Happy Book Birthday to The Seasons!
now available from Full House Literary
What better day to launch a new creative work than Leap Day, February 29. Thanks to JP Seabright and Leia Butler for all their hard work with this chapbook. I’m really pleased to have it out in the world.
You can purchase a copy of the digital chapbook here. You can sign up to Sunday’s launch on Zoom here.
Gratitude to Katy, rob and Dan for these glowing notes.
“From Amanda Earl’s enchanted imagination comes The Seasons, set in Upper Zygonia, a fantastical planet filled with seadragons, nymphs, burlesque dancers, burgundy ravens, and Tarot readings for mourners. A place where the dead morph into trees and the Library of Whimsy is open all night. The sections of the chapbook explore various seasons in Upper Zygonia, each associated with a different colour—White, the season of Clarity; Purple, the season of mourning; Orange, the season of energy. Through her dazzling narrative and visual poetry, Earl transports us to a cherished planet—a place of marmalade nights, mooncakes and mermaids—offering an earthy, whimsical and wise vision.”
Katy Wimhurst - writer, visual artist, and author of Snapshots of the Apocalypse (Fly on the Wall Press, 2022), Let Them Float (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) and Fifty-One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press, 2023).
“Amanda Earl is easily one of the most engaged and vibrant contemporary poets in Canada, and her work has been flying under the radar for far too long. Please pay attention.”
rob mclennan - author, editor and publisher of above/ground press
“Earl conjures an immersive, curiously unfolding world, hopping deftly between visual poetry and narrative verse. This poetry has its own rules, its own structures, its own colours, and many multi-sensory delights to discover. Rarely does reading feel so much like exploring.”
Dan Power - writer, editor and publisher at Trickhouse Press
This is part of a larger work entitled Welcome to Upper Zygonia. Another excerpt was published by above/ground press in 2022, and is still available here.
I owe gratitude to the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers and the City of Ottawa’s Creative Productive Fund for Emerging and Established Writers for funding received during the writing of Welcome to Upper Zygonia.
