On the Blog
~ Read two poems from Marlene Cookshaw’s
Mowing (Brick Books), her first poetry collection in over a decade:
“Averse to taking up my pen, I’ve been / afraid to fix on nothing. I was looking / for an idea of note, a sign of my own intelligence.” ~ Designer Kilby Smith-McGregor shares how she landed on the final design for Gary Barwin’s audacious poetry collection,
For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe (Wolsak and Wynn):
“From the outset I knew that a piece of Gary’s own original artwork would be the image for the cover. I loved the image, so that was no problem…but I was slow to get past a reverence of, and maybe fear of interfering with, the drawing as an autonomous thing.” ~ Food expert Lenore Newman shares about writing on the history and future of food in
Lost Feast (ECW Press) and what she’s learned along the way:
“And now when I see a honey bee, instead of shoeing them away I ask them if they need anything. Water? A new flower garden? A lobbyist in parliament?” ~ We bring you crime, conspiracies, cyberpunk, and CSIS agents in our
Weekend Reads book picks .
Around the Web
~ A theatre director in France built a 120-square-foot
traveling bookshop after raising funds from an international crowdsourcing site.~ A cautionary, albeit alarmist, tale for all library-goers:
a woman is being sentenced to jail for failing to return a few books .~ “Climate strike” beat out “rewilding” and “hopepunk” for the
2019 word of the year by Collins Dictionary , reflecting that our language is becoming increasingly politicized (and for good reason).Â
via GIPHY
ICYMI (last week)
On Leaving Home, and Writing: Interview with Philip Ernest
“After
The Vetala had been rejected by Indian publishers, I gave up on the idea of writing for publication. I was now writing for myself, for a small circle of intimate friends, for an ideal audience that I never expected to find, and as an unconscious result, my fiction’s relationship to my real life and history gradually became very much more open, a fact that caused me some anxiety when it was decided that
The Far Himalaya would be published.”
On the Blog
~ Read two poems from Marlene Cookshaw’s
Mowing (Brick Books), her first poetry collection in over a decade:
“Averse to taking up my pen, I’ve been / afraid to fix on nothing. I was looking / for an idea of note, a sign of my own intelligence.” ~ Designer Kilby Smith-McGregor shares how she landed on the final design for Gary Barwin’s audacious poetry collection,
For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe (Wolsak and Wynn):
“From the outset I knew that a piece of Gary’s own original artwork would be the image for the cover. I loved the image, so that was no problem…but I was slow to get past a reverence of, and maybe fear of interfering with, the drawing as an autonomous thing.” ~ Food expert Lenore Newman shares about writing on the history and future of food in
Lost Feast (ECW Press) and what she’s learned along the way:
“And now when I see a honey bee, instead of shoeing them away I ask them if they need anything. Water? A new flower garden? A lobbyist in parliament?” ~ We bring you crime, conspiracies, cyberpunk, and CSIS agents in our
Weekend Reads book picks .
Around the Web
~ A theatre director in France built a 120-square-foot
traveling bookshop after raising funds from an international crowdsourcing site.~ A cautionary, albeit alarmist, tale for all library-goers:
a woman is being sentenced to jail for failing to return a few books .~ “Climate strike” beat out “rewilding” and “hopepunk” for the
2019 word of the year by Collins Dictionary , reflecting that our language is becoming increasingly politicized (and for good reason).Â
via GIPHY
ICYMI (last week)
On Leaving Home, and Writing: Interview with Philip Ernest
“After
The Vetala had been rejected by Indian publishers, I gave up on the idea of writing for publication. I was now writing for myself, for a small circle of intimate friends, for an ideal audience that I never expected to find, and as an unconscious result, my fiction’s relationship to my real life and history gradually became very much more open, a fact that caused me some anxiety when it was decided that
The Far Himalaya would be published.”
