Author Description

These poems are about moments of summer life on Prince Edward Island. I, my husband and five children, first came to PEI forty years ago at a time when old Island ways had suddenly—or so it seemed—begun to disappear. Farms were being abandoned, and some years later, the fisheries would face a moratorium. Yet many of the season’s natural gifts continue to be plentiful. The Islanders’ welcoming ways persist. To ride such waves, a poet would begin by acknowledging these realities, and without turning away, look to find what they have to tell us about the way we were and what we might become.