Poetry Infused with Nova Scotian places
My published poetry collections tend to feature a lot of Nova Scotian elements, especially pertaining to the tides in the Annapolis Valley. The watery landscape is a part of my life that is constantly surrounding me, and a strong element in many of my poems from both my collections, Spoken Waves and Patches of Sunlight . (left) photo of me standing on the South Mountain taking a photo of the view of the Minas Basin and North Mountain. First, I will go through the poem titles in Spoken Waves that relate to beaches or areas in Nova Scotia. "Baxter's Harbour", pg. 3 "Chance" pg.12 "Blomidon" pg.14 "Heustis Beach" pg.18 "Nova Scotian March" pg.24 "Satin Seaside" pg 51 "Silent Exchange" pg.71 For some of these poems, they still evoke such a strong sense of place, like I am immersed in wherever the setting of the poem was again, I can feel it so strongly, which is why I wrote the poems in the first place, to evo...