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The Lease by Mathew Henderson
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The Lease (edition 2012)

by Mathew Henderson (Author)

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The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often unflattering realities of industrial culture and its cast of hard-living men. Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award… (more)
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Title:The Lease
Authors:Mathew Henderson (Author)
Info:Toronto: Coach House, 2012. Paperback. 67 pages.
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Tags:Matthew Henderson, poetry, Canadian poetry, CanLit, 21C, work poetry, work, oilfields, prairies, oil & gas, industry, resource extraction, nature, sexuality, Alberta Views, read in 2013, Coach House

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great book of poetry. based on his work in the oil fields or on his relations with his father. informative, insightful.
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The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often unflattering realities of industrial culture and its cast of hard-living men. Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award

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