Finding Ft. George

Finding Ft. George is the poetic record of Rob Budde’s growing love of Prince George and the Cariboo north-central region of BC. The poems are an act of discovery and they describe the various social, political, historical and environmental systems that Budde encounters with the eye of a patient, astute observer. Engaging in the language of location, each poem explores a place, a time and the process of building a relationship between the two. Sometimes gritty, sometimes ironic, sometimes barely able to see the place at all, the poems are all love poems to a new home — gifts of arrival.

AUTHOR

Rob Budde

Rob Budde teaches Creative Writing and Critical Theory at the University of Northern BC and has taught previously at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. He is the author of four previous books —Catch as Catch, traffick, Misshapen, and The Dying Poem — as well as the editor of the interview collection In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets. He has been a finalist for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year. He lives with his family in Prince George, BC.

Reviews

“Rob Budde’s latest collection of poems Finding Ft. George is a unique look at settling into a new community and making it a home. With poems delving into every aspect of Prince George, British Columbia, Budde’s collection reveals aspects of life in a small town that usually go unnoticed by people… The language Budde employs is concise, with each image working together to create a complete picture of Prince George for the reader. Also, the idea of the ‘poem’ itself occurs in most of Budde’s work. The result of such a rhetorical device is the feeling that the reader is being given the opportunity to experience the intimacy of Budde’s unique point of view, just as it unravels.”

—JIVE Magazine

“[V]erse bursting with energy… he is well on his way to becoming a major Canadian poet.”

—Prairie Fire Review of Books