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

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Showing posts with label Dudek. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Dudek. Show all posts

29 August 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: X is for X X X

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). This one's a cheat. I reviewed The Whip ...

12 October 2018

Ce Soir à Montréal: The Louis Dudek Plaque

Tonight will see the Montreal Writers' Chapel 2018 plaque dedication. This year's honouree is poet, critic and academic Louis...

21 September 2018

Louis Dudek Memorial Plaque

Related posts: John Glassco Memorial Plaque A.J.M. Smith Memorial Plaque F.R. Scott Memorial Plaque Hugh MacLennan Memori...

12 October 2013

The Foster Poetry Conference at Fifty

Irving Layton, Milton Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel and Aviva Layton, Foster Poetry Conference,, October 1963 Off to the Eastern T...

10 June 2013

The Year L.M. Montgomery Became Lucy Maud

The Canadian Bookman , January 1909 I have Erica Brown of the wonderful Reading 1900-1950 to blame for time wasted this past weekend. ...

21 August 2011

Our Embarrassing Poet Reconsidered

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

25 October 2010

Limited Time, Limited Editions (5/6)

Collected Poetry Louis Dudek Montreal: Delta Canada, 1971 "This first edition of 3,000 copies, printed by W. & G. Baird Ltd., estab...

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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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