Hard Bargain Road
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2021
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554472321
- Publish Date
- Dec 2021
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
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.”
About the author
Susan Haldane's poems have appeared in CV2, Grain, The Malahat Review, Room and The New Quarterly. She and her husband raise cattle, sheep and a few gregarious pigs on 120 rolling acres within view of Algonquin Park in northeastern Ontario.