What a fox

...sparrow sings

                 sounds true

                                                         enough

More new books

The Other Side of Ourselves by Rob Taylor.

Outskirts by Sue Goyette.

Small Mechanics by Lorna Crozier.

Origami Dove by Susan Musgrave.

Folk by Jacob McArthur Mooney.

Bye-and-Bye by Charles Wright.

Riddlehoard by Cassidy and Jonah McFadzean.

Twas a blooming good weekend

Some books look even more appealing

...than usual on a partly cloudy day. More new additions to my collection:

Methodist Hatchet by Ken Babstock.

been shed bore by Pearl Pirie.

All This Could Be Yours by Joshua Trotter.

White Egrets by Derek Walcott.

Indexical Elegies by Jon Paul Fiorentino.

Because of Anne

...Simpson's upcoming essay for Canada Reads Poetry (which as it happens was just posted today), I added Nox by Anne Carson to cart (I meant to order it last year but somehow forgot) when I was ordering To the Edge of the Sea by Anne McDonald, a just-released novel that I've been looking forward to for quite some time. Both books came in the mail today.

Is by Anne Simpson arrived last week. In the acknowledgements of Is I found Anne McDonald's name.

Today an oddball redpoll

...with a distinct yellow forecrown. Maybe ochre is a better word.

My response to the not-so-simple

...question "Why should people read poetry?" has been posted over at That Shakespearean Rag. For more on why TSR asked the question in the first place see here.

Today redpolls galore

...and of every description. Upwards of 200 at a time in the yard. Here are some pics I took this morning after seeing a few very large dark redpolls in the mix. The first pic was taken through a window, so it's not clear, but it does show how large and dark it is compared to the other redpoll in the feeder. Click on the pics for a closer look.