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The succinct power of poetry to explain our history has been aired before<\/a>. In the days when there were no poetry slams, a few lines sent in to the newspaper had to suffice. Although poetry modestly published in a slim volume may have never seen the light of day.<\/p>\n We are fortunate, in the ephemeral collection of the Coffs Harbour Regional Museum, to hold some rhyming lines typed up or penned in ink. And on occasion, they reached us in a published format too. Here’s a taste:<\/p>\n Christmas time at Bonville<\/em><\/p>\n The crowds are back at Bonville for Christmas 49<\/p>\n With thousands of new faces,<\/p>\n Four hundred tents all looking fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n They’ve come from North from South from West<\/p>\n To fish, to swim, to dance<\/p>\n Eat oysters free, put on the spree<\/p>\n And knock round in short pants<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sounds as though nothing much has changed. The remainder of the verses are available to read in Coffs Collections<\/a>. Sometimes a gem such as this one\u00a0 is tucked away in another publication:<\/p>\n The most prolific poet in our area, current poets excluded, seems to have been the Reverend Henry Edward Hunt<\/a>. He waxed lyrically about much of our beautiful region, yet again proving that poetry is timeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The succinct power of poetry to explain our history has been aired before. In the days when there were no poetry slams, a few lines sent in to the newspaper had to suffice. Although poetry modestly published in a slim volume may have never seen the light of day. We are fortunate, in the ephemeral … Continue reading “Poetic history”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SouthSolitary-poem-1.jpg\")