My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
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Great thoughts as ever from @kateheartfield.com .
And, if you'll be popping in to @booksonbeechwood.ca this Sunday morning to see Kate, consider sticking around to say hi to me and Wayne Ng, who will be the #cibd resident authors there to sign our books and chat from 11:30-1 pm!
Thanks as ever for the boost, @robmclennan.bsky.social !
Delighted to be part of @pinholepoetry.bsky.social again. And this list of contributors!!!
Thanks @majorseventh.bsky.social and EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social for putting my Joni-Mitchell-inspired poem on repeat (and for publishing it in the first place!)
I'm very happy to have my poem "Umbra" in the lovely spec lit magazine Sprawl. Thanks so much to editors @mahailasmith.ca and @oklibby.bsky.social .
www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1#umbra
Here's the first sneak peek at my novel Skin Hunger (upcoming from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Oct 1).
This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .
Grateful to the editors of Great Lakes Review for publishing my poem Air, Locked.
Check out fine writing from the regions in the US and Canada that touch on the lakes: greatlakesreview.org/air-locked/
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter re my opposition to Canadian support for US war on Iran . Write one here, with a customizable template: actionnetwork.org/letters/cond...
Today (April 15) is the deadline for poems for the Bywords.ca May issue. Read guidelines on site before submitting your poems svp. bywords.ca
2:30pm TODAY
Presented in partnership with CU's Dept of English, join us at @carleton.ca (2017 Dunton Tower) for a FREE reading + Q&A with Karen Solie!
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural Saskatchewan. She is the author of six books. Her most recent, Wellwater, won EVERYTHING.
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Announcing the contributors for PINHOLE POETRY’S SUMMER ISSUE
Look for it July 3!
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost,
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some above/ground press author activity: Ben Robinson, Misha Solomon, rob mclennan, Mahaila Smith, Frances Boyle + Carrie Olivia Adams, / @francesboyle19.bsky.social @mahailasmith.ca @mishasolomon.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/03/some...
Mark Carney has endorsed the US/Israeli war on Iran. Tell the Prime Minister to condemn this effort to balkanize Iran in service of US imperialism and genocidal Jewish supremacy.
To break the window glass, to merge air and air ― Cynthia MacDonald “The Triborough Bridge a Crown for his Head” Airy hands locked in challenge, a wealth of worries wrung from the embrace. Breath e…
Bywords publishes poetry, a Calendar of Literary Events, and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Its aims are to publish emerging and established poets who reside, study or work in Ottawa.
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ON REPEAT: @francesboyle19.bsky.social in Volume 21.
A poem as delicate as it is electric. We love this one.
Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/hejira-...
Today's newsletter is about some of the reasons we should all pop into a bookstore this weekend. Good for the soul and good for the authors you like to read.
Ben Robinson has a poem up at NewPoetry ; Misha Solomon has a poem in carte blanche ; rob mclennan has new poems up at jagged edge ; Mahaila...
With Mercutio coming out in the UK in less than two weeks, I’ve been fielding questions from eager readers about when it will be available in their country,...