Seascraper may not have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize today, but I felt this novel deeply and I’m so proud of my friend for his discipline and brilliance in writing it #benjaminwood #bookerprize

Not sure my constitution can handle having discovered Ethel Cain this week.

when I save the lines I cut from poems to use in later poems

"Whether it’s harnessing a horse, cooking a fry-up or tuning a guitar, Wood transforms the quotidian into the poetic..." The Guardian reviewed Booker finalist SEASCRAPER by Benjamin Wood, on sale 11/4. https://bit.ly/4mGdzTw

Look, my friend wrote Seascraper and this is now a Seascraper fan page and you bet I’m gonna heart every Seascraper post I find as I obsessively refresh my search for Seascraper hey did I mention Seascraper

Jeff Hiller deserved every bit of that Emmy. Somebody Somewhere was so special and Joel’s character was the beating heart of it. I really hope the show can be revived someday.

The last 18 months have mentally and physically filleted me, and I can’t tell you how happy I am knowing hockey is back soon. I don’t even care about the Cup anymore. I just want to see Conor and Brock and Quinn and Thatcher and all the other guys that sound like they’re from Dead Poets Society.

Looks like I only sleep every second night now, which is truly a grim treat

Beyond grateful that this pod has found a new home. Bring on the restored faith and public crying, baby! I’ve missed it so.

Listening to records and hittin’ the sauce 🍎 (just coming out of a flu clearly conjured by my worst enemy - may the sounds of my expiratory wheeze wake them each night at the witching hour)

Oh good my birthday blues have peaked five days early

Amanda Lamarche, bee photographer and dangling-bee-feets fanatic, at your service 🐝

Santiago Rusiñol y Prats, Interior with Figures, 1894, Oil on canvas, 79 x 63 cm (MEAM, Barcelona)

The game of Fishdom has me by the throat tell my family I love them

Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood, is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. @vikingbooks.bsky.social Find out about the #BookerPrize2025 longlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/mdskttq1aq

My buddy, Ben, on the Booker Prize longlist! What a way to wake up! #bookerprize2025 #seascraper #benjaminwood

Anyone on amlodipine notice they can like, read a whole book again? The rest of the side effects can kick rocks, but my brain is quieter and my focus better. Nice surprise.

Just in case you thought you could get a moment’s peace as a female hockey fan

Respect to E.M. and E.M. only.

My delightful friend Ben’s newest novel, Seascraper, is out now. I’m really excited about this one because it apparently takes place over a day and a bit, and that’s all my little raisin brain can handle these days! Congrats, buddy! She’s a beaut! #benjaminwood

Book Cover of the Day (evening…):

One of my favourite poems from her collection as well ✨ #karensolie #poetry #canadianpoetry

📘 Benjamin Wood, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, releases his fifth novel this week. Seascraper follows a day and half in the life on Thomas Flett who is visited by an American stranger claiming to be a film director 👇

The bees tolerate me 🐝

My very first tattoo—still healing and peeling—a 1980s bottle of Glenlivet for my dad 🥃

Just want Brock Boeser to know there’s some houses for sale on my street.

Canucks management making it reaaal easy for me to take a break and focus on Vancouver’s new PWHL team this coming season 😞

OK, here is my pitch for a new show: High Heritage. Sorta like Drunk History, but it’s Canadians blazing it with Seth Rogen and re-telling their favourite Heritage Minutes while other Canadians reenact it. Nobody steal this excellent idea.

Garden friend 🐞🌱

So grateful Heavyweight found a new home and is back for another season. I listen to a whole flock o’ pods, but this one is on a different level. If you have a ticking human heart, I recommend.

I can’t be the first menopausal person to use the word “hormocidal” but I’m proud of myself nonetheless.

Vancouver doing Vancouver things 😍 #wisteria #springtimeinvancouver

Please do not disturb, I am currently IABB. (Invested in Anyone Beating Binnington) #winnipegjets

Book Cover of the Day:

Happy Election Day, Vancouver. Vote with your hearts, say hello to every neighbour you see, and ask to pet all the dogs. We got this.

South Vancouver will always be this way. We always show up.

Filipino emergency response resources for anyone in need of support (Google doc): docs.google.com/document/u/0...

The words won’t come to me, and I’m grateful for this post I read in the thick of it last night. Just heartbroken for my neighbours and the Filipino community in Vancouver.

Happy 10-year anniversary to the passionate folks at Chinatown’s @massybooks.bsky.social. I adore this bookstore and would highly recommend a peek-a-boo today to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day in Vancouver 📚🎉

How to turn an esteemed Canadian poetry prize into something irrelevant to Canadians.

I’m gonna get behind this SO HARD #pwhl

My sweet lil street 🌸 #vancouver

Torturing myself by looking at old travel photos today. One of my all-time faves: two retired passenger cars holding hands in the Wadi Rum desert 😍 #hejazrailway #jordan

The sweetest thing my friends do is throw me an occasional hockey question and then Mmhmmm, yeah, toooootally through my circuitous semi-grim answer, even though they have zero fucking interest. True heroes.

have the canucks lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time (i say this with love)

April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, we'll be featuring a series of poet spotlights throughout the month! To kick things off, we're shining a light on Micheal V. Smith & sharing a poem from his collection Queers Like Me! PS) Look for his forthcoming book, Soundtrack, coming this fall!

The blossom trees of Vancouver are doing some heavy emotional lifting this week, bless ‘em.

The magnolia down the street was looking particularly blousy last night.

So, @margolapierre.bsky.social asks the greatest questions. This interview with @arcpoetry.bsky.social online newsletter is the most fun I've had talking about my work in my 25 years of publishing. mailchi.mp/fa5f77dae6f1...

🐺 New! The ferocious & vulnerable poems of #abodymoretolerable, the latest collection by @jayesimpson.bsky.social, are about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction & recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer POV. 👉 Out now in Canada (USA April 15, 2025): tinyurl.com/abodymoretol...