Daddy Hall Poetry mad or battered as some

mad or battered as some of his characters are

those specifically Canadian virtues

collections of stories and essays

When she was twenty-one her first poetry chapbook

pocket-sized selection that will introduce readers to a variety of Outram’s registers and personae

Daddy Hall Poetry mad or battered as someA striking visual saga in linocuts of the life of John Daddy Hall, a man of Mohawk and African American descent who survived war, capture and slavery to become a pillar of the community in nineteenth century Owen Sound, Ontario. Born of a Mohawk father and an escaped slave mother, John Daddy Hall was a product of not one but two oppressed peoples. His gripping story is the stuff of legendsof the War of 1812, of the harsh realities slavery and of