The Year My Family Unravelled, Affirm Press (rep Jane Novak) | Sexual Identities in English Lang Ed, Routledge | Honorary, Univ. of Sydney | aka C.D. Nelson |
Sydney, Australia
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Head in a book, as usual. Only this time...it's mine!
Thanks to the wonderful @AffirmPress team & to Ceridwen Dovey + Michelle Tom @m_tom_writer for amazing endorsements
You can pre-order The Year My Family Unravelled now from your local bookshop or online via @ReadingsBooks 🎉
Why I'm not cynical –
"There's this tendency in the far right to encourage us all to give up on human connection and entirely be self-serving and cynical about the notion of connection."
–Tilda Swinton
Interview from NYT Podcast ~47:00 youtu.be/4jURdx2pR70?si=poq3… via @YouTube
I have family and friends in the path of the hurricanes. This video shows what happened to one house in North Carolina. "Help Cheryl & Anne Rebuild & Recover After Hurricane Helene" gofund.me/4a164b2c
A recent 5-star review of my #memoir: "Absolutely masterful writing style ... I was unable to put this book down. If the scale went to 6 stars, that's how I'd rate it ... Unflinchingly honest ... many moments of dry humour ... poignant, heart-wrenching." goodreads.com/book/show/1363…
Lucky to spend another birthday with the faaaabulous @TriciaDearborn ... whose desire for books and chocolates and fun (and public health) knows no bounds 🎂 ❤️🎉👩❤️👩 😷
Me and my baby at the beginning of today's (my) birthday rampage: coffee and pastries from Two Chaps in Marrickville, followed by a book spree at Gleebooks Dulwich Hill @gleebooksdh, then chocolates from Belle Fleur (they're amazing)
The one and only Ferron on songwriting:
"That's my job, to go right to the edge and look down the vast purposelessness of everything and make it become something."
cbc.ca/music/read/a-candid-i…
'Beauty, truth, god, the soul, duende, poetry—all exist without a purpose beyond themselves. They are not products. They are not “content.” A sublime uselessness.' – Diane Seuss ❤️
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My Guardian article summarises a few key things I learned when helping my dad, who had #dementia. For more on that rollercoaster of a year, check out my #memoir The Year My Family Unravelled (Affirm Press).
"A compelling memoir about family" – Who magazine
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'My father had #dementia, and I was his caregiver. Here’s what I wish I had known' theguardian.com/books/2023/m… by @CynthiaDNelson @GuardianBooks via @stevesilberman
#Alzheimers #books
'Why should we care about multilingualism, gender, and sexuality?' Eds. @queertwit & Holly Cashman
Special Issue on Queering Multilingualism 🗨️🌎🌍🌏tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
I love, love, love @TriciaDearborn's poem 'Tin'.
You can click through the links to read the entire poem and also to buy her marvellous book #Autobiochemistry with UWA Publishing.
#PeriodicTable #poetrytwitter
Three times a day
the machines grind to silence.
While others seek coffee,
sustenance, chat,
I chain smoke in the toilet.
Next year I’ll implode.
| Excerpt - '[50] Tin' by Tricia Dearborn from Autobiochemistry (2019) |
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![Poem excerpt from '[50] Tin' by Tricia Dearborn in her collection 'Autobiochemistry' - Three times a day the machines grind to silence. While others seek coffee, sustenance, chat, I chain smoke in the toilet. Next year I’ll implode accompanied by image of a canary yellow vintage tin with label reading 'Albert Wijnberg Olie-import Zaandam'.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKYW1Qpa8AAhCeh.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Poem excerpt from '[50] Tin' by Tricia Dearborn in her collection 'Autobiochemistry' - Three times a day the machines grind to silence. While others seek coffee, sustenance, chat, I chain smoke in the toilet. Next year I’ll implode accompanied by image of a canary yellow vintage tin with label reading 'Albert Wijnberg Olie-import Zaandam'.
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Three times a day
the machines grind to silence.
While others seek coffee,
sustenance, chat,
I chain smoke in the toilet.
Next year I’ll implode.
| Excerpt - '[50] Tin' by Tricia Dearborn from Autobiochemistry (2019) |
uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/aut…
sciencewritenow.com/read/lyr…
ALT Poem excerpt from '[50] Tin' by Tricia Dearborn in her collection 'Autobiochemistry' - Three times a day the machines grind to silence. While others seek coffee, sustenance, chat, I chain smoke in the toilet. Next year I’ll implode accompanied by image of a canary yellow vintage tin with label reading 'Albert Wijnberg Olie-import Zaandam'.
Hands down one of the most potent poems I've ever read – & I'm not saying that just because this brilliant poet is my wife😉
I've kept it taped on my wall for months as writing inspiration. What @TriciaDearborn can do in a line or two is nothing short of amazing⬇️
#WorldPoetryDay
Earlier this year, my poem "Friendly fire" was longlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. @islandmagtas is featuring the longlisted poems in conjunction with World Poetry Day – which is tomorrow (21 March) so mine's getting out there a little early!
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from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
by Peter Gizzi
ALT In Defense of Nothing by Peter Gizzi I guess these trailers lined up in the lot off the highway will do. I guess that crooked eucalyptus tree also. I guess this highway will have to do and the cars and the people in them on their way. The present is always coming up to us, surrounding us. It's hard to imagine atoms, hard to imagine hydrogen & oxygen binding, it'll have to do. This sky with its macular clouds also and that electric tower to the left, one line broken free.
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Just over two weeks left to submit to @corditepoetry's Cordite 112: TREAT, for which I'm guest editor. Your poem/s can link to any meaning of TREAT – and there are many! (Click through for more about that in the call-out.)
Submissions close on 4 February 2024. Send us your stuff!
Submit #poetry to Tricia Dearborn! Ok, who’s up for a treat? Who couldn’t use a treat in these difficult times? What, for you, counts as a treat? Where do you find joy, delight or amusement?
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'Regardless of our political allegiances, let us put #transgender young people front and centre in this consultation phase and *ask them* how we can best create safe and inclusive schools in which they can thrive both academically and personally.'
–@DrCatherineLee @ConversationUK
Let’s ask trans students what support they need at school. We must use this consultation to hear from young people. My article for the @ConversationUK on today’s guidance for schools. #LGBTQ #trans theconversation.com/trans-gu…
Q: Did you routinely write many drafts?
David Milch: I have a shaping heart.
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A Lion in Winter: An Interview With David Milch shar.es/agoxOo
'Old self that once was dot, was free-range
cells. What whispered magic spun me
from your coiled chains, made blue veins
and solid thump of heart? Plump meat, bone,
breath sewn through with darts of thought?
How came I into this? And how to reconcile return?'
-Alison Flett
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1/2🤩 WOW! New book review by @MiaFarlane for New Zealand #Dementia Foundation: "I found The Year My Family Unravelled utterly engaging, from start to finish: the author’s emotional intelligence, her life-saving sense of humour (quietly hilarious, at the most serious of times),
2/2 "the scrupulous honesty (reassuring), the craft behind the storytelling (the tension), the beautifully structured paragraphs that read like prose poetry (those frameable last lines), and the brilliant dialogue (relatable and ... laugh-out-loud funny)"💙nzdementia.org/Articles/book…
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Strange time to get the words “I am attired in wonder” tattooed on your forearm, I’ll admit.
Then again, the need to find and hold on to what little wonder there is feels more important now than it ever has.
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DMZ Colony changed my life and poetry & I cannot wait for @DonMeeChoi's Mirror Nation that "completes the trilogy" with Hardly War & DMZ Colony
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