Post by moira on Oct 31, 2013 16:16:53 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils
3. Floating Bridge Press
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane
2. On Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils medusacoils.blogspot.com
--"In Memoriam" Layne Redmond, 1952-2013"
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-memoriam-layne-redmond-1952-2013.html
(author of When The Women Were Drummers)
--"Buzz Coil: October 2013"
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2013/10/buzz-coil-october-2013.html (summaries of posts from blogs with similar interests, includes poetry)
--"Review: Goddess Film by Antero Alli"
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2013/10/review-goddess-film-by-antero-alli.html
3. Floating Bridge Press is proud to announce the publication of the poetry collection About Face: World War I Facial Injury and Reconstruction, by fellow WOMPO Ann Gerike. These lyrical poems in the voices of injured soldiers and their wives are beautifully crafted, restrained, and moving. Gerike provides context with an absorbing introduction, and an appendix of photographs gives readers a sense of both the psychological agony of facial injury and the amazing transformation made possible by surgeon Sir Harold Gillies. "The literal loss of face is a subject fraught with poetic implications, and threat. . . . Whatever else we may claim—about our souls, our spirits—at some deep level most of us see our bodies, and especially our faces, as our essential selves"—from the Introduction
Please visit the Floating Bridge Press website to read more and order this lovely collection. floatingbridgepress.fatcow.com/shop/about-face/
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
4.1. Vittoria Colonna: New Studies
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/vittoria-colonna-new-studies/
4.2. Winston Graham (Poldark): annotated list of his works & all the covers
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/winston-graham-an-annotated-bibliography-dust-jackets/
4.3. JASNA-DC: Jane Austen's houses in fiction & life at Ayrshire Farm
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/jasna-dc-jane-austens-houses-in-life-fiction-at-ayrshire-farm/
4.4. Sunday: a marble urn
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/sunday-amarbleurn/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils
3. Floating Bridge Press
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane
2. On Judith Laura's blog, Medusa Coils medusacoils.blogspot.com
--"In Memoriam" Layne Redmond, 1952-2013"
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-memoriam-layne-redmond-1952-2013.html
(author of When The Women Were Drummers)
--"Buzz Coil: October 2013"
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2013/10/buzz-coil-october-2013.html (summaries of posts from blogs with similar interests, includes poetry)
--"Review: Goddess Film by Antero Alli"
medusacoils.blogspot.com/2013/10/review-goddess-film-by-antero-alli.html
3. Floating Bridge Press is proud to announce the publication of the poetry collection About Face: World War I Facial Injury and Reconstruction, by fellow WOMPO Ann Gerike. These lyrical poems in the voices of injured soldiers and their wives are beautifully crafted, restrained, and moving. Gerike provides context with an absorbing introduction, and an appendix of photographs gives readers a sense of both the psychological agony of facial injury and the amazing transformation made possible by surgeon Sir Harold Gillies. "The literal loss of face is a subject fraught with poetic implications, and threat. . . . Whatever else we may claim—about our souls, our spirits—at some deep level most of us see our bodies, and especially our faces, as our essential selves"—from the Introduction
Please visit the Floating Bridge Press website to read more and order this lovely collection. floatingbridgepress.fatcow.com/shop/about-face/
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
4.1. Vittoria Colonna: New Studies
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/vittoria-colonna-new-studies/
4.2. Winston Graham (Poldark): annotated list of his works & all the covers
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/winston-graham-an-annotated-bibliography-dust-jackets/
4.3. JASNA-DC: Jane Austen's houses in fiction & life at Ayrshire Farm
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/jasna-dc-jane-austens-houses-in-life-fiction-at-ayrshire-farm/
4.4. Sunday: a marble urn
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/sunday-amarbleurn/