Shelley a leedahl biography definition

Shelley A. Leedahl  has written thirteen books, the most recent of which is the poetry collection, Go(Radiant Press, 2022)which caught my attention with its lively down-to-earth and grounded yet lifting past mundane poems.

(See the Go book launch.) 

Mine is a very marked up copy of ooh, like that.

Shelley a leedahl biography definition

Such as “What I Left in that City” which starts as a list poem but whomp,

“Stained-glass wine goblets. Favourites/ gifted from my daughter’s old boyfriend./ Sacrificed because the man I was escaping—//who insisted I not raise my eyebrows/ as the effort left lines in my forehead—//asked for the glasses to remember me by.”

The poems don’t tend to float oceanic but touch the far shore and touch the shallow end of the pool to gratifying results.

Later in “Smuggler’s Cove Provincial Park” she shows her humour “I can’t read the minute directions on the $50 can of bear spray […] wouldn’t it be just our luck to be doomed in