This is the third volume of essays from Canada’s Man of Letters, following the critically acclaimed Raise You Five and Raise You Ten. Novelist and poet Barry Callaghan is one of Canada’s great journalists. He has received every major award in North America – more than a dozen National Magazine awards, seven of them gold, and in the U.S., the Lowell Thomas Award, and the Pushcart Prize.

His journalism covers an astonishing range, from serious political reporting to autobiography, sports writing, and travel writing. In the late sixties at the Toronto Telegram, he began his career as a books editor and weekly columnist, setting a standard that has rarely been met since. He became a war correspondent in theMiddle East and Africa, and a translator of, and commentator on, the culture and politics of European countries from Spain to Russia.

Masterfully written, this third volume of essays and encounters is “literary criticism and cultural history of a high order, in turn joyous, acerbic, celebratory.” Globe & Mail

BARRY CALLAGHAN founded the internationally celebrated literary quarterly, Exile, and imprint, Exile Editions, while he was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. He is a novelist, poet and journalist and his work has been much anthologized. His numerous awards include Toronto’s One Hundred Outstanding Citizens Award, the inaugural W. Mitchell Award and the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters Award for Fiction which he was honoured with twice.

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