Notebook 2012

In 2012 I intend to be posting more to Notebook. The posts will be more scrappy and fragmentary--I'll be returning to using the blog more as an online scrapbook.

I'll be including links to information to books I've read, notes, observations, unusual words, etc.

I'll also be keeping up with Tuesday Poem. I think it's worth the effort. Poetry is perceived by many as an elitist literary form and Tuesday Poem seems to be a good way for people to read poems outside of literary journals and anthologies. Please contact me if you'd like to offer a poem for Tuesday Poem.

My main aim will be use the blog to track my reading so I can go back and find links to what I've read. I am still a bookworm: I'm one of those people who really don't watch a lot of TV although the eternal teenager in me is still fascinated by contemporary music--I watch a little of 'Transmission' on Juice nearly every night. I like being old enough to see how sensibilities mutate and change over time--the 'uncool' of LMFAO's videos remind me of Devo and New Wave. There's a sense of fun but also a DIY anti-elitist, anti-consumerist aesthetic at work.

Expect more rambling in the oncoming year. Expect less posts to Facebook (I have just had enough of it and I'm not even sure why! It's only really good for keeping in touch with family overseas).

I wont mention the three books I'm reviewing (more on those later) but I've just finished and enjoyed Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang and Jo Thorpe's in/let.

Poem for today: Jo Thorpe's in/let.

Cy Matthews reviews in in/let (along with two other books) over at The Landfall Review.

I hope that you are all having a great holiday. All the best for 2012.