Derby Day in the Yukon, and Other Poems of the Northland
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Gold claims, sled dogs and campfire memories fill these Canadian poems, written in the rough spoken voice of Yukon Bill. Kate Simpson Hayes sets the rhythms of northern camp life beside disappointment, endurance and regret. The opening greeting addresses Robert W. Service, while the title poem follows a punishing dog race and draws attention to the animals whose effort makes the celebration possible.
Other verses turn to the lonely duty of Red-Jacket, the fortunes of a prospector called Mac and the memories that trouble a speaker at the year's end. In another scene, a woman enters a burning building to reach a baby. The language uses shortened words and emphatic rhymes, giving the poems the sound of stories told aloud. Readers interested in northern verse will find both camp humour and sympathy for lives tested by cold, work and hardship.
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- Author
- Kate Simpson Hayes
- Reading time
- About 35 minutes
- Pages
- 54
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
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