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"Who has heard of Henry Smalley Sarson? His name does not appear in standard histories and critical assessments of Canadian poetry; and it is doubtful whether a single copy of From Field and Hospital, his slim volume of poetry published in December 1916, could be located anywhere in Canada. Yet Sarson's war poetry has been praised by the critic D.S.R. Welland in his study of Wilfred Owen, the great British poet of the First World War, for achieving "objective realism" in "The Village" and other poems. Indeed, the best of Sarson's war-poems are undoubtedly among the finest written by a Canadian, and should be widely known." --from the Introduction by Alan BishopLong out of print, the poetry of Henry Smalley Sarson has languished in obscurity for more than a century. Sarson, the scion of a prominent British vinegar-making family, had emigrated to Canada at age 22, taking up a variety of jobs, including working on a ranch and breaking in horses for the RCMP. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, he immediately enlisted, reaching the front nine months later as a private in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. During his service, Sarson used his literary and dramatic talents to write skits for performance by his regiment as well as poems, some of which were published in military magazines. After being gassed during the Battle of Ypres-so severely he suffered the after-effects for the remainder of his life-he continued to write poetry. Discharged from the Army as an invalid in 1916, Sarson never returned to Canada. He published two collections of his poems, From Field and Hospital (1916) and A Reliquary of War (1937). Henry Smalley Sarson died in 1967.The present volume, edited by Alan Bishop, professor emeritus of literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, brings together the best of Sarson's poetry, drawing both on archival research and correspondence and a meeting with Sarson's son Desmond. Reliquary sheds new light both on the life and career of an undeservedly forgotten poet as well as on the First World War, the consequences of which continue to shape our modern world.

Parents in Canada today get information and advice from all sides on how they should be raising their kids. Figuring out what's best is a challenge, especially when ideas about what's best are in conflict. Parents know too that others will judge them on their choices, and on their practices. The work is hard, and often, they're managing without much social support.That is the world that sociologist and writer Gillian Ranson explores in this book. Drawing on interviews with 84 parents across Canada, she describes life on the ground with children ranging from infants to high-schoolers. She sets parents' experiences in the context of recent research that examines changes in ideas about child development, shifting perceptions of risk, the effects of social media, and the anxiety about "parenting"-as a job, not a relationship-that seems to trouble many parents.But Ranson also finds parents who value their children's uniqueness, and want to do what works for them, parents who recognize that children are often more resilient, and more capable, than we give them credit for. The real story, and the focus of the book, is the balance between what's expected of parents and children (and by whom) and what actually happens in the homes and backyards and neighbourhoods of families across the country.

"Recommended for anyone who has ever paused to consider the brutalising effects of some of our sealed-door 'caring' worlds." -Paul Sayer, Nursing Standard"In the tradition of Studs Terkel." -Andrew Rutherford, Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency"Dr. Glouberman has done us a good turn in making us look at the contemporary version of the Inferno." -Times Literary Supplement"Powerful … a strong re-indictment of our outmoded methods of long-term care." -Health Services JournalIn Keepers, noted medical ethicist and patients' rights advocate Sholom Glouberman draws on a series of interviews with workers at various types of "total" institutions-nursing homes, prisons, hospitals for children with severe disabilities, psychiatric hospitals, and long-stay hospitals-to paint a vivid picture of life within the walls of such facilities. Those interviewed tell of their struggles to deal with bureaucracy, insufficient resources, burn-out, sexism, prejudice, and the patients and prisoners themselves, while at the same time trying to adequately respond to the needs of the "kept." Each chapter opens with a brief section by Dr. Glouberman that puts the interview in context. The result is a rare and fascinating look behind the closed doors of total institutions.This edition of Keepers is a revised version of the first edition published in 1990."The short stories in this book are based on experiences that I had some years ago-they are derived from actual meetings with people who worked in total institutions. I visited a cross section of long-stay institutions in many towns and provinces across the country, including everything from maximum security prisons to hospitals for children with severe disabilities. I taped long interviews with about 60 people who worked in them. Although the interviews were carefully transcribed, they were relentlessly edited to try to capture how people were affected by their work in institutional settings. These prisons, nursing homes, and institutions for the severely disabled contained not only the people who lived in them, but also the workers who came there every day. I tried to reveal the character of the workers and the impact of the institutions on their lives by selecting from the situations they described and also by carefully choosing from the words they used. The stories are my constructions based on the tapes. I spent months editing and rewriting them. The genre has recently come into prominence-an amalgam of fact and fiction. In this case, I wanted to shake our understanding of these long-stay environments and the workers in them by creating a more intimate understanding of their work and lives." -from the Preface by the author