As a guest blogger for McGill-Queen’s University Press, I explore what inspired Rush of Wingspan.
The northern Boreal Forest, the Atlantic Coastal Forest, and a North Sea city forest create the heartbeat of Rush of Wingspan...There is always the rustle and stir of creatures on the move. These are sounds one has to learn to listen to, this natural music. In my forties I learned how to create music from the flow of my fingers over a keyboard. I became close friends with composers…Read more here.
In the MQUP blog you’ll also find two poems and photographs.
If you’re on Instagram, MQUP created a poem video where you can hear me reading “La Main.”
Also this week CBC books featured Rush of Wingspan along with other amazing books. I’m honoured to be in such wonderful company.
The first launch for Rush of Wingspan will be in June in the form of a Poetry in Concert. More news soon!
I’m still adding the finishing touches to my Poetry Film. I use a process similar to how I write poetry only in a different art form: Oh, I need to remove one second here, oh! I have to add one second there. Slowly, slowly the work reaches completion.
Plus (of all things!) I’ve been asked to contribute to a cookbook: poem, prose and, yes, recipe. So that’s also boiling away on the back burner of my mind.