Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 27
with Deborah Dundas, Catherine Graham, Concetta Principe, and Kirby
Hello Friends,
For Issue 27, Send My Love to Anyone presents three excerpts of newly published books. In On Class Deborah Dundas explores poverty and her own story of growing up poor. Catherine Graham shares two poems from her new poetry book Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems. And Concetta Principe reflects on the academy and mental health in her new lyric memoir Disciple n. v.
And in their SMLTA column, The First Time, Kirby writes about floundering.
For Issue 27 Gatherings (a roundup of recommendations), I recommend Fertile Festival, contributor launches, Hannah Black, Kevin Chong, Banff Winter Residency, Somebody Somewhere, and Being Mary Tyler Moore
Hope you enjoy this issue!
Kathryn
Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 27
Deborah Dundas | Issue 27
Excerpt from On Class On Privilege and Expectations WHEN I WAS in grade eight, we were evicted from our subsidized apartment in one of the poorer areas of Toronto. I was a kid, I don’t know the reasons and straight answers can be hard to come by. What I do know is that I came home from school to find a yellow sheet of paper from the Sherriff’s office tape…
Catherine Graham | Issue 27
Consider the Scythian Lamb We reason about unreasonable things: the ratio of a hippogryph’s wings to its body, if it can fly. If the yeti is more likely than elf to exist when we know they both don’t. Consider the Scythian Lamb. Seed breaks through, roots stalk their slow crawl into green networks towards the nourishing air, lengthen with sun’s …
Concetta Principe | Issue 27
FAILURE My failure does not start in the third year of my undergrad, first year at U of T, in my second year class on Chaucer. But I will start there since it’s relevant to my degree, my suffering (we all suffer), and the reason my application to the PhD program in English Literature at York University was rejected. It was a shock, rejection always is. I…
Floundering [Not Dead] | The First Time
![Floundering [Not Dead] | The First Time](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fjb!,w_1300,h_650,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb400c571-9b61-4fc2-818e-39e37b0c1000_960x1280.jpeg)
“People have been tellin’ me the Toronto Lit Scene is dead.” About two dozen of us make it out to a poet’s book launch in the Junction. A good showing. For many in Toronto, this is viewed as a distance too far, when it’s actually a pretty direct route just off the subway line, s…
Gatherings | Issue 27
Recommended Viewing I enjoyed the Being Mary Tyler Moore documentary. I forgot she was the first woman to wear pants on TV in the Dick Van Dyke Show.
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I love this issue. All of it.
Thanks, Kathryn.
Ronna