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of where i ve been what i ve done combined with where i m going and how to get there i m attracted to what haunts me and i write about it to make sense of why how does my work differ from others of its genre it doesn t and it does i m me and write like me and not like anyone else i believe that our personalities shine through in all our creative endeavours my imagination sometimes gets carried away with metaphor and simile i sometimes make incomprehensible leaps that cause the people who read these leaps to look at me strangely i like to play with language and with themes of things that obsess me i never want to write the same poem twice i want each poem to stand alone and i want each book to be different my work comes as much from who i am as from all those around me why do i write what i do well good question i always wanted to be a great novelist i wrote nothing but fiction and short stories when i was a teenager often incorporating classmates into my stories but somewhere in that time frame i also wrote some really abstract yet interesting to me poems that managed to wind up on the youth page of the western producer under the pen name of the mad dr b mad indeed and almost a decade later i took a class by dave margoshes at the u of r extension alongside bernadette wagner and june mitchell and somehow i still didn t want to write poetry then a few years later i decided to finish a degree it seemed i never started working my way through school and kids and housework and all the rest of the details and somehow in all that work i began writing poetry first came small poems with short lines then i worked my way to longer poems the poems moved out of my head and onto the page with ease often building within me while i was working or trying to sleep i finished writing one book only to start another and then another right now i have two manuscripts on the go and i ve still not written my great novel what s my creative process i don t believe i really have one but maybe not having one is like having one i think a lot not always well and not always in the direction i should be thinking i read a lot i write down what how others write say that i like and play with it i take it apart and i put it together i m drawn to brightly coloured objects and things that shine humpty dumpty sat on a wall i m attracted to words and puzzles cracking the alphabet up and putting it back together again and again posted in uncategorized nov 22 he loves me posted by tracy video poem for the new book of poetry red curls under the direction of jessica riess he loves me posted in uncategorized nov 20 launch posted by tracy thistledown press is publishing my third book of poetry here s the details about my regina launch slate gallery is located 2048 halifax st see you there posted in uncategorized sep 05 red curls posted by tracy 1 is nearing its publication completion and with that delightful process comes the always adventurous journey of choosing a great cover image my publisher thistledown press didn t disappoint me when it came to picking the cover image and i was fortunate to have a hand in gathering various images provided by brazilian artist virgilio neto as red curls is musing about the lives loves and art of egon schiele and his mistress valerie neuzil it was important to me to have a cover image that reflected art about art a musing of muses neto s work i believe encapsulates the desire behind creating art in a way that is reminiscent of schiele s work and the poems well they re messy and wet they watch the audience watch them with i s all their own and set your calendars for the regina launch on october 8 and stay tuned for more details as the tour builds i ll post the dates and cities along the right posted in uncategorized may 26 fueling march on posted by tracy winter fuel that s what i call the few extra pounds i ve put on this long winter not that this winter is any longer than any others where i live it seems it s winter three quarters of the time with a bit of heat thrown in to relieve the monotony fuel could be food for the mind but this winter s been a dry cold with not much writing and not much desire to write much of anything this year like any cold bound place the ice will break the dam will be free and the world will spin me around on an axis that i have no control over what that means is that i will have a new book of poetry out this fall from thistledown press i have laboured over edits with the help of jeanette lynes an editor with a keen eye the manuscript awaits the next phase of production this process of writing for more than five years nearly over this winter chinook blowing out the season the work waiting like a youth for spring that will arrive on the tails of the fuel that feeds us all words have a way of growing posted in uncategorized mar 02 an interview posted by tracy 2 i feel like i should be a radio announcer we interrupt our regular scheduled programming to bring you this latest groundbreaking news only i m interrupting about nine months of no writing on the blog and for my news something new and old an interview with me has been posted online i m looking forward to next year s launching reading and general conversations about this book and now back to our regular scheduled programming posted in uncategorized oct 30 post post posted by tracy on the heels of yesterday s reposting of my last post about retreating in the wilds of banff this is a picture of kim williams the photographer that took my picture for the banff centre blog i thought maybe i should give everyone a bit of an update yes i m still sitting in the bowels of the ship as i write this two more days then back in the little red car which i might add is pretty darned dirty after highway driving through storms and snow to get here and quite frankly who wants to stop working to drive your car to a car wash though with a chinook coming through i may have the sun roof open and some new