The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Weir (Robert Stanley). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Weir (Robert Stanley). Show all posts

25 December 2016

'Christmas, 1916' by Robert Stanley Weir

from After Ypres and Other Poems Robert Stanley Weir Toronto: Musson, 1917 Related posts: A Century-Old Prayer for C...

03 June 2016

'After Ypres' by Robert Stanley Weir

The Gazette, 3 June 1916 One hundred year old verse by Montreal's Robert Stanley Weir from After Ypres and Other Poems (Toronto: ...

05 April 2015

'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Stanley Weir

Lines from a century past found in Robert Stanley Weir's After Ypres and Other Verse (Toronto: Musson, 1917). With East...

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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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