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…
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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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…
By now, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography has become so indispensable that it is hard to imagine that, due to funding uncertainties, this great scholarly project could have died. A cash crisis for the DCB began in 1989, when the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council drastically cut its grant. Further fiscal and administrative turmoil ensued a few years…