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Forecast: Pretty Bleak

Poems

by (author) Chris Bailey

Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Initial publish date
Mar 2025
Category
Canadian, Places, Nature
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780771020490
    Publish Date
    Mar 2025
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

“This is no quaint voice from the Land of Anne. Suffused with our era’s geist and angst, which have penetrated to the rural periphery, Bailey is a sharp-eyed, clarion-voiced witness.” —Richard Lemm

Forecast: Pretty Bleak is a fresh look at life in rural PEI full of fascinating character sketches. These poems explore climate change, work, family, love, and the idea that sometimes all you've got is hope for better weather and more favourable winds tomorrow.

Confessional, candid, and firmly grounded, these poems shine a light on a corner of our country and lift up voices that are rarely heard.

About the author

Chris Bailey, a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, wrote over 216,000 words on the subject of productivity on his blog, A Year of Productivity, during a yearlong productivity project where he conducted intensive research, as well as dozens of productivity experiments on himself to discover how to become as productive as possible. To date, he has written hundreds of articles on the subject and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as the New York Times, the Huffington Post, New York magazine, TED, Fast Company, and Lifehacker.

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