The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Imrie and Graham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imrie and Graham. Show all posts
01 July 2023

Fair Canada: 'Here many nations dwell...'

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'Fair Canada' is the first of six patriotic pieces featured in poet/publisher John Imrie's Sacred Songs, Sonnets, and Miscellane...
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27 June 2023

Canada's First Telefome Pome?

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These past few weeks have been remarkably busy, which explains how it is that I've read and reviewed just one old, forgotten book this m...
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01 December 2019

'The Drunkard's Fate' by Teetotal John Imrie

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In this month of December, with its festivities and excesses, let us pause to consider this verse from Sacred Songs, Sonnets and Miscell...
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26 January 2014

'Oatmeal' for Robert Burns Day

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The Burns Monument Fredericton, New  Brunswick 'Oatmeal' by Mr John Steele of St John, New Brunswick from  Selections from ...
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...
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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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