"I'd like to live a slower life. The weather gets in my words and I want them dry."

Those are the opening lines of The Weather, a poem by John Newlove. He was known as the Poet of the Prairies and he was inspired by the province where he was born. 

Saskatchewan's Newlove died in 2003, but a new collection of his letters, edited by Guelph author Jeff Weingarten, has been released to shine a light on who he was. 

Weingarten spoke with CBC K-W's Craig Norris, host of The Morning Edition, about this l…