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

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Showing posts with label Fort William Times-Journal. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Fort William Times-Journal. Show all posts

01 May 2015

May Day and the Promise of May

Verse for May Day by "Gay Page", Florence Nightingale Horner Sherk. Like last year's , this is drawn from The Workshops...

01 September 2014

Labour Day Verse for "All Good Workers"

The dedication in The Workshops and Other Poems , the only volume of verse by Florence Nightingale Horner Sherk (1857-1930), otherw...

01 May 2014

A Poem for May Day by Gay Page

Image and verse from The Workshops [sic] and Other Poems (Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919) by Gay Page, otherwise known as F...

25 December 2013

Christmas Greetings from Gay Page!

from The Workshops and Other Poems Gay Page (pseud. Florence N. Horner Sherk) Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919 Verse of ...

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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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