The Winter Concerto - by Bruce Meyer (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Winter Concerto is a collection of stories where the spirit plays a key role in the world. They cover a wide range of topics from the composition of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto (with its haunting second movement and the clock chiming at the end of the movement) to Charles Trenet's 1947 hit, "La Mer," to the true story of a type of pottery produced in Japan during the Middle Ages to the death of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the role of an effigist in religious iconography.

About the Author

Bruce Meyer is author of more than sixty books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, literary journalism, and literary criticism. He has had two national bestsellers, The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books (2000) and Portraits of Canadian Authors (2016). He is twice winner of the E.J. Pratt Gold Medal and Prize for Poetry and the Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize for best poem. He was the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie. He is professor of Poetry at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and professor of Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at Georgian College in Barrie.