The Dusty Bookcase

Thoughts this weekend have been with Nelson Ball, who died this past Friday. I first encountered Nelson as a poet, and later as a bookse...

So, how was your weekend? Regular readers will remember that I ended last week's post on  Henry C. Clayton's very, very bad Fr...

The Pillar of Fire Gordon Green Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 The Praying Mantis H. Gordon Green Fredericton: Brunswi...

The new  Canadian Notes & Queries  arrived in the post a couple of days ago. The first colour issue – after forty-eight years in ...

Poems Arthur Henry Ward [pseud. Richard Rohmer] Don Mills, ON: Musson, 1980 It all began late last year when I noticed a seemingly f...

Flee the Night in Anger Dan Keller [pseud. Louis Kaufman] Toronto: Studio Publications, 1952 The name's Danny Keller, ex-convic...