Call them prayers or curses. Fictions or true stories. Mary Dalton's new poems are voices caught in print, fashioned from the vigorous idioms and cadences of Newfoundland speech. Readers will, likely for the first time, encounter words like "conkerbells", "drite", "mollyfoostering", "mawmouth" and "elt"--potent words rich with the music of their centuries-old origins. source
Places
- Set atHarbour Main / Lake View↗
The Canadian Encyclopedia anchors Merrybegot's outport voices to the Conception Bay communities of Lake View and Harbour Main.
Canadian Encyclopedia entry on Mary Dalton — source