CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5194
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Headlight Anthology Collection
Series:
Headlight 24
Sub Series:
Headlight Anthology Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Susi Lovell in Headlight 24, 2023
Title Source:
Asset
Title Note:
As published in Headlight Anthology.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Studio recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright Educational Use Permitted (InC-EDU)
Notes:
Copyright by Headlight Anthology and contributor. Online reproduction and archiving allowed. Republications under different publishers must be authorized by the contributor.
CREATORS
Name:
Lovell, Susi
Role:
"Author",
"Performer"
Notes:
Originally from England, Susi Lovell worked her way around the world before settling in Montreal. A movement artist-educator, choreographer and past dance critic for the Montreal Gazette, Susi’s stories have appeared in The New Quarterly, Stand Magazine, carte blanche, Grain, Fiddlehead and other journals.
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Elbanhawy, Sherine
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Co-managing editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Eastwood, Miranda
Role:
"Producer",
"Recordist"
Notes:
Sound editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Pittella, Carlos A.
Dates:
1983-
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Co-managing editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Andrews, Olive
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Poetry editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Affonso, Alexandre
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Nonfiction editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Ruby, Ariella
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Fiction editor of Headlight 24.
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Digital
AV Type:
Audio
Playback Mode:
Mono
Sound Quality:
Excellent
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
00:02:08
Size:
1.2 MB
Bitrate:
145-185 kbps
Encoding:
MP3
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing an audio-recording of the piece "Unsafe in Large Doses," by Susi Lovell, as published in Headlight Anthology, no. 24.
Notes:
MP3 also available at https://headlightanthology.ca/archive/n24/unsafe-in-large-doses/, accessed on June 15, 2023.
Title:
Unsafe in Large Doses
Credit:
Susi Lovell
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Featured:
Yes
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
00:02:08
Size:
22.7 MB
Bitrate:
1411 kbps
Encoding:
WAV
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing an audio-recording of the piece "Unsafe in Large Doses," by Susi Lovell, as published in Headlight Anthology, no. 24.
Title:
Unsafe in Large Doses
Credit:
Susi Lovell
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
2023-06-02
Type:
Publication Date
Source:
Headlight website
LOCATION
Address:
1455 Boul. de Maisonneuve O., LB 641, Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8
Venue:
Concordia University, Department of English
Latitude:
45.4969331
Longitude:
-73.5783742
Notes:
Headlight Anthology operates out of Concordia’s graduate English Literature & Creative Writing department.
CONTENT
Contents:
Unsafe in Large Doses
by Susi Lovell
my feet follow the path, my boots unwilling.
I regret the incident on the yacht. I agree
to toggle pride. I forget—a problem of age. I regret
my age, a grim milestone. Also the photo I couldn’t
forget, the one with the boa. I regret the horse.
It was so huge and fierce with such long
yellow teeth, I felt tiny and timid.
I regret the yacht, the horse, the boa. My
unwilling boots groan as I set them on the path.
At my age, I thought. Armed with boots, boa, age, I set out on the path.
Regret is a treat, the luxury of thinking there are
other possibilities. Regret is a yacht, a luminous boat
of pride, the assumption one could have done better.
Regret is a photo left in the bottom drawer of the tallboy
beneath the old duvets, moth eaten
and musty, next to the bow tie that made him
look the cat’s whiskers. Regret is a groan
of recognition—failed
again.
Regret is the uncertain terrain
of the fens, mosquito infested, full of the
sulphurous smell of decomposed sphagnum. Regret is toggling
what was with what is and trying to weasel out
of what you’ve become.
Regret is a feather boa floating around your neck (the bird, the bird…. that dawn,
the emu, the bird that can’t fly, flying long-legged across the red-lit
red sands of the Nullabor Desert.) Regret is age, an unfortunate
fact when it’s too late to rewrite what’s been written.
Regret is rue, the woody yellow-flowered
ruta graveolens of evil smell and bitter taste,
perennial, invasive, but beneficial
for headaches, arthritis, fevers
of heart. Rue—herb-of-grace.
Unsafe in large doses.
NOTES
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Carlos A. Pittella
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Lovell, Susi. Unsafe in Large Doses. Headlight Anthology, no. 24, 2023, pp. 34–35.