-Patricia M Osborne
Spirit Mother can be purchased here: https://whitewingsbooks.com/shop/
The Interview
Month: August 2022
Wombwell Rainbow Serial Book Interview: “Spirit Mother” by Patricia M Osborne. Question Three.
-Patricia M Osborne
Spirit Mother can be purchased here: https://whitewingsbooks.com/shop/
The Interview
More questions and answers to follow.
Wombwell Rainbow Serial Book Interview: “Spirit Mother” by Patricia M Osborne. Question Two.
-Patricia M Osborne
Spirit Mother can be purchased here: https://whitewingsbooks.com/shop/
The Interview
More questions and answers to follow.
Wombwell Rainbow Serial Book Interview: “Spirit Mother” by Patricia M Osborne. Question One.
-Patricia M Osborne
Spirit Mother can be purchased here: https://whitewingsbooks.com/shop/
The Interview
More questions and answers in next post.
Cafferty’s Truck by Robin Thomas (Dempsey & Windle)
Robin Thomas’ two earlier collections, both from Cinnamon, are miscellanies in various styles inspired by paintings, reading, childhood, music and trains; common subjects approached with a trying-things-out feel but all done with an uncommon level of playfulness and geniality. This more interlaced book, hot on the heels ofA Distant Hum, has a slim twenty-four pages of work, with poems averaging about ten short lines each. Here’s one of them (‘The Meeting’):
The truck labours
along the long road up.
The van, spick and span,
speeds by on the other side,
wafts by with hardly a sigh.
The minimalist approach relies on the way humans will construct narratives from the thinnest series of clues. But the overall story is straightforward enough. In fact, we’re told it at the end of the first poem:
Byrne, in his trim red van,
respectfully following, follows
Cafferty’s yesterdays with his tomorrows.
Cafferty’s business…
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Drop in by Barbara Cumbers
Thank you, Nigel, for this invitation. It’s hard to know what to say, or which poem to choose out of a long sequence of poems about Shetland. I was on the islands for several weeks in the summers of several years both as a geologist and on holiday, and then for a whole month in winter on a creative writing residency. I suppose that, because the winter month was so much more intense for writing, and as I was by myself, the poems that stem from that month are much more poignant for me. In that month I became acquainted with two or three of the active writing groups on Shetland, and feel myself very definitely an outsider when writing about the islands, but it may be that that adds something to the sequence. I hope so anyway.
Unlike my earlier collection A gap in the rain (Indigo Dreams, 2016)…
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Celebrate #NationalMarineWeek 23rd July to 7th August 2022. Day Thirteen of Fourteen Due To Tides. Join Larissa Reid and I. A challenge for you. Write or design a response to the imagistic daily poetry about the marine written by Larissa Reid. Send me your own responses to her work or your own responses to the marine theme via poetry/artworks/short prose. Please contact me with your work, plus a short third person bio.
Ink on water
That wide clear eye of the sea
A gaze complete, assured,
One that draws tears in its wake
Or sucks a scream from your lips
Or empties lugworm holes with a soft pop.
One that swirls sand in its mouth
Or holds a shell to your ear
And whispers through salt and liquid air
In its typography of tides.
-Larissa Reid
Bios And Links
-Larissa Reid
A freelance science writer by trade, Larissa has written poetry and prose regularly since 2016. Notable publications include Northwords Now, Silk & Smoke, Green Ink Poetry, Fenacular, Black Bough Poetry Anthologies, and the Beyond the Swelkie Anthology. She had a poem shortlisted for the Janet Coats Memorial Prize 2020. Larissa is intrigued by visible and invisible boundary lines in landscapes – geological faultlines, myth and reality, edge-lines of land and sea. Based on Scotland’s east coast, she balances her writing life with bringing up her daughters. Larissa is a founder member of the Edinburgh-based writing group, Twisted::Colon.
Celebrate #NationalMarineWeek 23rd July to 7th August 2022. Day Twelve of Fourteen Due To Tides. Join Larissa Reid, and I. A challenge for you. Write or design a response to the imagistic daily poetry about the marine written by Larissa Reid. Send me your own responses to her work or your own responses to the marine theme via poetry/artworks/short prose. Please contact me with your work, plus a short third person bio.
Drought
The summer is smoke long
Like our fired stories,
Stretching and twisting their way over settled sand,
Drifting low over a tinplate sea.
The haze and the heat last weeks,
Tipping us from skipping joy to desiccated discomfort,
As we wait for the shifting wind,
For that sudden turn to autumn
That crinkles leaves in an instant
And pushes the ashes of summer
Into our gasping mouths.
-Larissa Reid
Bios And Links
-Larissa Reid
A freelance science writer by trade, Larissa has written poetry and prose regularly since 2016. Notable publications include Northwords Now, Silk & Smoke, Green Ink Poetry, Fenacular, Black Bough Poetry Anthologies, and the Beyond the Swelkie Anthology. She had a poem shortlisted for the Janet Coats Memorial Prize 2020. Larissa is intrigued by visible and invisible boundary lines in landscapes – geological faultlines, myth and reality, edge-lines of land and sea. Based on Scotland’s east coast, she balances her writing life with bringing up her daughters. Larissa is a founder member of the Edinburgh-based writing group, Twisted::Colon.
Celebrate Wombwell Rainbow Interviews with me over 26 Days. Today is Letter Z. One letter a day displaying all the links to those interviews. We dig into those surnames. Discover their inspirations, how they write, how did they begin. Would you love to have your name featured here? Contact me.
Zawinski, Andrena https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/04/06/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-andrena-zawinski/
Zedd, Jenn https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2018/10/18/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-jenn-zedd/
Zepp, Vincent https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2018/09/24/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-vincent-zepp/
Zetter, Neil https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/10/22/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-neal-zetter/
Zone, Mike https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2018/10/24/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-mike-zone/
Zwibel, Chani https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2018/09/28/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-chani-zwibel/
Celebrate #NationalMarineWeek 23rd July to 7th August 2022. Day Eleven of Fourteen Due To Tides. Join Larissa Reid, and I. A challenge for you. Write or design a response to the imagistic daily poetry about the marine written by Larissa Reid. Send me your own responses to her work or your own responses to the marine theme via poetry/artworks/short prose. Please contact me with your work, plus a short third person bio.
Stone tells stone
Thoughts shuffle out from within the shingle,
Sifted by the surf
As the sea stitches its way up the sand
Line by unfurling line.
Water lifts colour, texture, tincture;
Stone tells stone stories.
Curlew calls seep from blue edges
And arctic tern nips tail from the surface;
Silver sprat splinters sunlight
As it bends from the beak.
Later
Thought shuffles far out in the shingle
While a moon silence settles.
Published as part of the #Cateran100 project on Soundcloud, 2020. https://soundcloud.com/user-557410710/stone-tells-stone-by-larissa-reid
-Larissa Reid
Bios And Links
-Larissa Reid
A freelance science writer by trade, Larissa has written poetry and prose regularly since 2016. Notable publications include Northwords Now, Silk & Smoke, Green Ink Poetry, Fenacular, Black Bough Poetry Anthologies, and the Beyond the Swelkie Anthology. She had a poem shortlisted for the Janet Coats Memorial Prize 2020. Larissa is intrigued by visible and invisible boundary lines in landscapes – geological faultlines, myth and reality, edge-lines of land and sea. Based on Scotland’s east coast, she balances her writing life with bringing up her daughters. Larissa is a founder member of the Edinburgh-based writing group, Twisted::Colon.
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