The Dusty Bookcase

For the new month, 'October' by Poet Laureate of the Home Edna Jaques. This version is taken from her 1946 Thomas Allen collection B...

For the month,  the second of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Verse from Robert E. Swanson's  Rhymes of a Lu...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Water-Drinker Patrick Slater [John Mitch...

Edna Jaques, Poet Laureate of the Home, as captured by J.W. Tetlow for the 1 September 1951 issue of Maclean's magazine. This poem come...

Dale of the Mounted: Atomic Plot Joe Holliday Toronto: Allen, [1959] 158 pages The ninth in the twelve-volume Dale of the Mounted s...

I'm right now reading Thomas Jerome Seabrook's  Bowie in Berlin , a book that has nothing at all to do with Canadian literature....

Blencarrow Isabel Mackay Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1926 307 pages The author's final novel, published two years before her death, ...

All This Difference Dorothy Dumbrille Toronto: Progress, 1945 208 pages Progress Books, publishing arm of the Communist Party ...

Verse for Easter Sunday by Anglican clergyman's daughter Dorothy Dumbrille, whose novel All This Difference I'm currently readi...

The Mystery of the Muffled Man Max Braithwaite Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 160 pages Fifty-five years ago, The Mystery...