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

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Showing posts with label John Lovell and Sons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Lovell and Sons. Show all posts
01 July 2025

'How we joyously welcome this travail-less birth'

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Verse for the day, written for the country's very first day, by champion of Confederation Peter Steven Hamilton under his poetry nom de ...
17 March 2013

Thomas D'Arcy McGee's 'Home-sick Stanzas'

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee 13 April 1825 - 7 April 1868 RIP from Selections from Canadian Poets Edward Hartley Dewart, editor ...
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04 August 2010

Lovell's Legacy (and Its Besmirching)

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John Lovell was born two hundred years ago today. The most important Canadian publisher of the nineteenth century, I suppose he's best r...
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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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