Join us at the MacRae Library on the Agricultural Campus for the launch of Masstown, a collection of poetry by Chad Norman. The book launch will take place on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m.

Masstown is Chad Norman’s fifteenth book of poetry; his writing career spans twenty-five years. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications and he has won the BC Writers’ Poetry Contest as well as the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award.

Living in Truro, Norman is inspired by the laid back nature of the town and its inhabitants. Masstown is a collection of poems that explores the struggles of life on a family-owned farm.

From Masstown:

Boxing In The Kitchen
As always when the evening milking was over,
parlour floors scraped, washed back to gray,
pipelines rinsed, ready for the inevitable dawn,
and Bert’s steps in winter’s fresh white addition,
recent, straight, filled back in, almost all the way
to the backporch door, access to a warm kitchen
and molasses, homemade beans, brown bread,
another miracle meal Gladys had aon the set table,
another Saturday night both pairs of boxing gloves
were brought out for bouts, supposed to be polite,
a form of fun up until the first punch in the face.