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WAVERLEY:<\/strong> An author from Waverley made good use of the past two years of COVID-19 restrictions to pen a book of poems called \u201cOf A Boreal Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark E. Ryan, who\u2019s children Josie, Nora and Isaac attend Waverley Memorial School, compiled a collection of poetry over the last two years. Some are reflections, a little bit of grit there too, he said in describing. He has just released the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has written all his life but moved away from it until recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOver the last few years. I’ve been busy with kids and things, and then the pandemic struck,\u201d he said. \u201cI kind of started journaling a little bit, but the journaling turned back into poetry and kind of brought me full circle of things I used to do, and I had more time to do it. So the end result was this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ryan was asked how he came up with the name for the poetry book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI surf, so I have a kind of a connection to the ocean. And growing up in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia, a big connection he to boreal part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI spent a lot of time with my kids over the course of the pandemic in the forest, and I kind of took two things that have a lot of meaning and threw them together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said it took him about a year-and-a-half to put the book together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ryan said he started journaling and journaling turned into poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs it started to build, it was like something I always wanted to do. It was kind of like, maybe I should do something with this and put it out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy the time I started working on deciding I was going to write a book to the time it was published, it kind of took off from there and turned from 70 to a 140 plus poems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He included his middle initial on the book cover so people wouldn\u2019t confuse him with the other poetry author by the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n While many authors would care about sales, Ryan doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI love art. I appreciate art. And this is a little bit of what I can offer,\u201d he said. \u201cSo just putting it out there is all I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, Of A Boreal Sea, can be purchased online, but many local stores are starting to take it. Among those include Bookmark on Spring Garden Road; Trident on Hollis Street; Indigo Spirit in Bedford, and talks are underway for other Indigo locations in Halifax. It\u2019s also available in Bridgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ryan said his family and friends have been very encouraging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEveryone’s been supportive,\u201d he said. \u201cMy mom has been my biggest fan by far. So that’s always good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”164″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”93″] WAVERLEY: An author from Waverley made good use of the past two years of COVID-19 restrictions to pen a book of poems called \u201cOf A Boreal Sea.\u201d Mark E. Ryan, who\u2019s children Josie, Nora and Isaac attend Waverley Memorial School, compiled a collection of poetry over the last two years. 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