The Poet Laureate Podcast LIVE with smallpress tian & champion of poetry @robmclennan.bsky.social
Join our live studio audience. Tickets FREE on Eventbrite.
Saturday, April 25
5:30–7:30 PM
Doors open at 5:15 PM (for a small 15 min window)
Haus of Owl Creation Lab
780 Blanshard St, 4th Floor
rob mclennan in Victoria, BC: April 24 + 25,
, two readings (including w Anna Yin + Phoebe Wang) and a podcast-on-stage, interviewing Kyeren Regehr, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/rob-mclenn...
Next up: Victoria, April 30, at Caffe Fantastico. Event info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1985892170...
A photo of Garth Martens' new book of poetry WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE on the shelves at Mosaic Books in Kelowna, BC.
Thanks also to Mosaic Books for handling the book sales. If you live in Kelowna, you buy my book there. They've a handful still in stock.
Garth Martens reads from his new book of poetry WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE in a fully restored 1892 Gothic Style church in Kelowna, BC.
Deep thanks to poets Lesley-Anne Evans and Ruth Daniell for joining me on stage, and to our emcee, Emily Christina Murphy, friend and flamenco aficionado.
Garth Martens reads from his new book of poetry, WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE, in Kelowna, BC, in a fully restored 1892 Gothic Style church.
Thank you to everyone who came out to my Kelowna book launch on Tuesday.
60+ people attended—former teachers and classmates from elementary through high school, and family, including my aunt, cousin, and my father.
This was the first literary event my father has ever gone to. That meant a lot.
Thank you!
Or direct from my publisher, though if you order from a local bookstore, you save on shipping fees:
www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...
You can order mine from any bookstore that sells new books, like Munro Books in Victoria:
munrobooks.com/item/N8KJ1y9...
Can't come? I'm also reading in Victoria on April 30 alongside poets Ali Blythe, Melanie Siebert, and Anne-Marie Turza. More on that later.
Can't go to either? You can order our books from your local bookstore of choice, wherever you live, if you're so moved.
Join me tomorrow for a National Poetry Month event hosted by @malahatreview.bsky.social and Planet Earth Poetry, where I will read from my new book alongside poets @louieleyson.bsky.social and Elizabeth Bachinsky.
High Horse Magazine has accepted six poems from my new book WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE, due out in bookstores on April 14.
The poems were published in two instalments. Links below.
I read from my new book this Friday at Russell Books in Victoria as part of an event co-hosted by the Malahat Review and Planet earth Poetry.
My first review for WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE.
Read it in full here: thebcreview.ca/2026/04/01/2...
Hey! My publisher sent out their newsletter this morning in which you can read four of the poems from my new book.
Check it out through the link below.
Spend time with our spring issue: poems by Jorie Graham; a short story by Emma Copley Eisenberg; essays by Aria Aber and Megan O’Grady; and much more.
Thank you to Stephen Collis and the SFU Department of English for the invitation!
For more details: events.sfu.ca/event/48108-...
An image of text that says "OFF THE SHELF POETRY READING SERIES FEATURING: JOANNE LEOW, GARTH MARTENS, FENN STEWART Friday, March 27th (7-9 PM) SFU Belzberg Library (Harbour Centre) Free Event, No RSVP."
I’ll be reading in Vancouver this Friday alongside Joanne Leow and Fenn Stewart as part of SFU’s Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series (hosted by @sfuenglish.bsky.social).
Free and open to all. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
This will be my first reading from my new book.
Aw, thank you, Christina!
Preorder at your local, indie bookstore, or through my publisher here below:
www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...
Exciting new mail today + scissor-safety concerns from my 2.5-year-old daughter.
My second collection of poetry, Who Else in the Dark Headed There, is available in bookstores April 14. Preorder your copy today at your local bookstore of choice or through my publisher @biblioasis.bsky.social.
I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.com
An image of a book's front cover. The book is called "Who Else in the Dark Headed There", a new book of poems by Canadian author Garth Martens. Poet Jan Zwicky says of the book: "Poems of intense emotion, the torque on the language extreme - as it must be, reaching this far into the dark, this honestly." The publisher is Biblioasis Publishing. The poems are set in northern Alberta. Garth Martens lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Keywords: Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Small Press, Small Press Publishing, Indie Bookstores, Poetry Collection, New poetry 2026, Indie Press, Indie Publisher, Grief Writing.
Some news.
I have a new book of poetry out this April with @biblioasis.bsky.social. It's called Who Else in the Dark Headed There.
Ali! 🫶
Thank you, Ali.
