Blog carnival > language > place edition #6

see Curve of early learning page for my contribution

                                              

 For links to other contributors - and a mental feast of language - check out

http://michelleelvy.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/language-and-place-on-the-edge/

Michelle says: 
Visit this month’s Blog Carnival and see why thirty writers and artists linger on the edge. In stunning images and words, people in places as different as Baltimore and Hong Kong, Newport and New Zealand, London and Nepal, explore the edges of art, story, poetry, text, history, innocence, experience.

Angels fall [Book Blurb Friday]

Last time Luke Darbyshere worked with Francesca Lloyd there had been fireworks, as well as sparks of a more personal kind.

This time bells were rung, but rather than signifying a wedding they were heard at midnight on the eve of the Feast of Stephen, an unmelodious cacophony which, upon investigation, was found to be due to a body having been suspended from the tenor bell in the tower of St. Crispin’s.

That the body was female was unusual, that she was the Vicar’s second, and exceptionally pretty wife curious and that she was six months pregnant – when he had only met her four months ago – suspicious in the extreme.  

That no fewer than four men from the parish – all potential suspects – were found to have simultaneously disappeared made Luke Darbyshere’s investigation more than reasonably time-consuming, as did Francesca’s vociferously expressed belief that he was wilfully ignoring the obvious.

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Week #13’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge which this week uses Kathy Matthews’ stunning and hopefully unseasonal (at least for the UK) photograph.

Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover.   Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book”   The number of ought-to-be but not-yet-written books, sadly, increases weekly.

http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html

Friendship

'Coast walks' Orkney Gallery, 2006

A friend called round today on the off-chance that I'd be in - it had been such a long time that I hardly recognised her since she'd had her hair cut completely differently and lost weight.   Nevertheless it was lovely to see her and we spent a couple of hours catching up.

We'd met at art college - both mature students - shared a love of Orkney - she had to be one of the best ever friends to go on holiday with - practical, cheerful and appreciative - and several exhibitions, both locally and in Orkney.   Beyond this we had little in common so there was no compulsion to keep meeting.

Nevertheless it was great to catch up, to find we still communicated on an equal level of trust and liking - and we look forward to getting together again in another couple of years or so ...

Poem on Pigeon Bike

I've a poem, 'Rook', on Pigeon Bike - lots of other nice things there too.

HoWs of the Rising Sun - the book of the book below!

 All of us were inspired - and some of the best that came from that momentous weekend can be downloaded for free, courtesy of Mike Handley who painted the cover and put it all together and Jared Handley who finally made it real

http://issuu.com/pompetous/docs/hows_of_the_rising_sun?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true

House of Writers [Book Blurb Friday]

New Orleans, Labour weekend, Southern Decadence, Saints versus Vikings in the opening match of the season ... and the fifth anniversary of Katrina.

All this plus the first meeting of eight writers, known only to each other through their writing on a well-known social site: a journalist, a couple of teachers and a travel agent, three from the wider world of commerce and a couple of stay-at-homes. From Alabama to Texas, from Germany, Mexico and Great Britain for a long weekend, armed with pen and paper and fuelled by enthusiasm and a selection of whiskies.

THIS TRUE STORY is the never-before-told account of that momentous weekend from which none returned home unchanged. Unexpurgated account written by Someone Who Was There [120 words]

Week #12’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge which this week uses one of my photos, taken in New Orleans last September.

Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover. Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book” The number of ought-to-be but not-yet-written books, sadly, increases weekly.
http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html