Vaudeville School Poetry

Poetry That Plays to the Crowd

Bold, rhythmic, and made to be heard, the Vaudeville School is poetry as performance. Led by Robert Service, whose Yukon ballads like Songs of a Sourdough and Rhymes of a Rolling Stone made him one of the most widely read poets in the English-speaking world. This series captures the frontier energy of early 20th-century Canada. Rousing, funny, and alive on the page, these poems remind us that verse was once popular entertainment.