(1973 McClelland & Stewart pb; cover: John de Visser)
Poet and singer Sid Marty (1944-) was raised in Medicine Hat and Calgary, AB. Educated in Montreal, he went on to work as a prairies and park warden and wrote 5 non-fiction books including his popular Men for the Mountains. His writing comes out of his experience and his topics include family, park rangers, cowboys, homesteaders, mountaineers, and conservation. I selected his humorous poem “Three Bears” for the 1st ed. of Inside Poetry (Harcourt).