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Sadiqa de Meijer

@sadiqademeijer.bsky.social

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writer of alfabet/alphabet (Palimpsest 2020), The Outer Wards (Vehicule 2020), Leaving Howe Island (Oolichan 2013), Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston (she/her) sadiqademeijer.com

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.

A book cover with a landscape painting of a grewn foreground, yellow field, green treeline, the suggestion of a red-roofed house, blue sky. The text says: From the award-winning author of alfabet/alphabet Sadiqa de Meijer IN THE FIELD.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for reading 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, I can understand this, and I am also pleased I got to read the phrase 'eyelash mites obviously' today.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · 23d

This happened!?

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · 27d

Please join us. #hamont

Poster in dusty pink and teal for a literary reading: Stacey Easton and Sadiqa de Meijer at The Printed Word on Fri Sep 26th at 6 pm, hosted by Pasha Malla, 16 McMurray St #3 in Dundas Ontario.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thank you!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you, Carolyn 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you, Annick 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you, Liz 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 4

These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.

Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.

Three copies of my book 'In The Field' in a skewed stack among a Sarindar Dhaliwal print (a row of green pencil crayons), an Escher print (two hands drawing each other), a photograh of Etty Hillesum, another of the Kariokor cemetery, a Kenojuak Ashevak print (red bird plumage).

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks so much, Theresa!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 3

My thanks to On Creative Writing for the chance to talk about the writing process & software that writes for us & other matters.

On Creative Writing @oncreativewriting.bsky.social · Sep 2

Such a thoughtful and insightful Q&A interview with award-winning writer Sadiqa de Meijer, author of the upcoming essay collection In the Field. Thank you, Sadiqa! @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
www.oncreativewriting.com/post/sadiqa-...

Sadiqa de Meijer on language, place, and the prism of consciousness

In Sadiqa de Meijer on language, place, and the prism of consciousness, the author discusses how her writing is shaped by her experiences as an immigrant and her background in the sciences. She emphas...

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 1

That's really interesting.

And seeing the poem again showed me that I can lay it beside my current ms and find: similar themes, deeper engagement.

Also, my predecessor Jason Heroux is such a wonderful poet.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey, thank you for reading, Matthew! I hadn't thought of this poem in a long while.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 30

Some years require a lot of lanterns.

A sprawling 'chinese lantern' plant on a lawn along the sidewalk, its greenery studded with deep orange lantern-shaped husks.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Found some old papers and there was a Phill Hall line I'd written out to hang over my writing table.

Two strips of paper with torn edges on a wooden floor. They say:

When I write I am always mid-field --on one leg -- the other poised

over killdeer eggs

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hey, would you like to support Kirby's stellar small press, which nourishes writers and makes beautiful books, and also receive their chapbook in which I wrote about how literature is a miraculous and double-edged medium?

knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · Aug 23

Only 5 copies remain of @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social KFB/ Fieldnotes chapbook, FIELDWORK, set aside for the next 5 new donors this weekend.

(a 'stand alone' work, not in their highly anticipated new collection of essays, IN THE FIELD @palimpsestpress.bsky.social which we also can't wait for!)

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 23

#ygk

Next Free Veggie Market Aug 24 2pm at 52 Bayswater - Free organic veggies! - also seeking table contributions of homegrown, canned, baked, or pantry goods.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you, darling 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you, Sarah 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you, Sheetal 🧡!

Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm so grateful to Aimee Parent-Dunn, Jim Johnstone, and all at Palimpsest Press & their Anstruther Books imprint, and to Liz Johnston.

Half of my book sale earnings will be donated to The Sameer Project.

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 19

And if you're going to ask that dreaded question, what is it about - well, it explores looking at art, attending medical school to become a poet, being told to go back to where you come from, actually going back to where you come from. Of course, Etty Hillesum is in it. And a water scorpion.

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