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Showing posts with label MacDonald (John J.). Show all posts
Showing posts with label MacDonald (John J.). Show all posts
13 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 5: 'Sad End of a Noted Politician' by James MacRae

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For the month,  the fifth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. To think I once worked to celebrate this horrible m...
01 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 1: 'Snow in April' by Marjorie Pickthall

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I haven't given National Poetry Month the attention it deserves. The first year of the Dusty Bookcase saw  James MacRae, he of William A...
01 January 2022

Unpleasant Verse for New Year's Day

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THE SCATTERED FAMILY ON NEW YEAR'S DAY Though mountains and forests and waters divide us, Where fate and ill-fortune have led us to stra...
17 April 2012

Mean Mister MacDonald Attacks a Prime Minister

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Day seventeen of National Poetry Month and there's been nary a mention here. Today, the 120th anniversary of the passing of Prime Mi...
27 June 2011

Words of Hate for Maria Monk

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Maria Monk was born 195 years ago today in Dorchester, Lower Canada (now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec). The "Awful Disclosures...
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01 April 2011

A Local Poet is Recognized

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And so another National Poetry Month begins. In little St Marys we'll be kicking things off with James MacRae Poetry Night, a free even...
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24 March 2011

A Prudish Poet's Struggles with Stays

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Two poems about ladies' vanity published by John J. MacDonald as a 28-year-old (or so), teetotalling bachelor. He married a couple of ...
23 March 2011

Poet Names Newspaper Editor as Lucifer's Heir

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The New York Times, 28 March 1875 John J. MacDonald's hate for Charles Chiniquy spreads. Here the target is John Dougall, whose paper...
21 March 2011

A Mildly Eccentric Man Turns Nasty

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Much of this past weekend was spent working on a limited edition chapbook of verse by John J. MacDonald – a modest fundraiser for the St Mar...
04 April 2009

The St Marys James

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John James MacDonald (a.k.a. James MacRae) A bit of research at the St Marys Museum answers a few questions raised by The Four Jameses , inc...
01 April 2009

Local Poet!

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The Four Jameses William Arthur Deacon Toronto: Macmillan, 1974 A bit of a risk acknowledging National Poetry Month on a day when people ...
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