Dominion Day, Vancouver, 1890 |
From Lays of the 'True North' and Other Canadian Poems Agnes Maule Machar London: Elliot Stock/Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1902 |
A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
Dominion Day, Vancouver, 1890 |
From Lays of the 'True North' and Other Canadian Poems Agnes Maule Machar London: Elliot Stock/Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1902 |
The Dusty Bookcase:A Journey Through Canada'sForgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed Writing
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She was a water dryad,Montrealers will appreciate this:
And she came
Dripping crystal sparks of light
From the lake,
And it was getting brighter,
And that was good.
I couldn't sleep.Also included is a brief biography of David Montrose – Charles Ross Graham – in which Mr Byers considers Teed's misadventures:
Maybe
because of the heat.
It was hotter than hell.
It was hotter than a fundamentalist
thinks hell is.
It was hotter than it had ever been
before anywhere else in the world.
It was almost as hot
as it had been
in Montreal
last August.
Over the course of three novels Russell Teed's investigations taint him as a result of his contact with the criminal underworld. By the time the stories have ended he has been beaten, often, humiliated, and robbed. He has also seen strangers, friends, and lovers killed. He has nearly been killed and he himself has killed more than once, sometimes quite viciously.
This third part of my review of George W. Kerby's The Broken Trail now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new book:The Dusty Bookcase:A Journey Through Canada'sForgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed WritingAvailable at the very best bookstores and through