POSTS
Thanks, Gillian Wigmore and 49th Shelf: “I love how these poems muscle out what it’s like being human in the world. Each is a story of discovery, whether sensory or metaphysical. They’re stunning.” Seeking Certainty in Uncertain Worlds (49thshelf.com)
Thanks Pesto Blog, for your generous review of Orrery on your blog.
“Orrery by Donna Kane (Harbour, 2020) I can’t say enough good about. I loved her previous book and was ecstatic/anxious to see that she had made another. This one exceeds the last. I read this twice. There’s something to the phrasing, the rhythms, the subjects, the world attitude. It delighted me.”
Thank you so much Anne Burke for this very detailed literature review of Orrery.
Thanks Caroline Woodward for your generous review of Orrery.
AirSpace Presents Voyages to Mars
Infinite thanks to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for featuring poems from Orrery on their December podcast.
AirSpace Presents Voyages to Mars: Dreaming (si.edu)
2020 Poetry Delights
Pleased to see Orrery on this list. Thanks Pearl Pirie.
2020 Poetry Delights (49thshelf.com)
37 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in fall 2020
So pleased to see Orrery on this list.
BC Booklook’s Who’s Who
Here is Countdown Poem #1 read by Mark Wolverton, author of The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes
Thank you CBC’s Daybreak North for this interview on Orrery.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-109-daybreak-north/clip/15798538-poems-space-probe
2 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #2 read by scientist and host of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks, Bob McDonald.
3 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #3 read by Montreal poet and translator Erín Moure who reads the poem first in English, then translates the poem into Galician and reads that version too. Very cool.
Thank you Catherine Owen for reviewing Orrery.
4 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #4 read by Wayne Sawchuk, conservationist and advocate of the Muskwa-Kechika wilderness area in BC’s Northern Rockies, reading from his wilderness cabin at Mayfield Lake.
5 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #5 read by American science writer Dava Sobel who worked as science writer in the Cornell University news bureau in the Pioneer days and interviewed both Carl Sagan and Frank Drake about the image on the Pioneer 10 plaque. Dava also possesses a rare copy of the plaque, which cameos in this video.
6 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #6 read by Dr. Matthew Shindell, poet and curator of planetary science and exploration at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
7 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem 7, read by National Space Institute member Charles Kux-Kardos.
It’s September 11th, 8 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem 8, read by writer and friend Katherin Edwards.
It’s September 10th, 9 days to the launch of Orrery, and here is Countdown Poem 9, read by Megan MacLeod and featuring my two adorable grandchildren, Ira and Atley MacLeod.
It’s September 9th, 10 days to the launch of Orrery, so I’m sharing a video a day as a countdown to the 19th. Huge thanks to Harbour Publishing and all my friends who so generously came on board to read some of the poems in the book. Here’s the Countdown Day 10, read by contemporary artist Brian Jungen.
Thank you Haley Bassett for interviewing me about writing and about Orrery.
My new book of poetry inspired by Pioneer 10 will be out in September 2020 with Harbour Publishing. Huge thanks to Harbour for all their care and attention to this book.
One of the poems from Orrery is included in this anthology forthcoming Fall 2020.
Thank you 49th Shelf for including Orrery in their Most Anticipated: Our 2020 Fall Poetry Preview.
