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

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Showing posts with label McKillop. Show all posts
02 June 2016

The Battle of Ridgeway: 150 Years

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Verse for this day, the sesquicentenary of the Battle of Ridgeway, by Archibald McKillop, the Blind Bard of Megantic, taken from his Co...
13 April 2016

'A Tribute to St. Mary's [sic], Ontario'

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Dawn on the River Thames, St Marys, Ontario (detail) Anyès Kadowaki Busby 2016 This month marks the eighth anniversary of our move ...
01 January 2014

Temperance Verse for New Year's Day

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The Montreal Witness , 3 January 1894 THE PLEBISCITE VOTE IN ONTARIO, 1894 It was 1894, ere the New Year's Day was o'er,  ...
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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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