Laurie Brinklow – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:20:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 My island’s the house I sleep in at night /store/my-islands-the-house-i-sleep-in-at-night.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-islands-the-house-i-sleep-in-at-night Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:20:19 +0000 /store/my-islands-the-house-i-sleep-in-at-night "Being an Islander means that you aren't like everyone else." Bounded by water, you can live your life with certainty knowing where your edges are. Drawn from interviews with artists from Newfoundland and Tasmania, these poems capture what it means to be an islander. To know every rock and tickle, "the sea your road /the whole in the sky /your light to travel by. In My island's the house I sleep in at night, Brinklow weaves stories and images with her own poetic imaginings.

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]]> 85875 Here for the Music /store/here-for-the-music.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=here-for-the-music Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:54:19 +0000 /store/here-for-the-music.html/here-for-the-music Laurie Brinklow's long-awaited first collection of poems beaches the reader on the shores of contemporary womanhood. Strewn with memories of the tumultuous journey through childhood to adulthood and the detritus of relationships chanced and abandoned, finally being "here" brings to devotion to daughters and friends and an Island place. Brinklow's book contains the tidal pull of loss and renewal, departure and arrival that keeps a lover of islands so close to the edges of life and death. That's the here. But what she is "here" for is both more magical and more pragmatic: the music. It's the music of language and the dance of human relationships, the sex and love melodies that bewilder and beguile. Brinklow brings this music down to us where we live, with the earthy touch of the "angel-in-charge-of-things-as-they-really-are."

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]]> 54634 From Black Horses to White Steeds /store/from-black-horses-to-white-steeds.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-black-horses-to-white-steeds Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:53:39 +0000 /store/from-black-horses-to-white-steeds.html/from-black-horses-to-white-steeds This book discusses how small communities can survive and flourish. Edited by Laurie Brinklow and Ryan Gibson, it celebrates and critiques the dynamics of innovation, governance, and culture in place. Case studies from both sides of the North Atlantic illustrate episodes of "turning around": the evolution, transformation, and visionary strategy that breathe new life into the term "think global, act local."

The book's chapters focus on the strength of local initiatives, the impacts of collective power, and re-envisioning local assets. They explore how various "black horses"--including minorities, small towns, peripheries, Aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice, or political leverage--can rise to the occasion and chart livable futures.

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