tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37975662624788720352024-03-14T16:41:44.728+13:00Claire LaceyWriter, Poet, NerdClaire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-68940826972947465562024-02-02T10:37:00.000+13:002024-02-02T10:37:11.746+13:00Upcoming: Revenge Poetry Workshop<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqR5ivHxu8ZXUP0T2pPhJrOohNU9lyzZB_CksQcJLa4JsPEFvaZIXgs09F5i0AwI00L8U0RIQ1Xb_1m0MIHh2N_4nMZNv_5mEC3IQrAwLVDkyacU8BIDC2J1ZzUoSSnmAYe4uZ_3t5IvAaKlD7Yfx8EfDmJJpGsAcTFr_fSvJZpTdL-lnrjEd-y68Z5cvB/s1080/FEB%2014%20%206-8%20PM%20%20Indigo%20room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqR5ivHxu8ZXUP0T2pPhJrOohNU9lyzZB_CksQcJLa4JsPEFvaZIXgs09F5i0AwI00L8U0RIQ1Xb_1m0MIHh2N_4nMZNv_5mEC3IQrAwLVDkyacU8BIDC2J1ZzUoSSnmAYe4uZ_3t5IvAaKlD7Yfx8EfDmJJpGsAcTFr_fSvJZpTdL-lnrjEd-y68Z5cvB/w640-h640/FEB%2014%20%206-8%20PM%20%20Indigo%20room.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Odes to bad exes, scathing sonnets about nemeses, compositions against corporate holidays...you get the idea. We all need a bit of revenge in our lives.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Join Claire Lacey at Indigo Room to celebrate catharsis with some tongue-in-cheek writing exercises. Get poetically petty, you know you want to.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">And after, stay to enjoy the Heartbreak and Bad Romance live music at Indigo Room, or go have a romantic date with your current beau because you really can have it all.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Koha entry. Devilishly indulgent drinks and foods available to purchase from Indigo Room.</div><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-90341140482568852792023-10-17T12:21:00.000+13:002023-10-17T12:21:13.178+13:00Upcoming: Wānaka Writing Workshop Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitinfUqolyqBsYjR117vrcB22ZMcwkIUlsNUQVNPOn9CKS9O5FJbMH-xBrpg9jEQgVwD28mDb5MRdzDSTE37CmONiajBKfAGmThDloikrJ0wwv8Mfz4lUmTqAHAAdVTDLRz5ubIUPZkIO2VPvdFyeb_npXwLLj4wdZiHTP8bVfcmdBo2jWPDZ2DrAA9-nV/s1080/Today%20(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitinfUqolyqBsYjR117vrcB22ZMcwkIUlsNUQVNPOn9CKS9O5FJbMH-xBrpg9jEQgVwD28mDb5MRdzDSTE37CmONiajBKfAGmThDloikrJ0wwv8Mfz4lUmTqAHAAdVTDLRz5ubIUPZkIO2VPvdFyeb_npXwLLj4wdZiHTP8bVfcmdBo2jWPDZ2DrAA9-nV/s320/Today%20(6).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>An epic weekend of writing workshops in Wānaka! I'm stoked to be running a workshop alongside writers Liz Breslin, Rushi Vyas, Eliana Gray and Laura Williamson.</p><p>October 28th and 29th 2023.</p><p><a href="https://events.humanitix.com/wanaka-writing-workshop-weekend?fbclid=IwAR2b4muCma1It1cZQliJ4v7DQLUd3vugrYxnvWZicpg5QZl3yWKpGbBaNdY">Click here</a> to book tickets for the whole weekend or for individual workshops.</p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-28752596547980214532023-05-20T16:22:00.001+12:002023-05-20T16:22:11.867+12:00Concussion Episodes now available in full online!<p>Hooray! My creative-critical PhD thesis is now open access. That means you, and er, well, anyone really, can download it and read it. I hope you will. </p><p>The first half is the critical stuff: it looks at how brain injury is represented through language in both medical and literary settings. The second half is my poetry manuscript, which represents the disorienting experience my life-altering brain injury.</p><p>Download <i>Concussion Episodes: a creative-critical project on poetry and brain injury</i>, at the University of Otago's online archive: <a href="https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/12826">https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/12826</a> </p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-46055401474461354812023-04-03T11:38:00.001+12:002023-04-03T11:38:51.386+12:00Ensemble: Foulden Maar <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">A longpoem response to the mining at Foulden Maar, generated at a workshop led by writers Iona Winter and Kirstie McKinnon and produced by Kate Dawson and Sophie Briggs on behalf of the <a href="https://mining-for-meaning.com">Mining for Meaning: the Geoethics of Extracted Industries</a> project. The workshop occured in Middlemarch, Otago in October 2022. More writing and art from the workshop can be found at </span></span><a href="https://www.rareearth-art.com/foulden-maar-writing-group">https://www.rareearth-art.com/foulden-maar-writing-group<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></a></p><p><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1391616268&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/poetactics" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Claire Lacey">Claire Lacey</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/poetactics/foulden-maar-a-poem-by-claire-lacey-performed-with-dane-oates" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Ensemble: Foulden Maar — a poem by Claire Lacey, performed with Dane Oates">Ensemble: Foulden Maar — a poem by Claire Lacey, performed with Dane Oates</a></div><p><br /></p><p><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Foulden Maar</b></span></h2><p><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Dramatis personae:</span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Mined Text </span></i><span lang="EN-US">— the reportage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Soil </span></i><span lang="EN-US">— as described<i><br />The Poet </i>— always puts themselves into the poem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Fossil Beetle </span></i><span lang="EN-US">— found at Foulden Maar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Diagram </span></i><span lang="EN-US">— found in the New Zealand Listener<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Corporate