🚨 LAST CALL 🚨

Only one day left to submit to the Claire Harris Poetry Prize!
The prize is designed to enhance the visibility of debut poetry collections by poets from Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities 📜

All info and the submission portal at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize

Wonderful!

That and orbital structure. Hooph.

Wow!

April 15! Garth Martens’ first book since his GG nominated debut—he has travelled a long way. With @biblioasis.bsky.social: www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...

Beautiful—inside and out. Congratulations my friend.

Congrats! Loved it and glad it’s seeing success.

The jury:

Her sensibility is unmistakable….There is often a fairytale quality to her imagery, a surreality; at other turns, she transforms the grit of everyday life into a glorious marvel. Turza is one of our finest poets, a visionary whose work has the texture of prophecy.

I couldn’t agree more.

“There is often a fairytale quality to her imagery, a surreality; at other turns, she transforms the grit of everyday life into a glorious marvel. Turza is one of our finest poets, a visionary whose work has the texture of prophecy.”

Yes! The jury:

“Across the last decade, Anne-Marie Turza has become one of the most striking and idiosyncratic voices in Canadian poetry. Her sensibility is unmistakable: oblique, funny, touched with an unforced strangeness that feels like a genuinely new way of seeing.”

🚨NOW OPEN🚨

The Claire Harris Poetry Prize is now open for submissions!

The biennial prize will be awarded to a full-length debut poetry collection by a writer who is Black, Indigenous, or from another racialized community.

Details at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize

Wow!

Wow!

Thanks! I promise I wasn’t fishing. This festival had such a good thing going.

I love this aspect of the festival. The themes are so good too!

Oh man this is my kind of book. The fierce, erotic lament of it. And just wildly smart.

@paulvermeersch.bsky.social with @ecwpress.bsky.social

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A photo of poets Garth Martens and Jan Zwicky.

Tomorrow, I join forces with Jan Zwicky to read Jan’s new long poem, Say It, which arises from the depths of environmental cataclysm.

Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.

I’m a happy traveller alongside Melanie Siebert, who is on a DC Reid Poetry Prize junket for her stunning book, Signal Infinities.

📖 @melaniesiebert.bsky.social

With fellow Victoria Book Prizes nominees and organizers.

Dear @theglobeandmail.com Please bring back poetry reviews that reflect the complexity and deep engagement of our thriving CanPo world! We need discussion, critique, and space not mini synopses, and coverage of primarily non Canadian writers.

Please join us for Victoria's inaugural reading of the DC Reid Book Prize Finalists on November 5th at Cafe Fantastico! Congratulations to Cynthia Woodman Kerkham, @melaniesiebert.bsky.social and Kayla Czaga! Hosted by the fabulous @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social Tickets are FREE on Eventbrite.

The 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival is here! Nov 7-8 in Abbotsford!

Charlie Demers
Evelyn Lau
Brian Bartlett
Kayla Czaga
Joseph Dandurand
Daniela Elza
Andrew French
Taryn Hubbard
Jen Sookfong Lee
Christina Myers
Heather Ramsay
Nick Thran

Info and *free* tickets:

www.fvwritersfestival.com

Tomorrow night! I perform with poet Patrick Friesen alongside two of Canada's best flamenco artists, guitarist Gareth Owen and dancer Denise Yeo.

Learn more, and buy tickets, here:
www.vancouverflamencofestival.org/palabra-flam...

A stunning headshot of Melanie Siebert in a crisp white dress shirt, big smart looking glasses and tumbly hair. Along with the watery cover of her book Signal Infinities with art by Christina Brown and Designed by Dylan Browne.

I love that my ❤️ Melanie Siebert is shortlisted for the inaugural DC Reid Poetry Prize!

The jury calls it an 'extreme act of empathy and a profoundly ethical gesture towards the “unknowable interiority” of others'

Cheers to her and for this new #Victoria #poetry award!

@melaniesiebert.bsky.social

Wait what? Thats a bushtit? Amazing.

Wow!

A glance at an extraordinary new release from Luke Hathaway.

A NYT Best Book of Poems when
@biblioasis.bsky.social first published it.

Rereleased with a new afterword to his afterword and poems—and man has he travelled, body and spirit.

One of our best writers today.

Beautiful! Congratulations!

Ali Blythe is the author of three poetry books, including Stedfast and Hymnswitch. He recommends Luke Hathaway's poetry book Years, Months, and Days.

With: @aliblythe.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social #Booksky

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