The Dusty Bookcase

This past Saturday, I joined a pubfull of people – yes, a pubfull – in downtown Ottawa to celebrate John Metcalf's 85th birthday. It wa...

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...

The Gerrard Street Mystery John Charles Dent Constance Bay: Three Bats, 2017 32 pages A Christmas gift read on Christmas Day,...

Verse for the one hundredth anniversary of the Halifax Explosion by Stanley Burton Fullerton of Amherst, Nova Scotia. A carpenter by tra...

Bagdad on the Subway Stephen Leacock [n.p.]: [s.n.], 1916

For this first day of the season, two century-old poems of the Great War, both titled "Autumn, 1917," both written by women on...

Century-old verse by Stanley Burton Fullerton (1869-1952), resident of Amherst, Nova Scotia, from his self-published chapbook Poems (19...

Pamphlet-souvenir de la fête patronale des Canadiens-      français de  Lowell, Mass., le 24 juin 1891 Lowell, MA: Bureaux et atelier...

An ode to the city, a tribute to Her Late Majesty, but more than anything a pitch to tourists, Victoria the Beautiful (self-publish...

The title poem from Agnes Maule Machar's "The Call of Christmas – 1914". What can be said about this scarce chapbook...

Any magazine that looks like that has got to be great. The new Canadian Notes & Queries – number 91 – is just that. Between Seth...

Peregrine Acland, 1914 THE REVEILLE OF ROMANCE (Written in early October, 1914, in mid-ocean, on board H.M. Troopship “Megantic,”...

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