sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-03-30 11:49 am

Sailing off on the ships to nowhere

The mail has brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #61, containing my poem "From Lima to Beijing." Like I said when it was accepted, the Outer Antipodes is one of the oldest stories between me and [personal profile] spatch; it is important to me that it's in print. The issue's theme is another world and its fine list of contributors includes Gemma Files, Holly Day, Gordon B. White, Lisa Mason, and Elisa Subin. Anything else you want to know, pick up a copy!

1. I have been interacting elliptically with the news lately, but I saw about the death of Agnès Varda. She was not an unreasonable age for it and I had been sort of braced to read about it one of these days, but I am still sorry. I liked the world with her in it.

2. I had never heard of William Attaway's Let Me Breathe Thunder (1939), but I want to find a copy now. From the same site, I like how Imogen Sara Smith writes about Detour (1945).

3. I can't remember the links-of-links by which I discovered the Iditarod poodles, but that was a thing.

4. I really like the idea of Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day: William Taylor Jr., "On the Occasion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday."

5. From several different places on my friendlist: "How Inuit Parents Teach Kids to Control Their Anger." The interactive storytelling aspect really interests me.

Every now and then I remember that Emma Orczy died in 1947 and I wonder what she thought of Pimpernel Smith (1941).