Entity </span></i><span lang="EN-US">— our villain<i><br />The Underfunded Locals </i>— the chorus<i><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Fossil: Foulden Maar</span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The diatoms sank to the bottom, forming ‘a thick blanket<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">of fine-grained siliceous ooze that over time built up<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">to become diatomite’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> mined for the manufacture of cement<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> filtration systems<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> insulation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> pet litter<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> pesticide<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> fertilizer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> to fertilize <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 324pt; text-indent: 2cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">palm oil plantations<a href="applewebdata://8270198B-6859-4CF0-8910-4ED06A223E63#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[*]</span></b></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US">The soil knows the dirt.</span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We hold. We join. We weight. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We make firm. We press. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We accrete. We transform. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We transform. We age. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We erode. We dampen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We dry. We transform. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We accumulate. We concentrate. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We transform. We hold. We <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">wait. We bide. We embrace. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We preserve. We persevere. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We perseverate. We possess. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We process. We transform. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We archive. We glean. We bibliographize. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We memorialize. We maintain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">This body. Your body. We dirt. We dust. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We fertilize. We show our work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We time. We era. We eon. We deadline. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We extend. We crater. We crumble. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We cusp. We catch. We cache. We funnel. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We web. We wrap. We warp. We weft. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We pressure. We clasp. We crush. We crunch. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We settle. We muse. We museum. We mummify. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We relic. We relish. We relinquish. We recognize you <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">would not recognize. We fossil. We fossick. We filter. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We feed. We feel fleeting. We hold time. We wear your names provisionally. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We mine mortality. We curate the things that hold shape. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 324pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> The rest becomes us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I press my thumb between blades of grass. The soil presses back.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span></i><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Fossil: Beetle</span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">to excavate what cannot be replaced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> unexpected turquoise cerebrum, fissured<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">soft, fossiled tough<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> grey matter, white matter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">dura, intestine, exoskeletal <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> pressure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> to uncover — discover — lay bare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 180pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to uncover — extract — deplete<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 180pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">the smell of brushed rock prised on a dry day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">touch the dunes of the lobes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> unfaithful symmetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 288pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the beetle like no other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> like every other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">layers these eons their scene<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">my scene: post-viral infection new inhaler squidgy brain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> under the sun first of spring laying in grass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> moisture speckling notebook<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">spots speckling vision calcification of thought does tau harden my brain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">it bugs me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> I bug out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> bug off <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Fossils from the site also include the world's oldest known galaxiid fish and the first freshwater eel found in the Southern Hemisphere. Foulden is especially valuable for the amount of soft tissue preserved in the diatomite, including the remnants of fish eyes and skin, and insect antennae and wing patterns.