Tag: witticisms

• National Poetry Month and Robert Hayman’s Quodlibets

  The League of Canadian Poets have celebrated April as National Poetry Month for 15 years now. That doesn’t sound like a very long time, considering Robert Hayman was writing poetry in Newfoundland in the early 1600s. So, in the spirit of celebrating poetry, Problematic Press would like to take you back nearly 400 years in…

  Dave Reynolds

  April 15, 2013

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• BOOK LAUNCH – Robert Hayman’s Quodlibets

  Problematic Press is pleased to present Robert Hayman’s Quodlibets, Lately Come over from New Britaniola, Old Newfoundland. Hayman’s Quodlibets is a collection of witty, poetic verses that were penned while he served as governor in colonial Harbour Grace, Newfoundland between 1618 and 1628. His is likely the first English poetry penned in North America. And,…

  Dave Reynolds

  April 1, 2013

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