Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems, credited to Duncan M. Matheson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Poems by Duncan M. Matheson. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adversity. Then to add to this there was the explosion - the December 1917 Halifax explosion - the Canadian maritime disaster that would leave in its wake nearly 2,000 dead and 9,000 injured. Matheson was the principal of Alexander McKay School in Halifax at the time of the explosion and would witness the resultant death of fifty of his school's students. But despite this backdrop of horror, Matheson - the skilled and observant poet, the man who not only was responsible as principal for the edification of young minds, but who, as a poet, assumed the added burden of explicating life's events through his writing - shone as a bastion of hope and courage in a seemingly crumbling world. This man, this principal, this scholar, this gifted poet could in his writing transcend the horror of everyday events and speak of the beauty, splendor and potential of life. Matheson possessed the hope and fervent desire for a brighter future a world away from this current outbreak of destruction, this explosion of death and grief. You will hear his passion for what is, what is not, and what should and can be in these, Duncan M. Matheson's transcendent works of inspirational poetry. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems
• Author credits: Duncan M. Matheson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 49:19

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• Canadian History
• Nova Scotia
• war poetry
• halifax explosion

Track guide

1. 01 - Indian Summer — 3:02
2. 02 - Mother Love — 1:24
3. 03 - Petoobok — 3:13
4. 04 - Langemarc — 2:07
5. 05 - Edith Cavell — 1:23
6. 06 - To Cardinal Mercier — 1:20
7. 07 - The Bard of Ayr — 1:40
8. 08 - The Soul of Flanders — 2:00
9. 09 - The Gardens — 1:27
10. 10 - Keep the Gardens Growing — 1:34
11. 11 - An Elegy Written in Richmond — 8:28
12. 12 - The Cottage School — 5:49
13. 13 - December Sixth, 1917 — 4:05
14. 14 - Life Is But One Darn Thing After Another — 1:41
15. 15 - Courcellette — 3:30
16. 16 - Vimy Ridge — 3:49
17. 17 - God Save Our Empire Great — 1:00
18. 18 - The Veteran — 1:47

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