The Dusty Bookcase

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

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18 June 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: D is for Daniells

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

01 May 2015

May Day and the Promise of May

Verse for May Day by "Gay Page", Florence Nightingale Horner Sherk. Like last year's , this is drawn from The Workshops...

01 September 2014

Labour Day Verse for "All Good Workers"

The dedication in The Workshops and Other Poems , the only volume of verse by Florence Nightingale Horner Sherk (1857-1930), otherw...

01 May 2014

A Poem for May Day by Gay Page

Image and verse from The Workshops [sic] and Other Poems (Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919) by Gay Page, otherwise known as F...

25 December 2013

Christmas Greetings from Gay Page!

from The Workshops and Other Poems Gay Page (pseud. Florence N. Horner Sherk) Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919 Verse of ...

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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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