The Dusty Bookcase

For the month,  the sixth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Unconventional Easter verse, eight decades old this...

Verse from the 1923 edition of Robert Stead's  The Empire Builders . HE SLEEPS IN FLANDERS                         He sleeps in F...

Ballads of a Bohemian Robert W. Service New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1921 220 pages It would be interesting to see sales figures ...

Verse by Edna Jaques written the year after the Armistice. IN FLANDERS NOW              We have kept faith, ye Flanders' dead...

Easter verse written in the midst of the Great War by Anglican Lilian Leveridge from her debut collection Over the Hills of Home and Oth...

Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele KCMG CB MVO died one hundred years ago today. A man of great accomplishment, Steele's Dicti...

Post-war verse for a year's end by Ida Randolph Spragge, wife of Maclean's editor Thomas B. Costain, from the magazine's Ja...

One month after the Armistice, the post-war world is in many ways unrecognizable. Consider this from the front page of the December 7, 1...

Much of this past weekend was spent in preparation for Christmas, but I did manage a couple of hours with the December 1918 edition ...

Florence Randal Livesay 1874 - 1953 RIP Florence Randal Livesay was a remarkable woman. Born, raised and educated in the small Quebec t...

Canadians outside Lens, France March, 1918 A century-old poem by Great War veteran Harold Campbell Mason (1895-1976), gunner wit...