The word 'daybook' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a book or journal in which daily activities, transactions, or other important events are recorded. For example: "The daybook for the week showed a decrease in profits compared to last month."
Every winner was coloured in on a crossword grid in his daybook.
(The investigators deduced this because the total movements shown in BPA's daybook for December 7th 1978 were 78 billion lire.
(At one point, four stories about her appeared simultaneously on Politico, the insiders' daybook of Beltway chatter).
("I have begun to eat the flesh and blood of the Group," he wrote in the daybook of the Group's first summer program. "I am passionate about this thing!!!") The Group's embrace of Odets, however, was tentative.
Weston wrote with similar levity in his daybook about the green pepper.
Each photograph here is complemented by a quotation from Weston's letters or daybooks.
I especially love a photograph of twins in one of the daybooks that shows them on either side of two converging walls, separate and yet hinged, cornered but strongly united.
(I omitted Edward Weston from my recent column on photographers who wrote well; his prose can be ornate and overwritten, but The Daybooks of Edward Weston are nevertheless an illuminating – and, for their time, incredibly honest – insight into the everyday highs and lows of the artistic life).
Odi Barbare (Clutag Press) is volume two in the Oxford professor of poetry's projected five-part Daybooks series.
Hill was picked for Odi Barbare, the second volume of The Daybooks sequence, in which he uses the Sapphic verse form to address "this dying / Time that bends so beautifully around things".
