Taste of Water

The taste of water is something we all know but need to be reminded of once in a while: how it tastes of shared memory, and of what it means to be human, and of the earth.

Prince Edward Island's second Poet Laureate, Frank Ledwell, invites us to enter his words and world, seeking to share a sense of our common humanity and our interdependent fates, and to recognize communal experience in the particularities of personal experience.

The traditional role of the Poet Laureate is to mark occasions, and Ledwell's poems masterfully make quotidian Island events and lives into special occasions that sing with the "spirit of the spoken word taking hold."