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Showing posts with label Anthologies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthologies. Show all posts
08 April 2019

The Mystery Anthology Mystery Solved?

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Canadian Mystery Stories Alberto Manguel, editor Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991 288 pages My review of this, the eleven...
01 January 2017

'The New Year comes white-winged, unstained, a star...'

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Century-old jingoism to begin a New Year by Minnie Henrietta Bethune Hallowell Bowen (1861-1942) of Sherbrooke, Quebec, from John W. G...
31 December 2016

'The year is dead, for Death slays even time...'

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Verse for the day from the 1935 revised edition of  Our Canadian Literature , an anthology of verse selected by the poet's friends B...
15 September 2016

'A Canadian Day, September 15th, 1916'

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Century-old verse by Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts, younger brother of Sir Charles God Damn, inspired by  the Canadian victory at C...
01 June 2016

Ruth Strong's 'The Campus - June 1916'

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Miss Ruth Strong Torontonensis, 1918 Century-old verse by Ruth Strong of Hamilton, an undergraduate of the University of Toronto, f...
08 May 2016

A Poem for Mother's Day from the Great War

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Century-old verse by Miss Elspeth Honeyman, whose brothers served in the 29th Battalion (Vancouver). From Canadian Poems of the Great Wa...
25 December 2015

Timely Verse from Christmas a Century Past

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The Globe , 25 December 1915 A CHRISTMAS STAR                     Christmas chimes across the snow,                          Can ...
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10 October 2015

Thanksgiving in the Midst of War

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'Thanksgiving' by Douglas Leader Durkin Canadian Poems of the Great War John W. Garvin, ed. Toronto: McClelland & Ste...
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10 December 2013

Bilious, Bitchy and Bedevilled by Spite? Not at All.

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Just in time for Christmas, the new Canadian Notes & Queries is here. Seth provides the cover, along with a short tribute to the ...
12 October 2013

The Foster Poetry Conference at Fifty

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Irving Layton, Milton Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel and Aviva Layton, Foster Poetry Conference,, October 1963 Off to the Eastern T...
31 March 2013

'Communion Pascale' de Émile Nelligan

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From Franges d'Autel (Montreal: n.p., 1900) Related posts: 'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Stanley Weir Uncollec...
25 January 2013

'Robert Burns' by Mr. John Steele of St. John, N.B.

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Robert Burns Statue Victoria Park, Halifax Photograph by David Murray Verse by John Steele found in  Selections from Scottish...
03 December 2012

Faith, Philanthropies and Verse for Air Raid Victims

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Montreal in Verse:      An Anthology of English Poetry by Montreal Poets [Leo Cox, ed] [Montreal]: Writers of the Poetry Group of ...
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24 June 2011

Burpee's Bad 'St. John the Baptist': Truly Criminal

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François-Réal Angers was a truly remarkable man. A lawyer, a gentleman of letters and a strong, articulate voice against slavery in...
09 February 2011

Richler Retitled

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Another deadline approacheth. Tradition dictates that things here become a little less wordy and a bit more visual. There'll be no great...