The Rough Poets - 9780228022930

The Rough PoetsReading Oil-Worker Poetry\nAuthor(s): Melanie Dennis Unrau\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228022930, 978-0228022930\nSynopsis\nOil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas.\n\nThe Rough Poets presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019: [url] Ellss Northland Trails, Peter Christensens Rig Talk, Dymphny Dronyks Contrary Infatuations, Mathew Hendersons The Lease, Naden Parkins A Relationship with Truth, Lesley Battlers Endangered Hydrocarbons, and Lindsay Birds Boom Time. These writers are uniquely positioned, Melanie Dennis.