Sarnia poet's first book explores grief in isolation
Article content Childhood betrayal made Jenna Strydonck a poet. The Sarnia woman kept a diary when she was 11, but a friend found it and told others her secrets. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. “Which, you can imagine, for a 11-year-old girl, is not so great,” she said. Styndonck said that’s when she began to write in a more cryptic style and using imagery and the “painting of a visual picture of hurts or happiness” without being literal. “And I just kind of kept with it,” she said. “It’s something that always made me feel better...