Scouts are cancelled : Annapolis Valley poems and one short story / John Stiles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiles, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County, N.S.)--Literary collections.

Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County, N.S.).

Nova Scotia--Literary collections.

Nova Scotia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : 4 a.m. Books/Insomniac Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scouts Are Cancelled is a richly humorous book of poetry that examines what happens when a small Nova Scotian farm community is corrupted by a greedy developer trying to sell off farmland to build a subdivision. Stiles vividly brings to life the dialect and characters of the Valley as no writer has yet managed to do. Working with ease in the vernacular of the regional writer, Stiles manages in these Annapolis Valley poems to speak for all of us.

Contents:

Socouts are Cancelled; Morrisey's Headstone; Bernadette is some sly; Little Buggers my Mom; Dog Kennel; All She Wrote; Her Kitty D.C; Ski-Doo Cord; Not Far Behind: Big Black Dog; Monkey's Island Song; How Yah Doon a'night?; Scouts Are Cancelled; Lio, well, Elliot (Mason) Simpson; Trip up to the farm weth the milk bucket; Day a Reckonin: Mr. Simpson; Wide Load Sign; Field a Ripe Pumpkins; Sweet Misery in the Grapevine; Box Dis Ears; Aisle in the Co-op; Got Some Nerve; Em Moody Days; Selby's Prayer; Tides Are In (fer Gossips); Bike, No Hands; Kipawo Showboat Feller; Lot 4 Sale, Haligonian

Frig That Shit: Bills Lunch Notice BoardRecord of a tractor; Torpedo Chicken; Chip Factory Foreman; Trapped Fly?; Rocket on the Dykes; Glennville Hospital Walkathon; Ferris Wheel Carnie; Annapolis Valley Radio: Broadcast News Report; A Thousand Fleas; Fer the Pardy; Tubin?; Wolfville Ridge Road: Selby's dream?; Blackberry Bushes; Scotty's Fort; Rabbit Through Snow; Me and Lio; Glossary, Bud; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-91088-7

9786610910885

1-4593-0941-3

1-897414-80-3

OCLC:

171582194