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.

🚨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

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 📖 ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

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...

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

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.

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 More below 👇

Applications due in ten days!

I love our new cat door notifications.

Tomorrow! I'd love to see you there!

It was such a pleasure talking with Rob for Arc. Everyone should have the chance to. @roblucastaylor.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social

This is what I get when I type “love” into my photo search ❤️

Oh! I didn’t post the image with the books. 😆 Just the gorgeous poets themselves!

I’ll read from the incomparable Jean Valentine (1934-2020) shortly. At @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social for @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social with @melaniesiebert.bsky.social, @arleenpare.bsky.social and @jencurrin.bsky.social.

Looking forward to hearing these voices. I take so much ♥️ in Mandelstam. He lived in a time of fear, repression, the state dictating the confines of what could be said or written, sudden arrests, sentences without trial, exile, death….and yet he kept writing, kept free in his mind, in his poetry.

Keats adores my Brandi Bird pick! Such a nice morning prepping for a writing workshop for LGBTQIA2S+ youth at Foundry later today. ♥️ writing and spaces that help us preserve our freedom of thought, being and the full rainbow of emotions including joy & wonder. #booksky @babydollbird.bsky.social

Oh man some of my favourite live and dead poets!

I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...

Omg have you met our other #cat #Keats? She sits in a bookshelf.

When I am zoned out on Teams meeting and I hear the word ‘penultimate.’

Stedfast has been longlisted for the 2024 Fred Cogswell Poetry Prize! With great thanks to judge @roblucastaylor.bsky.social and the Royal City Literary Arts Society. See the full list: rclas.com/2024-fred-co... including favourites from Lorna Crozier and Dominique Bernier-Cormier.

"We try to keep to ourselves the daily falling apart. We seek what gives us the slip — we lie in bed and wiggle for it." #TodaysPoem #poetry Hawk & Hare by @aliblythe.bsky.social (2019 @ex-puritan.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4xzh6k45

Jan 2 first poems and runs with @melaniesiebert.bsky.social ❤️