Rock Creek blues
Rock Creek Blues is both a tribute to, and a lament for, a way of life that is fast disappearing from the grasslands of the Canadian prairie. Thelma Poirier writes of the land and its inhabitants - plant, animal, and human - in vivid and loving detail, with deep feeling and authenticity. In poetry that is spare, strong, and unsentimental, she describes the rancher’s life, a life lived on the land where work is hard and weather matters, a life tha...