How can it be May—and winter!—already? (Although Paul Weimer tells me that he feels winter hasn’t left his part of the US yet, even though it’s officially now summer.)

And btw, just in case you missed it, I posted on seasonal festivals such as May Day and their counterparts in my Wall of Night series world of Haarth on the Supernatural Underground on 1 May, here.

Anyway, May it is and this is what’s coming up on the blog this week:

– Tuesday is always the Tuesday Poem day, and this week I’m continuing my series on poems in response to works of art (ekphrastic poems)—all I have to decide now is whether to post anther one of my own, interspersing these with my guests: watch this space to find out. 🙂

– on Wednesday I continue my “Here’s SpecFicNZ–Christchurch” series —and this week’s featured writer will be Amanda Fitzwater

– on Thursday I shall have a review of Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson from reviewer Chris Whelan, following on from his earlier review of The Gathering Storm.

– and on Friday I’ll post my regular A Geography of Haarth entry.

As for the weekend: there “may” be a Sunday book quote but nothing is decided, so you’ll have to wait and see! 😉

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Around The Traps

Here’s a grab-bag of interesting posts from ‘around the traps’:

Joanna Preston’s poem for Anzac Day

Cheryl Morgan reflects on Woman’s Hour on SF – A Train Wreck

On BookSworn authors Mary Victoria discusses Argosian Dirigbles

SF Signal features the video of Neil Gaiman’s Keynote at the 2013 London Book Fair’s Digital Minds Conference

And Elizabeth Knox’s Mortal Fire gets a feature on TOR.com

Have a great week!