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I agree. Very disappointing. Does nobody know any history? Does our government think that we can’t see through this nonsense rhetoric?? Write your MP. Demand better. #QuislingCarney

Is it just me or does “Venezuela” sound a bit like “Sudetenland”?

Tomorrow is J.R.R. #Tolkien's 134th birthday! As Frodo did for Bilbo, the Tolkien Society continues to celebrate Tolkien's birthday in his absence with our #TolkienBirthdayToast. Our tradition: at 9pm your time raise a glass and toast "The Professor!" www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolki...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien was born #OTD in 1892. 🎨Alan Lee

I support this wholeheartedly.

A 2025 list! So many intriguing titles…

I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada

What about poetry, CBC? #poetry #canlit #poetsarepeopletoo

I don’t know where someone gets enough time to read enough poetry to be able to compile an annual top 52 list, suggesting that many more than 52 books were read. Thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social for this great summary of 2024 in poetry. Can’t wait for the 2025 list.

“The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.” — Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker Poetry Podcast is good. most recently, Patricia Lockwood does very nice readings of Elizabeth Bishop as well as a piece of her own. (So many poets, without naming names, are terrible at reading their own work. So nice to hear a reading with some real emotion.) #poetry #poetrypodcasts

New poem today in Horseshoe Literary Magazine!! Enjoy! #poetry #canlit

Enshittification of the internet pushing people to zines and other paper materials. The zine scene is definitely growing—I've seen local classes in zine making, kids and their parents taking it up. www.cbc.ca/arts/print-i...

Yesterday I posted a piece that posited a sameness in Canadian poetry. Cointerpoint: Sue Goyette’s Ocean. Perhaps my favourite book of Canadian poetry, Ocean is like nothing else, a poetic novel-cum-history of nature’s agency and our relationship with it. #poetry #canlit #tinybookreviews

I recently learned that it’s “God rest ye merry, gentlemen,” rather than “God rest ye merry gentlemen,” which is a much better line. #poetry #punctuationmatters

Nice piece by Kevin Young at the New Yorker. #poetry

Interesting read. I haven’t read the book discussed, but lots of good points made here about Canadian writing and poetry in particular.

Book slide. The big move has started! Moving shop from Kentville to Sackville.

“Cracking Amber” is the first poem I wrote that would eventually be in Green, and it is something of a mission statement. Enjoy! …and if you like it, check out Green at Breakwater Books or wherever you buy good books. PS Share! breakwaterbooks.com/products/green #poetry #canlit #giftideas

I’m halfway through a (second) listen of Lincoln in the Bardo on audiobook. Calling this an audiobook feels inaccurate: it’s something more like a radio play, with an amazing cast. (Nick Offerman is particularly excellent.) The original book is a great read as well. #booksky #tinybookreviews

People often ask what Green is about. Ahem. Parenting. Science. Nature. Baseball. The Hulk. Being Irish. A cat. A monkey. A demon. Dinosaurs. Change. Mistakes. Heroes. Urine. Monsters. Grandfathers. Bedtime. If any of that sounds interesting, check oit Green! #poetry #canlit #giftideas

Signing books from 11:00 to 1:00 today, at Breakwater Books. 263 Duckworth Street #poetry #canlit #giftideas

Very cool. I hope this wave of enthusiasm avoid the collectables mania of the 90s. #nomorefoilvariantcovers iykyk

Some are turned off of poetry because they’re worried they won’t “get it”. Green is an accessible collection, perfect for the poetry-curious person on your list. #poetry #CanLit #giftideas

When you’re buying books — for example Green — as gifts, think about giving your business to an independent bookseller. #poetry #canlit #giftideas #indiebookstores

I suggest poetry as a gift. Not necessarily my book Green (although here’s a link you can use) but any book of poems written with care in the attempt to say things that are true and real. What else could someone want? #poetry #canlit #giftideas

Green is a holiday colour. For some holidays. Otherwise it’s just a nice colour and goes nicely with purple. #poetry #canlit #giftideas

Teaser trailer this week. #Supergirl

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

The great thing about a poetry book is that it fits nicely in a stocking. #poetry #canlit #giftideas

Lovely Wallace Stevens. Subscribe to Poem-A-Day at poets.org. (And if you know anyone at the American Academy of Poets, ask them where there Bluesky feed is…!)

Free admission to national parks on Drumpf’s birthday, but not on MLK day or Juneteenth. Banana republic bullshit at its finest.

periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/jane... Thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social for this interview!

If true, hilarious.

the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...

Signing books at Jack Byrne Arena!!

Thanks to @joannemerriam.bsky.social for this Bluesky-style shout-out for “Green”.

Wow. Got blocked for disagreeing with an overly-optimistic interpretation of some data about Drumpf’s declining approval rating. Again, a third of Americans, at least, approve of this insanity in an unalterable way. That’s enough for this to be a persistent problem.

Autocorrect just tried to turn a misspelling of “shit son” into “Whitman”. Tell me your phone thinks you’re a poet without telling me you’re a poet.

39%?!? How the fuck could he still be at 39%??? Going from 50-some to 39 is not a free-fall. The graph shows this: it’s an expected gradual decline that has probably flattened out. 30 to 40 percent of Americans approve, or just of Drumpf, but of what’s been happening over the last 11 months.

"Ein nicht-schreibender Schriftsteller ist ein Ungeheuer, das den Wahnsinn umwirbt." - Kafka "A non-writing writer is a monster who courts madness."

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉 Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie www.ala.org/carnegie-med...

We’ve been rewatching LotR over the last little while. It has an additional resonance these days. You know what I mean.