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

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Showing posts with label Mackay (Isabel Ecclestone). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mackay (Isabel Ecclestone). Show all posts
02 January 2025

The Nine Best Canadian Novels of the 1920s

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In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...
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01 November 2022

Isabel Ecclestone MacKay's Cold, Colourless, Bitter, Empty, Lonely, Dreary November

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An old poem for the New Month by daughter of Woodstock, Ontario Isabel Ecclestone MacKay. This one comes from  Between the Lights , her 1904...
01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
08 March 2020

10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day

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One Canadian man recommends ten unjustly neglected novels by ten Canadian women: The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1863 A got...
21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
20 December 2018

Best Books of 2018 (none of which are from 2018)

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I'm right now reading Thomas Jerome Seabrook's  Bowie in Berlin , a book that has nothing at all to do with Canadian literature....
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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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