Cape Breton Quarry
Born in Ingonish, Cape Breton, Stewart is the author of the popular comic novel, 'Maritime Union'. He teaches at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, and is the founding editor of The Nashwaak Review.
Essential MacSween
Stewart Donovan is professor of English at St. Thomas University. His recent book The Forgotten World of R.J. MacSween: a life, was shortlisted for two Atlantic Book Awards.
Forgotten World
Like many Maritime thinkers and writers, R. J. (Roderick Joseph) MacSween grew up in conditions of poverty and hardship. Born of Gaelic-speaking Scots living on the shores of the Bras d'Or Lake in Cape Breton, ordained a Roman Catholic priest, recruited to teach at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, he established the first creative writi …
Molly Poems
The Molly Poems and Highland Elegies contains rare poems written in tribute to the paintings of Molly Lamb Bobak, Canada s first woman war artist. Each poem, while inspired by Bobak s work, takes its own unique direction. And the Highland Elegies section offers powerful new poems that evoke more of the Maritimes world of Donovan s successful first …
The STU Reader
St. Thomas University has nurtured exemplary people for a century from its first alighting in Newcastle to its current perch on a Fredericton hilltop. Here, in celebration of St. Thomass 100th anniversary, is the first-ever collection of fiction, poetry, and prose by the universitys most celebrated writers, including David Adams Richards, Sh …