A rare Vancouver reading from Phoebe Wang! Phoebe will be joining Joanne Leow in launching their @pressassembly.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social books at Iron Dog Books.
April 30th, 6:30 PM, details here:
irondogbooks.com/events/48383...
One year ago today we published Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social
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If you haven’t read it yet, now’s the perfect time to scoop up a copy from your local bookstore or library - it pairs well with a snack and a live game 📖 🥨🏟️
Book cover for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Haymarket Books): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "The experience of reading this book is like floating down a river, as science, storytelling, and Indigenous knowledge carry you along on a journey that, by the end, will leave you feeling more grounded, connected, and prepared to face what lies before us." https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2533-theory-of-water
Book cover for Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by Dani Netherclift (Assembly Press): An evocative, lyric bricolage of memoir, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes. https://assemblypress.ca/shop/vessel
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (by @biidaasamose.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org) & Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social). See alt-text.
#DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta
Short Talks : the Anne Carson Lectures,
, revisiting a classic text, to seek something old, something new; / @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/short-talk...
And Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of @johncagetrust.bsky.social, says that "with irreverently wise and generative thoughts on listening, reading, academia, publishing, and much more along the way, Do It Wrong may just be the cold water plunge you need to fully become yourself as a poet.”
Lori White of @oblongbooks.bsky.social says, “Do It Wrong rearranged the furniture in my head regarding poetry and what it means to be a poet... This book is a balm for my soul, and I hope other poets find it the same.”
"Do It Wrong really has me fired up. This is the book I needed and will need. [...] I might just carry it around in my backpack forever," says Dawn Macdonald in @theseaboardreview.ca
📣Do It Wrong is here! 📣
Happy pub day to @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social and Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century, a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry!
Available now from your fav local bookstore or library
The cover of Goose, by Melanie Dennis Unrau. The background is the color of a yellowing and fading piece of paper, with a large red-orange watercolor painting of a goose's footprint in the middle
Read @lethejerome.bsky.social's review of Melanie Dennis Unrau's Goose (pub. @pressassembly.bsky.social) in Issue 34!
...Goose is a medium through which we can look at what discourse makes disappear...
www.thetemzreview.com/melanccedilo...
*Yes, we know there are two Opening Days, plus for some reason an Opening Night. Our calendars are set to the Jays’ schedule.
Happy Opening Day* to all who celebrate! ⚾️🏟️🎉
Good planning is always having a copy of Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social within reach in case of a rain delay.
Grab a copy from your favourite bookseller!
TORONTO!: Come by FLYING BOOKS (784 College) on APRIL 10th at 6:30pm for the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY! flyingbooks.ca/events/48336...
(check out @pressassembly.bsky.social & the book: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)
Steven Beattie reviews Field Work!
Unboxed! DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY, order your copy from @pressassembly.bsky.social
“Simultaneously prose poem and page-turner, Nightshade draws us into the lives of its characters. Readers will come to love fragile Liza-May, who tends to ill and injured birds, feisty Lilly, who stands up to injustice, and protagonist Zelda.”—Ursula Pflug, author of Mountain
“Nightshade gives a very rare and precious insight into a Romany family and community, their language and history; and I for one am so grateful it has been written.”—Frances Roberts Reilly, author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection
“A compelling story of strong women, the snares of wealth, and what happens when the puppeteers themselves find they are no longer the ones pulling the strings.”—@anuja-v.bsky.social, award-winning author of Chrysalis
“The prose is sensuous and exact, the folklore alive, the politics unflinching. This is a novel about work and hunger, inheritance and passing, and the thin veil between rescue and trap. I’ll be pressing it into many hands.”—Oksana Marafioti, author of American Gypsy: A Memoir
“Amid an entrancing undertow of natural beauty and seductive materialism, Nightshade is a story about identity, longing, and a unique cultural heritage.”—Foreword Reviews
“A gorgeous, swirling story about family and heritage and temptation in this novel.”—Manda Barker, @ravenbookstore.bsky.social
📣 Nightshade is here! 📣
Happy pub day to the amazing @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social and Nightshade—we love this novel, and we hope you will too!
Get a copy from your favourite bookstore or library branch today! 📚
Grateful for this careful read of Field Work by JM of @theampersandreview.bsky.social
"Forbes weaves fact, analysis, and association into an elegant discourse"
theampersandreview.ca/book-reviews...
@pressassembly.bsky.social
some great buzz about DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)
Misha Solomon, My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet / @mishasolomon.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/mish...
I am very lucky to have already read an early draft of Meaghan's new book - it's all killer, no filler.
@nashls.bsky.social
@pressassembly.bsky.social
📣 Coming May 2026 📣 Mom Camp by Véronique Darwin
Available for preorder through bookstores and libraries and direct from our site: assemblypress.ca/shop/mom-camp
“The lagoon in February is a plate of bubbled glass, with twigs, sandwich wrappers, and plastic bags trapped in the ice”
Happy Groundhog Day! Relative to Wind is on sale today only to try to manifest both an early spring and early start to boating season! assemblypress.ca/shop/relativ...
Lovely to see @quillandquire.bsky.social include DO IT WRONG in their spring 2026 previews: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp...
@pressassembly.bsky.social
📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry.
Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚
assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
