What are you currently reading?
- Barbara Reid's latest picture book Perfect Snow
- Jon Redfern's Trumpets Sound No More, a Victorian mystery
- Linden MacIntyre's The Bishop's Man
- Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant, The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate our Culture, the hard copy of the CBC Radio series
What are your five favourite texts?
- Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- Wayne Johnson, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- Shakespeare, lots, but especially Merry Wives of Windsor, Lear, and Tempest
I regularly return to poems by Yeats, Auden, Frost, Cummings, W.S. Merwin, Dylan Thomas, Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, and Steven Heighton rattling 'round in my memory.
What texts have you had the most fun researching?
"The Several Speeches and Songs at the Presentment of Mr. Bushell's Rock to the Queen's Majesty" (1636)
What would you be if you weren't an English professor?
The road not taken at the end of my undergraduate studies would have led to law school, but if I'd gone where my heart said go, I'd have worked my way back to owning and operating a hardware store in the middle of farming country, as my paternal grandfather did.