Writing Down the River, July 30th | June 30, 2011
Please join us for a Writers Workshop with Jason Kirkey on Saturday, July 30th, 1-4pm at Riverbend, 143 County Road, Ipswich. Writing Down the River will explore what it means to participate in the Ipswich River Watershed through writing — whether it’s poetry or prose, fiction or nonfiction. Together with author and poet Jason Kirkey, we’ll spend time reading examples of ecologically engaged literature from such authors as Gary Snyder, David Abram and Walt Whitman. We’ll discuss our own writing as a process every bit as germane to the river as its riffles, pools, and eddies. Bring paper and a pen as we will spend time writing along the river and sharing our work.
Preregistration is required: $25 per person, refreshments will be served
Please contact Cynthia at cingelfinger@ipswichriver.org or call 978-412-8200
“Estuaries by Jason Kirkey invites the reader to experience a sense of peace and simplicity while reading. A sense of rest, an observation of a sunset, tea, a oneness with rain, leads us to a deeper peace As I read, I continued to realize almost an organic peace from reading, an absence of barriers between the images presented and my own consciousness. Yet there is a ‘wild vernacular’ also expressed here. The poet is a bridge between the inner world of the reader who seeks balance, and the wild outer world of estuaries, rivers, clouds and wind. We watch and listen with this poet, where in the presence of apple tree blossoms ‘the mind is set on fire/ with love.’” —Karolyn Redoute, author of Prayers of the Shaman
Estuaries Update | May 21, 2011Hiraeth Press is now taking pre-orders for Estuaries. The first 25 orders will receive a free signed and limited edition broadsheet featuring a poem from the book. Unfortunately, however, we won’t be able to ship books on Saturday as planned. We’ve had some issues with our printer and, as a result, will not be able to ship until Tuesday (May 24) at the earliest. I’ll keep you posted here. We did a pre-launch event on Facebook where I posted videos of 9 poems from the collection. You can watch all the videos on our new YouTube channel. Here’s the video for the title poem, Estuary: Estuaries: Coming May 21, 2011 | December 26, 2010
There is an estuary I too must be an estuary of confluent tides— —Jason Kirkey Song of the Wild | June 10, 2010As promised, here is the Future Primitive interview conducted by Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Winner of the Silver Medal | June 5, 2010
Additionally, UK readers now have the option of ordering The Salmon in the Spring from the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Shipping internationally is quite expensive so I hope that this will alleviate that issue. Of course, if you prefer to buy directly from the author that option is still available. Finally, I have added several new essays to the website: Re-inhabiting the Earth (2010) What Use Are Poets in Times of Need? (2010) Preserving Truth (2009) Keep your eye on this space for an upcoming audio interview from Future Primitive! The Salmon in the Spring Released | November 6, 2009Many bits of good news to share. The Salmon in the Spring was officially released on November 1st and thanks to everyone who ordered it achieved an overall sales rank of #1300 on Amazon.com; reaching #1 in their Celtic Mythology section and the #2 position in Celtic Spirituality, beat only by John O’Donohue’s Anam Cara. Of course, Amazon.com sales ranks are fleeting and it has now returned to a more humble number. If you haven’t yet ordered your copy you can do so now from your favorite online retailer or directly from this website in the book section. I’m extending the pre-order price of $14.95 until Monday. If you want to take advantage of it, now is the time to do so. It may temporarily take 1 to 2 weeks for books to ship depending on inventory, something which will soon be remedied. Also, the winner of the book raffle will be chosen this weekend and contacted by e-mail. Thanks to everyone who signed up for the newsletter. In other news, there are two interviews with me about The Salmon in the Spring and my work in general. One is available in Druidic Dawn’s latest equinox newsletter which is freely downloadable in PDF form here: http://www.druidicdawn.org/files/AontachtVolume2Issue2.pdf. The other, done by James Liter of The Druid’s Utterance website, is available here: Finally, there are a few talks and workshops that are in the development stage and I hope to start adding them to the schedule soon. I can, however, briefly confirm that I’ll be giving two short talks at conferences. I’ll be speaking at the Integral Ecology conference hosted by California Institute of Integral Studies on November 20th and have just been told that my abstract for the 6th Conference on Current Pagan Studies has been accepted. The conference is from January 30th-31st hosted by Claremont Graduate University. The talk is titled “Wild Law and the Irish Goddess: Myth and Ecosystem as a Model of Sustainability.” I also promise more accessible and less academic events in the near future. Pre-Orders Now Available | September 25, 2009You are now able to pre-order The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality! Your pre-orders help fund the printing and promotion of the book and are greatly appreciated. As a way of saying thank you I have set the preorder price to $14.95 (plus shipping). This price will last until November 1st when the book is officially released, at which point it will be raised to $17.95. Pre-orders will ship as soon as the book is available which may be before the official release date. Welcome to Dinnseanchas | August 29, 2009Welcome to the brand new Dinnseanchas website! Work has now, for the most part, been completed on The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality and is slated for a November 1st release. It will be available from this website as well as from most online book retailers. If you were part of the Hiraeth Press mailing list in the past you may want to sign up for the Dinnseanchas list. Both websites were hacked and had to be wiped clean (if you purchased books from Hiraeth Press, don’t worry–your personal information was safe!). Signing up for the mailing list will automatically enter you into a drawing to win a free copy of The Salmon in the Spring. I’ll have more details on that later but I would like to do something special for it such as creating a hardcover copy for the winner (the book will only be available in paperback). The site is a bit bare-bones at the moment but I’ll be adding more content gradually, including some new essays that are in the works and will be completed sometime after book release madness has subsided. One thing to keep your eyes open for in the next month or so is a sample excerpt from the book. I’ll be putting up the foreword (being written by Frank MacEowen), the introduction, and possibly a few pages from the first chapter. I want to whet some appetites! There will be an event schedule going up, hopefully around the time the book is released. You can help with this too, though! If you know event organizers who might like to host a workshop, lecture, or even a poetry reading I would love to travel to your town (or country). Finally, after over a year of working with prose I’m slowly turning my attention back to my fourth poetry collection. There are some samples up on the poetry page (not all of which are guaranteed to make it into the book). The collection is called Twenty-One Ways to Birth a Heart and in some respects is a return to a more simple haiku-inspired form but with an eye for telling an overall “transformative narrative” through verse. In some sense I see it as one long poem, though each stands alone just fine. More news to come in the near future… |
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