The Best of Robert Service

When I was in high school my "best subject" was public speaking (I know, the most feared thing in the world, public speaking. Maybe I'm put together wrong. Was it Seinfeld who pointed out that most people fear public speaking more than death...and that means that most people would rather be the corp......more

Robert Service never claimed to be a poet. Instead, he said he wrote verse, "something the man in the street would take notice of and the sweet old lady would paste in her album; something the schoolboy would spout and the fellow in the pub would quote." Johnny Cash recites The Cremation Of Sam McGe......more

I read two books set in Alaska - fiction and non fiction- and both mentioned this poet, so I figured I should read his poetry. If you're not a poetry fan, his poems are very accessible. He gets to the heart of Alaskan life in the early twentieth century in a very engaging way. He seems to have captu......more

He was known as the "Canadian Kipling". His work has been denigrated by the critics and called mere doggerel, but people still read him aloud and love his work. Although known for his Yukon poems, his range is astonishing. His style is as old as Beowulf and just as dramatic. His poetry is meant to b......more

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