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Showing posts with label McGill-Queen's University Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McGill-Queen's University Press. Show all posts
26 December 2023

The Best Reads of 2023: Publishers Take Note

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The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...
07 August 2023

Victorian Ladies in Day-Glo Green and Orange

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Published thirty years ago by McGill-Queen's University Press,  Silenced Sextet  received laudatory reviews, but not its due. It is an e...
16 January 2023

James De Mille's Antarctic Death Cult

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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [James De Mille] New York: Harper & Bros, 1888 306 pages Forty years ago this month, I s...
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06 September 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Y is for Young

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Psyche Phyllis Brett Young Toronto: Longmans...
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20 May 2020

Phyllis Brett Young's Ricochet

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Copies of Phyllis Brett Young's The Ravine , the latest Ricochet Book, were delivered yesterday. I see their arrival as anothe...
12 October 2013

The Foster Poetry Conference at Fifty

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Irving Layton, Milton Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel and Aviva Layton, Foster Poetry Conference,, October 1963 Off to the Eastern T...
14 January 2013

Glassco's $9500 Library and the Montreal Eatons

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Canadian Notes & Queries number 86 has arrived, bringing with it all kinds of goodness from Caroline Adderson, Mike Barnes, Nigel B...
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02 December 2011

The Highest Compliments of the Season

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Now in the final month of the year, tradition dictates that I offer holiday gift suggestions – this time accompanied by bits and pieces ...