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    The Lease
    The Lease
    The Lease
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    The Lease

    By Mathew Henderson

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    The lease is meaningless: a square paced
    first by seismic workers, and then your father,
    and then by every other man you know.


    Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often unflattering realities of industrial culture and its cast of hard-living men.


    Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013)

    Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoach House Books
    Release dateSep 6, 2012
    ISBN9781770563216
    The Lease
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    Mathew Henderson

    Mathew Henderson is a recent graduate of the University of Guelph's MFA program. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he now lives in Toronto, writes about the prairies and teaches at Humber College. The Lease is his first book.

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