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Duncan MacDonell

Duncan MacDonell has written 4 posts for Defining Canada

CNIB audio clip of the Gargoyle Overhead by Philippa Dowding

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An interview Peggy Dymond Leavey

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An interview with the author of the biography Mary Pickford, Peggy Dymond Leavey, on podcast from the CFUV 101.9FM podcast Women on Air.

Good luck to Dundurn’s People’s Giller authors

You can help the Scotiabank Giller Prize select the titles for the longlist here: http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.com/canlit2011.html
Best of luck to Dundurn authors Lou Allin, Brenda Chapman, Farzana Doctor, Jill Downie, Don Easton, Barbra Fradkin, C.B. Forrest, d leonard freeston, Kenneth J. Harvey, John Moss, and Gregor Robinson, all of whom appear on the Scotiabank [...]

The Idea of North

The day I sat on a dock on Lack of the Woods and heard Margaret Atwood reading This Is A Photograph of Me on CBC radio was my formative Canadian literary moment. The poem is about a photograph of a lake, and a poet losing her identity beneath the surface, describing [...]