Great news today – just learned that White Shirt made the shortlist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the Lesbian Poetry category: “Finalists for the Lambda Literary Award were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation in Los Angeles. Books from major mainstream publishers and from academic presses, from both long-established and brand new LGBT […]
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quote of the week
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~ Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered […]
Alberta Views tries White Shirt on for size
‘Laurie MacFayden’s White Shirt is the sort of garment that appeals and reveals far more than it conceals. Love, longing, loss and desire drip and swirl like the poet’s own Pollock-inspired cover art. Simple strategies work well here: the Tower-of-Babel adjectival pileup that describes one babelicious mouth in ‘dear life’ leads into other catalogues and […]
Beneath the White Shirt: Passion, tenderness, vivid colour
Lovely review of White Shirt from George Elliott Clarke in Sunday’s Halifax Chronicle Herald: “White Shirt announces itself with stunning cover art by MacFayden herself. The cover art, Allegra, its violent lashings and splatters of paint, testifies to MacFayden’s sensibility: Her work is ejaculations, vivid, colourful, clashing, all indelibly marking the white page. Her first […]
a little bit sweaty
My debut manuscript, White Shirt, was one of 10 titles selected for Dektet 2010, a 10-pack of Canadian poetry published by Frontenac House in honour of their 10th anniversary. The books were released five months ago with launch parties in Edmonton and Calgary at the end of April. Finally, the Toronto leg of the promo […]
dear mary o,
dear mary o, the soft animal of my body is in crisis. i went to the river and got turned back by mosquitoes, of all things. i went to the forest and got turned back by sadness. i sat in the long grass turned my eyes to the sky and was blinded by impatience. it […]
Frontenac/Dektet poets climbin’ the charts
Pages On Kensington’s (Calgary) Bestseller List (May 2, 2010) Original Edition Fiction and Poetry 1. Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel 2. Other Family – Joanna Trollope 3. Love Market – Carol Mason 4. Hypoderm – Weyman Chan 5. Children of Ararat – Keith Garebian 6. Fallacies of Motion – William Nichols 7. (Sic) – Nikki Reimer 8. Confessions […]
a white shirt goes with everything
Greetings, poetry lovers. My book White Shirt (Frontenac House; $15.95) is hot off the press and now available for purchase. “In this debut collection, best friends scream downhill on their ten-speed bikes; a tree planter spells out her lover’s name in seedlings; and a mysterious entity steps out of the mist in Stanley Park. The […]
haiku after monet at te papa
claude your eight red blobs placed in meadow with poplars take my breath away the poet who falls from atop a long white cloud grins and says thank you