Red Ledger

This is Mary Dalton’s fourth book of poems, and follows the success of her highly praised and prize-winning collection Merrybegot . In the book Dalton’s wit leaps forward to create yet another series of pressure-packed, tough-minded poems inseparable from their Atlantic source. The immediacy and precision of her diction and the large scope of her thinking evoke an elemental world in ways that recall the oral traditions from which Dalton has often drawn inspiration. Rarely has the formidable Newfoundland character found such authentic expression. Ranging from erotic lyrics to riddles, from parables to social-political meditations, this is the work of an exceptional poet who has once again struck out on her own.