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Barry Callaghan
The great American poet, Hayden Carruth, wrote: " The publication of the original ' Hogg Poems and Drawings' edition was an event of signal importance, registered as such in the…
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Short story collection
This memoir is a book about story tellers.
A collection of perfectly-wrought stories peopled with flawed characters striving to understand themselves and the world around them.
Toronto writer Barry Callaghan’s new novel takes us on a tour of the life of a war photographer as he searches for his childhood love through a war-torn African nation…
Twenty-three writers of verve and variety are brought together in this collection of powerful stories from Exile: The Literary Quarterly. Contributors include Andrishak, Davis, Green, Hardy, Hayward, Jordan, Keating, Niedzviecki…
A periodic writing about some of the most complex of ideas and people, rendered in prose.
The story of 29-year-old Albie Starbach, a reclusive man who is the caretaker of a large rooming house, with a day job as a crossing guard. He is a caring…
For some six decades Barry Callaghan has been a singular presence in Canada. His distinctive literary style, tone and temperament reveal him to be an inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and…
Morley Callaghan
Throughout the Great Depression, Callaghan provided for himself and his family by writing short stories, which Ernest Hemingway compared to James Joyce. Of the more than 100 short stories that…
In 1928, just after he published his first novel, Morley Callaghan asked his editor, Do you think The New Yorker would be a good magazine for my stories? They have…
A celebration of the whole of Claire Wilks’ work and her presence in the world as a woman of great character and a singular artist, the book presents her career…
Barry Callaghan, Kathleen McCracken
Tells the story of a young woman from a world of horse dealers and stone pickers, religious zealots, and gratuitous killers. This is the evocative tale of those who, having…
Bringing together an ensemble of Canada’s best-known, mid-career, and emerging writers, including Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, Leon Rooke, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, Katherine Govier, Robertson Davies, Steven Hayward, and Barbara…
These tales are told in a variety of voices: street hustlers, priests, blues singers, Holocaust survivors, cross-dressers, paramilitary snipers, even those we may euphemistically consider the ordinary -all of them…
Barry Callaghan,Joe Rosenblatt
Joe Rosenblatt and Barry Callaghan, poets of perspicacity, pizzazz, and probity, have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years. Hoggwash, a convergence by epistle, is a tribute not just…
Frank Prewett
Although his work is relatively unknown in Canada, he was one of the first great Canadian poets. Now you can get a complete introduction to his life and works in…
Ignored by critics and readers of the time, these poems were written by Canadians who witnessed the horror of World War I first-hand, forming an anthology in which the forgotten…
Marie-Claire Blais,Derek Coltman,David Lobdell
Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insights that blend social, religious, and moral textures. Her world is populated by people who turn to violence or…
Alexander Pushkin,Anna Akhmatova,Andrei Voznesensky
Celebrating three Russian literary greats - Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesensky - this collection presents new translations of a combined 44 poems and includes both Russian and English…
Global warming is likely to have the greatest impact at high latitudes, making the Arctic an important region both for detecting global climate change and for studying its effects on…
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