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What color is a heartache from a love lost at sea?
In the wake of World Oceans Day, it seemed as appropriate a time as any to announce my forthcoming chapbook from Nekyia Press, As the Tide Came Flowing In.
It is my first collection in four years: a cycle of poems and the previously unpublished title story. There is ocean in them and exile and history and weddings and shape-change and more than one alphabet. The haunting sea-heart which graces its cover is the photography of Anna Tambour, the gorgeous cover design itself by Matthew Revert. As soon as it may be pre/ordered, believe me, I will let everyone know. In the meantime, it has taken a great deal of salt to get to this stage; at least there is sea-drift to show for it.
Through a double handful of poems and one novelette, As the Tide Came Flowing In combs for love, persistence, what wrecks and what remains, what the sea keeps, and what it gives back. There are kelp-ribboned caverns here and the line of bright sky that meets the offing, black weddings and a scattering of pearls. Stark, intricate, deft and queer, Taaffe's is an invitation to the deep.
It is my first collection in four years: a cycle of poems and the previously unpublished title story. There is ocean in them and exile and history and weddings and shape-change and more than one alphabet. The haunting sea-heart which graces its cover is the photography of Anna Tambour, the gorgeous cover design itself by Matthew Revert. As soon as it may be pre/ordered, believe me, I will let everyone know. In the meantime, it has taken a great deal of salt to get to this stage; at least there is sea-drift to show for it.
Through a double handful of poems and one novelette, As the Tide Came Flowing In combs for love, persistence, what wrecks and what remains, what the sea keeps, and what it gives back. There are kelp-ribboned caverns here and the line of bright sky that meets the offing, black weddings and a scattering of pearls. Stark, intricate, deft and queer, Taaffe's is an invitation to the deep.
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Congratulations!
Yes, please, preorder information as soon as such exists.
This is the news I needed today, friend. Something to look forward to.
I hope it feels wonderful.
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Thank you!
I hope it feels wonderful.
To be something to look forward to, yes, it does.
*hugs* with or without ASCII art.
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Well that requires no publication to be true.
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Thank you!
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Thank you! I really love it—I feel lucky to have it as part of a book of mine.
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I will really look forward to it.
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Thank you! This project has not been unaffected by the pandemic, everyone involved said with understatement.
I will really look forward to it.
I am eager for it to be available to you.
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And what a great cover design. You do get some good covers for your books!
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Thank you!
And what a great cover design. You do get some good covers for your books!
I have been incredibly fortunate with art and design. I like books as objects and I have gotten some beautiful ones.
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Four years since Sleeples Shores. Wow.
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Thank you! I love the cover. I love how the waves shift the words.
Four years since Sleeples Shores. Wow.
Time's been weird.
*hugs*
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P.
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Thank you! I am, honestly, too.
I wonder if the new book will oust FtSS from its place on my desk -- nah. I'll just pile them together.
I am sure they will not hiss at one another.
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And I'm sure you're right, the two books will recognized one another as kin and nest happily together.
P.
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Thank you!
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Thank you! So much!
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Thank you! I do love it.
*hugs*
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Thank you! Yay!
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Thank you.
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Congratulations, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. And that cover is absolutely gorgeous, and perfect for your writing.
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Thank you!
Congratulations, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. And that cover is absolutely gorgeous, and perfect for your writing.
I can't wait for it to exist sufficient for people to get their hands on. And I love the cover, the liminal wave-lift of it. I feel really fortunate.
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Thank you!
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I would love it even if it weren't for a book of mine!
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*waddles amok*
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*HUGS*
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Nine
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Thank you!
*hugs*
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Thank you!
*hugs*