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Submitted by clelia on August 21, 2012 - 6:58am
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"Toronto is also home to many of Canada's finest authors, which make up a very diverse community of creative voices," writes Ab Velasco for BlogTO. He spoke with seven Toronto writers to find out where they go in the city to work or be inspired. Read the article and discover where Vincent Lam, Katrina Onstad, Michael Redhill, Barbara Reid, Robert Rotenberg, Zoe Whittall and Farzana Doctor dream up the books that we love to read.

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So who was Bertram Brooker?

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Submitted by gbetts on June 3, 2009 - 9:24am

So who was Bertram Brooker?

I keep calling him Canada's first avant-gardist, but what does that mean? In a series of sketches, I'd like to offer an introduction to Brooker and his revolutionary writing. He was Canada's first Futurist, flirted with Vorticism, dabbled in Cubism, and fashioned his own breed of Ultimatism. He did all of that before the First World War -- in Neepawa, Manitoba.

The sketches will be organized by vocation, starting with journalism.

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