Andreae Callanan

poetry, scholarship, curiosity

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  • 14 July 2024

    Andreae’s hand is holding a slim poetry collection called The Wind Has Robbed the Legs Off a Madwoman, by Agnes Walsh. The book cover is dark blue with streaks of green, and has a swirly abstract image is an elongated human form with a skull-like/owl-like white face.

    I wrote a little review of Agnes Walsh’s new poetry collection for Riddle Fence; you can read the review here. It’s been ages since I last wrote a short-and-sweet review, and l loved doing it. Having to distill your thoughts on a whole book down to 500 words is such a good exercise, especially when you’ve been in expansive academic writing mode for so long.

    I’ve got a couple other things going on as well. I’m working on a short article that I can’t talk about right now, but which I’ll be filing on Friday. On Thursday night, I’m going to be joining the superb Louise Moyes on stage at Sound Symposium XXI, with musician-scholar Jing Xia. The piece is called “Comedy of Care” and I’m planning to read some new work.

    I’m trucking along in my work towards revising my thesis into a book. I know what I want to do, and where I want it to go. It’s going to mean a significant overhaul — cutting a lot of the analytic content, expanding the memoiristic elements — but I’m excited to do it. (In the meantime, if anyone has any interest in the ultra nerdy original iteration of the work, it’s finally up on Memorial’s research repository, which means you can read it in pdf form.)