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Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody's idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap.A casualty before he has a chance to see action, Turvey watches the maimed and dying return from the front, thus Earle Birney's comic masterpiece becomes an unforgettable indictment of war.Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1949.

Contains a selection of author's pivotal works, including early break-out successes, nuanced, mid-career lyrics, avant-garde experiments, and beautiful, deceptively simple love poetry. This package presents the works of Canada's celebrated poets.

Over the hill and sinking fast in the bog i've time just to wave one muddy hand --from "For Wailan, " 1986 The poems of Earle Birney, one of Canada's finest writers, are now in print once again.

Earle Birney has created a unique memoir that spans four decades. By linking together book reviews, magazine articles, editorials, and radio broadcasts with reminiscences of his childhood, education, and early teaching and writing career, Birney presents the reader with an exciting view of the early days of modern Canadian literature. He writes of meeting and corresponding with Bliss Carmen, Raymond Souster, A J M Smith, P K Page, Malcolm Lowr...

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