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Leaf Counter
D. A. Lockhart
Lockhart brings an Indigenous perspective to the colonial and Loyalist history and poetic mythology of Prince Edward County and Al Purdy’s A-frame home, which currently serves as a writer’s residency. The poems weave stories of 19th-century soldiers and politicians with traditional stories of Sky Woman, contrast the song of the goldfinch (the titular Leaf Counter) with constant military planes flying overhead, and draw on Purdy’s correspondence and work.
