And the Saskatoon launch

...was wonderful! Thanks to everyone. It was fun.

H took another bunch of pics.

UPDATE:
May 2 -I added a pic today of Judith and me signing after the reading.

Here I am pointing out the amazing gift I'd just received.



A shot of the crowd.



Paula Jane Remlinger and me. I am wearing one of the gifts I received last night, a gorgeous spider and web pin from Annette. I also got a lovely scarf from Tracy that night.



Judith Krause and me signing books after our readings.




Two of the three Hagios Press publishers, Eric Greenway and Donald Ward, with Paula Jane and me.



And here's what I was pointing at. This is the top of the box.



And here's what's inside.



And here's a close-up of the diorama.


Cupcakes from Wolverine Creek! Brilliant. Sylvia Legris did all this. She made those cupcakes! They're beautiful! How can I eat something so beautiful?

UPDATE:
I broke down and ate the cupcakes. All of them. Well, I did allow H and a few relatives a taste. The cupcakes were filled with chocolate ganache. Heavenly, they were heavenly!

The Regina launch

...at The Exchange was wonderful! What a great turnout! Thanks to everyone.

Thanks to H for taking pics!

UPDATE:
May 2- I added more pics today.

Here's Judith Krause and me before our launch began.



Here's Saskatchewan's poet laureate, Robert Currie, along with Anne McDonald and Judith Krause.



A couple shots of me reading.





Me and Bruce Rice.



Melanie Schnell, Annette Bower, Anne McDonald and me.



Judith Krause, Bruce Rice, Tracy Hamon, Dave Margoshes and me.




And the food! In addition to fruit, cheese and crackers and the like, there were huge iced cookies and rainbow cupcakes!


I was thrilled.


I took two for the road.

Cantos from Wolverine Creek

...should be available now at McNally. (Update: And now at Amazon). I haven't seen it yet, but if all goes as planned I'll have my hands on a copy tomorrow when I hit Regina. I'm very excited. I'm also very worried about the weather. We had a winter storm warning yesterday and now a freezing rain warning. It takes us about nine hours to get to Regina when the conditions are ideal. It takes forever when they're not. However, the forecast is looking up. Fingers crossed. I hope to see some of you this week at the launches in Regina and Saskatoon. I plan to post pics and maybe some video for those of you who can't make it. And I'm told there will be cupcakes at the launch! It doesn't get better than that!

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UPDATE:

Well it rained. Then it froze. Then it snowed. This is the view of the driveway from my office window at 6:25 p.m.



This is the tree near the window.


As you can see, it's still snowing. Ugh.

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UPDATE:

April 23 - We made it! The roads were terrible for the first 200 km. The sight of vehicles in the ditch and too much coffee made for a seriously jittery me and I can talk seriously fast when seriously jittery. Anyway, the book was waiting for me at the desk when we got to the hotel last night. It's beautiful!!!

A Winnipeg date

...has been added under my News & Events. Yay! I had a great time when I last read in Winnipeg. I'll be launching with Judith Krause.
It will be fun.

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UPDATE:

Look what we found!


Whew! Now things can get back to normal.

The other day I stopped

...at McNally Robinson to pick up Tim Lilburn's Orphic Politics. Of course I ended up buying a few additional titles: Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard, A Wild Peculiar Joy by Irving Layton, The Given by Daphne Marlatt, The Dream World by Alison Pick and A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove. I read a couple pages from each on the way home today. Then I stared out the window. Near Prince Albert a turkey vulture flew over the car. I swear it looked through the windshield at us. It gave me the willies.

Well it's April

...and my book will be out shortly. I'm not sure when exactly, but soon. The launches are coming right up and there are other events in the works. With that in mind, I've been looking through the proofs, trying to decide what I'll read. This book is very different from my last two. It's far more playful, so planning the readings has been fun. Fun has been my main focus these days. I look forward to celebrating.

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UPDATE:

We did the nocturnal owl survey tonight. We heard one boreal owl on our route. The conditions were perfect. Calm. Clear. And the stars! What a night.