Sligo Poets 1912-1923

Poems not written by Sligo author included in the Sligo Times 1912.

27 July 1912: Convict Joe by Alexander G. Murdock

Alexander G. Murdoch was born in Glasgow in 1843, He received a limited education he was apprenticed to the trade of marine engineering. He developed an interest in writing and contributed many poems, especially humorous ones, to the Glasgow Weekly Mail.

By 1879 he had published three volumes of his poems and in that year he won the Burns Kilmarnock medal awarded for a poem on the poet. After this he worked with the Glasgow Weekly Mail and published several books of stories. He died in 1901.

31 August 1912: A Boy's Promise by Susan Coolidge

Susan Coolidge (real name Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) was an American children's author, born in 1835 into a wealthy New England family in Cleveland, Ohio but spent much of her childhood in New Haven, Connecticut after her family moved there.

Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after which she started to write. She never married, and lived at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island, until her death in 1905.

She is best known for her classic children's novel What Katy Did (1872). She also published a number of books of poetry.

12 October 1912: What Ha' Ye Done? by Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was a short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

He is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim many short stories and poems, including Mandalay, Gunga Din, The White Man's Burden and If— .

He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.