Taking off like water
Rabbit, rabbit! The sky looks like autumn and the air smells like the sea. Barring an unpleasant couple of hours of allergies in the morning, I even slept from quite early on in the night. Have some links.
1. It is the book birthday of R.B. Lemberg's The Four Profound Weaves! Go forth and pick yourself up a copy of this beautiful novella of queer elders and self-discovery and weaving the world and oneself true. It may be, appropriately, the most complex tale to come out of the Birdverse yet.
2. It is a couple days after the publication of Jeannelle M. Ferreira's "Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink," but if you like queer romances, Jewish romances, historical romances, and/or all of the above, you should still be listening to this story. Thanks to transcripts, it is also available to be read. I contributed a translation.
3. I would like an end to this pandemic for many reasons, but one of them is that I don't see otherwise how I am going to collect all my friends for a trip to Glasgow and the Pink Peacock. "'Hopefully,' said Holleb, who is transgender and a published author on LGBTQ+ issues, 'people will hear that we're anarchists and say, "Oh, this is anarchism, I thought anarchism meant chaos and smashing windows." Well,' he added with a chuckle, 'sometimes it means smashing windows, but sometimes it means feeding people for free.'"
4. I am not sure I have ever heard anything exactly like Anna & Elizabeth's "By the Shore." The bones of it are the Newfoundland folk song "The Maid on the Shore," which like most people I learned from the singing of Stan Rogers. You can still hear them in the glitch and froth of the overlapping narration: I desire that maid who walks alone by the shore . . . a hundred pounds . . . by persuasion . . . she greets the captain with a smile . . . she sings a song of the sailors . . . she says goodnight to him and his ship . . . to his jewels and his gold . . . with no oar but the captain's sword, she paddles her boat to shore . . . there is a woman walking down by the shore now. But it's been deconstructed like a retelling, like the sonic equivalent of Angela Carter. It keeps the concepts, not the lyrics. It doesn't use any of the tune. You can't even sing it. I am finding it haunting.
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strange_complex has written a lovely, thoughtful review of Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018) and it's kind of made my week.
Lastly, my short story "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" is now available in the latest issue of Nightmare Magazine. It won't be free to read online until the equinox, but you can always buy an e-book and I might suggest that you do.
P.S. The podcast of the poetry of the twentieth anniversary special issue of Strange Horizons is also live! My reading of "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death" is a rare instance of my spoken voice on the record and was produced byspatch in his capacity as sound engineer while I tried not to blow out the sole headset mic in the house and the third-floor neighbors moved a truly inconvenient amount of furniture above our heads.
1. It is the book birthday of R.B. Lemberg's The Four Profound Weaves! Go forth and pick yourself up a copy of this beautiful novella of queer elders and self-discovery and weaving the world and oneself true. It may be, appropriately, the most complex tale to come out of the Birdverse yet.
2. It is a couple days after the publication of Jeannelle M. Ferreira's "Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink," but if you like queer romances, Jewish romances, historical romances, and/or all of the above, you should still be listening to this story. Thanks to transcripts, it is also available to be read. I contributed a translation.
3. I would like an end to this pandemic for many reasons, but one of them is that I don't see otherwise how I am going to collect all my friends for a trip to Glasgow and the Pink Peacock. "'Hopefully,' said Holleb, who is transgender and a published author on LGBTQ+ issues, 'people will hear that we're anarchists and say, "Oh, this is anarchism, I thought anarchism meant chaos and smashing windows." Well,' he added with a chuckle, 'sometimes it means smashing windows, but sometimes it means feeding people for free.'"
