Saskatchewan Poetry

Poetry provides insight into life; it takes minor details and explores them under a beautifully intricate microscope. Poets provide universal insight, but it is their local environment from which they derive their themes and images. Saskatchewan poetry is about us: our land, our people, and our innate connection with it. Therefore, the province's poetry is personal: it speaks to us in our everyday language with images that define our province and themes that evoke recessed …

…love to describe the environment (Hyland). The connection poets share with the land nurtures their poetic creativity. Similarly, the land deepens our understanding of Saskatchewan poetry. Grassland poets attempt to understand the world through what they are exposed to, our land and our people. The poetry inspires people universally, but if feels as if it is personally written for us, like a whisper in our ear, because we too know the secrets of the prairies.