More by Mona Weiss…

After receiving this morning a particularly heartening comment on one of Mona Weiss’s poems, I decided to poke about in our records to see what else we knew about this poet. Not much, it turns out, so hopefully her family will get back to me with more. I did, however, find digitized copies of the complete run of The McGilliad, the magazine of the McGill University Arts Undergraduate Society, to which she contributed in 1931. Here is the complete set of poems (including the poem in the previous post) she published in The McGilliad, which only ran for 1930-1931.

Maybe the family might know, too, who S.K. is…

“To S.K.” and “Discovery.” The McGilliad 2.3 (January 1931): 10.

“Desertion” and “To S.K.” The McGilliad 2.4 (February-March 1931): 82.

“Burma Road” (1942), by Edna Jaques

Jaques, Edna. “Burma Road.” Lethbridge Herald (13 February 1942).

I found this while looking (rather unsuccessfully, I might add) for anything about Asia or the War in Canadian newspapers by Dora Sanders in the early 1940s.

At first I thought to myself: “Surely Burma is jungle, and humid, not a dry, dusty desert?” but then I consulted my oracle, Madame Google, who tells me that there is extensive desert in Burma, but that are not (as I also suspected) any hyenas.

Still, readers would not miss the intent, I am sure.