Bibliography of John Robert Colombo

The following are the books written and edited by John Robert Colombo.

Poetry

 * Lines for the Last Day (1960)
 * The Mackenzie Poems (1966)
 * Miraculous Montages (1966)
 * The Great Wall of China (1966)
 * William Lyon Mackenzie Rides Again! (1967)
 * Abracadabra (1967)
 * John Toronto (1969)
 * Neo Poems (1970)
 * The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1971)
 * Leonardo's Lists (1972)
 * Praise Poems (1972)
 * Translations from the English (1974)
 * The Sad Truths: New poems. Toronto & New York: P. Martin Associates, 1974.
 * The Great Collage (1974)
 * Proverbial Play (1975)
 * Mostly Monsters (1977, 1995)
 * Variable Cloudiness (1977)
 * Private Parts (1978)
 * The Great Cities of Antiquity (1979)
 * Poems of the Inuit (1981)
 * Selected Poems (1982)
 * Selected Translations (1982)
 * Windigo (1982)
 * Recent Poems (1982)
 * Songs of the Indians (1983)
 * Off Earth (1987)
 * Songs of the Great Land (1989)
 * The Mystery of the Shaking Tent (1993)
 * Voices of Rama (1994)
 * Luna Park / One Thousand Poems (1994)
 * Space Poems (1995)
 * Contrails (1996)
 * Earlier Lives (1996)
 * Ether / Rewords (1997)
 * What is What (1998)
 * Interspaces (1999)
 * Impromptus (2000)
 * Half a World Away (2000)
 * All the Poems of JRC (3 vols., 2005)
 * All the Aphorisms of JRC (2006)
 * Autumn in August (2006)
 * Parts of the World (2007)
 * End Notes (2008)
 * Indifferences: New Aphorisms (2009)
 * A Far Cry (2009)
 * End of Greatness (2010)
 * Poems of Space and Time (2010)
 * Entresol (2011)
 * Impronderables (2011)

Reference

 * Colombo's Canadian Quotations. Edmonton, AB: Hurtig, 1974.
 * Colombo's Names & Nicknames (1974)
 * Colombo's Concise Canadian Quotations. Edmonton, AB: Hurting, 1976.
 * Colombo's Canadian References. Toronto & New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
 * Colombo's Book of Canada. Edmonton, AB: Hurtig, 1978.
 * Colombo's Book of Marvels (1979)
 * The Canada Colouring Book (1980)
 * Toronto's Fantastic Street Names (1982)
 * Colombo's 101 Canadian Places (1983)
 * Colombo's Canadiana Quiz Book (1983)
 * Canadian Literary Landmarks (1983)
 * 1001 Questions about Canada (1986)
 * Colombo's New Canadian Quotations. Edmonton, AB: Hurtig, 1987.
 * Mysterious Canada (1988)
 * 999 Questions about Canada (1989)
 * Writer's Map of Toronto (1991)
 * The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations. Toronto: Stoddart, 1991.
 * The Canadian Global Almanac (1992)
 * Writer's Map of Ontario (1992)
 * The Little Blue Book of UFOs (1992)
 * Colombo's All-Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994)
 * Omnium Gatherum (1994)
 * Ghost Stories of Ontario (1995); Toronto: Dundurn, 2000.
 * Shapely Places (1996)
 * Haunted Toronto (1996)
 * Quotable Canada (1998)
 * Mysteries of Ontario (1999)
 * Colombo's Famous Lasting Words: Great Canadian quotations. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000.
 * The Midnight Hour  (2004)
 * Terrors of the Night (2005)
 * The Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations (2006)
 * A Little Book of Facts about a Really Big Country (2007)
 * Footloose: A Commentary on the Books of Gordon Sinclair (2008)
 * Whistle While You Work (2008)

Edited

 * George Faludy, Learn this Poem of Mine by Heart: Sixty poems and one speech. Toronto: Hounslow, 1983.
 * Nicola Rousinoff, The Balkan Range: A Bulgarian Reader. Toronto: Hounslow, 1986.

Anthologies

 * Richard Maurice Bucke: Catalogue (1963)
 * Probings (1968)
 * How Do I Love Thee? Sixty poets of Canada (and Quebec) select and introduce their favourite poems from their own work. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1970.
 * Colombo's Hollywood (1979)
 * Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1979)
 * Popcorn in Paradise: The wit and wisdom of Hollywood. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1979.
 * Other Canadas: Aan anthology of science fiction and fantasy. Toronto: McGraw Hill-Ryerson, 1979.
 * Blackwood's Books (1981)
 * Friendly Aliens (1981)
 * Not to Be Taken at Night: Thirteen classic Canadian tales of mystery and the supernatural. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1981.
 * Poems of the Inuit. Ottawa: Oberon, 1981.
 * Windigo: An anthology of fact and fantastic fiction. Saskatoon, SK: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1982.
 * Years of Light (1982)
 * Songs of the Indians. Ottawa: Oberon, 1983.
 * Extraordinary Experiences (1989)
 * Mysterious Encounters (1990)
 * Mackenzie King's Ghost (1991)
 * UFOs over Canada (1991)
 * Dark Visions (1992)
 * Walt Whitman's Canada (1992)
 * The New Consciousness (1994)
 * Close Encounters of the Canadian Kind (1994)
 * Ghosts Galore! (1994)
 * Strange Stories (1994)
 * Closer than You Think (1998)
 * Marvellous Stories (1998)
 * Singular Stories (1999)
 * Weird Stories (2000)
 * Ghosts in Our Past (2000)
 * Ghost Stories of Canada (2000)
 * The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of R.M. Bucke (2007)
 * The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (2008)
 * The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings (2009)
 * The Sumuru Omnibus by Sax Rohmer (2010)
 * Tears of Our Lady by Sax Rohmer (2010)

Humour

 * Colombo's Little Book of Canadian Proverbs (1975)
 * 222 Canadian Jokes (1981)
 * Colombo's Last Words (1982)
 * Colombo's Laws (1982)
 * René Lévesque Buys Canada Savings Bonds (1983)
 * Great Moments in Canadian History (1984)
 * The Toronto Puzzle Book (1984)
 * Canada First Quiz (1984)
 * Quotations from Chairman Lamport (1990)
 * Ogdenisms (1994)
 * Metro's Goldwyn Mayor (1995)
 * Erotica Canadiana (1995)
 * 666 Canadian Jokes (1996)
 * Slightly Higher in Canada (1996)
 * Colombo's Doublebook of Laws & Last Lines (1996)
 * The Stephen Leacock Quote Book (1996)
 * Iron Curtains (1996)
 * Kidstuff (1996)
 * All About Us (1998)
 * More Iron Curtains (1998)
 * Yet More Iron Curtains (2000)
 * Canadian Capers (2000)

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