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George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-05-31 2:59 p.m., Karen Tellefsen wrote:
>> On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 11:35:12 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry blog:
>>>> 'Tis May Now in New England, by Bliss Carman
>>>
>>>> Back to the golden marshes
>>>> Comes summer at full tide
>>>> [...]
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/05/tis-may-now-in-new-england-bliss-carman.html
>>> Perhaps we'll known in Canada, Bliss Carman is definitely somewhat obscure here in the U.S.
>>>
>>> The most famous Canadian poet here would have to be Leonard Cohen.
>>>
>>> 🙂
>>
>> I'd say Robert Service, though I've nothing against Leonard Cohen.

> Hi, Karen; I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see you still
> reading the group. Service is a good candidate, and I can think of
> anecdotal evidence to support him -- from all my years on the group, I
> only remember one person (a poet from Australia) who didn't know of "The
> Cremation of Sam McGee".

> By coincidence, I was thinking of Service and Cohen last night. Service
> is known for those 2 poems in /Songs of a Sourdough/ -- but while
> /Songs/ brought him world fame, it didn't give him the income to live
> comfortably on just his writing. He solved that by writing a novel, 'The
> Trail of '98/ -- a trashy melodrama, IMO, but a big bestseller that
> cemented his reputation and audience.

> Cohen first tried the same path: after the success of /Spice Box/, he
> tried the same gambit by writing a novel, /The Favourite Game/, a sort
> of loose biography. But it sold poorly, as did its follow-up, /Beautiful
> Losers/. That's when Cohen decided he needed to try something else, and
> it was only then (in late '65 or early '66) that he settled on being a
> singer/songwriter.



Of interest... I have never read "The Trail of '98"....