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.)<\/p>\n
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<\/a> series world of Haarth on the Supernatural Underground <\/a>on 1 May, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Anyway, May it is and this is what’s coming up on the blog this week:<\/p>\n – Tuesday is always the Tuesday Poem <\/a>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. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n – on Wednesday I continue my “Here’s SpecFicNZ<\/a>–Christchurch” series —and this week’s featured writer will be Amanda Fitzwater<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n – on Thursday I shall have a review of Towers of Midnight<\/em><\/strong> by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson from reviewer Chris Whelan, following on from his earlier review of The Gathering Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n – and on Friday I’ll post my regular A Geography of Haarth<\/a> entry.<\/p>\n As for the weekend: there “may” be a Sunday book quote but nothing is decided, so you’ll have to wait and see! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Here’s a grab-bag of interesting posts from ‘around the traps’:<\/p>\n Joanna Preston’s poem for Anzac Day<\/a><\/p>\n Cheryl Morgan reflects on Woman\u2019s Hour on SF \u2013 A Train Wreck<\/a><\/p>\n On BookSworn <\/a>authors Mary Victoria discusses Argosian Dirigbles<\/a><\/p>\n SF Signal<\/a> features the video of Neil Gaiman\u2019s Keynote at the 2013 London Book Fair\u2019s Digital Minds Conference<\/a><\/p>\n And Elizabeth Knox’s Mortal Fire<\/em> gets a feature on TOR.com<\/a><\/p>\nAround The Traps<\/h3>\n