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      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 4: The Captive Gypsy (1926), by Constance Davies-Woodrow
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Monthly Archives: June 2012

“A Parrot’s Quill,” by Elizabeth Donaldson

08 Friday Jun 2012

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Donaldson, Elizabeth. “A Parrot’s Quill.” Voices of Victory: Representative Poetry of Canada in War-time. Ed. Canadian Authors Association. Toronto: Macmillan, 1941. 53.

Another poem from this elusive author…

A Parrot’s Quill

Across my palm there lies
Consummate in colouring and tracery
A parrot’s quill;
Splashed with the blood of ruby,
Bluer than turquoise,
Greener than malachite;
A radiant thing
Beyond the skill of human fashioning.

So still it lies,
I hardly dare to breathe
For fear it suddenly
May gather wings in flight,
And so dissolve again in beams of light.

While I marvel so
I fain would know
From what ancestral cell
Was born this miracle,
That in the cradle of the sun
Found nurture for the pith
And colour for the vanes;
And I would know
Upon what ancient loom
The pattern grew
Slowly, patiently,
Till time evolved the whole;
Blending in delicate nuances
Rhythm and light together,
Counting a million years
To weave a feather.

“Study in Fragility,” by Louise Morey Bowman

06 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Bowman, Louise Morey. “Study in Fragility.” Poetry (Chicago). 58.1 (April 1941): 22-23. Special issue: Canadian Number.

“Landlady,” by P. K. Page

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Page, P.K. “Landlady.” [1944.] The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective, and Disrespectful Verse Chiefly by Canadian Writers. Ed. F.R. Scott and A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Macmillan, 1957. 62-63.

This poem, originally published in Canadian Forum (May 1944, page 43), is interesting in being one of only four poems by three women poets included in FR Scott and AJM Smith’s The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective, and Disrespectful Verse Chiefly by Canadian Writers (Toronto: Macmillan, 1957). The other three are “Election Day,” also by PK Page; “Prairie Graveyard,” by Anne Marriott; and “The Hadleyburg Home Guard,” by Marjorie McKenzie.

“A Canadian Summer Evening,” by Rosanna Leprohon

04 Monday Jun 2012

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Leprohon, Mrs. “A Canadian Summer Evening.” Canadian Poems and Lays. Ed. W. D. Lighthall. London: Scott, [c1892]. 255-56.

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  • How to use our site
  • Authors lists
    • Authors completed
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    • Author “snapshots”
    • Authors to be evaluated
    • Authors using pseudonyms
    • Resource list
    • Authors not included (for researchers)
  • Comprehensive Index of Contributors to the Crucible Magazine, 1932-1943
  • Index of Female Contributors to The Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1936-1950
  • A series of lists
    • Canadian periodicals online at ECO
    • A complete list of Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks, 1925-1962
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 4: The Captive Gypsy (1926), by Constance Davies-Woodrow
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 5: The Ear Trumpet (1926), by Annie Charlotte Dalton
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 77: Songs, Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics (1937), by Helena Coleman
    • Pseudonyms: Known and unknown
    • Some anonymous texts online at ECO
    • Women of Canada (1930)
  • Resource websites

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