<a href="applewebdata://8270198B-6859-4CF0-8910-4ED06A223E63#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[†]</span></b></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">like beetle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> I hope to leave a trace<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> in strata<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> in silt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> in space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> on this page<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> it’s Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">in damp grass and dandelions: I could be back in Ontario<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">at school during recess I scratched around a large stone to uncover shells and imprints of creatures I couldn’t name the whole area had once been submerged and now our snobby city by the lake holds treasures for those who mind the spot next to the baseball diamond when the teachers finally discovered the hole after weeks of work I could stand in it up to my knees the stone held firm and deeper still and I was made to fill it in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US">diagram: Foulden Maar</span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /><i>in which the poet tries to read a diagram demonstrating Foulden Maar’s deposits<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in this cone of earth <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> I see the lenticulostriate artery particularly prone to stroke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> heart to brain flow movement of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">liquid through bodies of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 108pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">soil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> depositing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 216pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">shards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">we read in relation to our kenning through kenning we read kinship <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> this layer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> formerly ooze <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">holds pattern: wings, scale <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> The Corporate Entity acquires the Foulden Maar mine<br />the diatomite needed as an ingredient for fertilizer to feed <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> palm oil plantations in Malaysia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">diatomite is not rare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">Goldman Sachs produces an investment report:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">the locals are not well funded<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">diatomite is not rare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">but the fossils of Foulden Maar are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">The Corporate Entity plans an open pit mine proposes to extract for thirty years<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> the site made dust by trucks Foulden Maar diatomite trademarked<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Black Pearl</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">the locals, underfunded<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">quack quibble quip rail rally ramble rant rasp rave rebuff rebuke repartee retreat retort revile revel reveal ridicule roister scoff scold scorn scream screech seethe: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">stop. slow. let us dig to understand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">we know this place is our history we arrived long after<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">the ooze blanketed the pressure settled we peopled <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> and unbirded this place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> unbushed with fire and field<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> we have learned what we cannot take back<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> and this is it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">we won’t<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 396pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">settle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> sediment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> sentiment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 108pt; text-indent: -108pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the mine rumbled The Corporate Entity: insolvent the future of the site <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 396pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">muddied<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">what does publishing do?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 144pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">what do we do?