I was just searching out an answer to a question posed by Dr. Paul White of the Darwin Correspondence Project in relation to the death of Charles Darwin and never remembering where I find anything, I returned to The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online and to Emma’s diary for the year 1882 and discovered [...]
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Ryan Van Winkle meets Darwin and My Donkey
There’s an interview with me up at the Scottish Poetry Library’s website, conducted by one wonderfully named-wonderfully funny Ryan Van Winkle, on all things Darwin, plus the life of an ex-pat (we were both once-upon-a-time American). I saw Ryan read last night at The Arches in Glasgow at Discombobulate and it’s like Allen Ginsberg come [...]
The Darwin Poems wins poetry prize
I just found out that I won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry for The Darwin Poems. This prize is awarded by the University of Melbourne, Australia and it was chosen from a field of 152 books. Thank you University of Melbourne!
Darwin and Dickinson on Radio
I’ve just done a radio interview with Maggie Ball. Go to this link at Compulsive Reader.com to hear it. I read a couple of poems as well: ‘The Donkey, August, 1817′ and ‘Handel, January 1836′.
There’s also an upcoming ABC radio program (ABC’s The Book Show) recorded during the Melbourne Writers’ Festival of a session I participated in [...]
Wallace to her Darwin
I wanted to see Ruth Padel speak at Edinburgh Writers’ Fest, but sadly parental commitments prohibited me at the last minute. I have been both curious and a bit tentative about meeting her, though I sent her an email proposing we should and she responded very sweetly to me. Two women poets with essentially the [...]
Edinburgh Festival in The List
Here’s a link to my event in The List magazine. I’m reading with Jen Hadfield, the T.S. Eliot poetry prizewinner featured here. Full details of our event are also listed below if you scroll down to August 17th, 4:30.
A Darwinian Dialogue
I haven’t blogged in quite some time, since my days at Loch Long, collecting old pottery from the beach. Since then, a couple of readings, most recently at the lovely Cambridge Libraries Garden Party under Milton’s tree at Christ’s College. A gorgeous evening and I got to meet a lot of keen librarians, my favorite [...]
A Kantian Phase: on blogging and beachcombing
I have been spending several weeks on the shores of Loch Long, on a residency at Cove Park with my partner, who has been sponsored by the Scottish Arts Council. The beach that lines the loch, under the gaze of the ever-beautiful Highland mountains, is covered with stones, slate and granite, and also, I have [...]
Emily Ballou will read June 17th at The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh
I will be reading at The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh, as part of The Golden Hour, on June 17th, 2009 from 8 p.m thereabouts. Free (BYOB). There are also other poets and a few bands, one of which, St Jude’s Infirmary, sound lovely. All of this organised by the ever-intrepid Ryan Van Winkle.
I will also be [...]
Ten Things I’ve Learned from Darwin
This is a short piece I wrote for the weekend Australian Magazine about my work with Charles Darwin. It was published the weekend following his birthday in February, 2009.
When I was five, my father put me on his knee and tried to explain the history of evolution to me. I stared in disbelief, as everything [...]
