Mathew Henderson: The Lease

06/05/2013 24 min
Mathew Henderson: The Lease

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Episode Synopsis

What do you get when you cross a poet and an oilfield worker? Mathew Henderson. He lives in Toronto, but his first job out of high school was in the oilfields of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The New York Times calls his book of poems ("The Lease") on the topic "spare and elegant." In an interview with Black Gold Boom's Todd Melby, Henderson talks about his time in the patch and reads several poems.