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J. H. McKenzie
Best known for a rare 1912 verse account of the Titanic disaster, this little-known author captured the tragedy in the direct, sentimental style of early twentieth-century popular poetry.
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The Titanic Disaster Poem
by J. H. McKenzie
About the author
J. H. McKenzie is a little-documented author associated with The Titanic Disaster Poem, published in 1912 by the Co-operative Publishing Company of Guthrie, Oklahoma. The work presents a poetic retelling of the Titanic’s sinking and its human cost.
Very little reliable biographical information about McKenzie has survived in widely available records. Today, the author is chiefly remembered through this historically interesting disaster poem, preserved in digitized collections such as Project Gutenberg.