Poetry is a very popular form of literary work that appears frequently in many different places within Open Collections. For this weeks blog post I have search for examples from a handful of publications to share. The genre of poems vary wildly and even within this small sample there are love poems, rhyme poems for children and infants, political poems, and protest poems. They are very reflective of the publications from which they were sourced, such that the poems in Kinesis, a feminist periodical, has poems about womanhood and women’s issues whereas the poems from Prism International feature works from famous or upcoming authors. The poems displayed here were chosen for no particular trait or quality and instead were selected essentially at random. Please enjoy these creative works!

A garden by the sea, and other poems Lefevre, L. A. (Lily Alice), 1853 or 1854-1938

How I once felt. Songs of love and travel Currie, Geo. G. (George Graham), 1867-1926

Songs of the Cascades. First part Martley, John

Prism international 29:1 / Fall 1990

Prism international 28:1 / Fall 1989

Prism international 26:4 / Summer 1988

Kinesis1986-09-01

Kinesis 1984-11-01:

The Ubyssey 1981-02-06:

The Ubyssey 1980-02-29

The Peninsula Times 1979-12-19

Sunshine Coast News 1979-12-18

Thank you for reading!