When Dalkey Archive published C. S. Giscombe’s Here in 1994, Publishers Weekly called it a “powerful, understated meditation on place.” Concerned with specific locales in northern Canada named for the 19th Century Jamaican miner and explorer John Robert Giscome, the volume incorporates a variety of historical documents, maps, and dreams, to go “in & further in,” discovering and documenting music, racial dichotomies, sexuality, and the ways in which landscape itself is described. C. S. Giscombe’s recent poetry books include Here (1994) and Giscome Road (1998). His prose book, Into & Out of Dislocation, will be published in August 1999. (The prose book is an account of his travels in remote regions of Canada, Jamaica, and other countries and is also an exploration of race, physicality, and metaphor.)

audio file of reading not available

"Natural Abilities and Natural Writing," a talk that Giscombe gave was not recorded. But a print version of it is available in Chain 7: memoir/antimemoir.