Canadian Poet Bliss Carman was born in Fredricton, New Brunswick in 1861. Though his first published book of poetry, Low Tide in Grand Pre, was not a success his later work became popular in Canada , the U.S. and beyond. His poems spoke of nature’s beauty and simple living, and attracted the attention of populations experiencing a growing industrial world and missing the nostalgic, simpler way of rural life. On October 28,1921, he was crowned Canada’s Poet Laureate. He lived many years in Connecticut , and spent time in the Catskills
At Twilight Park, an artists colony of the late 19th and early 20th century. Bliss Carman died in 1929.
The Cry of The Hillborn was first published in 1922 in a collection titled ‘Later Poems’, published by Small Company in Boston. Later Poems can be found in the ‘American Verse Project’ at the University of Michigan Library Digital’ Collection.
Listen to John Kirk sing a musical version of this poem, composed by Jay Ungar and recorded on Jay and Molly’s Catskill Collection CD.
