The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Hunter Rose. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Hunter Rose. Show all posts

11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...

09 October 2023

Hidden Thanksgiving Day Verse

Lines for the day from Canada and Other Poems , Thomas Frederick Young's lone volume of verse. Published in 1887 by Hunter, Rose, the ta...

01 April 2021

Montreal Most Strange (w/ mysterious directions)

Blood on My Rug E. Louise Cushing New York: Arcadia, 1956 223 pages Miss Talmadge visits her St Catherine Street bookstore on a Sunday after...

07 April 2016

A Poet's Angry Word With the Fenian Botherhood

Angry verse on this 148th anniversary of Thomas D'Arcy McGee's assassination found in Evan MacColl's Poems and Songs (Toron...

05 October 2013

Tecumseh: 200 Years

Tecumseh c. 1768 - 5 October 1813 RIP from Tecumseh: A Drama Charles Mair Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1886

02 July 2013

Of Old Books and (possibly) Mummy Paper

Delightfully charming, unconventionally sentimental schoolgirl verse from Ethel Ursula Foran , whose "New Year's Day" h...

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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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