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 144pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> I am writing a poem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">to treat mountains and bedrock differently is to misunderstand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">(elsewhere: the tar sands foot the bill. up north the fires that create hellscape skies in Calgary, apocalyptic haze that tastes of burnt bacon, that cancels summer. the land burns. human dis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">ruption rupture eruption the places we devastate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> because they can’t afford to say no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">or they say no and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">land<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> is land<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> is land<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">the dirt presses me up to the sky<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> surrender is the deepest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">I wear my circadian camouflage <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> swifts swit swit over field<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> scouting for beetles churned<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> in ploughing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">digestion: fossilization on the inside<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">matter begets matter begets bedrock begets mountaintop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 288pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the swift will not fossilize, eaten <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 288pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in turn by a ginger tabby<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">all names are provisional. all provisions are personal. all persons are transitional. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">all architecture a pleading from the past. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">dura, intestine exoskeletal <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 216pt;"><span lang="EN-US">grey matter, white matter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">soft architecture of soil<br /> unexpected orange cerebrum, fissured turquoise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">to excavate what cannot be replaced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a href="applewebdata://8270198B-6859-4CF0-8910-4ED06A223E63#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[*]</span></span></span></a><i> </i><span lang="EN-US">“The Battle to Save Foulden Maar” by Sally Blundell, <i>New Zealand Listener</i>, 19 Sept 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; margin: 0cm;"><a href="applewebdata://8270198B-6859-4CF0-8910-4ED06A223E63#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[†]</span></span></span></a> <span lang="mi-NZ">“Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar” by Vaughn Yarwood, <i>New Zealand Geographic, </i>Aug 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.comDunedin, New Zealand-45.8795455 170.5005957-74.189779336178844 135.3443457 -17.569311663821154 -154.34315430000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-90650241229735310172022-12-05T19:33:00.006+13:002022-12-05T19:33:58.301+13:00The Backcountry, My Body<p>My article on tramping, backcountry huts, invisible disability, and the accessibility of nature is now available online for free, thanks to <i>1964 Magazine. </i>Link below. </p><p>---</p><div class="column" style="box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(106, 107, 108); color: #6a6b6c; font-family: Literata; font-size: 18px;"><p style="--g-bold-weight: 700; --g-regular-weight: 400; --tcb-applied-color: var$(--tcb-skin-color-5); --tcb-typography-font-family: Literata; --tcb-typography-font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;">A BACKCOUNTRY TRAMP TAKES CAREFUL PLANNING. EVEN MORESO IF, LIKE ME, YOU ARE DISABLED. I HAVE AN ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY, SUSTAINED IN MY LATE 20s.</p><p style="--g-bold-weight: 700; --g-regular-weight: 400; --tcb-applied-color: var$(--tcb-skin-color-5); --tcb-typography-font-family: Literata; --tcb-typography-font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;">It’s not just the headaches, or the brain fog, the memory loss, or the fatigue; it’s the way I feel like I have to justify my presence. When I move through spaces with very active people, I feel the loss of what my body used to be able to do. I am wary of the way other people judge and respond to me and my disability. Sometimes that judgement takes the form of pity. Sometimes, disgust or anger. I have experienced being excluded from spaces, being disbelieved because I don’t “look” disabled, and being expected to do things I don’t have the capacity to achieve. We won’t get into the slurs, though I’ve heard those too.</p></div><div class="column" style="box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(106, 107, 108); color: #6a6b6c; font-family: Literata; font-size: 18px;"><p style="--g-bold-weight: 700; --g-regular-weight: 400; --tcb-applied-color: var$(--tcb-skin-color-5); --tcb-typography-font-family: Literata; --tcb-typography-font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;">This is a bummer of a way to start a story. Let’s try again.</p><p style="--g-bold-weight: 700; --g-regular-weight: 400; --tcb-applied-color: var$(--tcb-skin-color-5); --tcb-typography-font-family: Literata; --tcb-typography-font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--tcb-skin-color-5); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;"><a href="https://1964.co.nz/new-zealand-backcountry-accessibility/">Continue reading here.