Personal Effects

by Michael Bradford

A collection of personal portraits and letters from the heart, presented with the power that only poetry can give them. In Personal Effects, Michael Bradford uses lyric poems and prose poems to create crystal clear demonstrations of their narrators' attention to, and affection for, their subjects. The language is everyday rather than elevated, the elements are ordinary not extraordinary, the feelings are familiar instead of farfetched, and yet they are fashioned together in ways that make the reader experience them with extraordinary clarity and an elevated awareness.

108 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2004

About the author

Michael Bradford was born in 1975 in St. Albert, Alberta. He grew up in Calgary, where his Mom and Dad drove him to the public library every week, but made him sit in the front seat and look out the window on the way back. He is grateful to them for both of these things.

Michael has worked as a grass cutter, waiter, pizza-delivery boy, literacy teacher, elementary-school vice-principal and published poet. Button Hill is his first novel for young readers. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with his wife and two children.