Saskatchewan Poetry

Poetry provides insight into life; it takes minor details and explores them under a beautifully intricate microscope. Poets provide universal insight, but it is their local environment from which they derive their themes and images. Saskatchewan poetry is about us: our land, our people, and our innate connection with it. Therefore, the province's poetry is personal: it speaks to us in our everyday language with images that define our province and themes that evoke recessed emotions. These aspects will be discussed, as well as form and symbols, as an introduction to Saskatchewan poetry.…