"This is no quaint voice from the Land of Anne of Green Gables. Suffused with our era's geist and angst, which have penetrated to the rural periphery, Bailey is a sharp-eyed, clarion-voiced witness." -Richard Lemm
Forecast: Pretty Bleak is a fresh look at life in rural PEI full of fascinating character sketches. These poems explore climate change, work, family, love, and the idea that sometimes all you've got is hope for better weather and more favourable winds tomorrow.
Confessional, candid, and firmly grounded, these poems shine a light on a corner of our country and lift up voices that are rarely heard. CHRIS BAILEY is a commercial fisherman from North Lake, Prince Edward Island. He got his MFA from the University of Guelph and is a past recipient of the Milton Acorn Award for Poetry. His writing has appeared in Grain, Brick, The Buzz, The Town Crier, FreeFall, and on CBC's Mainstreet PEI. Chris's debut poetry collection, What Your Hands Have Done, was published in 2018.
