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20 November 2023
An Alvin Schwartz Cover Cavalcade
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A follow-up to last week's post on Hot Star . Alvin Schwartz's debut novel, The Blowtop , was published in 1946 by Dial Press. It f...
26 October 2023
Whispering City
: Horace Brown's Second Encore
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Arriving in bookstores as I write, the eighteenth Ricochet Books title. Whispering City is based on the Quebec City film noir of the same ...
19 August 2019
Bach to the Future, Part III:
The Squeaking Wheel
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Final words on A Voice is Calling and its author. About eight years ago, I posted a piece on The Squeaking Wheel , an ugly, bigoted...
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02 April 2019
The Return of Jimmie Dale, Alias Gray Seal
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Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal Michael Howard n.p.: The Author, 2017 375 pages My final year as a trick-or-treater was spent walk...
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16 January 2018
Resuming Richard Rohmer: A Plea for Help
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Four years ago this month, I set out to read every book ever written by Richard Rohmer. It wasn't my idea. My old pal Chris Kell...
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06 December 2017
'Halifax in Ruins' by Stanley Burton Fullerton
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Verse for the one hundredth anniversary of the Halifax Explosion by Stanley Burton Fullerton of Amherst, Nova Scotia. A carpenter by tra...
31 July 2017
'Over the Top: Ypres, July 31, 1917', a Great War Poem by 'Sgt. S. B. Fullerton, Returned Soldier'
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Century-old verse by Stanley Burton Fullerton (1869-1952), resident of Amherst, Nova Scotia, from his self-published chapbook Poems (19...
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05 September 2016
A Poem for Labour Day by A.C. Stewart
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"On the Drowning of a French-Canadian Laborer" by A.C. Stewart from his self-published tome Dust and Ashes (n.p., 1910). ...
01 July 2016
'O Canada! beloved native land...'
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On this Canada Day, still more English-language lyrics for 'O Canada'. These come courtesy of Violet Alice Clarke, from her 191...
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18 May 2015
Victoria Day Verse from Victoria
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An ode to the city, a tribute to Her Late Majesty, but more than anything a pitch to tourists, Victoria the Beautiful (self-publish...
08 December 2014
Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow
Redux
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Enough! J.V. Andrew Kitchener, ON: Andrew Books, 1988 153 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new boo...
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28 November 2014
Judging Covers
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Any magazine that looks like that has got to be great. The new Canadian Notes & Queries – number 91 – is just that. Between Seth...
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