Soldier’s Pond
Her girlish yawps cascade from Soldier’s Pond as water subverts ice. Is this like flying?
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nine metres; or: a hydrophone
Rain below the shell and my two hands pushing us into the gloaming
A season of storms
The sky wears fatigues tonight. A girl with fingers in her ears feels the earth shake. Fires are burning.
Caving
What makes you the way you are, laggard, sweep, umpire, tight-lipped, ears keening for the sounds of your children’s voices deep underground? Up here with the trees, roots pointed like toes, sighing away the centuries. What doesn’t have a sister darkness? A place you should never go?
I Am Full of the Sea
“I Am Full of the Sea,” a composition by Liam Elliott, a Canadian artist currently working at Princeton University (https://www.liamelliotmusic.com/), based on poems he found in my Chance Encounters with Wild Animals (Gaspereau Press, 2019) and recordings he heard here on curiaudio.com. (This is a real joy to share. A million thanks to Liam and…
Samson Waves
Waves shush the cobble as night settles. Delilah stands at the bedside, glinting.
Thunder & crow
Grey clouds shaking out their bed clothes and one insistent crow squawks getinoutofit.
Pedlar Press Salon, May 16 2019
Newfoundland & Labrador’s Pedlar Press recently held a Salon in St. John’s where the topic of discussion was writing across literary genres. Three Pedlar authors discussed their practices, specifically in writing for the stage. Sara Tilley (author of the novels Skin Room and Duke) read from her play Red or White, which she has completed,…
Poetry! (Walsh + Fahner + Kidd)
Poetry! A reading by Agnes Walsh, Kim Fahner and Monica Kidd took place at Broken Books in St. John’s, on May 15, 2019. The evening was hosted by Angela Antle. Agnes Walsh read from Oderin (Pedlar Press, 2018), Sudbury poet Kim Fahner read from These Wings ((Pedlar Press, 2019), and Monica Kidd, who splits her…