Upstream
Bethany Joy DawsonUpstream is an offering of essays that map the landscape as I see it. I will tell some old stories, a few borrowed stories and one or two that explore why walking against the weight of water is a beautiful calling.
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Against Polemics
‘A good essay is a journey, knotty and meandering, with moments of clarifying insights. You take an idea, or an opinion, for a walk.’1 That’s Susan Tomaselli in her excellent Manifesto on Essays. I immediately think of Pip, my Parsons Terri...
The Four B's before a Book Launch
I am out on this bright morning to commune with my familiars*. These spirits take on fur and feather, setae and pelage, and they come so close when I am still, but it is three days until my book launch and I am restless.
Bird
Blackbi...
I Bet You Think This Book is About You
Winter at my desk when I was in the thick of editing with help from Pip.
My novel is not about…
- Dragons. I have a dear friend who asks me the same question every time I tell him about a new piece of work: ‘Are there any dragons?’
T...
God is the Crack
· I came across the line, ‘God is the crack where the story begins’ many years ago in Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Readings from the Book of Exile, and I think of it often. It is filed alongside the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s song Anthem, ‘There is a c...
Yellow
I worried it wouldn’t come - the spring in my step, the wake from hibernation. How (I asked myself in winter) will I stand in front of people to talk about my book? I was just about managing the school gate chat. Then, the scales tipped in...
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