Tonight I’ll be speaking at Tree after Sandra gives one of her typically spectacular readings. A surreal transition, this being back in town. Months Weeks of no one but Hub and I then a whole crew. Which reminds me, here’s another tidbit from The Trip…while cycling in Paris we came to a red light and […]
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Giller Glitter and Relit Trailblazers
The Giller Prize list is out and what an amazing town. Between Writers’ Fest, and Plan 99 I’ve heard read 1/4 of the dozen novels and novelists in person within the last year, namely, Martha Bailie for her novel The Incident Report, published by Pedlar Press, Jeanette Lynes for her novel The Factory Voice, published […]
From Rhyme Crime Laboratories
And now for some holiday travel heroic couplets that fall a little short… The Roving Detective Returns to the Scene at Midnight The sock, which at dawn, was wrung within inch of damp, was hung yet at day’s end of “drying” is wetter off, dead sopping. Holmes, what do you make of it? The spout […]
Shakespeare and Co
In Paris a marvelous ex-pat bookstore is jammed to rafters of 2 floors of English books. Naturally I beelined to the poetry corner. Downstairs is a rabbit’s warren of new and used books… I could see multiple full collections of Paula Meehan. I could flip thru Ciarán Carson in person. Something I browsed gave the […]
Book Hunts: Saison Poetry Library, Foyles and Blackwell's London
Mm, new books. An advantage of travel is finding new voices, whole communities that happen to be elsewhere speaking a dialect you can hear. Case in point, I came across The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry: 1967-2000 edited by Peggy O’Brien. It was at the Poetry Library in the Southbank Center, London. Here’s […]