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Poetry Canadian

Unsettled

by (author) Zach Wells

Publisher
Insomniac Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2004
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894663762
    Publish Date
    Oct 2004
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

Not since Al Purdy's North of Summer has a Canadian poet written so compellingly about life in the frozen arctic. The poems in Zachariah Wells' debut collection range through territories as vast as the north itself, from explorations of ancient myths to modern tales of courage and survival, from lyrical meditations on nature to searing poems about the daily grind of manual labour. This book reminds us why our nation's consciousness is pervaded by the idea of North: why we fear it and why we inhabit it, how it can be explored and colonized but never conquered, never truly settled.

About the author

Zachariah Wells is a native of Prince Edward Island. He has lived in Ottawa and Montreal and worked as an airline freight handler on Baffin and Cornwallis Islands. He currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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