Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 10
with Casey Plett and D.A. Lockhart
Hello friends,
Welcome to Issue 10 of Send My Love to Anyone!
This month, I interview Casey Plett about her first memory of writing creatively and her new book A Dream of a Woman, which has been Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and D.A. Lockhart shares an excerpt from his new novel-in-verse Bearman Descend Upon Gimli.
Hope you enjoy!
Kathryn
Micro Interview with Casey Plett
Kathryn Mockler: What is your first memory of writing creatively?
Casey Plett: I was eight years old on my mom's computer and thought "Hey, I like reading books. I have a computer. I could WRITE books." I thus began work on my first novel, sadly unfinished to this date.
Read more here.
Excerpt from Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli by D.A. Lockhart
Artificer of Ice
Know that all things commence
in layers laid down as if it a lineage
of sediments over epochs, glacial
in the sense that time passes only
as it will not as one believes it must.
Season after season returns, departures
become muscle twitch, arrivals
the necessity of being and each layer
a testament to the way we react
to the world we are given. Follow
as he outlines the means to execute
an end, facilitate the gentle sweep
of broom over ice, the granite cascade
as rock carries a touch’s momentum,
outstretched hand dangled in mid-slide.
Time is marked by layers we move upon
and by those we must leave behind. Bits
of slow fought work must reach through
to both proper ends. In marten spirit,
dancing cold foot forward, side glances,
this one man mists another layer into
being, softly leaves ice beads indiscernible
to those that will play out resultant ends
on the sheet cast in lineage partially his own.Read more here.
Issue #10 of Send My Love to Anyone
Micro Interview with Casey Plett
Excerpt from Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli by D.A. Lockhart
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