The Dusty Bookcase

Verse for the day from the 1935 revised edition of  Our Canadian Literature , an anthology of verse selected by the poet's friends B...

An annus horribulus , the death of David Bowie ten days in cast a pall that just wouldn't lift. These have been days of loss and unw...

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

from Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: Timely Verse from a Chr...

I Lost It All in Montreal Donna Steinberg New York: Avon, 1983 259 pages This review, revisited and revised, now appears in my...

Still more than two weeks left in the year, but not too early for this list. Given my schedule these days, I know the book I'm readi...

The Globe , 2 December 1916 The 2016 Globe 100 was published last week. As with any other, one could quibble with this year's lis...