Poems

By Duncan M. Matheson · Running time 00:49:19 · Single author

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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 re

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