</a></p></div>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-30334003343051971422022-09-28T18:31:00.000+13:002022-09-28T18:31:01.631+13:00Sound Poetry Workshop at New Zealand Young Writer's Festival<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Join me Thursday, September 29th from 1-3pm at Te Whare o Rukutia, Ōtepoti for a free workshop that explores sound, movement, and collaboration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7viXxNb2IVI0EKmY6K6uS95Xiz01oiEOXeHMx9f12cIkvGiInD3BkCcevRDgTQgE5PY_fxvgjCtLbEjmjj6DgDdK-kcFjWsjCmT-BQAVQRWa38buraM8igNH2k6BQANqNW2AlxLgyHBpyFW02l3PcCfGYP9Aq6ij6v0UpiMV_TDFMn5rjTwQV2d79w/s1080/FB_IMG_1664046371439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7viXxNb2IVI0EKmY6K6uS95Xiz01oiEOXeHMx9f12cIkvGiInD3BkCcevRDgTQgE5PY_fxvgjCtLbEjmjj6DgDdK-kcFjWsjCmT-BQAVQRWa38buraM8igNH2k6BQANqNW2AlxLgyHBpyFW02l3PcCfGYP9Aq6ij6v0UpiMV_TDFMn5rjTwQV2d79w/w640-h640/FB_IMG_1664046371439.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-43753925149391230122022-09-07T19:22:00.002+12:002022-09-07T19:22:36.069+12:00<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(231, 233, 234); display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I have an article in the new issue of <a href="https://1964.co.nz"><i>1964 </i>magazine</a> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(231, 233, 234); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">that describes my experience tramping on Rakiura/Stewart Island as a disabled person. It is also the first time I have had one of my photographs published, an adorable toutouwai!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wAkgBkUGP992nLg_bAFV67AhpVnCU_os0efZprtevEKcW1p1NFDCZZiupaIhU0j7uuX-YMRtF9Jyh-K23C0SmG-_isDf-dGpvvXnScB7k-gVUENrGZ1Hh8lpU2PBQI4bs8uJotTmVV1eRgt8yh3smFm8ShVc6hyivalIgz3PjTDOxWIV1SpGzJ481Q/s4326/IMG_20220907_184658~2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A two page spread of a magazine article. On the bottom right is a picture of a cute toutouwai/black robin" border="0" data-original-height="3243" data-original-width="4326" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wAkgBkUGP992nLg_bAFV67AhpVnCU_os0efZprtevEKcW1p1NFDCZZiupaIhU0j7uuX-YMRtF9Jyh-K23C0SmG-_isDf-dGpvvXnScB7k-gVUENrGZ1Hh8lpU2PBQI4bs8uJotTmVV1eRgt8yh3smFm8ShVc6hyivalIgz3PjTDOxWIV1SpGzJ481Q/w400-h300/IMG_20220907_184658~2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(231, 233, 234); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-6378884857021287222022-08-16T19:42:00.002+12:002022-08-16T19:42:21.280+12:00New poems online<p> I have two new poems published in the online edition of <a href="https://www.takahe.org.nz/clairelacey/">takahē</a>.</p><p>I made a video reading to accompany the poem "You know I can't grab your ghost apples, Taika."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="370" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9gV0f9n6VIo" width="445" youtube-src-id="9gV0f9n6VIo"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-89584907012592792642022-05-01T22:23:00.002+12:002022-05-01T22:23:13.491+12:00I've started a podcast!<p>I wanted to embark on a project of reading more non-contemporary Kiwi literature, so I started a podcast. The first two episodes are up; one is a deep dive into Witi Ihimaera's novel <i>The Whale Rider</i>, and the second is a reading of the prologue to Julius Vogel's novel <i>Anno Domini 2000; or, A Woman's Destiny</i>. </p><p>You can subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, or listen on the website <a href="https://www.readingkiwi.com">https://www.readingkiwi.com</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Q9HwUqmyULORTm8946FAW-Ef2P2XFBtN_CMuf7FOlucd9Ib_2b6oH67-fBSQZEumowsA4OYDh_ZhYEs_qNGGrQkpl5bPbVSQ8r7F_-_NjtM0kMhaTfYoMLgyNhM-iOZVIsEHfb3QLjisD4JzbRlgLTbXd80aezLgXAMDmfgaSG_LOd9cGnsledlCOQ/s462/20220205_2011070.42342873666580283.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A logo for Reading Kiwi, featuring a digital drawing of a kiwi bird with glasses bent studiously over a book. Text: Reading Kiwi: An outsider's introduction to AoNZ literature" border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="462" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Q9HwUqmyULORTm8946FAW-Ef2P2XFBtN_CMuf7FOlucd9Ib_2b6oH67-fBSQZEumowsA4OYDh_ZhYEs_qNGGrQkpl5bPbVSQ8r7F_-_NjtM0kMhaTfYoMLgyNhM-iOZVIsEHfb3QLjisD4JzbRlgLTbXd80aezLgXAMDmfgaSG_LOd9cGnsledlCOQ/w320-h180/20220205_2011070.42342873666580283.png" title="Reading Kiwi logo" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>If you enjoy listening, you can help pay for the podcast's hosting fees by donating at<a href="https://ko-fi.com/readingkiwi"> https://ko-fi.com/readingkiwi</a></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-72620489499593137842022-03-10T14:53:00.001+13:002022-03-10T14:53:11.025+13:00Virtual Brain Week Presentation!<p> I was asked to contribute a video for Brain Week by the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand. I appreciate the opportunity to chat about my work writing and thinking about concussion.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="366" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-BvVQrGA0Xc" width="597" youtube-src-id="-BvVQrGA0Xc"></iframe></div><br /><p>This video is also hosted on the <a href="https://otagomuseum.nz/brain-week/">Otago Museum's Brain Week page</a> alongside some really fascinating talks about neurological research around Aotearoa New Zealand</p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-23134025955182160382021-06-23T11:35:00.007+12:002021-06-23T11:35:52.282+12:00New Chapbook from Model Press<p><i> Concussion Episode 7: There's A Body All Right </i>is a new chapbook of my brain injury poems. Many thanks to Model Press / Ryan Fitzpatrick for publishing this excerpt of my thesis manuscript.</p><p>You can download the pdf for free here: <a href="https://ryanfitzpatrickca.