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

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Showing posts with label Dialect poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dialect poetry. Show all posts
19 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 7: 'Dat's Laurier' by William Wilber MacCuaig

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For the month,  the seventh of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. The second of two poems praising Wilfrid Laurier ...
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...
15 June 2012

Arthur Stringer Under the Influence

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Emmeline Arthur J. Stringer The Canadian Magazine, vol. XVII, no. 3 (July 1901) Something less than not much of anything, the...
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21 August 2011

Our Embarrassing Poet Reconsidered

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Just over a century ago, he was the toast of Montreal. His poetry collections sold tens of thousands of copies; two universities ga...
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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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