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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Learning

...the hard way.


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MY ROLE

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Brenda Schmidt
Notes, beginnings, images, videos, experiments, and the occasional review.
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MY BOOKS


Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road
Thistledown Press, May 2018.

"One of the many things I enjoyed in this collection is the high/low aesthetic hard at work: it is both anti-poetry (‘I use beautiful/too much, more than allowed’) and steeped in a sophisticated lyricism. We sense and inhabit the Prairie landscape and the human that studies and loves it, ageing, lively, curious and amazed." - Miranda Pearson, Event Magazine. Read more.
"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.

Flight Calls: An Apprentice on the Art of Listening

Kalamalka Press, 2012.


"Whether describing thunder or the flight patterns of ptarmigan, Schmidt does so poetically with a great sense of timing and rhythm. She has the sort of narrative voice that makes sitting in the grass keeping an ear out for birds philosophical and lively – something worth listening to." - Devin Pacholik, Global News Regina. Read more.
"Evoking the work of Don McKay, Trevor Herriot and Gerald Hill, Schmidt walks in some pretty big footsteps, and more than measures up. These essays colonize the middle ground between deep connection with place and concern for its ecological future, constantly questioning our troubled relationship with prairie process." - Judges' citation, Saskatchewan Book Award for Nonfiction nomination. Jurors: Barry Ferguson, Wayne Grady, Barry Grills.

Grid

Hagios Press, 2012.



"Grid is a true celebration of life in the northern Prairies." - Alexis Kienlen, Quill & Quire. Read more.
"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.


Cantos from Wolverine Creek
Hagios Press, 2008.


"...terse, fiercely unsentimental observations of life as many people live it. " - Bill Robertson, The Star Phoenix.

More Than Three Feet of Ice
Thistledown Press, 2005.

"Throughout More Than Three Feet of Ice, Schmidt reconfigures the commonplace elements of the North, what she knows, and what she doesn't know to achieve startling nuances. In her hands the seemingly insignificant is imbued with meaning and becomes an extraordinary book." - Lynda Grace Philippsen, Books in Canada.

A Haunting Sun
Thistledown Press, 2001.

"...a lean style and elemental and evocative content" - Steven Ross Smith, "Art: At the Heart of Society," Saskatchewan Arts Alliance.

MY ONGOING PROJECT

  • Culvert Installations
    5 years ago

MY ROLL

  • Theresa Kishkan, writer
    “The dark house wind-buffeted/Little box of smokey glass” (John Pass)
    6 hours ago
  • Pickle Me This
    Doppelganger, by Naomi Klein
    8 hours ago
  • rob mclennan
    12 or 20 (second series) questions with Patti Grayson
    15 hours ago
  • Conversations in the Book Trade
    Adapting short stories: Young Goodman Brown
    2 days ago
  • That Shakespearean Rag
    Canadian publishing’s dilemma: Indigo has abandoned books; it’s also become too big to fail
    3 days ago
  • Mumbling Jack
    El pesar de los árboles | The Regret of Trees
    1 week ago
  • Bookgaga
    The flood of poetry that was The Sealey Challenge 2023
    2 weeks ago
  • Pesbo
    Sealey Challenge
    3 weeks ago
  • Blue Duets
    In quest of a metaphor
    4 weeks ago
  • spread it like a roll of nickels
    everyone who has ever used those words is there in the language
    5 weeks ago
  • Matilda Magtree
    summer postcards — call the library
    1 month ago
  • Bugging Saskatchewan
    Camel Cricket - Rhaphidophoridae Ceuthophilus
    1 month ago
  • Alex Boyd: BoydBlog
    One Question Interview: John Nyman
    2 months ago
  • Annette Bower
    I post this on the longest day of 2023
    3 months ago
  • Pam Bustin
    Journaling with Jenny! How I use different types of journals in my writing practice (and LIFE)
    5 months ago
  • Life at Golden Grain Farm
    Peasant Bread
    5 months ago
  • Lauren Carter
    Exposure
    6 months ago
  • Prairie Ice
    Well Hello There
    7 months ago
  • Navigatio
    Getting lost
    7 months ago
  • my (small press) writing day
    Katherine O'Hara : My Writing Day
    10 months ago
  • Anne Lazurko
    We Were Intrepid Today, Dad
    11 months ago
  • Career Limiting Moves
    Essay online
    1 year ago
  • Pohanginapete
    Tea and animals at dawn
    1 year ago
  • To the Edge of the Sea
    Asbestos - Things we didn’t know Expo 67
    1 year ago
  • Jonathan Ball
    Stranger Fiction
    1 year ago
  • Ian LeTourneau
    Vote May 10!
    2 years ago
  • Poet Shoes
    How About This Idea
    2 years ago
  • the regina mom
    #SkPoli has wide-open election financing rules!
    2 years ago
  • Brian Palmu
    Another Hiatus
    3 years ago
  • The Jane Day Reader
    Hamilton launch of Treed
    4 years ago
  • John W. MacDonald's Weblog
    Daniel [Flickr]
    5 years ago
  • The Ruins of the Moment
    Departure
    5 years ago
  • War Poet - Diary
    Canadian Code Talkers!
    5 years ago
  • ORE SAMPLES
    July 20 Ore was incredible!
    6 years ago
  • Latitude Drifts
    Congrats to poet Courtney Bates-Hardy - House of Mystery
    6 years ago
  • Calm Things
    the new thing
    6 years ago
  • Humanyms
    7 years ago
  • Harvey's Spiders N Stuff
    Northern Caddisfly Larva - Limnephilidae
    8 years ago
  • riddlehoard
    new website
    8 years ago
  • Bailing Bucket
    Shia Surprise
    8 years ago
  • Still Life With Birder
    A Two-Bluebird Day
    9 years ago
  • Always Under Revision
    Kate’s rules for writing
    10 years ago
  • Evie Christie
    10 years ago
  • Manageable Imaginations
    LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
    11 years ago
  • The Opposite of Work
    Live! The Bob Shivery Show!
    11 years ago

MY ARCHIVE

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