts Series<\/strong> (12), Stories Series<\/strong> (4), Monograph Series<\/strong> (6), Native Studies<\/strong> (7), Translations<\/strong> (19). <\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lines for the Last Day (1960)
\nThe Mackenzie Poems (1966)
\nMiraculous Montages (1966)
\nThe Great Wall of China (1966, 1996)
\nWilliam Lyon Mackenzie Rides Again! (1967)
\nAbracadabra (1967)
\nJohn Toronto (1969)
\nNeo Poems (1970)
\nThe Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1971)
\nLeonardo\u2019s Lists (1972)
\nPraise Poems (1972)
\nTranslations from the English (1974)
\nThe Sad Truths (1974)
\nThe Great Collage (1974)
\nProverbial Play (1975)
\nMostly Monsters (1977, 1995)
\nVariable Cloudiness (1977)
\nPrivate Parts (1978)
\nThe Great Cities of Antiquity (1979)
\nSelected Poems (1982)
\nSelected Translations (1982)
\nRecent Poems (1982)
\nOff Earth (1987)
\nLuna Park \/ One Thousand Poems (1994)
\nSpace Poems (1995)
\nContrails (1996)
\nEarlier Lives (1996)
\nEther \/ Rewords (1997)
\nWhat Is What (1998)
\nInterspaces (1999)
\nHalf a World Away (2000)
\nImpromptus (2000)
\nFar Star (2001)
\nFoundlings (2002)
\nMore or Less (2003)
\nOne Hundred Poems (2003)
\nOnes (2003)
\nYes and No (2004)
\nTo Take from Life (2005)
\nAll the Poems of John Robert Colombo (3 volumes, 2005)
\nParts of a World (2006)
\nAutumn in August (2007)
\nOne Word Poems (2008)
\nEnd Notes (2008)
\nA Far Cry (2009)
\nEnd of Greatness (2010)
\nPoems of Space and Time (2010)
\nEntresol (2011)
\nLess of Light (2012)
\nA Standing Wave (2013)
\nA World of Differences (2014)
\nLate in the Day (2015)
\nImmense Estates (2016)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poetry Anthologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Varsity Chapbook (1959)
\nPoetry 64 \/ Po\u00e9sie 64 (1963)
\nShapes & Sounds (1968)
\nHow Do I Love Thee (1970)
\nNew Direction in Canadian Poetry (1971)
\nRhymes and Reasons (1971)
\nOpen Poetry (1973)
\nTrio (1975)
\nThe Poets of Canada (1978)
\nWe Stand on Guard (1985, 1998)
\nJames Gay: Master of All Poets (1996)
\nThe Penguin Treasury of Popular Canadian Poems and Songs (2002)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aphorisms<\/strong><\/p>\n

