 [ Large Image ] | Hard Bargain Road Susan Haldane 2021 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 9781554472321 / Trade paper / 64 pp Susan Haldane offers an intimate view of contemporary life in a rural community. Foregoing typical bucolic or bleak tropes of rural life, her poems find focus in the complex, incessant negotiations involved in farming’s ever-shifting relationship with landscape, livestock, seasons, weather, history and neighbours. Direct, plain spoken, this collection recalls the frank wistful and stubborn persistence of a bluegrass hymn, a song for a community that will not be defined from without. “If it surprises you to hear / a farmer speak of love,” writes Haldane, “then / you’ve had the wrong meaning all along.” To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Picking Stones Susan Haldane 2018 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN 9781554471928 / Pamphlet / 32 pp |
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