The Dusty Bookcase

I could not let National Poetry Month pass without presenting verse by James Gay, Poet Laureate of Canada (self-proclaimed) and Master ...

A follow-up to last week's post on The Three Roads by Kenneth Millar (a/k/a Ross Macdonald) , here I offer speculation and scattere...

The Three Roads Kenneth Millar New York: Dell, [n.d.] The Three Roads is a psychological thriller of the type in which Margaret Mil...

Ron Scheer died this past weekend. He was my teacher. We never met. A son of Nebraska, for more than four years Ron served as a patien...

Edgar Andrew Collard seems to have been a pretty interesting fellow. A Montrealer armed with a M.A. in history from McGill, in 1942 he f...

Verse on the 147th anniversary of the assassination of the great D'Arcy McGee. "Erin's Address to the Hon. Thomas D'Ar...

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