You Say And I Say &
I just looked at the newly-completed Shift & Switch webpage. The design (web and book) is beautiful! The cover... I love it. I love the list of contributors and that the list is a list of links to websites-- lots of blogs...
Funny thing about S & S-- the mad ampersand-- when I was working with Jay MillAr and Alana Wilcox on A Painted Elephant, I had a lot of ampersands in the poetry. Alana eventually convinced me to change them to regular old ands, something to do with house style for Coach House more or less. But when I published part of that work in the Post Prairie anthology, I noticed I'd sent Talon a version from before the Great Ampersand Excision and the funny little glyph pops up again (careful readers will notice another difference-- I rewrote the end of one of the poems.) Anyway, I guess Mercury doesn't have a problem with ampersands (haha I just miss-typed that as "ambersands,"which sounds like a Las Vegas Casino for dissolute writers or something) which will be clear if you visit the site for Shift & Switch. I love the ampersand myself-- Long Live the &!!! Can't remember if any &s appear in the work I have in Shift & Switch-- stuff from Another Word for Pirate Treasure, or, The Booty.
The Calgary launch for S & S is December 6, which makes that a crazy week for events. The 9th is the dANDelion launch (can't wait to see the new issue) and there is a filling Station Flywheel reading that week too. Also derek's B-Day (December 7) and Julia's B-Day (December 10). Whew!
Tomorrow there is a reading at The New Gallery. Natalie Walschots and Stephan Cain. I like Natalie's work a lot, Stephan's I'm not really familiar with, so it'll be interesting to hear what he's got.
Funny thing about S & S-- the mad ampersand-- when I was working with Jay MillAr and Alana Wilcox on A Painted Elephant, I had a lot of ampersands in the poetry. Alana eventually convinced me to change them to regular old ands, something to do with house style for Coach House more or less. But when I published part of that work in the Post Prairie anthology, I noticed I'd sent Talon a version from before the Great Ampersand Excision and the funny little glyph pops up again (careful readers will notice another difference-- I rewrote the end of one of the poems.) Anyway, I guess Mercury doesn't have a problem with ampersands (haha I just miss-typed that as "ambersands,"which sounds like a Las Vegas Casino for dissolute writers or something) which will be clear if you visit the site for Shift & Switch. I love the ampersand myself-- Long Live the &!!! Can't remember if any &s appear in the work I have in Shift & Switch-- stuff from Another Word for Pirate Treasure, or, The Booty.
The Calgary launch for S & S is December 6, which makes that a crazy week for events. The 9th is the dANDelion launch (can't wait to see the new issue) and there is a filling Station Flywheel reading that week too. Also derek's B-Day (December 7) and Julia's B-Day (December 10). Whew!
Tomorrow there is a reading at The New Gallery. Natalie Walschots and Stephan Cain. I like Natalie's work a lot, Stephan's I'm not really familiar with, so it'll be interesting to hear what he's got.
posted by Jill at 1:05 PM
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jill;
weird, because there are no "ands" in _with wax_ only ampersands, & i have tried to exclude "and" from my work entirely ever since (in favour of the ampersand)...
-- papa-d
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