OUR ARCHIVES : February 2010

Best-selling Home and Away to be featured on CKUA’s Bookmark program

Tune in to CKUA on Sunday, March 7, at 12:30 pm, as Ken Davis talks to House of Blue Skies publisher and editor Dymphny Dronyk about Home and Away.
Ken and Dymphny chat about how House of Blue Skies got its start, the process of creating a poetry anthology, the fun of working with Alberta’s amazing […]

the Neruda spell #10

do not love me
do not love my words
for like me they are without
body or mind bereft
of a place for soul
so that even the touch of
my bare feet to the ground
signals the idea of nothing
complete not even that of
a life lip-licked on vellum
~ Anne Sorbie
Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives and writes […]

the Neruda spell #9

my eyes weep violets and blood
my palms hold mountains and men
yet one touch of your hand
is like a promissory note
carved in agate on a high peak
tumbled in the heat of thawing falls
~ Anne Sorbie
Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives and writes in Calgary. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as […]

the neruda spell #8

plant pots and poets
are nerudal subjects
inspected from above
as if by agate-eyed white doves
crushed like a beach
crashed and sanded
by the ocean’s
constant salt
~ Anne Sorbie
Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives and writes in Calgary. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as Geist and Other Voices. Anne’s first novel, Memoir of […]

the neruda spell #7

can you bear
a poem
fur it in snarls
and great rearing jaws
claw at it without
tearing asunder
its meaty parts
while blue sky
and white sun
reign warmth
on its strangled throat
~ Anne Sorbie
Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives and writes in Calgary. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as Geist and Other Voices. Anne’s first novel, […]