Daylighting Chedoke

By (author): John Terpstra

Chedoke is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton, but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. It sees daylight only in a couple of waterfalls where the creek flows over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and in a short canal where it runs alongside Highway 403.

In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John Terpstra attempts to trace Chedoke’s afflicted waters back to their source, searching through historical archives and city documents, and even walking up the great storm drains that collect the water that spills from the escarpment. Daylighting Chedoke is a moving meditation on how urbanization and industrialization have literally buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks and reconsider our relationship with nature.

AUTHOR

John Terpstra

John Terpstra is the author of eight books of poetry, including Disarmament, which was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, and Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems. An earlier work, Captain Kintail, won the CBC Radio Literary Prize for Poetry. He has also written three books of creative non-fiction. The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician’s Daughter was short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He lives in Hamilton.


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Dimensions:

134 Pages
8.40in * 5.40in * .40in
180.00gr

Published:

October 09, 2018

ISBN:

9781928088721

Book Subjects:

NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers

Language:

eng

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