Description
The poems in Folklore of Lunenburg County are rooted in the ethnography of Helen Creighton and the otherworldly stories of supernatural encounters that she collected on the south shore of Nova Scotia in the mid-twentieth century. For Goodfellow, these accounts evoke much more than quaint records of a primitive time and place. Ghost stories become a lens on human relationships; supernatural experiences become analogs for loss, longing, and disappearance, and for the way in which these experiences are mediated by landscape, nature, and community ritual.
About the author
Michael Goodfellow’s poems have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, The Dalhousie Review, CV2, Prairie Fire, Verse Daily, Reliquiae, Riddle Fence, The Cortland Review and Juniper. In his spare time he grows garlic and tends to an old house on a small waterfront acre in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
