He has developed and taught for several years a course in Atlantic Provinces literature with his grade 12 English students. Finding no good collection of contemporary Atlantic writers available, he decided to develop one himself. Easterly is the result. It is a collection of selected poems, short stories, articles, and essays written by sixty different writers from this region. Each contributor is represented by no more than three or four titles depending on the length of the work and of course on its value; Fred Cogswell and Alden Nowlan have five entries each. Arrangement in the collection is alphabetical so the teacher has the option or responsibility to choose the order in which they are to be taught. There is a thematic index that allows the teacher to follow that approach, but for the researcher the only access is through the table of contents. There is no title index.