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Coteau Books in the Schools: Batoche
by Kim Morrissey ISBN 0-919926-91
John Robert Colombo
"The Last Words of Louis Riel"
Biography and Books
John Robert Colombo is the author/editor of over 100 books largely devoted to
the lore and literature of Canada. He is also a cultural commentator and
communications consultant who has contributed to many of Canada's major
newspapers, magazines, and journals. He is the General Editor of "The Canadian
Global Almanac," an 800-page annual of "Facts about Canada and the World"
published by Macmillan Canada, and the Canadian Book of Quotations.
The poet Andrei Voznesensky referred to John Robert Colombo's poetry as "significant and profound." The critic Richard Kostelanetz identified him as "a prolific writer and editor whose achievements are so numerous they are foolishly taken for granted."
In June 1998, York University in Toronto awarded John Robert Colombo its honorary Doctor of Literature degree: D.Litt. (h.c.).
(April 17, 1999) There are now 136 Colombo books, counting all five of his quotation books (beginning with Colombo's Canadian Quotations, the most famous, in 1974), his translations, the books he's edited, his collections of ghost stories ... and his own original poetry and the "found poetry," often brilliant, that he developed in the 1960s.....
In 1959, while still a University of Toronto student, he organized literary evenings at the Bohemian Embassy coffee house, where the late Gwendolyn MacEwen was one of his stars. In 1961, he printed and issued through his Hawkshead Press a slim volume of poems, Double Persephone, the first book by the poet who then called herself M. E. Atwood. He worked as an editor for several publishing houses and, in 1965, freelancing for McClelland & Stewart, edited George Grant's Lament for a Nation, which soon became the bible of Canadian cultural nationalism ...."
With Colombo's Canadian Quotations, he put thousands of researchers in his debt, present company included .... -- Robert Fulford, Globe and Mail, April 17, 1999.
Colombo, John Robert, born in Canada on 23 March 1936
Colombo is an editor and anthologist living in Toronto .... He produced the
first-ever anthology of Canadian science fiction, Other Canadas (1979),
a hardcover reprint collection containing 21 fiction pieces and 28 poems ...
the definitive historical retrospective of Canadian SF.... Colombo's other
significant genre books include: Mostly Monsters (1977), a collection
of "found poetry" -- prose text that Colombo has rearranged as verse, gathered
mostly from SF sources .... Colombo has also published two significant
bibliographies: Blackwood's Books (1981), the first listing of works by
British fantasist Algernon Blackwood; and, in collaboration with Alexandre L.
Amprimoz, John Bell, and Michael Richardson, CDN SF&F (1979), the
first bibliography of Canadian contributions to the SF field. -- Robert
Sawyer
http://www.sfwriter.com/egcolomb.htm
Selected Bibliography:
Selected Books (and Books in Print, available from Amazon/
Barnes and Noble)
Abracadabra
John Robert Colombo, 19672000 The Canadian Global Almanac
John Robert Colombo (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999Colombo's All-Time Great Canadian Quotations
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Date Published: February 1995Colombo's Canadian References
John Robert Colombo / Hardcover / Published 1977Colombo's 101 Canadian places
John Robert ColomboColombo's Book of Canada
John Robert ColomboColombo's Book of Marvels
John Robert ColomboColombo's Concise Canadian quotations
John Robert ColomboColombo's Names and nicknames
John Robert ColomboThe Dictionary of Canadian Quotations
John Robert Colombo (Editor) / Hardcover / Date Published: February 1995Ghost Stories of Ontario
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1995The Great San Francisco earthquake and fire
John Robert ColomboThe Great Wall of China
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1996Haunted Toronto (The Ghost Stories Series)
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1996Master of All Poets
James Gay, et al / Paperback / Published 1996Mysteries of Ontario
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1999How do I love thee; sixty poets of Canada (and Quebec) select and introduce their favourite poems from their own work
John Robert ColomboLuna Park : One Thousand Poems
John Robert ColomboMostly monsters
John Robert ColomboNew Canadian Quotations
John Robert Colombo / Hardcover / Published 1987New direction in Canadian poetry
John Robert ColomboPoems of the Inuit.
Ed by John Robert ColomboPopcorn in Paradise : The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood
John Robert ColomboPrivate parts
John Robert ColomboQuasibook edition of the writer's map of Canada
John Robert ColomboRhymes and reasons; nine Canadian poets discuss their work
John Robert ColomboSelected poems
John Robert ColomboShapely Places: Instances of Imaginative Geography
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1996Songs of the Great Land
John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1996Songs of the Indians
John Robert Colombo (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1984The Stephen Leacock Quote Book
Stephen Leacock, John Robert Colombo / Paperback / Published 1996Such Times: Selected Poems
Ewa Lipska,Krystyna Sadowska (Illustrator), John Roberto Colombo (Translator), Waclaw Iwaniuk (Translator) / Paperback /Translations from the English : found poems
John Robert ColomboVariable cloudiness : new poems
John Robert ColomboWindigo : An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction
John Robert Colombo (Editor)Worlds in Small
John Robert Colombo