ALONE ON A WINDY RIDGE: Grid is coming

Sunday, March 04, 2012

Grid is coming

...in April. It's a book of poems. Here's what the publisher has to say about it.

I finished going over the proofs today. I'll mail them off tomorrow. Then I'll wait for the ice to break up on the lakes. It will be a while yet. Lots to do before then.

18 comments:

Cassidy said...: Congrats, Brenda! I remember you talking about living "off the grid" at Talking Fresh last year and the great discussion this idea triggered. I'm looking forward to reading this as well as your book of essays..; 4/3/12 5:01 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thank you, Cassidy!; 4/3/12 5:05 PM
Ariel Gordon said...: SUCH a beautiful cover. (And I can't wait to fine-tooth-comb it's guts!); 4/3/12 6:17 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Ha! Thanks! Its guts look forward to the combing!; 4/3/12 6:19 PM
the regina mom said...: Yay, Brenda! I'm really looking forward to this and I'm really hoping there's a poem about at least one grid road!

Also, I missed seeing you at Talking Fresh this year.; 4/3/12 8:03 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thanks! Ha! There's no end of them!

Thanks. I missed being there and seeing you and everyone. Sounds like it was a dandy.; 4/3/12 8:07 PM
Shelley Banks said...: Congrats on this new book, Brenda!; 4/3/12 8:25 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thanks, Shelley!; 4/3/12 8:26 PM
Pearl said...: ooh, exciting! you've been bustling along there!; 5/3/12 9:09 AM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thanks, Pearl! Bustling is right!; 5/3/12 9:12 AM
Rob Taylor said...: Looks great, looks great! Congrats!; 5/3/12 1:46 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thanks, Rob!; 5/3/12 1:47 PM
Unknown said...: Excellent! I'm looking forward to reading this.; 7/3/12 9:01 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thank you, Kathy!; 7/3/12 9:19 PM
carin said...: I so look forward to this! Wonderful subject. (And you have a book of essay?? Details please. & thx.)
:); 18/3/12 1:22 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thank you!

I just finished going over the proofs of my book of essays and letter fragments today! I'll likely be posting about it this week or next. It's called Flight Calls: An Apprentice on the Art of Listening. :); 18/3/12 4:46 PM
carin said...: Wonderful title. Will keep an eye out for your post.; 18/3/12 8:24 PM
Brenda Schmidt said...: Thank you!; 18/3/12 8:27 PM

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"This is a skilled poet having good fun, and inviting us all to join the party." - Shelley A. Leedahl, SaskBooks Reviews. Read more.

"Employing a variety of forms and the culvert stories — who knew? — of numerous people, she digs beneath the obvious roads to find out what keeps the water — the subconscious, the unconscious — flowing smoothly, discovering a variety of things about herself, notably the everyday masks we wear and the aging process we won’t always admit to." - Bill Robertson, The Star Phoenix. Read more.

"For Schmidt is indeed a poet. Readers can expect to encounter many visual and acoustic delights along the way, from internal rhymes to arresting images." - Trevor Cook, The Antigonish Review #196.

"In Grid..., Creighton's Brenda Schmidt turns a colder eye to the landscape than most other Canadian poets." - Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press. Read more.

"You can just feel the stones rattling off your undercarriage on this Grid." - Bill Robertson, The Star Phoenix. Read more.

"Like the Prairies, this is not a collection that gives itself away: the true beauty of this book lies in subtleties that may not be obvious at first glance." - Emily McGiffin, The Malahat Review. Read more.

"In Grid, moments are approached in their apparent stability only to be swept away in song rife with interruption and fresh stimuli, lending a new perspective. It is as though the familiar ground is an eye glancing back and the reflection only a nodal-point, open to opportunity and play." - Justin Dittrick, SPG Book Reviews. Read more.

"There is grit in these poems, so much that it seems unfair to think of them as nature poems; like the best nature writing, they undo our expectations of nature rather than uphold them." - Tanis MacDonald, Arc Poetry Magazine. Read more.

"In her fourth collection Grid, Schmidt’s wry humour transcends what we have watched heap up in Canada for more than a century—nature poems—balancing in canola fields between the beautiful lure of nature and our curious urge to separate ourselves from disappearing allotments of our own solace. We have wandered “off the grid” but fortunately Schmidt is an entertaining and insightful guide who can still find Li Po in a Dark-eyed Junco, if she has to." - Garry Thomas Morse, Jacket 2. Read more.

"These supple, witty, and incisive poems delineate our relationship to grids and systems both visible and invisible, natural and political." - Judges' citation, Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry nomination. Jurors: Shawna Lemay, Barbara Nickel, Sharon Thesen.