The Dusty Bookcase

For the month,  the fifth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. To think I once worked to celebrate this horrible m...

For this Easter Sunday, 'In Memoriam—H.W.L., A Noble Teacher' by  Agnes Maule Machar, "first of Dominion poetesses." I...

Purchased four years ago, The Miracle and Other Poems  set me back two dollars and change. That price says much about contemporary intere...

The great Wilfrid Laurier died one hundred years ago today. Our seventh prime minister, he held the office for more than fifteen conse...

Verse for Victoria Day, composed by Jean Blewett upon news of the monarch's death. This version is taken from The Cornflower and O...

One hundred years ago today, John McCrae lost his life to pneumonia in the No. 14 General Hospital in Wimereux, France. The struggle...

John Douglas Logan 1869 - 1929 RIP On Remembrance Day, verse from one who survived in memory of those who did not. The New Apoc...

from La Voix d'un exile: première et seconde année Louis Fréchette 1868 Related posts: 'O Martyr'd McGee!'...

The life of James Benson Nablo has always intrigued. A Niagara Falls native who had never before appeared in print, he came out of nowhe...

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

I could not let National Poetry Month pass without presenting verse by James Gay, Poet Laureate of Canada (self-proclaimed) and Master ...

On the day we're being encouraged to celebrate the bicentenary of our first prime minister's birth, something from the other e...

This addendum to my review of Grant Allen's Under Sealed Orders  now appears in my new book: The Dusty Bookcase: A Journey T...

Such a young country. I'm still kind of a kid – really – and yet I remember Canada's centennial celebrations . So, it makes n...