The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Children's verse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children's verse. Show all posts
20 March 2017

'Spring Waking' by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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SPRING WAKING                 A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground.                      "Come out," said the Sun, ...
01 November 2014

'Naughty Johnnie Frost'

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NAUGHTY JOHNNIE FROST                               "Little Leaf," said young Jack Frost,                             ...
02 November 2013

Q is for Queer People (but not kweer kapers)

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The plaque on Palmer Cox's gravesite went missing last year. Its disappearance, believed to be the work scrap metal scavengers, is...
18 September 2010

What About the Children?

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Monday's post on Edith Lelean Grove s was running long, so I never did get to the drawings that feature in her Everyday Children . Nu...
13 September 2010

Hurray for the Crippled Children's Bus!

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Everyday Children Edith Lelean Groves Toronto: The Committee in Charge of the Edith L. Groves Memorial Fund for Underprivileged Chil...
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20 July 2009

Pauline Johnson's Forgotten Heir

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Canadian Poets , edited by John W. Garvin (McClelland & Stewart, 1926) Since my piece on The Chivalry of Keith Leicester , I...
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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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