Featured Articles

DR readers will have seen poems and prose by Fraser Sutherland in our pages over the past couple of years. He attended our Toronto event in 2019. His review of a tribute to Al Purdy at 100, published in our Autumn/Winter 2020 edition, is reproduced here. As far as we know it was his last published work of prose, though some posthumous works may, we hope, follow. So far there is also this brief notice.  

Fraser Sutherland remembers Al Purdy   An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy after a Century. Edited by Nicholas Bradley. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020.   ONCE I WAS GIVEN the thankless task of introducing Al Purdy to a room full of university undergraduates. I didn’t commit the folly of saying “Al Purdy needs no introduction” but I did say “Al Purdy is a great friend of young poets.” Purdy wasn’t going to let me get away with that. He snarled or bellowed (in his case they were often interchangeable), “I hate young poets!” He didn’t hate young poets; he was only seizing...

Reviewing Professor Forbes's new tribute to multiculturalism, Peter Copeland wonders if "today it is prioritized at the expense of more important values – peace and order (and good government, for that matter)."