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Ranting has almost become a national pastime in Canada during the last few years, but not too many rants are served up as poetry. Now imagine that the poet is 97 years old, with the perspective of nearly a century of living on this planet. This will give you a hint of the experience awaiting you when you read this book. Barry Cotton takes his outrage and his sense of humour to the printed page in this timely collection of poems, which highlights and questions some of the most recent issues in Stephen Harper's reign as Canada's Prime Minister. Described by the author as a light-hearted way to deal with his distaste for the shenanigans of current parliamentarians, these poems nonetheless do carry serious undertones. Mr. Cotton draws on his long-held love and appreciation for the natural beauty of British Columbia, combining this with wit and humour to draw his readers into questioning the decisions of our governments. Many of these poems have appeared previously in the Gulf Islands Driftwood and the Island Tides newspapers. This book is sure to be an engaging and appropriate read for this federal election year.

This is not a complete biography, but a collection of episodes which happened at various stages of my life, and which seemed worthy of recording in print. It is in fact a second edition (memoirs do not usually have second editions ) - but having already written parts of these occurences in 1992, I felt it necessary to bring them up to date....

Ranting has almost become a national pastime in Canada during the last few years, but not too many rants are served up as poetry. Now imagine that the poet is 97 years old, with the perspective of nearly a century of living on this planet. This will give you a hint of the experience awaiting you when you read this book. Barry Cotton takes his outrage and his sense of humour to the printed page in this timely collection of poems, which highlights and questions some of the most recent issues in Stephen Harper's reign as Canada's Prime Minister. Described by the author as a light-hearted way to deal with his distaste for the shenanigans of current parliamentarians, these poems nonetheless do carry serious undertones. Mr. Cotton draws on his long-held love and appreciation for the natural beauty of British Columbia, combining this with wit and humour to draw his readers into questioning the decisions of our governments. Many of these poems have appeared previously in the Gulf Islands Driftwood and the Island Tides newspapers. This book is sure to be an engaging and appropriate read for this federal election year.

An examination of world's fairs in Britain and its two most important 19th-century colonies, Australia and India; arguing that the fairs provided a forum for shaping both national and imperial identities.

Reader, be forewarned, no happy ending here. Most histories were written from the top, looking down. This is from the bottom up, by teenage boys and their observations on: black and white cotton pickers, “planters versus workers,” con men, hucksters, KKK, preachers, politicians, bootleggers, slavery and slave-hunters during the Great Depression, and rising war clouds—coming Draft.

A study of the biracial movement of sharecroppers who in the 1930s stirred the national conscience to their plight of poverty and servitude.

Compiles American and European stage, screen, and television program credits.