Merilyn Simonds's Blog
March 20, 2022
Just Because You Don’t See Them—Spring LitBits 2022
The white-faced ibises have disappeared. I used to climb to the rooftop terrace while the sun was splashing colour up into the dawn and watch the dark, graceful arcs of birds float across the sunrise, west to east. In the evening, my husband and I would position ourselves at our favourite restaurant at precisely 6:40 […]
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June 14, 2021
Fierce and Burning Questions—LitBits #13
Jeanette Winterson, author of 28 works of fiction including Sexing the Cherry and Lighthousekeeping, recently set fire to a pile of her newly republished books. In a tweet, she explained, “Absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers. Turned me into wimmins fiction of the worst kind! Nothing playful or strange or the ahead of time […]
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May 30, 2021
Birds Are Us
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May 16, 2021
For Whom the Caged Bird Sings
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May 2, 2021
Neighbours
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April 18, 2021
Creatures of Habit
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April 3, 2021
The Long Game
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March 21, 2021
Expeditions in Birdland
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Like a Bird in the Spring—LitBits #12
Since my last LitBits, two years have slid past, and with them, two surgeries, an ongoing pandemic, and another book begging now to be unpacked. Books Unpacked began as a place to mull over the meaning of the object we call “book.” Those musings were part of what became Gutenburg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels, and the Lasting […]
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March 29, 2019
Spring LitBits 2019
March marks the beginning of the new year for indigenous peoples in this part of the world, and for gardeners everywhere. The sense of renewal that requires real effort to conjure on January 1 comes naturally in March. It’s spring, it’s the solstice, the sun is in ascendance and the world is bursting with blossom […]
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