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The Marshwood Songs looks to showcase a verse distinctive to the landscape of Windsor/Essex. The title denotes and celebrates the natural environment of Southwestern Ontario's original wetland landscape, while also characterizing its inherent liminality-both in terms of borderland and topography.These poems operate as a record of regional duality, moving back and forth between rusticity and cityscape, expressing a conflated history and immediacy of local environments. Each poet effuses material according to the distinction of their intuitive perspectives and cultural backgrounds. Nick Hildenbrand incorporates observations influenced by his long-standing familial roots in LaSalle, and Jovan Stefanov, a Macedonian-Canadian, incorporates motifs from his family's heritage into the collection. The poetry in The Marshwood Songs is supplemented by several illustrations from local artists Emily Conlon & Hrista Stefanova. Through The Marshwood Songs, each artist hopes to transform Southwestern Ontario's variegated regional imagery into a universal tapestry.

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Hildenbrand and Stevanov are keen observers of nature but in entirely different ways. Both celebrate the complexities that underpin our world, and both share a love of life that thee poems seek to understand. - Bruce Meyer

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