The Last Tomato

by Jane Ledwell

Marrying the sensual with the sensuous, Jane Ledwell’s luscious first collection heralds a breathtaking new voice in Canadian poetry.

Following in the footsteps of Island writers such as L.M. Montgomery and Milton Acorn, Ledwell explores the bound-aries of her PEI home, taking the measure of both its fullness and its limitations.

Describing “language moving through the earth where we were born,” the poems in Last Tomato trace changes in the natural world and in human experience, from moons, menses, and seasons to broad patterns of birth and death, travel and arrival, and love and loss.

Ledwell’s exquisite poetry delves deep into the meaning of living with a sense of roots — in landscape, in community, in family, in love.