Cold Against the Heart
Poems
- Publisher
- Black Moss Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2003
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887533778
- Publish Date
- Sep 2003
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
Macdonald's poems sing of the Maritimes, and what it was liketo grow up by the sea. He writes about the memories of a grandfather, andwalking in the woods with him, and feeling safe, and carrying the axes andbuck saws and hardboiled eggs. MacDonald writes about farming on PrinceEdward Island where he grew up, and where the earth is hard and red. Thepoems also revolve around church life, and the daily life of making a livingon the eastern seaboard, buying a car, a first marriage, and the lonelinessthat a writer can feel when he is left with his thoughts. MacDonald is anaward-winning poet and children’s author whose book Chung Lee LovesLobsters won the L.M. Montgomery Children’s Literature Award in 1990. Hewas also awarded the Bennett Car Award for We’re All In This Together. Heteaches English and history at Souris Regional High School nearCharlottetown.
About the author
Hugh MacDonald is a poet, editor, childrens’ author and novelist Hugh MacDonald of Brudenell was poet laureate for Prince Edward Island from Jan 1, 2010, until Dec 31, 2012. Morgan’s Boat Ride is his 14th book as author and editor. MacDonald was perhaps best known to Islanders as the P.E.I. representative for Random Acts of Poetry which has brought poetry to the streets and workplaces across Canada. He has received several awards including the L.M. Montgomery Children’s Literature Award for Chung Lee Loves Lobsters, and a first prize for poetry from the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. In 2004, he was presented with the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts on Prince Edward Island. He lives near Montague, PEI with his wife, Sandra.
