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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Fraser Sutherland

Fraser Sutherland is a writer, editor and lexicographer who recently spent more than three years in China. He lives in Toronto. He has published numerous books of non-fiction, poetry, and fiction.

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Fraser Sutherland

The Eye of One Beholder

What happens to us when we encounter beauty? March 2017
By rights, Harry Underwood should not have written this book. He is a long-established Toronto civil litigation lawyer and one of the authors of Defending Class Actions in Canada. He is not a professional philosopher or specialist in aesthetics. Still, there is no reason why a thoughtful, deeply read amateur should not have valuable points to make about…
I heartily concur with many points that James Pollock makes. Canadian poetry desperately needs more reviews and reviewers. As an “attempt to formulate a canon of English-Canadian poetry for the common reader,” Margaret Atwood’s New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English appeared in 1982, to which one might add Ralph Gustafson’s Penguin Book of Canadian Verse