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New review of What to feel, How to feel

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“But it’s his dazzling erudition and tender, furious heart that will invariably compel his readers’ empathy and attention throughout these essays. Whether you’re seeking luminous language and experimental forms, a brilliant polemic, or a life-affirming meditation by a loving father and doctor, What to Feel, How to Feel is a singular, highly original disability treatise that establishes a new frontier for medical narratives in Canadian literature.” Yellow Bookie says thank you Kevin MacDonald and Owen Percy at The Ampersand Review for this attention.

Creating Space 16 Conference

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A great reading at the Creating Space 16 conference at 50 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. A poetry buying crowd – 23 books sold, wild! Thank you to fellow readers Nancy Huggett, Conner Clayton, and Jim Johnstone; my publishers Palimpsest Press & Goose Lane Editions, and to Dr. Robert Stacey of U o Ottawa for the introduction!

“13 books to make you feel hopeful as the new year gets underway”

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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).

Shortlisted for the GG!

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My book about SpockGonzoing the Wild Fandango has been shortlisted for a nice award! Or, my book about being despised in social space, despised in professional space, and yet somehow bringing a special solidarity as a parent to my intellectually disabled child, has been shortlisted for an award! Do consider ordering from Palimpsest Press or from your local bookshop. And further FYI, I’ll be on Craig Norris’ Morning Edition of CBC KW around 810 am Wednesday Oct. 29, livestream here. Looking forward to the conversation . . .

Guelph!

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Part of the permatour! Surprising sales at the Albion last Tuesday night, great crowd. Thanks to River Street for running a great ship. And people came from work, NO WAY, that’s a feat rarely accomplished. With thanks to those friends especially.