The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 January 2019

'A January Morning' by Archibald Lampman

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A JANUARY MORNING       The glittering roofs are still with frost; each worn       Black chimney builds into the quiet sky       I...
31 December 2018

An Old Year's Audience with Our Lord

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Post-war verse for a year's end by Ida Randolph Spragge, wife of Maclean's editor Thomas B. Costain, from the magazine's Ja...
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27 December 2018

Best Book Buys of 2018 (four of which were gifts)

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Twenty-eighteen was a year of great change. In April, we sold our home of ten years and started packing up our belongings. We moved in...
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26 December 2018

Leonard Cohen Spoils Christmas

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Related posts: Amazon Customer: 'I couldn't throw it away or burn it as I would have liked to do' Amazon Custo...
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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...
20 December 2018

Best Books of 2018 (none of which are from 2018)

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