4. I am not sure I have ever heard anything exactly like Anna & Elizabeth's "By the Shore." The bones of it are the Newfoundland folk song "The Maid on the Shore," which like most people I learned from the singing of Stan Rogers. You can still hear them in the glitch and froth of the overlapping narration: I desire that maid who walks alone by the shore . . . a hundred pounds . . . by persuasion . . . she greets the captain with a smile . . . she sings a song of the sailors . . . she says goodnight to him and his ship . . . to his jewels and his gold . . . with no oar but the captain's sword, she paddles her boat to shore . . . there is a woman walking down by the shore now. But it's been deconstructed like a retelling, like the sonic equivalent of Angela Carter. It keeps the concepts, not the lyrics. It doesn't use any of the tune. You can't even sing it. I am finding it haunting.
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strange_complex has written a lovely, thoughtful review of Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018) and it's kind of made my week.Lastly, my short story "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" is now available in the latest issue of Nightmare Magazine. It won't be free to read online until the equinox, but you can always buy an e-book and I might suggest that you do.
P.S. The podcast of the poetry of the twentieth anniversary special issue of Strange Horizons is also live! My reading of "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death" is a rare instance of my spoken voice on the record and was produced by
spatch in his capacity as sound engineer while I tried not to blow out the sole headset mic in the house and the third-floor neighbors moved a truly inconvenient amount of furniture above our heads.
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Yes, I've never been to Glasgow but the Pink Peacock is definitely motivating me to plan a trip there once virus levels allow! So many cool concepts collected in one place. :)
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Since you will undoubtedly have the chance sooner than I will, please report back!
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Aw, I'm glad it made you happy.
And congratulations on your latest story publication!
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It really did.
And congratulations on your latest story publication!
Thank you!
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That was a great review of Forget the Sleepless Shores!
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I like knowing so many people who write such neat things. I am never short of good reading.
That was a great review of Forget the Sleepless Shores!
I was not in any way expecting it, either! I was scrolling a day behind my friendlist and there it was.
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With that establishing visual, allow me to burst on scene and say I am glad the universe is paying attention to your career this week, and it is damn well deserved.
Also, thank you for linking to my story. You helped and I am grateful and it is a thing about which I am not salty today. That list is short.
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Thank you! It is nice not to feel totally nonexistent!
Also, thank you for linking to my story. You helped and I am grateful and it is a thing about which I am not salty today. That list is short.
You're welcome. It is a very fine story and I am glad to have contributed anything to it, even just a resounding chorus of "YES IT DOES NOT SUCK NOW WRITE THE NEXT BIT."
There's so much to be salty about right now, and none of it is the sea.
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You're welcome!
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Thank you! Enjoy everything else in the meantime.
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Hah. You're welcome!
Maid on the shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j0rdBtXr0U
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I hadn't heard that before! It's the same song; her version is much closer to Martin Carthy's, which he recorded with Dave Swarbrick in 1966 as "Fair Maid on the Shore" (and which is the other version I know, although I heard the Rogers first and tend to default to it). It looks from the handy-dandy Mainly Norfolk as though the oldest recorded version is (I am shocked, shocked) A.L. Lloyd's, which in some ways sounds oddly closer to Rogers than Carthy/Armstrong. I should probably not buy the relevant album of Anna & Elizabeth just in hopes of reading the liner notes to learn where they got it. But I am now curious.
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Rogers' version follows the later two cited on Mainly Norfolk: "After much persuasion they got her aboard / Let the wind blow high, blow low-o / They replaced her away in his cabin below / Here's adieu to all sorrow and care." The folk tradition evolves.
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And are you certain it was your upstairs neighbors moving things? You never know what you might evoke by a poem like that read aloud.
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That's neat! I wrote a story called "A Maid on the Shore" which . . . used to be online, but it looks as though the magazine has folded since I constructed my website in 2018. Damn. It was about selkies.
And are you certain it was your upstairs neighbors moving things? You never know what you might evoke by a poem like that read aloud.
"Inside, the noises went on. Something heavy was being dragged about, something throbbed like a gramophone which had run down."
—Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned (1988)
"The Maid on the Shore"
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I like the way you think.
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Strongly in favor!
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