The Dusty Bookcase

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

11 November 2012

Remembrance Day

A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and Peace
Bernard Freeman Trotter
Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917

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Labels: McClelland and Stewart, Trotter, War poetry

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10 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: Bernard Freeman Trotter

Bernard Freeman Trotter

1890 - 1917

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09 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: Hartley Munro Thomas

Hartley Munro Thomas

1896 - 1970

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08 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: Frank Prewett

Frank James Prewett

1893 - 1962

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07 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: John McCrae

John Alexander McCrae

1872 - 1918

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06 November 2012

Of War and Methodism (but mostly Methodism)

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher:

A Tale of the War of 1812

W.H. Withrow

Toronto: William Briggs, 1900

252 pages

This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new book:

The Dusty Bookcase:

A Journey Through Canada's

Forgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed Writing

Available at the very best bookstores and through

Biblioasis, Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, and McNally-Robinson.

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Labels: Canadian Methodist Magazine., Historical novels, Religion, Religious novels, Romans à clef, War novels, William Briggs, Withrow

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About Me

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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