LINCOLNVILLE — Lincolnville Community Library welcomes writer Linda Buckmaster, Wednesday, June 7, from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., for a reading and discussion of her hybrid memoir, Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands. 

Elemental is the first installment in a series of creative and eclectic responses to the beauty and realities of islands in Maine, Newfoundland, and northwest Scotland.

In Elemental, Linda Buckmaster follows the call of the elements—rock, sea, sky, wind. Elemental is also one of three finalists for a 2023 Maine Literary Award in the Excellence in Publishing category.

Through essay, poetry, and fiction, Buckmaster traces the imprint of the lowly salt cod over time in communities across the North Atlantic and Caribbean. The book is designed by graphic artist Lori Harley in Portland.

Previously an editor for National Fisherman magazine and former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Buckmaster knits fact and lyric into her narrative net.