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cloth bound classics · Apr 26, 01:31 pm
i really love the penguin cloth bound classics that coraline bickford-smith has put together.
makes me want to buy all of them from amazon right now. currently restraining myself…
read more on the penguin blog
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nixon and mao · Feb 25, 09:30 am
i like margaret macmillan. she brings creativity and her own personal style to historical views. maybe i just like women writing about history, but somehow the past i thought i knew sounds more appealing from her pen.
if you haven’t already read 1919 – grab a copy – sit down with a big cup of coffee (i mean BIG) and enjoy.
if you like that – try nixon in china and see if you rethink the week that changed the world.
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i know you're as excited as i am · Dec 13, 12:08 pm
canada has a new poet laureate: John Steffler
you may be asking yourself what a poet laureate is. if you are, wikipedia has the answer for you.
basically it’s a position set up by the government of canada – with the sole purpose of making poetry more popular, and active in daily life. this is by far, the best thing in the world in my opinion.
they give the laureate an office, and a salary of $13k a year – for a 2 year term.
robert pinsky – a laureate in the us – started the favourite poem project where everyone from the president to people in the streets read their favourite poems out loud.
steffler – according to his cbc interview says he wants to promote writing and literature in general in canada
i’m delighted we have this post in canada, but i’m sad that it doesn’t pay enough to support a writer full time.
Award-winning novelist
Born in Toronto, Steffler holds an BA in English from the University of Toronto, and a master’s degree in English from the University of Guelph. He has taught at Guelph and, most recently, at Memorial University’s Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, N.L.
“Mr. Steffler has spent a good part of his career teaching others about his craft,” Milliken said. “I welcome his appointment to a position that seeks to enhance Canadians’ appreciation of the value of poetry in our society.“
Steffler’s books of poems include That Night We Were Ravenous, The Wreckage of Play and The Grey Islands. A novel, The Afterlife of George Cartwright, was shortlisted for the 1992 Governor General’s Award for fiction and won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction award.
Steffler, now retired, lives in Montreal.
The poet laureate’s duties include composing poetry, especially for use in Parliament on special occasions, sponsoring poetry readings and advising the Parliamentary librarian on the library’s collection and acquisitions to enrich the collection’s cultural holdings.
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growth of the soil · Oct 3, 08:00 am
i recently read knut hamsun’s “growth of the soil.” i tip my hat to charles bukowski for the recommendation.
this book begins with painfully beautiful plain language. the words are pure and straightforward, like earth from the garden in your hands. it’s hard to imagine the simple life depicted in the first few pages filling the many pages of the book. if the first 2 pages were a short story you would know all you need to of the main character.
i was trying to think up appropriate praise, but h.g wells does it better than i could:
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what the? · Sep 25, 11:33 am
amazon.ca is a big company, and i’m sure they have untold resources dedicated to figure out where customers are getting lost, and how to help them find their way to purchasing books.
however, i mis-typed a URL earlier, and got this:
apparently, when you’re lost, a hand-drawn cat will help you feel better.
feel better!
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