Uncommon Knowledge (1996)
\nSemi-Certainties (1998)
\nOpen Secrets (2000)
\nBriefs (2001)
\nPersonal Effects (2003)
\nA Is for Aphorism (2006)
\nAll the Aphorisms of John Robert Colombo (2006)
\nIndifferences (2009)
\nImponderables (2011)
\nA Quaint and Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore (2012)
\nUncommonplaces (2014, 2015)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Canadiana<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombo\u2019s Book of Canada (1978, 1998)
\nToronto\u2019s Fantastic Street Names (1982)
\nColombo\u2019s 101 Canadian Places (1983)
\nColombo\u2019s Canadiana Quiz Book (1983)
\nCanadian Literary Landmarks (1983)
\n1001 Questions about Canada (1986)
\n999 Questions about Canada (1989)
\nWriter\u2019s Map of Toronto (1991)
\nWriter\u2019s Map of Ontario (1992)
\nQuasiBook Edition of the Writer\u2019s Map of Canada (1995)
\nQuotable Canada (1998)
\nIncredible Canadiana (2000)
\n1000 Questions about Canada (2001)
\nFootloose: A Commentary on the Books of Gordon Sinclair (2008)
\nFascinating Canada: A Book of Questions and Answers (2011)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quote Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombo\u2019s Canadian Quotations (1974)
\nColombo\u2019s Concise Canadian Quotations (1976)
\nColombo\u2019s New Canadian Quotations (1987)
\nThe Dictionary of Canadian Quotations (1991)
\nColombo\u2019s All-Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994)
\nColombo\u2019s Famous Lasting Words (2000)
\nThe Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations (2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombo\u2019s Names & Nicknames (1974)
\nColombo\u2019s Canadian References (1976)
\nThe Canada Colouring Book (1980)
\nThe Canadian Global Almanac (1992-2000)
\nOmnium Gatherum (1994)
\nShapely Places (1996)
\nSelf-Schrift (1999, 2007, 2015)
\nWhistle While You Work (2008)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Compilations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Maurice Bucke: Catalogue (1963)
\nProbings (1968)
\nColombo\u2019s Hollywood (1979)
\nWalt Whitman\u2019s Canada (1992)
\nR.M. Bucke: The New Consciousness (1994, 2007)
\nWorlds in Small (1992)
\nSmall Wonders (2000)
\nSay It Again, Sam (2003)
\nMiniatures (2006)
\nLeacock\u2019s Fantasia (2 volumes, 2007)
\nLeacock\u2019s Mysteries (2007)
\nThe Canadian Adventures of Jules Verne (2013)
\nThe Northrop Frye Quote Nook (2014)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fantastic Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

CDN SF&F (1979)
\nOther Canadas (1979)
\nBlackwood\u2019s Books (1981)
\nFriendly Aliens (1981)
\nNot to Be Taken at Night (1981)
\nLeslie A. Croutch: Years of Light (1982)
\nRalph Huntingford: The True Canadian (2000)
\nAlgernon Blackwood\u2019s Canadian Tales of Terror (2004)
\nMaurice Level: Stories of Fear and Fascination (2007)
\nTesseracts 14 (2010), co-editor
\nThe Sumuru Omnibus (2010) by Sax Rohmer, editor
\nTears of Our Lady: The Wisdom of Sumuru Recounted by Sax Rohmer (2010), editor
\nThe Crime Magnet: The Adventures of Major Bernard de Treville (2012) by Sax Rohmer, editor
\nPipe Dreams: Occasional Writings of Sax Rohmer (2012), editor
\nA Rohmer Miscellany (2014)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Humour & Lore<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombo\u2019s Little Book of Canadian Proverbs (1975, 1997)
\n222 Canadian Jokes (1981)
\nColombo\u2019s Last Words (1982)
\nColombo\u2019s Laws (1982)
\nOnly in Canada (1982)
\nColombo\u2019s Canadiana Quiz Book (1983)
\nRen\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque Buys Canada Savings Bonds (1983)
\nGreat Moments in Canadian History (1984)
\nThe Toronto Puzzle Book (1984)
\nCanada First Quiz (1984)
\nQuotations from Chairman Lamport (1990)
\nOgdenisms (1994)
\nMetro\u2019s Goldwyn Mayor (1995)
\nErotica Canadiana (1995)
\n666 Canadian Jokes (1996)
\nSlightly Higher in Canada (1996)
\nColombo\u2019s Doublebook of Laws & Last Lines (1996)
\nThe Stephen Leacock Quote Book (1996, 2004)
\nKidstuff (1996)
\nAll About Us (1998)
\nCanadian Capers (2000)
\nThe Humour of Us (2001)
\nThe Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (2001)
\nOnly in Canada (2002)
\nThe Ukrainian and the Tractor (2002)
\nThe Penguin Book of More Canadian Jokes (2003)
\nA Little Book of Facts about a Really Big Country (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

