Thanks Kirby!

There simply aren't enough superlatives for the work of award-winning Japanese-Canadian poet KEVIN IRIE, including his latest, EVACUATIONS @ualbertapress.bsky.social I'm shook. "Year of the Fire Horse?" "Yes. It's Kevin Irie." - @itsakirby.bsky.social ualbertapress.ca/978177212853...

So happy to see my new book in such fine company on @49thshelf.bsky.social 's Most Anticipated Spring Poetry Preview!

Monday morning, grey sky, snow promised -- but my forthcoming book has its first review! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-art-of...

Tell me your winter story!!!!!!!

“CROSSING INTO CANADA shows the courage of war resisters and the importance of collective resistance and organizing and also raises profound questions about how we might collectively respond to violence and war in the future." Jennifer Ridgley, Carleton U https://bit.ly/4agkxLf ##History #War

Open to all Afro-Canadian poets or Black poets in contiguous locations, such as the United States, invested in winter imaginaries of Canadian life/Black diaspora. olongoafrica.com/call-for-poe...

UNMASKING ACADEMIA explores how faculty and students managed increasing demands for EDI committee labor, coinciding with the pandemic's weight and continued exposure to racialized violence. Who belongs, and who is tasked with fixing the system? https://bit.ly/3M7SJPe ##RacialJustice #HigherEd

SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISMS IN DISAPORA features 17 scholars at different career levels and ranging in geopolitical and cultural affiliation from Parsi, Indo Caribbean, North India, Bengal, Pakistan, South India, Bangladesh, and Hakka Chinese. https://bit.ly/4hnuhVH ##Decolonization #AntiRacism

SHELTER IN TEXT: ESSAYS ON DWELLING AND REFUGE asks crucial questions about our built world and the stories we tell. How does narrative shelter us—or leave us exposed—amid the housing emergency, encampments, and mass dislocation? ##HousingCrisis #CanLit #SpaceAndPlace https://bit.ly/4p4eXQ4

Grounded in long-term ethnographic work around the globe, TERRITORIES OF LIFE draws on research from places colonially known as Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay, and Taiwan. https://bit.ly/4qXUhew ##DecolonialStudies #IndigenousTerritories #PoliticalEcology #Geography #Collectives

Are you a cycling enthusiast? An armchair traveller? We are following the journey of our author, Tony Robinson-Smith. He and his wife, Nadya, are 71 days into their trans-Euro bike tour from Turkey to England. Read their blog: https://bit.ly/3M4sLfU See his travel books: https://bit.ly/4q0nCU9

Here is a wonderful treat! It's the Spring 2026 Poetry Preview from @49thshelf.bsky.social. Congratulations to Kevin Irie (EVACUATIONS), Lisa Martin (NIGHTHAWKS), and @lisarichter.bsky.social(SUBLUNARY) and the other wonderful poets on the list. https://bit.ly/4kzjKs3 ##poetry #poets #readers

Call for Afro-Canadian or Black poets! Black Psalms of the Shivering Ones seeks new works and fresh voices on the seasonal life of Black Canada to join the already thriving canon of Afro-Canadian poetry. Submit to osalawu[at]torontomu.ca

Do you review books? Host a book or book adjacent podcast or radio show? Have a bookish blog? Join us to uplift the amazing literature being published by small, independent presses in Canada! Visit the link below to learn more: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... #canlit #books

So many of my favourite #YEG poets are doing THE COOLEST thing on Thursday, and I have the honour of introducing them all to the stage! Please come for something beautiful, creative and magical in a time when we all need it. 💖

Join Sharmin Sadequee, the editor of SECULARISM, RACE, AND THE POLITICS OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, and a panel of experts at a virtual event this Friday at 9 am MT / 11 am ET. Host: CASIM Panelists: Dr. Jahangeer, Nakita Valerio, Dr. Jackson-Best, and Dr. Diab. Registration: https://bit.ly/4rptLdJ

Great review of Meltdown in BC Studies, by Michele Koppes bcstudies.com/book_film_re... @ualbertapress.bsky.social

"The concept of 'territories of life' highlights the struggles of collectives to sustain themselves within liberal settler colonial societies where a modern ontology relies on a separation between the human and nature." Juanita Sundberg, UBC https://bit.ly/4qXUhew ##PoliticalEcology #Geography

"Sarah Boon and a student alone on an Arctic glacier, hours from help, the student repeating “I don’t want to die.” In such remote places a small misstep can rapidly become life threatening." albertaviews.ca/meltdown-sar... #Booksky @ualbertapress.bsky.social @snowhydro.bsky.social

Margaret Christakos has won the 2025 Nelson Ball Award for THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE. Congratulations, Margaret! The judges' citations and a conversation with Margaret are found here: https://bit.ly/4qfLiEf ##poetry #awards #books

Congratulations to Margaret Christakos - winner of the Nelson Ball Prize for 2025, awarded to a published work that features "poetry of observation." Woot! nelsonballprize.blogspot.com/2026/01/marg...

