The
Antigonish Review is pleased to announce the publication
of TAR 149, a tribute issue celebrating the life and
work of George Sanderson. Dr. Sanderson, a Philosophy professor
at St.F.X. University and Editor of The Antigonish Review
for twenty-one years, passed away in November, 2005.
The Antigonish Review is one of Canada's
oldest literary quarterlies. The founding editor of TAR was Rev. R.J.
MacSween.
Dr. Sanderson took over the editorship in 1980.
From 1980 to 2001, George and his wife Gertrude, also a faculty
member at St.F.X., edited TAR. Their son Brendan, frequently
contributed artwork to TAR. Known as 'Canada's eclectic
review'. Today TAR has a broad subscription base that
spans Canada, the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia.
This commemorative issue, edited by St.F.X.
alum Tony Tremblay, currently a professor at St. Thomas University,
has been a year in the making. The issue contains tributes to
Dr. Sanderson, essays, reviews, and humour.
As Tremblay writes in his introduction, George
was "a warm and decent man, a man who made us laugh and
sustained us with wit, friendship, and intelligence."
Co-editor of The Antigonish Review, Jeanette
Lynes, says, "as editor, George fostered generations of
Canadian writers by providing them with a venue for their early
work. He is greatly missed."
Canadian authors who got their start in the
pages of TAR include Wayne Johnston, Lynn Coady, Sheldon
Currie, David Adams Richards and Leo MacKay, among others.
This TAR special tribute issue will be
released in late April. Copies can be purchased by contacting
The Antigonish Review office at 902-867-3962 or email
tar@stfx.ca.
Copies will also be available at the St.F.X. Bookstore.
The per-issue price is $10.00.
