Criticism and Book Reviews

Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems

• The redress of selecteds.(Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems; Helix: New and Selected Poems). Robert Moore. Books In Canada 32.9 (Dec 2003): p39(2).
• Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems. Susan McKnight. Canadian Book Review Annual (Annual 2003): p229(1).

How to Swallow a Pig

• Squaring the circle.(How to Swallow a Pig).Alex Boyd. Books In Canada 34.5 (Summer 2005): p32(3).
• How to Swallow a Pig. Douglas Barbour. Canadian Book Review Annual (Annual 2004): p217(2).

Resurrection in the Cartoon

• Musgrave, Susan. "A book of verse, a jug of ... er, make that a plastic alligator and a 'bookmark.'" The Vancouver Sun 26 July 1997: C6.
• Scheier, Libby. "Multi-talented Priest keeps the faith." The Toronto Star 12 April 1997: L19.

A Terrible Case of the Stars

• McNaughton, Janet. Quill & Quire 60.6 (June 1994): 48.
• Otto, Maryleah. CM: A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People 22.6 (November-December 1994): 228-29.

The Ballad of the Blue Bonnet

• Ellis, Sarah. Quill & Quire 60.6 (June 1994): 47.

Knights of the Endless Day

• Beaty, Mary. Quill & Quire 59.3 (March 1993): 56-57.
• Parsons, Marnie. "Knight of the Endless Nappies." Canadian Children's Literature 22.2 (Summer 1996): 87-88.

Day Songs, Night Songs

• McNaughton, Janet. Quill & Quire 59.12 (December 1993): 33.

Scream Blue Living: New & Selected Poems

• Event 22.3 (Winter 1993): 144-47.
• Mierau, Maurice. "Sublimely Ridiculous." Books in Canada 21.9 (December 1992): 53-54.
• Shaidle, Kathy. Poetry Canada Review 14.2 (1994): 26.

Rottweiler Pacifist

• Ruzesky, Jay. Malahat Review 95 (Summer 1991): 128-29.

Ten Big Babies

• Boer, Fred. Quill & Quire 55.12 (December 1989): 22.

The Mad Hand

• Hall, Phil. Books in Canada 17.8 (November 1988): 11.
• Hurwitz, Anita. Poetry Canada Chronicle 10.4 (1989/ Winter 1990): 110-11.
• Tefs, Wayne. Journal of Canadian Poetry 5 (1990): 104-06.

The Ruby Hat and Other Poems

• Stanbridge, Joanne. "Poems, and a Prose/Poetry Mix." Canadian Children's Literature no. 50 (1988): 76-77.

The Short Hockey Career of Amazing Jany

• Smith, Mary Ainslie. "The Young and the Naked." Books in Canada 15.9 (December 1986): 15-18.

The Three Roberts

• Poetry Canada Review 7.4 (Summer 1986): 56.
• Smith, Douglas. Poetry Canada Review 8.2-3 (Spring 1987): 39-40.

The Man Who Broke Out of the Letter X

• O'Brien, Peter. "Spice & Sentiment." Canadian Literature 110 (Fall 1986): 135-37.

Scholarly Essays

• Billings, Robert. "The Prose Poems of Roo Borson and Robert Priest." Canadian Fiction Magazine 56 (1986): 63-79.

Other

• Colombo, John Robert. "Priest, Robert." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Second edition. Eds. Eugene Benson and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. 970.
• Shapiro, Ardene. "Muse Meets the Music: Poet Robert Priest Gets Funky." Words & Music 4.8 (September 1997): 9.

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