The Dusty Bookcase

A poem of the twelfth month of the Great War from the revised 1923 edition of Robert Stead's The Empire Builders . Rel...

For the day, verse from Octave Crémazie, father of Quebec poetry and – it needs be said – bookseller .  "Canadien-française&quo...

Night of the Horns/Cry Wolfram Douglas Sanderson Eureka, CA: Stark House, 2015 Shame he isn't around to see it. The y...

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of Saul Bellow's birth. Take my word for it. The Canadian Encyclopedia , The Oxfo...

"'Butt-ugly' is a bit harsh, don't you think?" writes a friend in response to my description of Macmillian of Cana...

The Unreasoning Heart Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946 235 pages This review, revisited and revised, now a...

Honoured to be today's Bookshelf feature over at Patti Abbott's blog . Amongst other things, I reveal the purpose behind all th...