East European Lore<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iron Curtains (1996)
\nMore Iron Curtains (1998)
\nYet More Iron Curtains (2000)
\nIronic Curtains (2004)
\nRed Humour (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mysteries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombo\u2019s Book of Marvels (1979)
\nMysterious Canada (1988, 1998)
\nThe Little Blue Book of UFOs (1992)
\nGhost Stories of Ontario (1995)
\nHaunted Toronto (1996)
\nThe UFO Quote Book (1999)
\nThree Mysteries of Nova Scotia (1999)
\nMysteries of Ontario (1999)
\nGhosts in Our Past (2000)
\nGhost Stories of Canada (2000)
\nMany Mysteries (2001)
\nTrue Canadian Ghost Stories (2003)
\nTrue Canadian UFO Stories (2004)
\nThe Monster Book of Canadian Monsters (2004)
\nThe Midnight Hour (2004)
\nTerrors of the Night (2005)
\nStrange but True (2007)
\nThe Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (2008)
\nThe Big Book of Canadian Hauntings (2009)
\nJeepers Creepers (2011)
\nGhosts Over Canada (2014)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personal Accounts Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extraordinary Experiences (1989)
\nMysterious Encounters (1990)
\nMackenzie King\u2019s Ghost (1991)
\nUFOs over Canada (1991)
\nDark Visions (1992)
\nClose Encounters of the Canadian Kind (1994)
\nGhosts Galore! (1994)
\nCloser than You Think (1998)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stories Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Strange Stories (1994)
\nMarvellous Stories (1998)
\nSingular Stories (1999)
\nWeird Stories (2000)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Monograph Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conjuring Up the Owens (1999)
\nThe Occult Webb (1999)
\nLambert\u2019s Day (1999)
\nO Rare Denis Saurat (2003)
\nThe Denis Saurat Reader (2004)
\nEarly Earth (2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Native Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poems of the Inuit (1981, 1997)
\nWindigo (1982, 1997)
\nSongs of the Indians (1983, 1997)
\nSongs of the Great Land (1989, 1996)
\nThe Mystery of the Shaking Tent (1993)
\nVoices of Rama (1994)
\nThe Native Series (6 volumes, 2004)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Translations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translations<\/p>\n

Selected Translations (1982).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bulgarian<\/p>\n

Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village (1975)
\nThe Balkan Range (1976)
\nLyubomir Levchev: The Left-handed One (1977)
\nAndrei Germanov: Remember Me Well (1978)
\nDora Gabe: Depths (1978)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Spanish<\/p>\n

Eluard & P\u00e9ret: 152 Proverbs Adapted to the Taste of the Day (1975)
\nLudwig Zeller: When the Animal Rises from the Deep the Head Explodes (1976)
\nLudwig Zeller: Mirages (1977)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polish<\/p>\n

Waclaw Iwaniuk: Dark Times (1979)
\nWaclaw Iwaniuk: Evenings on Lake Ontario (1981)
\nEwa Lipska: Such Times (1981)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Czech<\/p>\n

Pavel Javor: Far from You (1981)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romanian<\/p>\n

Marin Sorescu: Selected Poems (1982)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hungarian<\/p>\n

Robert Zend: From Zero to One (1973)
\nGeorge Faludy: East & West (1978)
\nRobert Zend: Beyond Labels (1982)
\nGeorge Faludy: Learn This Poem of Mine by Heart (1983)
\nCo-editor George Jonas: Some Hungarian Poets (1995)
\nGeorge Faludy: Two for Faludy (2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the total number of books brought up to date (September 2018): 240 titles. The current titles are the following:<\/p>\n

Beside the Point: Adages, Aphorisms, Epigrams (2017)
\nHere and Now: Poems and Effects of 2016 (2017)
\nMore of Less: Poems and Effects of 2017 (2018)
\nCurious Canadiana: People, Places, Things, Ideas (2018)
\nThe Notebooks of John Robert Colombo (5 Volumes: I, II, III, IV, V, 2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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