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

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Showing posts with label Thomas Nelson. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Thomas Nelson. Show all posts

01 September 2022

H.C. Mason Votes Twice for September

A celebration of September from Harold Campbell "Hal" Mason's Three Things Only... (Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 1953). Much cheer...

16 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 6: 'Easter, 1942' by H.C. Mason

For the month, the sixth of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Unconventional Easter verse, eight decades old this...

01 March 2018

'March, 1918' by H.C. Mason

Canadians outside Lens, France March, 1918 A century-old poem by Great War veteran Harold Campbell Mason (1895-1976), gunner wit...

03 August 2009

Gay and Withdrawn

Gay Canadian Rogues: Swindlers, Gold-diggers and Spies Frank Rasky Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958 Bought for a bu...

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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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