A Happy Rhymer

Title

A Happy Rhymer

Author

Anne Sutherland Brooks

Editor

Genre

A HAPPY RHYMER is a collection of selected poetry and prose from Anne Sutherland Brooks, who has long been one of Canada’s lost poets. Though her work was at one time internationally recognized with the likes of fellow Canadians William Henry Drummond, Bliss Carmen, and John McCrae, she has now largely been forgotten.

This volume offers readers a selection of the work that made her a poet of note in her day, with the hope that it will introduce her to a new generation of readers and re-establish her place in Canadian literature.

PRAISE FOR ANNE SUTHERLAND BROOKS
"One of the authentic poets who made my volume possible." – Nathaniel Benson, Editor of Modern Canadian Poetry (1930)

About the Author

Anne Sutherlan…

ANNE SUTHERLAND BROOKS born and educated in Guelph, Ontario, where, although Presbyterian, she attended the Loretto Convent as well as the Collegiate Institute. At the London Normal School, she qualified to teach. By her mid-twenties Brooks was beginning to attract attention as a poet and reciter as well as for verses in periodicals ranging from the New York Times to Women's World. Her associates in the Toronto branch of the Canadian Authors Association awarded her the members' division poetry prize in 1932 and 1933, just a couple of years before she married Canon Edward Arnold Brooks in 1935. In addition to caring for her own children, John Edward Arnold and Anne Elizabeth, Anne enchanted young listeners with recitals of her poetry and radio broadcasts of children's stories. She died in 1996.

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