Because of the Spanish wreck I tackled the hill

[sovay]

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

[gwynnega]

I am left praying that the conference will produce an annual publication of all its papers

Me too! All those papers you mention sound fascinating, and I'm on the wrong coast to hear 'em!!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I went to look up George Mackay Brown (whom I have yet to discover), and found out that he and I share a birthday. Only, he was born many decades before I was.

Bilocation. That's the power you need.

[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.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

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

Because I thought you'd read everything?

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

"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"

It's like candy for my brain...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I'd like to like George Mackay Brown, but we never quite click. I have, however, stayed in the house where he was born.

In that connection, may I commend orkneyjar to your attention?

[eredien]

I really wish I could go. :( How often is this conference held?

[chalkhorse.livejournal.com]

That is why I hate parallel sessions! The best conference I ever presented at comprised only 23 people, so we all got to hear each other's work and were in the room together every day. I also co-orgnaized two conferences at Harvard with no parallel sessions and the attendees remarked how much more relaxed and enjoyable it was than the usual big thing where people sneakily duck in and out of rooms...

That John Barleycorn song looks scrumptious; I want to get the recording and learn it myself.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Re: literary hymns: Probably /any/ religious sonnet would qualify (how would you sing it?); also much of the poetry of George Herbert (well, the bits that DIDN'T become hymns); and stuff like Chaucer's ABC... but now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm still misunderstanding the term.

re: XC. Apologies for not posting on this earlier. That is indeed unexpected! (So was archery...) It probably WON'T surprise you that I was also in various forms of track in HS (no coordination required!); I enjoyed it more, and have kept up with it, though I also was fairly mediocre.
Do you hike?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

PS: Am I on crack, or were you planing to attend some conference on religion in comic books...?