A Moving Target: Notes from the Literary Trenches

By Gary Geddes

A Moving Target recalls and examines, with humility and welcome doses of humour and self-deprecation, this stunning literary career, highlighting Geddes's contacts with Atwood, Birney, Ondaatje, Livesay, Purdy, Laurence, Wiseman and a dozen other celebrated authors and not neglecting his own personal struggles and failures.

Whether it's learning to teach high school kids in a remote coastal community, the first Honours course in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, or a class of undertakers at the Banting Institute on College Street; starting three small presses, editing 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics for Oxford Canada, turning down an enthusiastic New York literary agent and the editorship of a magazine that "would be as important to Canadians as the New Yorker is to Americans"; or doing human rights interviews with mothers of the disappeared in Chile and with a woman who had her ears, nose and lips cut off by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1997701944
• ISBN13: 9781997701941
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: Sutherland House
• Length: 210 Pages