Poetry Review is the magazine of The Poetry Society. According to Agatha Christie, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, she wrote a series of poems about the Harlequin legend[1] and submitted some to The Poetry Review and some were published. Christie recalls that Harlequin's Song was her first appearance in print and she was very pleased to receive a guinea prize for that. She went on to win several more prizes and had other poems printed there.[2][3] These poems have not been traced and we do not know when and in which issue of Poetry Review they were published in. Poetry Review was first publishedi n 1912, so there is some discrepancy here with regards to Christie having submitted poems in her late teens. She would have been 22 in 1912.
Of the poems which have been found, World Hymn was published in the Mar 1919 issue.[4] Two more were published in the Poetry Review supplement Poetry of Today also in 1919.
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- ↑ Later published in The Road of Dreams (1925) and Poems (1973)
- ↑ Agatha Christie, "Author's Foreword", The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
- ↑ Agatha Christie, An Autobiography (London: HarperCollins, 2010), 170, ebook edition.
- ↑ J. C. Bernthal, Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022), 805, ebook edition.