Canadian-built Brigantine Found Abandoned in Mid-Atlantic; Poetical Account of the Journeys of the Mary Celeste and the Madness that May Have Befallen her Crew

Ill-luck follows a sailing vessel right from the time she was launched in Nova Scotia, until madness drove her captain and crew to abandon her twelve years later in the Atlantic Ocean. An entity aboard the Mary Celeste causes Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs; his wife, Sarah; their two-year-old daughter, Sophia Matilda; along with two officers, and four crew members, to perish in this 4500-word narrative poem.

Hamilton, Ontario (PRWEB) November 14, 2005 -- Francis Kerr Young's The Legend of the Mary Celeste and Other Poems is a unique collection of award winning sonnets, ballads, ballades, villanelles, rondeaux, and other rhyming forms. The themes and poetry styles are interesting and varied. Next to Canada, West Virginia is this poet's favourite place in North America, as a chapter in this anthology reflects.

In the section, Seafarers of the 20th Century, he relates heroic sagas of SS Titanic, AMC Jervis Bay, Royal Navy destroyer Glowworm, and a humorous account of a freighter called Julia Sue, as well as a voyage aboard RMS Queen Mary a few years before she retired in Long Beach, CA.

Folk with Scottish roots will appreciate the chapter, Wha's like us? with a hilarious rebuttal at Burns' To a Mouse from the rodent. To a Moose (the Canadian one) is a parody to the Bard's famed poem. The Flower of Golf is the farcical discovery of how this game may have began. Similar funny poems on the sport are included. Among some of the ballads is one about the poet's great, great, great, grandfather - the Scottish patriot - James ‘Pearlie' Wilson.

The last chapter hosts a bevy of rhymed forms on nature, gardening, Christmas, Halloween, the four seasons, humour, human frailty, and highly emotional poems on personal grief. The prize winning double rondeau, Calm before the Storm, throws the reader into a new era at the turn of a single phrase. And finally, By the Rivers of Babylon, reflects the greedy and bloody reaction that followed and continues to follow that tragic event.

Link to Publication*: http://www.lulu.com/franciskerryoung

About the poet:
Francis Kerr Young was born and educated in Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1967 after five years service on board RMS Queen Mary as an engineer officer. He writes competition poetry, short stories, and children's stories and has won awards on all three categories. He is a member of the West Virginia Poetry Society, the Queen Mary Association in Southampton, England, and is President of the Sea Cadets Old Buoys Association (S.C.O.B.A.), a support group for the Sea Cadets of HMCS Lion in Hamilton, Ontario.

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