Stella's Journey
is the third volume in Canadian poet John Lee's
Highgate Trilogy. The first two volumes, Hired
Hands and Variations on Herb, both received the
prestigious Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award. This third
volume, from which several poems were shortlisted for the Sandburg
Livesay Poetry Award and the 1998 Canadian Literary Award, is
written in the style of a biography. Lee tells the
simple story of a shopkeeper's daughter, born in 1885, who goes on
to endure the hardships of two wars, the flu epidemic and the Great
Depression.