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

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Showing posts with label Imrie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imrie. 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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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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