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Elizabeth Bishop blog

Susan — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:27:33 +0000

www.elizabethbishopcentenary.blogspot.com

If you’re a Bishop fan, check out this great blog. Next year is the centenary of her birth, and Nova Scotia will host a variety of events to mark it.

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Susan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:49:39 +0000

In response to recent questions:

I found my little coffee maker on-line. You, too, can find it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=espresso+maker So far, I’ve tried it three or four times and have not yet found the perfect coffee to water ratio.
It cost $60.00. Well, it is electric, you see.
It’s a little larger than I expected, but worth packing anyway when one considers the option of hotel coffee.
Info on the Wallace Stegner House can be found here: http://www.stegnerhouse.ca/ I’m anticipating my stay there with great delight.
I’m concerned about the Prius recall, but not panicked. If I drove a Ford Fusion, I’d probably feel the same concern. http://www.ozcarguide.com/news-reviews/auto-news/1620-recall-ford-fusion-milan-hybrid
Penultimate –adjective (cut and pasted from an online dictionary, so it must be right)

1. next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play. 2. of or pertaining to a penult – second to last syllable of a word.

The Bishop House fundraiser was a success. All great readers, and there were treats.

Well, that’s the best I can do in answering some of your questions, but please keep them coming. I’m happy to share.

Three Valentines for Elizabeth Bishop

Susan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:01:18 +0000

Here are the details, as promised, for the EB event coming up. It’s a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Oh, and if you wonder about the italics below, they are all titles of or phrases from Bishop poems.

THREE VALENTINES for ELIZABETH BISHOP

Celebrate Elizabeth Bishop’s Birthday

Date: Sunday, 7 February 2010

Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Place: Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia

1113 Marginal Road (beside Garrison Beer, just up from Pier 21)

Help Heat Her Home

(a fund-raiser for the Elizabeth Bishop House Artists’ Retreat)

Come as your favourite Bishop character or creature, or just come as What You Will. Don’t let Manners inhibit you. Come as The Man-Moth or The Moose. Have The Wit to be The Fish or The Armadillo. You might need The Patience of an Angel to be The Unbeliever or The Prodigal, but please, come flying!!

Don’t wait for The End of March or A Cold Spring. Dispel the mid-winter blahs! Come for the readings, come for the birthday cake, come for the prizes (best costume is a weekend at the EB House!!). Who knows, you might end up Exchanging Hats!!!

The Colder the Air the warmer the welcome!

Readers include: John Barnstead, Susan Crowe, Colleen Gareau, Carmen Klassen, Truman Layton, Suzie LeBlanc, Claire Miller, John Plant

Light refreshments

RSVP Sandra at: slbarry@ns.sympatico.ca or 429-6385

One Art – Elizabeth Bishop

Susan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:15:27 +0000

One Art - Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

– Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster