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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

Richard Poplak

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Elaine Coburn

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry
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W. J. Keith

W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Canadian Literature in English (1985, 2006) and Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood’s “The New Age/Le nouveau siècle” (2002).

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W. J. Keith

Autobiographies of the Imagination

Two gifted wordsmiths move from poetry to prose to explore themselves May 2008
The subtitles of these books, “Selected Non-Fiction” in the case of P.K. Page’s The Filled Pen and “An Autobiography by Other Means” in the case of Don Coles’s A Dropped Glove in Regent Street, suggest two very different kinds of books. Yet they are equally accurate designations; indeed, each could have been used for the…

Sympathetic, Generous ... and Tough

One of CanLit’s backstage producers revealed January–February 2008
It has been customary for some time to refer to the period of literary activity that began in this country in the late 1950s, gathered momentum in the 1960s and flourished for some twenty years or so after that, as the “Canadian Renaissance.” The leading writers who came to prominence at that time are now well known—at least to those who are interested in such…

Mythological Meltdown

Why we need to get back to the basics—and bases—of western civilization April 2005

Poets of the Country

At long last, a literary historian charts the distant beginnings of CanLit October 2004