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Monthly Archives: September 2013

“Poet Friends,” by “R. H. Grenville” (Beatrice C. Rowley)

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

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This poem has an interesting provenance. It is not officially published anywhere that we can find; it was sent to us by Mr. Jeff Clarke, grandson of Hugh Clarke, who “was born in 1910, and … lived most of his life in Toronto — but also Chatham (NB), Red Deer (Alta.) and Cobourg (Ont.). He was a carpenter, a pilot, and a retail manager in that order” — and an occasional poet (see the comments on our posting of “Joy is a Bird”).

As far as we can tell, given that their several places of residence did not overlap, the two poets did not know each other. Still, it seems — despite the line “good friends I’ve never met” — like they should have… the sentiment speaks so strongly of a community of Canadian poets that we know did exist in some places at this time.

The author, Beatrice Rowley, has kindly given us permission to publish this and others of her poems. I repeat my wish that someone would put together another collection of her poetry, as she has written so many good poems that are published in obscure journals an nowhere else.

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“Fall Wheat,” by Elizabeth K. Campbell

19 Thursday Sep 2013

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Campbell, Elizabeth K. “Fall Wheat.” Profile: A Chapbook of Canadian Verse. Ottawa, ON: Poetry Craft Group, Ottawa Branch CAA, 1946. 28.

This poem won an honourable mention prize of $5 in the poetry competition held by the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Authors Association in 1946.

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Songs: Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics, by Helena Coleman

15 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Digital text, Poetry

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Coleman, Helena. Songs: Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics. Toronto: Ryerson, 1937.

“Hitherto this series of Chap-Books has refrained from including poems which have already appeared in book form. It has been felt, however, that poems so deservedly popular as these should be made available in this form.” Similarly, we try to post poems which are not readily available on the internet, or even in print, but in this case, I could not resist posting images of this lovely chapbook, with poems from one of our most eminent early Canadian female poets.

Songs: Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics

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“Deserted House on Mount Royal,” by Joy Thomson Tobin

06 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

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Tobin, Joy Thomson. “Deserted House on Mount Royal.” Montreal in Verse: An Anthology of English Poetry by Montreal Poets. Ed. Writers of the Poetry Group. Montreal; QB: Canadian Authors Association, 1942. 44.

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“Book Lover’s House,” by “R.H. Grenville” (Beatrice C. Rowley)

05 Thursday Sep 2013

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The following poem was found by one of our readers, Pam, pasted onto some card stock, “very yellowed and old,” in her aunt’s effects. It speaks to the hearts of many of us bibliophiles, so we thought we would share it here.

It was reprinted in the  Inter-County Leader (14 September 2013: 41), published in Frederick, WI; but there is no other online record of it. It does not appear in her published collection of poetry, Fountain in the Square (Birmingham, AL: Banner, 1963).

Book Lover’s House

There are books by the dozen
and books by the score;
books upon shelves
and books on the floor,
books in the bedroom
and books in the hall;
books in the living room,
climbing the wall.
In cupboards and corners
no skeletons bide.
In the book lover’s house
they have nowhere to hide.

R.H. Grenville

“Endearment,” by Mary Matheson

03 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

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Matheson, Mary. “Endearment.” Canadian Poetry Magazine 9.2 (1945): 33.

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