Randall Maggs is a poet, an editor, the artistic director of Newfoundland’s March Hare Festival and a professor of literature at Memorial University. His most recent collection is Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books, 2008).
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ADVICE FOR THE LIT-LORN Why doesn’t anyone in North America say barmy for balmy? According to my research, Barmy came first and still enjoys a jolly life. But most North American dictionaries don’t even mention the earlier Scots barmy. —Simon McGavin, Cyberspace |