Lecture, poetry reading, and workshop, each part including work by other Canadian poets on neurodiversity and disability. Spreading the good news. SCRANTON! I can go back to Cooper’s Seafood House and worship at The Office shrine . . .
One publishes an academic book hoping for it to find purchase in the world, but it can be very hard to tell. Carelanding: Canadian Literature and Medicine (Routledge, 2023) had no reviews, until now! My favourite thing about the review is that it TOTALLY gets me. I laughed out loud near the end and said, JUST SAY I’M AUTISTIC! Like, a review that says I’m autistic without saying I’m autistic. I’m so grateful. Guilty as charged! Thank you Talia and Dougal, I cannot IMAGINE how much work went into this roundup. I hope you escaped the curse and never have to do it again 🙂 https://academic.oup.com/ywes/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ywes/maaf111/8484061?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Delivered, successfully okayishly s 🙂
Feat accomplished. I am, finally, SOMETHING TO BE READ FOR THE PURPOSES OF INSTILLING HOPE! I knew that all these years, if I kept just shoegazing during my mope rock (aka writing about suicidality, psychosis, carceral care, ableism, stigma, sundry adverse events of childhood, medical neglect, and oh! deer deer deer deer deer) I would finally be seen! (HAD to be the effect of the smile, so rare! And only elicited because my eldest, taking the picture, is very fun and safe).
Click here for the piece by Luke Beirne.
From Tidewater Books in Sackville, NS:
It’s really positive. Yay! Thank you Todd
Shane Neilson 