The Blomidon Logs by Deirdre Dwyer
By Deirdre Dwyer
A spellbinding evocation of the facility of reminiscence and the spirit of place
Set within the small farming neighborhood of Blomidon on Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy, The Blomidon Logs starts off with stories of Glooscap and a leaky outdated cabin. entire with the wild mind's eye of youngster and rumours of a drowned artist, the booklet strikes up the line to a brand new A-frame cottage and again in time to the generations who preceded the writer at Blomidon, delivering a wealthy historical past of farmland, seashore, and tales. Taking its name from the logbooks stored through Dwyer’s mom and dad, the gathering is set early life, relations, and a time whilst summer season intended freedom and outside play. The poems confer with the legends of the 1st international locations chief/god who as soon as made his domestic at Blomidon and rejoice the paintings of farmers, loggers, and their households and predecessors who've made, and in some way nonetheless make, a residing from the land.
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