Bryan Davies – All The Book News Fit To Print

Bryan Davies checks in with the latest projects in development at Tagona Press. Bryan speaks on a few new titles and updates the listener on other news in the Tagona Press publishing world.

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‘Fresh Eyes – Sault Ste Marie in 2025’ is a coffee book created by 8 photographers (4 local, and 4 from out of town) tasked to ‘shoot the Sault’. These artists had full liberty and creative licence to capture the Sault from any and all perspectives … urban, suburban, industrial, Nature, people and places – no creative limits.

Dear Rita: A Forgotten Soldier’s Story 1940 – 1944

A unique WWII era collection of 75 letters sent by Royal Regiment of Artillery Canada (RRAC) Gunner Robert ‘Bob’ Lumsden from his southern England postings to his sweetheart Rita Pinkerton (North Bay, Ontario) between January 1941 and November 1943. Bob and Rita only ever met once in person, yet their letters are a testament to youthful passions, powerful hopes and dreams for a future together – all dashed when Bob was killed in a November 1943 motorcycle crash. No family members have ever visited Bob’s grave – an anonymous, forgotten casualty of a terrible war. Rita kept their correspondence-fueled love affair secret her entire life. Her beloved niece Joanne Pinkerton Gallant discovered the neatly bound letters after Rita’s death in 2008. Joanne decided that Bob – and what he meant to Rita – would never be forgotten.

Also releasing soon is a book, part memoir and part history, about Group of Seven painter A.Y. Jackson. Many Sault Ste. Marie connections were involved in the creation of this work.