Night and Morning

Before Canada had a flag, it had Charles Sangster. This collection captures a young nation waking up to its own landscape, rendered in verse that pulses with the raw wonder of forests untamed, rivers unbridged, and a people learning to call this harsh and beautiful territory home. Sangster's poetry doesn't merely describe the Canadian wilderness; it inhabits it, breathing in the pine-scented air of pre-Confederation days when the country was still more possibility than fact. The title poem 'Night and Morning' moves through darkness into light with the urgency of a nation casting off its colonial sleep. These are poems written by a man who understood that to name the land is to claim it, and Sangster names it with the reverence and terror of someone standing at the edge of something vast. For readers curious about where Canadian literature began, or for anyone who believes poetry should make the world feel new again, this collection offers the rare thrill of witnessing a literary tradition take its first breaths.