We are aware of the watershed moment that we inhabit in the twenty-first century. As it becomes more and more poisoned from industrial corporations, mining and the many, too many humans on our planet, it also becomes more and more endangered. It is the water we bathe in, drink, and with which we grow our food. It is part of the hydrologic cycle that begins with water evaporation to become groundwater that seeps into rivers, streams, lakes and oceans. This water houses the aquatic ecosystems that feed and nurture not only the people, industries and animals on land but also drains into the world’s oceans. In Canada, the watershed runs into the Pacific, Arctic, Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. Poets take us to the rivers they live along – and grieve daily – the Peace River Canyon, Chilcotin, Taylor River, the Humber River, Millstone River, the Fraser River, and more. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary and lake, sweet water is the planet’s life force and the poets here examine it from every angle – the pitcher plant, the beaver and the American Bull Frog, rain, clouds, smog, the many ducks and the salmon and the last lake sturgeon. Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Sweet Water Poems for the Watersheds Edited by Yvonne Blomer
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