Websites
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Here's a selection of other poems by Service from the Poetry Foundation. The site is worth poking around on, too. Lots of good stuff.
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This is more of a fan-page than an academic research site. Still, it's full of interesting tidbits, and we think it really captures how alive Service's poetry still is for so many people.
Audio
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Listen to fun, dramatic readings of poems, including Service's "The Passing of the Year."
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This claims to be a recording of Service himself reading one of his poems. No way for us to be sure, but it sounds convincing, and just a little bit eerie. Or maybe a lot eerie…
Images
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Here's the man himself, his signature, and a little bio.
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While we were reading this poem, we realized we'd seen this old man/old year thing before. You know those cartoons in the paper around New Year's that show the old year as an old man and the new one as a baby? Well, for what it's worth, here's one.