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/model-press-011-claire-lacey-concussion.pdf">https://ryanfitzpatrickca.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/model-press-011-claire-lacey-concussion.pdf</a></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-59060214040463211102021-06-16T15:37:00.003+12:002021-06-16T15:37:16.136+12:00Pre-order Impact: Women Writing After ConcussionImpact: Women Writing After Concussion features 21 writers reflecting on their experience with traumatic brain injury. It is now available to pre-order, so ask your local bookseller or check your preferred online retailer. I am so grateful to be included in this collection, and especially want to thank the editors E. D. Morin and Jane Cawthorne for their hard work throughout the process.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LazI6ITnYyY/YMlxSBDGH9I/AAAAAAAAemQ/zaL3sKY3Fz02vuEPuhJTpEXZTb2bt4M6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MorinCawthorne_Fall2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Poster for anthology Impact: Women Writing After Concussion" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1325" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LazI6ITnYyY/YMlxSBDGH9I/AAAAAAAAemQ/zaL3sKY3Fz02vuEPuhJTpEXZTb2bt4M6wCLcBGAsYHQ/w414-h640/MorinCawthorne_Fall2021.jpg" title="Impact: Women Writing After Concussion poster" width="414" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-20806255805373170702021-05-27T22:24:00.013+12:002021-05-28T10:53:28.440+12:00Hull 2017 poems<p><br /></p><p>After receiving some interest regarding my river poem "Hull 2017," first published in <a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/2018/01/touch-donkey-sixteenth-issue.html"><i>Touch the Donkey</i> issue 16</a>, I decided to make it available along with a few related poems I wrote around the same time.</p><p>So please take this little collection. And if you enjoy it, consider sharing it along.</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-EmOYftgpMVx73MYvIgXhosRvpKoR-R_/view?usp=sharing"><span></span></a></p><a name='more'></a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-EmOYftgpMVx73MYvIgXhosRvpKoR-R_/view?usp=sharing">Hull 2017 Chapbook</a><br /><p></p><p>
</p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-90724440889332250852021-04-30T16:16:00.002+12:002021-04-30T16:16:19.577+12:00After Impact opening talk at White Box Gallery<p> <i>After Impact</i> is a visual poetry display on at White Box @ Fringe HQ until May 16 2021. Below is the video of my launch talk/poetry reading. <i>After Impact</i> is a poem printed on organza fabric hung above an oscillating fan so that the ripples mimic dizziness and create a sense of unease.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-8lXs-261AE" width="491" youtube-src-id="-8lXs-261AE"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Many thanks to Fringe HQ and Katrina for giving me the opportunity to display my work in such a wonderful space. Thanks also to Jonas Goodwin for taping the presentation. My appreciation to my supervisors Jacob, Christine, and Lynley for their feedback and support on the development of my manuscript. And gratitude to Rushi, Megan, and Beth for helping along the way.</p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-20241231201386320582021-04-12T19:59:00.002+12:002021-04-12T19:59:20.651+12:00After Impact upcoming at White Box Gallery<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am so excited to present my first visual poetry exhibition at the White Box Gallery at Dunedin Fringe HQ (26 Princes Street).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">An opening reading will be held April 27 @ 7pm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Exhibition runs April 27 - May 16</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sfx0o1uiEng/YHP9ua3lWxI/AAAAAAAAd-w/PFAjOdzygOMIEGJ4XBqERtYVzCrq5-mUgCPcBGAsYHg/s3507/Adobe_Post_20210412_1738320.642071679477776.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sfx0o1uiEng/YHP9ua3lWxI/AAAAAAAAd-w/PFAjOdzygOMIEGJ4XBqERtYVzCrq5-mUgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/Adobe_Post_20210412_1738320.642071679477776.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-6936434951960273212021-02-28T12:55:00.002+13:002021-02-28T12:55:25.898+13:00n-o-b-o-d-y issue 2<p> I'm very excited to have a poem in the second issue of n-o-b-o-d-y, a poetry zine curated by the hardworking Jason Christie. The issue has an amazing lineup of poets, and is available for free at <a href="https://n-o-b-o-d-y.ca/products/issue-2-fall-2020">https://n-o-b-o-d-y.ca/products/issue-2-fall-2020</a></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-58098091553045248922021-02-26T16:59:00.002+13:002021-03-09T16:40:50.867+13:00Upcoming Events<p><b>March 13 2021</b>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/257577149270302">Brain Day Poetry Reading at Otago Museum</a>. Noon. Free entry</p><p><b>April 8 2021: </b><a href="https://www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz/article?id=RDAWUJM">Cumulus Exhibition Launch at Dunedin City Library</a>. 5:30pm. Free Entry.