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Showing posts with label Sheard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sheard. Show all posts
01 May 2022

Is This the Dominion's Only Goose Girl Poem?

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Now that National Poetry Month is over, a poem for May by Virna Sheard, pride of Cobourg, Ontario, from  Candle Flame (Toronto: McClelland ...
07 November 2019

A Dedication Born of Tragedy

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Purchased four years ago, The Miracle and Other Poems  set me back two dollars and change. That price says much about contemporary intere...
01 November 2019

Virna Sheard Sees November as a Hooded Friar

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Bookseller & Stationer , March 1905 Verse for the month by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Coburg, Ontario, from  The Mira...
01 April 2019

Now That April's Here, Virna Sheard's 'April'

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The Miracle and Other Poems Virna Sheard Toronto: Dent, 1913 Related posts: 'When April Comes!' by Virna Sheard Vers...
31 March 2019

'When April Comes!' by Virna Sheard

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In anticipation! Time to prepare your Easter bonnets! The Miracle and Other Poems Virna Sheard Toronto: Dent, 1913
25 December 2018

'When Christmas Comes' by Virna Sheard

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Verse for the day by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Cobourg, Ontario, from her collection The Miracle and Other Poems (Toro...
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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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