Category Archives: Currently reading

I haven’t updated the list in a while so I’m a month or two behind my own curve. I think I’ll post in segments rather than a mega-post. Throwing a curve in my curve is realizing I forgot from my summer list a book. The numbering may not match my list from twitter anymore. Ah […]

In this set, memoirs and memories of writers reaching to the start of the last century in Canada, through 1400s France, through 1800s China and to the artist now. It’s rare for me to read a book, let alone 3 at the same time where I would considering stocking up copies and thrusting them at […]

So, the next edition of my reading, the 10 most recent books that are poetry/lit. bottle rockets, issue no 30 has all kinds if things in issue. Haibun is a way of combining prose and a haiku in a memoir, travel thru life fashion. My favorite in issue is Glenn Coats’ The Song of the […]

Angela Gair’s The Beginner’s Guide: Acrylics (New Holland, 1994) I have a distinct memory of telling you all about this book but can’t find any digital evidence. So, I’m writing posts in my dreams, am I? What struck me is the amazing range of effects you can get with the same medium. I didn’t know […]

A bunch of things from the small press fair. My acquisition rate sometimes exceeds my grasp. Jen Currin’s School (Coach House, 2014) A mix of non-sequitur, wisdom lines (such as p. 77 “even our motives are at present misunderstood.”), plain confusion and torsion, talking thru love, lost love and chemo. Each line is straightforward but […]