News
New poems from ‘The Map of Yes’ are forthcoming in The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead.
This summer Aislinn co-edited a special ekphrastic issue for Arc Magazine called ‘Poet as Art Thief’. Aislinn’s essay on poetry and art (’Notes from Outside the Object Language Exchange’) and a conversation between Aislinn and the marvelous Anne Simpson are part of an issue that will knock your smock off.
In the November 2009 Palimpsest Press published ‘A Peepshow with Views of the Interior’ Aislinn’s new book of lyric essays on writing, the imagination and things. In the words of one reviewer: “Just about every page of this book provides a new insight into the world of language, imagination, the I and the other.” (Michael Mirolla, Event 39.1)
In the fall of 2009 Aislinn was holed up in the UK doing PhD research.
In the fall of 2008 Aislinn was happily posted at Memorial University in St John’s, Newfoundland as the English Department’s writer-in-residence. Thanks for a wonderful time go to the English Dept at Memorial, the Canada Council for the Arts, the office of the Dean, and whatever gods were forestalling Winter until she got home. Favourite pubs: The Duke, The Ship and Erin’s. Favourite writers: Joel Thomas Hynes, Patrick Warner, and George Murray. Read ‘em.
In September 2008 Aislinn gave a paper on resonance and the lock of hair in Victorian culture at Oxford University.
In August 2008 Aislinn gave two other papers in the UK: ‘Phenomenological Resonance: Presence and Absence in Beloved Things’ at the BAVS Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions conference at the University of Leicester and ‘And So, she Appears: Women Writers in the Contemporary / Historical Poetic Space’ at the Adapting the Nineteenth Century: Revisiting, Revising and Rewriting the Past conference at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
A short essay on ‘Anon and the Pleasures of Lost Histories’ appeared in Arc Magazine and Aislinn’s desk (from which she wrote said essay) has been (in an otherwise unrelated way) recently featured in the Writer’s Rooms section of The Vancouver International Writer’s Festival web page
(Though she and Glenn have recently moved and she has a big and beautiful study now.)
Other recent publications include an essay on the Canadian Modernist poet Louise Morey Bowman in Arc’s ‘Neglected and Forgotten’ June 2007 issue. (An issue no reader of poetry should miss.) www.arcpoetry.ca.
In September 2007 Aislinn completed her MSc (with distinction) in Writing and Cultural Politics at The University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation was on books as things (via Heidegger) in the Victorian era (focusing on the Brontës). She is currently pursuing her PhD (at the University of Edinburgh) on a prestigious Humanities Studentship for which she is very, very, very, very grateful. Her dissertation is on the cultural phenomenology of beloved objects.
And finally, Cooper (a Border collie born on a vineyard) is growing up into a super dog, and his pack mate Juniper (or ‘Joon’) a rescue from That’ll Do Border Collie Rescue is filling out the family beautifully. In the summer of 2010 we even had a foster dog called Sprite. We are now thinking about getting ourselves some sheep.
