Each other, floating & glancing - writing about writing

Chap*books features a review of Winterling Series One (my two self-published chaps) - in the chapbooks 26 post. This wonderful blog is dedicated to chapbooks - a really important form of publication for emerging writers. The author of the blog (Steven) writes entries tracking his thoughts about chapbooks he collects (or is given). I happily facilitated a great chapbook swap with Steven - the observations of my writing are interesting and of course, I appreciate the encouraging, supportive comments. Thank you! xE

How it is, raining...

... a lot in Auckland.

My window, perpetually, looks like this.


Am (re)reading these wonderful books ...

Keeping happy with these lovely bits ...

I found the charming Dancing Girl Press. It is so wonderful, focused on independently publishing chapbooks by emerging female writers - this girl, Kristy Bowen, certainly keeps herself busy! Not only handling this project, she edits an online journal, Wicked Alice and makes her own paper arts and beautiful jewellery, and collects vintage objects and other delightful items - making her etsy shop a storehouse of enviable, delicious treats. (Kristy keeps a lovely blog here too).

Spelling ( ) Bound (Ellectrique Press 2008) is a poetic collaboration between Cara Benson, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, and Kathrin Schaeppi and looks like a wonderful project - I certainly hope to get a copy.

The projects exhibited in the New Media section in the latest issue of How2 equally much - I thought that Rosheen Brennan's Motion was particularly beautiful.

Reading a manuscript too. Not mine. An energetic surge, sustained. Practically inhaled it.


Making things: some new packettes for chapbooks -



Large handmade envelopes, hand stitched together to create a visible seam and using the same illustration as the last packette experiment.

I have been working on a few different collages/visual poems (that genre)...

Here's one I have completed (though have not titled yet).

- E xx

Snap Happy in Europe

Here are a few pictures of some of the wonderful places I visited on my holiday... (Too many to post!) I flew to Rome and then moved north to Milan, stopping in Florence, Monselice and Padua, and then travelled up and across to Marseille, spending some time in Aix-en-Provence, and then much further north to Brussels and Paris, crossing La Manche to London, which was my final destination.

The Pantheon

Looking down across the Roman Forum, Colosseum in the distance

Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli

Pompei

Florence

Scrovengi Chapel, Padua

Monselice (Venetian countryside)

Mont Sainte-Victoire, Aix-en-Provence

Creme-brulee!

Marseille

Brussels

The Seine

La Rive Gauche

Centre Pompidou

Eiffel Tower - looking very twinkly...

View from the Eiffel Tower

More writing and art posts soon!
Emma X

Leaving here for awhile...

I am off to travel the Continent tomorrow.

Looking forward to getting out of Auckland and away from campus for awhile. I finally have some time for relaxing (proper) and traveling.

Part of my holiday time means some time for reading...

The Journals of Anais Nin - diary writing is my literary indulgence, I love confessional writing.

How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers - have not read any of his yet... a book my partner lent me... Thank you!

The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence by Leslie Scalapino - (who is incredibly amazing) I am writing a paper on this book so I cannot leave it behind. I am actually really looking forward to spending some more time with it - it is an extremely difficult and wonderful critical book.

The White Fire of Time by Ellen Hinsey - a book another friend lent me... Thank you!

Androgyny Magazine - I'm not much of a magazine person, in fact, I have not even read this publication before - but I decided I needed a travel treat - it looks very pretty...

...I am also taking some photocopied selections from Susan Howe's The Midnight... delight.

Of course, I am too, looking forward to perusing the new How2 issue.

So, I will be out of blogging action for about 4 weeks. Please feel free to email me re chapbook swaps and art trades - bearing in mind I will not be able to do your mail out until the end of July.

Emma X