"Why bother a beast whose memory is a roar in an apparent cave?" #TodaysPoem #poetry Body town by Alice Burdick (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4wamz9tp

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @aliceburdick.bsky.social's Ox Lost, Snow Deep (pub. @anvilpress.bsky.social) in Issue 31! I loved [it]. It is full of subversions of fixed expressions and ideas, knock-your-socks-off observations and quirky aphorisms.. www.thetemzreview.com/earl-burdick...

2) This was the 1st of my 6 books to have ever been listed for any poetry awards. Ox made it to the longlist for the Raymond Souster Award too. I’m a poetry lifer, at it since the early 90s, writing without awards in mind & will continue. But it’s a nice encouragement for this aging poet. 🐂❄️

1) I’m so grateful that Ox Lost, Snow Deep was so deeply read & felt by the jury of the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award. This citation almost made me cry. Congratulations to Cory Lavender, who won the award, & to Annick MacAskill, also on the shortlist.

Ox Lost, Snow Deep  by @aliceburdick.bsky.social, is nominated for the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award!  Come celebrate all nominees at the NS Book Awards on Mon, June 2. Hear Alice read this Wed Live at The Carleton Hosted by Tara Thorne. Published by @anvilpress.bsky.social

Looking forward to this! Great company! @anvilpress.bsky.social

Jay Miller reviews Lance La Rocque's Glitch (above/ground press, 2020) abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/jay-...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Catherine Walker : on Little Books Collective periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/cath...

I am so happy that Ox Lost, Snow Deep has been getting some love! It’s my 6th book, and the first one that’s been on any short and longlists ever! That feels great in itself. 🐂❄️ @anvilpress.bsky.social

Thank you to The League of Canadian Poets! Lovely to have Ox Lost, Snow Deep on the longlist for the Raymond Souster Award and in excellent company. 🐂❄️ A Feed Dog Book … from Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social poets.ca/longlist2025...

Really lovely to see this insightful and generous review of Ox Lost, Snow Deep from Catherine Walker via The Miramichi Reader! 🐂❄️ @anvilpress.bsky.social miramichireader.ca/2025/04/ox-l...

Jay Miller reviews Alice Burdick's I Am So Calm (above/ground press, 2025) / @aliceburdick.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/jay-...

My daughter’s very excellent drawing of our four very nice boycats. Actually spot on in terms of personality too.

@augustawynde.bsky.social and I had a great time reading to a very full house yesterday at the gorgeous LaHave River Books!

some above/ground press author activity: Stan Rogal, rob mclennan, Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Karl Jirgens, Laynie Browne, Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social + Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social , abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/some...

I’m super grateful to Jay Miller for his very astute review of my new chapbook I Am So Calm from above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social bibelotages.com/alice-burdic...

You asked, and we’re answering: WFNS is finally offering a creative writing day camp for adults! 😎 June 23-27 at our office on the Halifax waterfront writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

Touch the Donkey : new interviews with J-T Kelly, Jennifer Firestone, Austin Miles + Alice Burdick, / @j-tkelly.bsky.social @aliceburdick.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/04/touc...

Touch the Donkey supplement #274 : seven questions for Alice Burdick / @aliceburdick.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttd-...

I understand this cat jar

Reminder: on Saturday April 12th, 4-5 pm, catch @aliceburdick.bsky.social and @augustawynde.bsky.social reading poetry at the beautiful LaHave River Books. Free! National Poetry Month! Local authors! 🎉🐂❄️🇨🇦📝📚📖

Very grateful that my book Ox Lost, Snow Deep is on the shortlist for the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award, alongside @thisisannick.bsky.social (Votive) and Cory Lavender (Come One Thing Another). Thanks @writersfedofns.bsky.social @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social & Nova Scotia Book Awards!

a great time tonight slinging books at the nova scotia book awards and atlantic book awards shortlist announcement party

What I brought to the protest in Halifax yesterday afternoon, in front of the US consulate

I love a book delivery day, especially when it includes work from @robmclennan.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @aliceburdick.bsky.social

What is it about being a white male billionaire that makes these guys so full of grievance and bile? Hmmm

Pearl Pirie reviews Alice Burdick's I Am So Calm (above/ground press, 2025) / @aliceburdick.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/pear...

How lovely to see this review from Pearl Pirie through The Miramichi Reader of my latest chapbook I Am So Calm from above/ground press. miramichireader.ca/2025/03/i-am...

Join Alice Burdick, author of Ox Lost, Snow Deep, and Logan Kennedy, author of Overworld Exigencies, for an afternoon of poetry at LaHave River Books on Saturday, April 12th at 4 pm! A fun National Poetry Month event at a gorgeous South Shore bookstore! 🐂❄️ @anvilpress.bsky.social

Only 233 years since Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women was published, ladeez. The rapid rate of progress is head-spinning!

Cruelty is not a virtue

Tabby in the Canadian Tire

Reading at Lunch Poems on February 19th: 4 pm AST, 3 pm EST, 12 pm PST. Register for this free, online event here: https:// www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-poems-presents-alice- burdick-cara-waterfall-online-tickets-1206083952569

My son Arthur’s drawing, from 2018. Let’s take this as inspiration.

@aliceburdick.bsky.social, from "I Am So Calm" (above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social)

I must exist in both a state of hope and realism. Imagination and creation are enemies of fascism.

So happy to have a couple of poems up on @thepireview.bsky.social. It’s a great repository of poetry - check out the other poets too!

the above/ground press postal increase sale, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

Reading at Lunch Poems on February 19th: 4 pm AST, 3 pm EST, 12 pm PST. Register for this free, online event here: https:// www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-poems-presents-alice- burdick-cara-waterfall-online-tickets-1206083952569

new from above/ground press: Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #44 : w new poems by Austin Miles, J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social , Naomi Cohn, Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Melissa Eleftherion, Jennifer Firestone + Catriona Strang. touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/01/touc...

So glad to get these in the mail! Big thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social and above/ground press for publishing my little chapbook, I Am So Calm. 14 poems for 5 bucks, not too shabby.

new from above/ground press: I Am So Calm, by Alice Burdick / @aliceburdick.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-...

"Memory gate-keepers. Where does the knowledge go? All the stories. They are for everyone. They end on death." #TodaysPoem #poetry Symphonic poem by @aliceburdick.bsky.social (2021 periodicities) tinyurl.com/mrx5dpbn

working on new above/ground press titles by Catriona Strang (cover by Aoife), Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social , Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Ryan Skrabalak + Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; have u thot of subscribing fr 2025? abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/abov...

Big thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for reviewing my newest book! 🐂❄️

I’m heading to Toronto on Monday for a week of launches and workshops in Toronto, Dundas, Ottawa, and Kingston! Here are the details. I hope you can get to an event if it’s near ya! 2/2

I’m heading to Toronto on Monday for a week of launches and workshops in Toronto, Dundas, Ottawa, and Kingston! Here are the details. I hope you can get to an event if it’s near ya! 1/2

Just 4 cats enjoying some birdwatching in Lunenburg

poetry night tomorrow at Trident!