</p><p><b>April 26 - May 16 2021</b>: Whitebox Gallery Window Display at Dunedin Fringe</p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-34990345296787425642020-11-18T15:56:00.004+13:002020-11-18T15:56:33.357+13:00University of Waikato ALPSS Postgraduate Conference Presentation<p>On November 4 2020 I had the opportunity to present my work on poetry and brain injury at a virtual conference at the University of Waikato. Here's the video evidence:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ig6sHUpRc_c" width="320" youtube-src-id="ig6sHUpRc_c"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-89040649332482939052020-08-10T14:35:00.000+12:002020-08-10T14:35:01.288+12:00Two recent poetry pubsI'm very excited to have new poems included in the latest issues of <i><a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/landfall/current/index.html" target="_blank">Landfall</a></i> and <i><a href="https://1964.co.nz" target="_blank">1964</a></i>. <div><br /></div><div>I am grateful to be in these amazing journals next to so many writers and artists I admire, and it gives me a real thrill to be in print in Aotearoa New Zealand based journals. Does this mean I am officially a local poet now??? </div>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-29003494302452774892020-05-20T21:56:00.001+12:002020-05-20T21:56:13.840+12:00New video: Sheepish VigilErin Mouré's poem "What, me, guard sheep?" from <i>Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person</i> is my favourite poem. I know I wrote about it several times before back when this was a blog I kept regularly. I have been spending a lot of time with sheep during the Covid-19 lockdown, since I am lucky enough to live in a house with a paddock out back. I have taken to visiting the sheep daily and, often, recite lines of Mouré to them.<br />
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So when I wanted to make a video for the Octagon Poetry Collective's virtual reading series, it seemed obvious that I needed to include the sheep. I wrote a poem about a lot of things, but with Bossy, the cuddliest ewe, and Lambikins who comes galloping over for pets, in mind. Of course, when it came time to film, the four white sheep were in an unreachable corner down a steep hill. But Cassius the Grumpy Grey Ram came to see what I was doing, and so he features in the video where I talk about the sweet ewes. What a good sport. He isn't always, so I'm glad he didn't charge me. Thanks Cassius.<br />
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<br />Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-7954603287573122902020-03-31T18:31:00.001+13:002020-03-31T18:31:36.122+13:00New online article: "On Writing"Rob McLennan asked me to contribute to his ongoing series "On Writing."<br />
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I wrote about pain, process, my first book, my current project, & being publicly political.<br />
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Check it out: <a href="http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/03/on-writing-171-claire-lacey.html">http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/03/on-writing-171-claire-lacey.html</a>Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-49783541594125138042020-03-20T14:08:00.002+13:002020-03-20T14:09:24.439+13:00Videos of Recent Work<br />
With cancellations of live events, I have made some videos of recent poems I have produced as part of my PhD project which uses poetry to explore brain injury.<br />
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In the first video I give a character to the brain structure of the amygdala, which is involved in both fear and pleasure responses.<br />
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In the second, I swaddle myself in a blanket to read about brain injuries and moths.<br />
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<br />Claire Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116877862986867279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797566262478872035.post-69514501697598505872020-01-20T13:55:00.003+13:002020-01-20T14:04:10.157+13:00Dandelion 37.1 Mapping IssueThe Mapping Issue of Dandelion Magazine is something special. It doesn't currently exist online, but I believe it should. It is a thematic issue that includes poetry, prose, visual work, and originally had an audio CD accompaniment.<br />
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Check out this video of my poem Digital Dunedin commissioned for National Poetry Day hosted at the Dunedin Public Library. When Wikipedian at Large Mike Dickison paid a visit to Dunedin, he mentioned how integrated Wikipedia is in our daily lives. I took that sentiment and ran with it, creating a text that looks at how I use digital spaces including Wikipedia, Twitter, Pokemon Go, and Google Maps to navigate my physical surroundings, and that adds a layer to my environment that is both collectively generated and individually consumed. Online spaces are ambiguous and can be fraught with tension as they demand our attention, but they can also be connective and empowering. I hope this piece expresses some of that sentiment.<br />
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I am so grateful to be in Dunedin studying at the University of Otago. The support of the Department of English and Linguistics, the UNESCO City of Literature Scholarship, and the mentorship of my supervisors Jacob Edmond, Ruth Napper, and Christine Jasoni mean so much to me, and I want to make sure that although this poem emphasizes one aspect of my Dunedin experience, there has also been much to celebrate.<br />
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Finally I would like to thank oets in Space organisers Robyn Maree Pickens and Emer Lyons, as well as Dunedin Public Library, the Otago-Southland NZ Society of Authors, Phantom Billstickers, Otago University Press, UNESCO City of Literature, and the Friends of the Library. Additional thanks to Wikipedean at Large Mike Dickison for sharing his time & expertise, and Jonas Goodwin who was kind enough to record and share this video.<br />
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It was a real honour to share the stage with the other featured poets: Lynley Edmeades, Sally McIntyre, Shereen Asha Murugayah, Adam Stewart, Susan Wardell, Jessica Thompson, and Molly Crighton.<br />
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