Fordmates Poetry Ontario in 1942

Ontario in 1942

Laurie watches her brother’s anger

the long-suffering therapist who

and the joys of family reunions (“Dayspring Pedigree” & “The Full Menu”)

Gibbs’s poetry started to appear in this publication in 1949

Fordmates Poetry Ontario in 1942Fordmates explores, with humour and poignancy, the basic conflict that exists between the demands of mass production technology and the all too human instincts, needs, and aspirations of the workers who serve on the assembly line. The stories in Fordmates ricochet headlong between comedy and tragedy, balancing the tedium and gruelling demands of the automotive assembly line with the workers gutsy attempts to preserve spirits and some semblance of