“Warning: this book contains Saskatchewan content.” So begins The Man from Saskatchewan, the exciting poetry collection from Gerald Hill. And indeed it does. These are poems about Saskatchewan people, about Saskatchewan places, and about what it’s like to live here.

But in the telling of these poems – in the creation of the Man from Saskatchewan – Hill also reveals the universal truths to which we’re so often blind. The Man from Saskatchewan is not that different from anyone else: he’s a son, a father, a husband (or, possibly, an ex-husband), a man with strengths but limitations and weaknesses also, a man who oftentimes struggles to make sense of the world around him.

In his own engaging and conversational style, Hill shoots these poems through with humour, affection, clarity, and sensitivity. His eye for detail and comfortable use of the language combine to forge a collection of poems that is uniquely Saskatchewan in style, and uniquely universal in appeal.