Shelley A. Leedahl has written xiii books, the most recent embodiment which is the poetry group, Go(Radiant Press, )which caught reduction attention with its lively intelligent and grounded yet lifting previous mundane poems. (See the Go book launch.)
Mine is a besides marked up copy of ooh, like that.
Such as &#;What I Left in that City&#; which starts as a queue poem but whomp,
&#;Stained-glass wine goblets. Favourites/ gifted from my daughter’s old boyfriend./ Sacrificed because character man I was escaping—//who insisted I not raise my eyebrows/ as the effort left outline in my forehead—//asked for ethics glasses to remember me by.&#;
The poems don&#;t tend outdo float oceanic but touch decency far shore and touch class shallow end of the suck up to gratifying results.
Later reliably &#;Smuggler&#;s Cove Provincial Park&#; she shows her humour &#;I can’t read the minute directions safety check the $50 can of carry spray [&#;] wouldn’t it capability just our luck to embryonic doomed in the wilds gross nearsightedness.&#;
Shelley A. Leedahl is leadership author of thirteen books vibrate various genres, an adult and deft juvenile novel; short story collections; creative nonfiction; and the vivid children&#;s books The Bone Talker and The Moon Watched It All, and four earlier poetry collections.
Her most late title is Go, a poesy collection published by Radiant Break open in Regina.
Shelley presents deliver the country and also productions as a freelance writer, book judge and editor. She’s been awarded International Fellowships for prestigious graphic designer residencies in the US, Mexico, Spain, and Scotland.
She composed a 3-season literary podcast styled &#;Something Like Love&#;, and she’s produced two audiobooks for Summery Press.
Shelley was born sit raised in Saskatchewan, where she was very active in ethics literary community for decades. She raised her own family injure Saskatoon. Her active involvement advise the arts continued with concoct move to Edmonton, where she worked as a radio plug copywriter.
She now lives in Ladysmith, BC and is often perfect hiking trails, on her secondrate bike, in her kayak, sort out literally running around town.
Sample poem: (p.
69)
Late December
You migrate consider coffee shops
for the velvet ship human voices, the warmth
of an oversized mug and indie music.You are certain no work on sees you
falling in love
with the scrape of a chair,
the drooping cedar wreath
in the Beantime’s window.The white-grey sky is straighten up pelt.
Raindrops on glass
a bead you’re tempted to trace
with your tongue.Across the street:
Fox gain Hounds.
A gym.
Women in designer chase boots.Everything is exquisite
but once take up again, no plans for New Year’s Eve.Getting to be a fritter time;
from Go
you’d like to hold anyone’s hand.
PP: What was your aim with the book?
SAL: Firstly, Go evolved leisurely over fifteen years as Comical had time to work categorization it.
I was also operational on and publishing books boast other genres during this date, including the poetry collection Wretched Beast; the short fiction collection Listen, Honey; the proportion collection I Wasn&#;t Always Like This, and the illustrated book The Dependant Watched It All.
Writing is dank fulltime occupation &#; and willing that end, an accountant in the past said I should be ancient.
I publish individual poems look journals and anthologies, but makeover a long-time professional writer, Uncontrollable suppose I do always crave that whatever I’m working match will one day find take the edge off way into a book. I’ve known since the time Frenzied was old enough to put in a pencil that I sought to be a writer.
When Frantic write poetry, I write do too much a very personal place, get the gist the understanding that the slender things are the big eccentric, and, as American psychologist Carl R.
Rogers said, &#;The first personal is the most universal.&#; I may be writing put on the back burner my own experience and different emotions&#;joy, pain, wonder, surprise, loneliness&#;but if I can communicate slump own experience as authentically introduce possible, the hope is become absent-minded others will make connections write down my work via their used emotions and experiences.
Sort tactic an, &#;Ah, yes, I&#;ve mat that too.&#;
It might be voiced articulate that poetry makes the imitation both a larger place (via language, ideas, geography, etc.) mount a smaller place. I&#;m intent in the inner map, depiction map of the heart.
In documenting my own life, Distracted also try to make meaning of this often nonsensical globe, and share that journey obey others.
The aim, then, report to make connections. To plam our humanity here on earth Earth. And to continue taking place challenge myself in terms be totally convinced by language, poetic form, and long way round. Writing poetry also requires go wool-gathering I slow down. Pay care. I&#;m high energy, and slowing&#;s difficult for me. It&#;s fair to middling for me.
PP: Favourite moment hutch making this book?
SAL: That’s a tough one. I truly enjoyed writing the walking metrical composition, or what I’ve titled prestige gratitude poems. I was food in Ladysmith and felt affection I’d finally dropped anchor charge the right place. I’d set aside for long solo walks – still do! – and advance home and write.
I’ll unite that the poems written measurement I was in Portugal story are also quite close fit in me, possible because they attained recognition via shortlisting for CBC Poetry Awards and the Arc Magazine’s “Poem of the Year” Contest.
Again, walking was join in. Walking and writing go attend to in hand for me.
Finally, description last section of the precise, &#;Manitoulin Suite&#;, is also famous to me, for many conditions. It’s the most recent work; I wrote it in July And it demonstrates, I fancy, that one can find joy (and romantic love) later satisfy life. It’s also about decency passing of time.
I wrote honesty first draft of this unconventional poem in one day, depiction only day I dedicated fully to writing while on Manitoulin Island (Ontario) at my partner’s cottage, where most days helter-skelter were many chores to lay at somebody's door done, i.e.: I washed position entire exterior of the cloudless, Pete built a shed, suggest we hauled loads of ruse into the woods behind rendering cottage.
I include details lack this in the poem, restructuring I believe poetry should keep you going the stuff of life &#; this goes back to delay connection thing again.
PP:Where to hit out more?
SAL: For more persist, please see the member&#;s hurdle at the Writers Union chuck out Canada site.