“Evening,” by Ada Strachan

Strachan, Ada. “Wayside Flowers.” Hepaticas in Spring. Author, 1935. 22.

“Of a Lost Poet,” by R. H. Grenville

Grenville, R. H. [Beatrice C. Rowley]. “Of a Lost Poet.” Profile: A Chapbook of Canadian Verse. Ottawa, ON: Poetry Craft Group, Ottawa Branch CAA, 1946. 3.

This poem won the A.H. Jarvis Award of $25 in the poetry competition held by the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Authors Association in 1946. R. H. Grenville won 2 other awards in this competition: a third-place prize or $15 for “The Unsung Land,” and an honourable mention prize of $5 for “Courage.”

“Manitoba,” by Christina Willey

This poem is from a Christmas card prepared by E. Cora Hind in 1938. The cover has the greeting: Christmas Greetings and All Good Wishes for the New Year. The inside cover has a note from E. Cora Hind, and three short poems, one each by Christina Willey, Helen Bowen, and Edna Jaques. The card at McMaster University is signed individually in ink by E. Cora Hind. The back page has this poem by Christina Willey, complete with what well could be an autumnal image of a Manitoba wheat field (it certainly isn’t a winter scene!). So despite it being a Christmas card, I thought this poem appropriate today.

(I cannot include the entire card, as Edna Jaques’s work is not yet out of copyright; E. Cora Hind’s and Christina Willey’s are, but we have no dates for Helen Bowen.)

“Fulfillment,” by Nina Joy Cooke

We posted Muriel Sheppard’s “Silver and Jade” on 18 October 2013, the first of a number of young poets’ contributions to the The Vancouver Sun, 3 July 1943, page 2. Here is another…

“The poems appearing today were written by members of the ‘B’ (junior) Section of the Vancouver Poetry Writers’ Group which is affiliated with the London Poetry Society. […] One dollar was paid for every poem on this page.”

“Twilight,” by Alice Winlow Hucks

We posted Muriel Sheppard’s “Silver and Jade” on 18 October 2013, the first of a number of young poets’ publications in the The Vancouver Sun, 3 July 1943, page 2. Alice (Elizabeth) Winlow Hucks (not to be confused with Alice Maude Winlow, also a poet) was one of these young contributors.

“The poems appearing today were written by members of the ‘B’ (junior) Section of the Vancouver Poetry Writers’ Group which is affiliated with the London Poetry Society. […] One dollar was paid for every poem on this page.”