Because of the Spanish wreck I tackled the hill

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A draft of the program for this year's ICFA is now online. I am left praying that the conference will produce an annual publication of all its papers, because who schedules things like "The Hidden Mystical Sublime: The Poetry of Algernon Swinburne Dramatized in Aleister Crowley's Rite of Venus," "Uh Oh, They're Learning: The New Dangers and Heroes of the Zombie Apocalypse," and "Insects and Automatism: Angela Carter, ETA Hoffmann, and Guillermo del Toro" all across from one another? I am personally in competition with papers on slipstream, humor and the sublime, David Bowie, and Grindhouse. I need the ability either to time-travel or to duplicate myself. Possibly both.

On that line, today's mail brought my contributor's copy of Home and Away, the annual not-Not One of Us publication. Within its black-and-white pages can be found my poems "January" and "The Second Ghost" (for kijjohnson), as well as handful_ofdust's "The Dream of the Astronaut," Brad C. Hodson's "The Perfect Jackson," Patricia Russo's "Why," and other stories neither here nor there. As soon as I have a link for purchase, I'll put it up.

How is it I am just now discovering George Mackay Brown?

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope they do publish. And if you work out the trick of bilocation, would you mind sharing? I could use the ability, also.

You've inspired me to look up George Mackay Brown. Very interesting--I'll have to read more of his. I've not read much Orcadian poetry before, but there's some brilliant stuff in Shetlandic. Have you ever read any Christine De Luca? Here's one I like: Da Nort Boat.

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've not read much Orcadian poetry before, but there's some brilliant stuff in Shetlandic. Have you ever read any Christine De Luca? Here's one I like: Da Nort Boat.

Never before, but I like the mix of dialects and registers.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Never before, but I like the mix of dialects and registers.

I've been meaning to seek out more of her work--what I know is mostly from an antho called Wish I Were Here that put together Scottish minority-language poets with Scottish poets from immigrant backgrounds. She's a compilation called Wast wi the Valkyries. I have to believe that anything with such a name must be worth reading.

I suppose now that school's back in session I'll have to do some ILL'ing for fun whilst the semester is young.

Oh, and as I'm thinking on't--do you have any methods for remembering your dreams? Mine are less pyrotechnic than your own, as perhaps you might've noticed from my LJ, but I've had lately some frustrating experiences where they slipped away ere I was able to fix them in memory, and suspected there might've been something worth retaining therein.