Coming Home from Home

Edward L. Edmonds is a professor of education at the University of
Prince Edward Island and an honorary chief of the Mi’kmaq of Prince
Edward Island.

In his third collection of poems, Bruce Hunter is a poet of differing
moods. Variously tender, acerbic, nostalgic, political, domestic, his 37
poems deal with “familiar matter of today” but also of yesterday,
and most especially reflect on his “roots.” (Hunter’s Scottish
ancestors settled in the foothills of southern Alberta. The book’s
cover photo well recaptures “the way we were” in an earlier
generation.) Whether writing about his childhood, loves, or homes
(Hunter was born in Calgary and currently lives in Toronto), his poems
are passionate, full of emotion, and often humorous. Coming Home from
Home is an enjoyable collection.