I have not talked about poetry for a while. Food has seemingly taken over; but food poetry and writing are holding their own too. Here’s a little update of my food writing news:
Food poems are being published in a couple of specialist food & literature publications: I’m currently in CuiZine, out of Montreal, and will soon be slathered on the pages of Alimentum, which is from New York.
JackPine Press in Saskatoon, which does wild and innovative limited edition chapbooks, is publishing Sunday Dinners next month, which features 8 of my food poems presented like the treasures found in the pages of old cookbooks, thanks to the artistic genius of my clever collaborator, Colleen Philippi. We’ll be launching it here in Victoria at Open Space Gallery on June 19.
Not sure when, but sometime in the next 12 months I’ll also be launching a 20-page chapbook of food poems, The Earth’s Kitchen, from Lantzville’s delightful Leaf Press. More on that as it unfolds.
And my most recent and most exciting news is that I’ll have a piece included in Lonely Planet‘s anthology of food & travel writing, A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Encounters Around the World, which will be published in the fall.
I am green with jealousy about your greens. This afternoon we PLANTED our mesclun, beets and chard, four rosemary plants, with trepidation, as it is prior to the traditional May 24th weekend….. It will be weeks before we can eat anything we have grown, if it grows.
Oh, well you know yours will grow that much faster if the weather cooperates. I remember the speed with which winter switched to summer back in Edmonton. We've had a chilly spring (which with those hungry slugs has made things harder). But I am very, very grateful for the purple sprouting broccoli and the kale that we can overwinter here, for early garden greens. Susan in Calgary has a handy dandy Aerogarden, that grows lettuce and greens under a domed light in her kitchen year round. Not the same I know, but still: fresh greens…
That's wonderful news, Rhona. It's all coming together, isn't it? I'll be looking forward to all the recent poems collected in one book and launched here in London, too. You have lots of fans here, as you know.
Leah