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22 April 2022
Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 8: 'Mended' by Edith Lelean Groves
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For the month, the eighth of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Verse from Edith Lelean Groves' Everyday Child...
10 April 2022
Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 4: 'You' by
Ram Spudd
Stephen Leacock
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For the month, the fourth of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Verse from Ram Spudd, "one of nature's ge...
07 April 2022
Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 3: 'My Little Suffragette' by Thaddeus A. Browne
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For the month, the third of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Thaddeus A. Browne had a decades-long career as an O...
04 April 2022
Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 2: 'The Tame Apes' by Robert E. Swanson
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For the month, the second of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Verse from Robert E. Swanson's Rhymes of a Lu...
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 March 2022
'March Day: Windy' by Charles Bruce
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Verse for the new month by Charles Bruce, the pride of Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia. 'March Day: Windy' is one of twenty-four poems co...
01 February 2022
'February' by Marjorie Pickthall
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A poem for the new month from The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1927).
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...
20 September 2021
'The Modern Politician' by Archibald Lampman
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Canadian Illustrated News 28 September 1878 On the day of the 44th Canadian general election, verse from The Poems of Archibald Lampman (To...
01 July 2021
"We first saw light in Canada..."
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Verse for this Canada Day by E. Pauline Johnson – Tekahionwake – from Canadian Born (Toronto: Morang, 1903), her second volume. CANADIAN ...
24 June 2021
Debout, Canadiens-français!
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George William Alphred Chapman 13 December 1850, Saint-François-de-Beauce, Canada East 23 February 1917, Ottawa, Ontario RIP For la Fête de ...
15 March 2021
Giving Madge Macbeth Her Due
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The frontispiece to Madge Macbeth's Kleath (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1917) Artist: George William Gage A brief follow-up to the...
14 August 2020
They Fell in Love With the Actress
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The Darling Illusion Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1954 246 pages Olivia Thompson's dead body lies in a slowly growing p...
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