Lorna Crozier, Poet

Here is a quote from Lorna Crozier's 2009 book "Small beneath the sky". The book is a tender, unsparing portrait of Lorna's upbringing in Swift Current in a most impressive manuscript. It could even be considered as a "prerequisite" reading for the reunion. Lorna is an internationally recognized, award-winning poet and a proud alumni of Swift Current. The writing is beautifully constructed in the most poetic prose style and the memories she elicits are oh, so real.

I strongly recommend this book for reading by anyone raised in Swift Current, during the 50's/60's. It is a marvelous read.

You can read more about Lorna at her website www.lornacrozierca

Here is one quote about the July 1st parade, just to tease your literary appetite.

“Some distance behind the riders so the horses wouldn’t spook, lumbered a black-and-white pinto made of steel. He clanked stiff-kneed between the float carrying the Ladies of the Nile and the flatbed truck of old time fiddlers, who broke into the Red River Reel whenever the parade paused to let the entries in the rear, catch up. As famous in our town as Trigger, the pinto was named Blow Torch. His mane of real horsehair gleamed. Smoked puffed from his nostrils every five minutes or so, and he let out a roar that came nowhere close to a whinny or a neigh. Everyone laughed and clapped as he clomped by. The clamour he made was like a grain bin collapsing in on itself in a high wind.
People referred to Blowtorch’s creator, Mr. McIntyre Jr., as an inventor…”