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Great Village school, circa 1910<\/em><\/p>\n

From an article<\/a> in The Telegraph<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Nova Scotia is where Bishop discovered her preoccupation with pattern, process and form. Even then she was weighing up aesthetics and arrangements: \u201cThe summer before school began was the summer of numbers, chiefly number eight \u2026 Four and five were hard enough but I think I was in love with eight.\u201d When she got stuck on \u201cg\u201d she decided with characteristic independence of judgment that \u201cMy alphabet made a satisfying short song, and I didn\u2019t want to spoil it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plain and forthright music of her poems comes from another childhood influence: \u201cMy Nova Scotian grandmother was a great hymn singer. I grew up with those sounds, and, in fact, still have hundreds of them floating around in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hard brightness of the light in Nova Scotia concentrates its colours. The iridescent firs, blazing red barns and luminous bare fields explain why Bishop writes so often of this landscape as if it were painted: \u201cYou know about the Bay of Fundy and its tides, I imagine, that go out for a hundred miles or so and then come in with a rise of 80 feet. The soil is all dark terracotta color, and the bay, when it\u2019s in, on a bright day, is a real pink; then the fields are very pale lime greens and yellows and in back of them the fir trees start, dark blue-green. It is the richest, saddest, simplest landscape in the world \u2026 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can visit the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia’s centenary blog here<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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