Dare I declare this morning love turned evening deep?

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For some good news at the start of a cold month—

You may remember that back in May I had the pleasure of announcing that erzebet had accepted the four fisherangel poems—variously written by seajules, asakiyume, cucumberseed, and me with the common inspiration of Lal Waterson's "Midnight Feast"—for handbound publication as a miniature from Papaveria Press. My contribution was "The Coast Guard," originally of Sirenia Digest and one of the best poems I think I have written. nineweaving subsequently offered to write an introduction.

Erzebet offers more details here.

This is going to be such a beautiful book. As they say, watch this space.

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

It sounds like an amazing edition. Congratulations! I hope someday I can see a copy.

I loved erzebet's description; it reminds me of an essay I published in Black Clock called "Broken Seashells", about the sound of the sky above a landlocked valley on the Isle of Skye, among other things. I think I need to read this collection, but nowhere do I find a reference to its title, unless it's Midnight Feasts. Speaking of feasts, which of your own collections would you recommend I get first?

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an essay I published in Black Clock called "Broken Seashells", about the sound of the sky above a landlocked valley on the Isle of Skye, among other things.

Right: I have to read that . . .

I think I need to read this collection, but nowhere do I find a reference to its title, unless it's Midnight Feasts.

It's the title of Erzebet's post—Chanteys for the Fisherangels. The whole project arose out of this exchange.

Speaking of feasts, which of your own collections would you recommend I get first?

Whichever you prefer to read first. Singing Innocence and Experience is primarily prose, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens primarily poetry. There is also a novelette-chapbook, The Dybbuk in Love. None of them contains any of my recent work, since they were all published in the summer of 2005, but fortunately a decent amount of that is scattered around the internet. I can probably provide links if you give me some warning.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I will probably start with the prose first. Are there preferred vendors for buying copies? I'll seek out the publishers' sites first; I'm limited to PayPal for internet purchases.

It probably couldn't hurt to gather all your recent links into one place, perhaps an LJ post (or you could ask someone to add the links to the end of the Wikipedia article about you). If you'd be willing to give me links to two recent stories and say one poem for starters, that would be great; with thanks.

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If you'd be willing to give me links to two recent stories and say one poem for starters, that would be great; with thanks.

I think it will be simplest if I send you stories over e-mail—a link I was going to post from last year has just been flagged as malware by Safari and Firefox—but to make up too much for them in the meantime, some poems from earlier this year are "Amal and the Night Visitors" (for tithenai), "Migration," "Fjöturlundr (Saturnian)," "Madonna of the Cave," "The Chymical Marriage," "Anthology," and "Phersu" (currently on paper in Not One of Us #42.) I generally do an end-of-the-year roundup of publications toward the end of December, so others will be included. Hope you enjoy.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these; I will read all of them. And I would welcome stories via email whenever you are ready to send some.

(Also, I just got the new corrected Criterion edition of The Seventh Seal -- thanks for alerting me to it.)