Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill

by Carl Leggo

Lynch's Lane is a street in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, a city whose main enterprise is the making of paper. Like much of Newfoundland, Corner Brook is a hilly, hardworking town, and Carl Leggo's poetry, while recounting his own experience of growing up in there in the 1950s and 60s, also helps define both the people and the place for the rest of us. The writing is neither sentimental nor angry, but is honest, humorous and often whimsical.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Carl Leggo is a poet and professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His books include: Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill; View from My Mother’s House; Come-By-Chance; Lifewriting as Literary Métissage and an Ethos for Our Times (co-authored with Erika Hasebe-Ludt and Cynthia Chambers); Creative Expression, Creative Education (co-edited with Robert Kelly); Sailing in a Concrete Boat: A Teacher’s Journey; Arresting Hope: Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out (co-edited with Ruth Martin, Mo Korchinski, and Lynn Fels); and Arts-based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence (co-edited with Susan Walsh and Barbara Bickel). He lives in Steveston, BC.