Category Archives: Currently reading

Putting your poetry into the stream of culture and literature takes either guts or naivety. Maybe both. But one does it because one must. It’s an art, it’s a science, a compulsion and derived from pulse. 115. Trout Stream Creed by David Carpenter (Coteau Books, 2003) (found at a bookstore in Saskachewan) Write about what […]

Well, I’ve gone and done it again. By time I do a round up of what I read the start of the list is starting to fade from memory. Complicated by my computer battery kacking, attention divided and my iphone frying and with it photos of pages I did take. Ach. Some weeks, I tell […]

Stats check: Chapbooks are running at 16% of total. 1/3 of what I read is current 2014/2015. When not reading poetry (3/4 of the time), it’s a 3-way tie between essays, memoir & history. After that, science, novels and business. I went back and gave a starred system— which I probably will never share per […]

The problem with lists rather than real time is the fall-off of memory and the books getting re-scattered. 102. Ottawa’s Farm: A History of the Central Experimental Farm by Helen Smith (General Store Publishing, 1996) Got at St. Vincent de Paul Thift store. This was full of fascinating stories and details about the development of […]

I’m adding where the books come from to each title because sometimes I do wonder how they all get here. It can’t be gnomes. To read different stories from the same era at once gives a richness to history. This list will continue into the next with more books of the era. The same names […]