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Portraits of Canadian Writers

Bruce Meyer shares brief portraits of Canada’s most beloved writers of the 20th century alongside anecdotes that reveal their personalities.

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Bruce Meyer

Bruce Meyer has spent most of his life in an on-going conversation with Canadian literature and Canadian letters. Known across Canada for his broadcasts on the CBC with Michael Enright on The Great Books, A Novel Idea, and Great Poetry: Poetry is Life and Vice Versa, Meyer is author of 49 books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, literary journalism and pedagogy. He produced two books of interviews with Canadian authors alongside Brian O’Riordan: In Their Words (1985) and Lives and Works (1991).
Chapter Contributors Pages Year Price
Meyer introduces the book
12 $1.20
Milton Acorn – Margaret Atwood – Margaret Avison – Earle Birney – Neil Bissoondath – Roo Borson – George Bowering – Di Brandt – Barry Callaghan …
36 $3.60
James Deahl – Barry Dempster – Per Giorgio Di Cicco – Jeffery Donaldson – David Donnell – George Ellenbogen – Cary Fagan – Timothy Findley – Kate …
36 $3.60
Richard Harrison – Bill Humber – Bruce Hunter – Laurence Hutchman – Luciano Iacobelli – (Daniel) Jones – D.G. Jones – Joy Kogawa – Patrick Lane …
38 $3.80
Gwendolyn MacEwan – Alistair MacLeod – Alice Major – Eli Mandel – Michael Mirolla – Brian Moore – Erin Moure – John Newlove – Ken Norris – …
30 $3.00
James Reaney – Michael Redhill – John Reibetanz – Ray Robertson – Leon Rooke – Olive Senior – Karen Shenfield – Elizabeth Smart – Raymond Souster …
38 $3.80