Poetry and prose lovers with some cash in their pockets may want to consider purchasing Elizabeth Bishop’s childhood home in Great Village, Nova Scotia.

Known for years as the Elizabeth Bishop House, the 2,000 square-foot* farmhouse is selling for $135,000.

Bishop, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring, moved to Great Village in 1917 when she was five years old to live with her grandparents. She only resided full-time in the house for two years, but spent many subsequent summers there.

After Bishop’s grandparents died in the early 1930s, the house went through a series of owners, until 2004, when 10 members from the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia purchased it with the intent of preserving and protecting the heritage property.

Co-owner Sandra Barry told the Truro Daily News, “It’s just been our house, besides being the Elizabeth Bishop house, and we’ve shared it for 10 years (with artists who come there to work and be inspired) … We’re not in any hurry, we don’t want to offload this place. We feel a great responsibility about this house. This house is a dear, wonderful, special place. It had a huge affect on Elizabeth Bishop.”

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*Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the square footage of the house.