The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Blewett. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Blewett. Show all posts

06 December 2019

The Twenty Best Book Buys of 2019

Never has there been a year like this. I visited few used bookstores, ignored library book sales, spent no more than a couple of hours p...

07 October 2018

Jean Blewett's 'Thanksgiving Song'

From Canadian Poets , John W. Garvin, ed (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart) From Jean Blewett's Poems (Toronto: McC...

23 July 2018

The Promise of a Man, a Mother in So Much Pain

Blencarrow Isabel Mackay Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1926 307 pages The author's final novel, published two years before her death, ...

21 May 2018

The Queen is Dead

Verse for Victoria Day, composed by Jean Blewett upon news of the monarch's death. This version is taken from The Cornflower and O...

09 October 2016

Jean Blewett's 'Thanksgiving Prayer'

From Jean Blewett's Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922) Related posts: Thanksgiving in the Midst of War ...

27 March 2016

'Easter Dawn' by Jean Blewett

Jean Blewett's Poems Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 Related posts: 'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Sta...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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