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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
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13 May 2022
$2 Connors
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I will pay no more than two dollars on a book by Ralph Connor. This policy has stood me well. To date, my Connor collection consists of eigh...
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01 May 2022
Is This the Dominion's Only Goose Girl Poem?
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Now that National Poetry Month is over, a poem for May by Virna Sheard, pride of Cobourg, Ontario, from Candle Flame (Toronto: McClelland ...
01 April 2022
Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 1: 'Snow in April' by Marjorie Pickthall
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I haven't given National Poetry Month the attention it deserves. The first year of the Dusty Bookcase saw James MacRae, he of William A...
21 March 2022
Joan Suter, Angus Hall, and the Collector in Me
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I've got several paying projects on the go, all with tight deadlines, meaning there won't be any reviews here for the next month or ...
02 March 2022
Lunar Attractions; or, The Leacock I Like
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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stephen Leacock Toronto: Gundy, 1915 282 pages My introduction to Stephen Leacock came through a copy of L...
01 February 2022
'February' by Marjorie Pickthall
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A poem for the new month from The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1927).
25 January 2022
On the High Heels of Pleasure
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Repent at Leisure Joan Walker Toronto: Ryerson, 1957 284 pages Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may ...
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22 November 2021
The Dustiest Bookcase: T is for Trueman
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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Cousin Elva Stuart Trueman Toronto: McClella...
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02 July 2021
Have Bomb – Will Travel
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This Suitcase is Going to Explode Tom Ardies Calabasas, CA: Brash Books, 2021 220 pages Of all the books I've read in 2021, This Suitcas...
01 June 2021
Little Willie, Willie Won't Go Home
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Willie the Squowse Ted Allan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 57 pages What I admire most about Ted Allan was his ability to take an ...
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