The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Mackenzie (William Lyon). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Mackenzie (William Lyon). Show all posts

09 April 2010

Shorter Shelley

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) Bit of an Edward Gorey feel to it, don't you think? James McIntyre ha...

06 March 2009

The Poet Mayor of Toronto

The Mackenzie Poems William Lyon Mackenzie & John Robert Colombo Toronto: Swan, 1966 A great deal is being made today over T...

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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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