tunes blaring on the stereo one cd i ll be playing is from jenny eriksson called the marais project some of the new music groups to check out one is the thin edge new music collective cheryl duvall ilana waniuk both based in toronto german accordianist olivia steimel and montreal flautist composer solomiya moroz are leaving banff today and heading west to tour vancouver and victoria so if you live out west check out one of their concerts if you re in toronto check out the hot new jazz band allison au quartet and there was the exciting steinberg duo that has been recording and premiering philip sawyers violin sonato no 1 some of the other musicians i ve met are matty poon from victoria and his project musetta stone pierre dercyz of los angeles christina katsimbardis from australia and alaistair putt of london of course i ve met many more and probably will continue to meet even more in the next few days all this music needs some words on that note time to write another poem posted in uncategorized jan 30 retreat posted by tracy 4 the act of moving back withdrawal i m sitting in a ship named elsie on a mountain in the rockies elsie s a modified fishing boat thanks to architect richard henriquez s redesign and generous donation where i ve withdrawn from normal society to immerse myself in a world of the arts retreat seems a bit of an oxymoron as i ve not withdrawn so much as entered a liminal it always amuses me that the spell check doesn t recognize the word liminal space it was cold when i arrived on the tail of a storm that left winter enthusiasts extremely happy i drove my little red car onto a parking lot behind lloyd hall one week ago today and have not had to get back in it since my days are spent at the computer my feet resting on the side bench and i research various items and ideas for the poems i ve set the goal of a poem a day so far i ve managed to fulfill my goals the wind is up today but it s plus 3 outside with sun and snow dropping through the trees outside my window my studio space is secluded from campus nestled among the evergreens the elk the deer and the chickadees and i m grateful for the opportunity to be able to pull away from the daily activities that make it so hard to focus on the creative process i see my fellow artists occasionally often at lunch and dinner and we converse about our progress it s inspiring to discuss how we work and how we work in different mediums how we proceed and how it is we do what we do we re making connections that may often last a lifetime we re reflecting daily on art in an environment that encourages and promotes artists and art of course there are distractions such as mountain hiking hot springs musical rehearsals and concerts even shopping if i were to let myself be so distracted me shop how absurd but these are not so much distractions but part of the retreating process food for the mind energy for the words it s all part of the experience of my retreat at banff centre posted in uncategorized jan 17 little house on the prairie posted by tracy 2 this is one of the great views from the house on the prairie where i recently enjoyed three weeks of writing time while the wind howled relentlessly i created enough work to keep me editing until i can get away again according to the owner of the property this little shack never used to be underwater but with all the rain and snow of the past few years a small slough grew behind the barn i prefer to think of it as the drowning house posted in uncategorized sep 22 the postcard always rings twice posted by tracy 2 okay actually the postcard doesn t ring at all but it does take about two weeks to arrive i ve always loved old cards everything from postcards to valentine s to birthday greetings when i was young i would play with the saved cards my mom and dad received from their school days there was something remarkable about the artwork the paper maybe even the sentiment every so often i will stock up on old postcards to use as writing prompts or just to put up in my space i love the quality of the old sepia tones the intriguing sentiments on the back today as i was reading about the lost art of postcard writing i was remembering the robert olen butler book had a good time stories from american postcards and how fascinating the stories became when fully explored a friend of mine annette bower another regina author understands the thrill of the postcard and although she might not always send me one in the mail she ll often give me one out of the blue with a picture on it that relates to something i m doing or writing another writer friend kris brandhagen sent numerous postcards while in europe all addressed to the house on the corner of the street and avenue but no house number and i received all of the postcards albeit very late one card spawned a poem which in turn spawned a manuscript which in turn perhaps the internet is our postal service and our blogs social media work like the postcards now instant pictures instant text but although i have the tactile sense by writing my blog it s not nearly as exciting as getting a postcard in the mail i still love going to the paper store touching all of the different papers notebooks and cards i often wonder if i ll get tossed out of a store for touching the paper in inappropriate ways is that possible i still buy paper and cards and mail them every now and then i don t think writing postcards or any card is a lost art but appreciating the time and slowness and the excitement of the physical object is lost in a world of instant media lost unable to be found found having been discovered postcards a card for sending a message by mail without an envelope consider this your message in turning the post over perhaps you ll see the picture posted in uncategorized aug 06 post navigation older posts june 2026 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 nov twitter feed tweets by tracyhamon my project the plural hoe red 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