{"product_id":"open-wide-a-wilderness-canadian-nature-poems-9781554580330","title":"Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, \u003ci\u003eOpen Wide a Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e is a survey of Canada's regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the natural world. The poetic responses included here range from the heights of the sublime to detailed naturalist observation, from the perspectives of pioneers and those who work in the woods and on the sea to the dismayed witnesses of ecological destruction, from a sense of terror in confrontation with the natural world to expressions of amazement and delight at the beauty and strangeness of nature, our home. Arranged chronologically, the poems include excerpts from late-eighteenth-century colonial pioneer epics and selections from both well-known and more obscure nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. A substantial section is devoted to contemporary writers who are working within and creating a new ecopoetic aesthetic in the early twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Don McKay's introductory essay, \"Great Flint Singing,\" explores in McKay's inimitable way the thorny issues of Canadian poets' representations of nature over the past 150 years. Focusing on key texts by Duncan Campbell Scott, Charles G.D. Roberts, Earle Birney, Dennis Lee, and others, the essay traces Wordsworthian influences in a New World context, celebrates Canadian poets' love of natural history observation, and finds a way through a rich and contradictory tradition to current trends in ecopoetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolmes, Nancy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNancy Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e has published four collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eMandorla\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). She has lived in Alberta, Ontario, and, most recently, British Columbia, where she teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcKay, Don:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDon McKay\u003c\/b\u003e has published eight books of poetry. Among his many awards are the Governor General's Award in 1991 (for \u003ci\u003eNight Fields\u003c\/i\u003e) and in 2000 (for \u003ci\u003eAnother Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e). He was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize for \u003ci\u003eCamber\u003c\/i\u003e and was the Canadian winner in 2007 for \u003ci\u003eStrike\/Slip\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Don McKay has been active as an editor, creative writing teacher, and university instructor, as well as a poet. He lives in Newfoundland. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356245561618,"sku":"9781554580330","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5ebb0cf-7ec0-4665-9cc3-08ff61960d12.jpg?v=1728308034","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/open-wide-a-wilderness-canadian-nature-poems-9781554580330","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}