Apocrypha

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Apocrypha&#44 a shaped collection of writing by Stan Dragland produced over two decades&#44 is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature&#44 and a text of rumination&#44 invention&#44 and rhapsody&#46 Dragland looks at the texts of strangers and colleagues&#44 including Michael Ondaatje&#44 Roy Kiyooka&#44 Robert Kroetsch&#44 Fred Wah&#44 Matt Cohen&#44 Agnes Walsh&#44 and others&#44 weaving together personal reminiscences with theoretical and critical looks at their work&#46

AUTHOR

Stan Dragland

Stan Dragland is originally from Alberta and now lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He was educated at The University of Alberta and Queen’s University and is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, The University of Western Ontario. He was founder of Brick magazine and Brick Books, and is still active with the latter. Among his books are Wilson MacDonald’s Western Tour (critical collage), Peckertracks (novel), Journeys Through Bookland and Other Passages (fiction and non-fiction), The Bees of the Invisible: Essays in English Canadian Writing, Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9 (criticism), Apocrypha: Further Journeys (non-fiction), Stormy Weather: Foursomes (prose poems) and The Drowned Lands (novel).