spar: Words in Place

by Peter Sanger

Peter Sanger’s poetry has always demonstrated his extraordinary focus and vigorous engagement with the objects that surround him. These four essays find their basis in the everyday stuff of backwoods Nova Scotia, demonstrating how a road with two names, a crooked knife, an abandoned shipyard and a fragment of gypsum might hone our thoughts and shape our sense of words in place.

105 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2002

Reviews

[Andrew Sare · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spar is a collection of essays about rural Nova Scotia, particularly a perhaps 50km radius around Truro. Sanger contemplates rural farm roads, cemeteries, old shipyards, life, poetry, natural science and biology as a gentleman explorer who is always filled with wonder. But Sanger can’t just write about it, he is compelled to use the finest wordsmanship and poetic elements of language. It won’t disappoint you that if you search up one of his speaking engagements, he has a charming accent and lilting tone. Take a listen, and maybe you will hear his writing in his wonderful voice.