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Boom time / Lindsay Bird.

by Bird, Lindsay, 1982-

Gaspereau Press, 2019.

Oil well drilling rigs -- Poetry.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9781554471942 (pbk.)

"Inspired by her time working in isolated construction camps in northern Alberta, Lindsay Bird's 'Boom Time' describes the unruly social space of the work camps and the 'in-between' state of existence that they create. Like any resource boom, Canada's oil patch is awash in contrasts and contradictions -- between risk and reward, isolation and assimilation, and wilderness and industrial intrusion. Deep in the oil patch, the luxuries of civilization -- things like rules and objective facts -- sometimes seem in short supply, but Bird's poems attempt to chart a place where there 'isn’t a decent map to be had,' sketching blurry boundaries between truth and talk, reckoning with rumours and half-truths heard around camp. (...)Many travel to the oil patch in pursuit of prosperity, accepting the demands of the work, the isolation of the job sites and the sometimes stifled living environment in exchange for better wages than they could make at home. While the poems in 'Boom Time' depict this as a world somewhat apart, they also acknowledge there's something intriguing about this experience that we’ve willfully edited out of our everyday notion of the civilized world, and yet it has remained 'just over / the hill this whole time.' "--From publisher.

Lindsay Bird is a poet and journalist living in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Her poems have appeared in Event, The New Quarterly, CV2, and 40 Below: Alberta’s Winter Anthology. 'Boom Time' is her first book.

Canadian poetry.

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