Edmonton, the Olive's February Poetry and Prose Open mic will feature two local poets: Nisha Patel & Matthew James Weigel! Join us on February 11th and as always, a chapbook will be available on a first-come first-serve basis.

We're hiring a publicist! We're looking for someone dynamic, bilingual, and eager to help MQUP books reach the widest possible audiences. This is for a six-month, full-time contract, based at our Montreal office. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/zFYjMcu #READUP #JobsInBooks

Are you a cycling enthusiast? An armchair traveller? We are following the journey of our author, Tony Robinson-Smith. He and his wife, Nadya, are 56 days into their trans-Euro bike tour from Turkey to England. Read their blog: https://bit.ly/3M4sLfU See his travel books: https://bit.ly/4q0nCU9

Nice! congrats @yukondawn.bsky.social

SHELTER IN TEXT weaves poetry, nonfiction, and essays to show the commonalities, contradictions, and tensions between finding physical refuge and creating narrative safe harbor. A vital read for anyone interested in how we dwell and what we read. https://bit.ly/4p4eXQ4 ##Literature #HigherEd

"MELTDOWN is as engaging and readable as it is academically rigorous.... Readers drawn to narratives of adventure and scientific exploration, as well as those looking for a raw and honest look at the challenges of being a woman in academia, will find much of interest in this book." BC Studies

We've got new books for a fresh year! Books to help you welcome 2026 from a healthy, happy place! @houseofanansi.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @simonschusterca.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

We are looking for a Junior Editor. The Junior Editor will contribute to the acquisition, development, and funding requirements of an intellectually rich program of books to be published by UBC Press in defined subject areas. Further information and apply at: https://ow.ly/b5Aw50XX2FQ.

Authors beware! There are more miserable scams than ever, and with the help of AI, they are coming thick and fast. Our colleagues at @upmississippi.bsky.social have a great post that we are sharing, with permission. https://bit.ly/49maqnD ##ReadUP @aupresses.bsky.social @cdnpublishers.bsky.social

Some Marshall McLuhan / Harley Parker discussion to start the day. Thanks to the CBC's Calgary Eyeopener for their interest in our new book MUSEUM AS LARGE-ROOM PINBALL MACHINE, edited by William J. Buxton. 1/2 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

My article about what science memoir is, now up at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/craf...

Author Myra Bloom with her wonderful new collection, Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge, co-edited with Kasia Van Schaik. #MLA26 ualbertapress.ca/978177212829...

NEW for #MLA26: Alice Munro and the Art of Time by Laura K. Davis https://bit.ly/4mV07e2 ##MLAnews @modernlanguage.bsky.social

NEW for #MLA26: Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton. https://bit.ly/4b1Vx9l ##MLAnews @modernlanguage.bsky.social #booksky #books #graphicnonfiction #comics

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman is well represented at #mla2026toronto, all thanks to the wonderful @mlobkowicz.bsky.social and @ualbertapress.bsky.social team! Many thanks for the picture Michelle!

NEW for #MLA26: Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge, edited by Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik. https://bit.ly/4p4eXQ4 ##MLAnews @modernlanguage.bsky.social

#MLA26: Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art, edited by Dominique Hétu, Libe García Zarranz, Amanda Fayant, and Marie Carrière. https://bit.ly/3Dmnwnp ##books #reading #literature #CompLit #poetics #highered #MLAnews @modernlanguage.bsky.social

NEW for #MLA26: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions, edited by Arnab Dutta Roy and Paul Ugor. https://bit.ly/3IzHq1c ##MLAnews @arnabdr.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social

All set up at #MLA26 Booth 109. Please stop by and check out our beautiful books. @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Acquisitions editor Michelle Lobkowicz is attending #MLA26 and is open to publishing queries and book proposals. Visit her at booth 109A! Our submissions guidelines are here: https://bit.ly/4cpQT4s ##MLANews @mlobkowicz.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Please stop by and say hello of you are at #MLA26 this year!

Touch the Donkey supplement #290 : seven questions for Aidan Chafe / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttd-...

Hello friends, the postcolonial bildungsroman volumes are out now. Please consider checking them out, using them in your research, courses, reviewing them, ordering them for your personal or university libraries, and spreading the word. @ualbertapress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

#BookReview Dawn Macdonald's poetry collection NORTHERNY reviewed by Alaskan poet John Morgan: "full of high spirits, wit, and intriguing poetic experiments. ... an exhilarating adventure..." doi.org/10.22584/nr5... @yukondawn.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social #YukonUniversity #CanadianPoetry

A holiday treat! Listen to Kate Beaton's CLC lecture on CBC Ideas: https://bit.ly/4fRPZ32. Then buy a copy of the full-length talk, BODIES OF ART, BODIES OF LABOUR: https://bit.ly/4b1Vx9l ##CanLit #booksky #class #art #literature #CLC #UAlberta @katebeaton.bsky.social

You will find Gary Genosko's biography of HARLEY PARKER: The McLuhan of the Museum in Canada's History Great Canadian Gift Guide. Check it out! https://bit.ly/3XVH3C7

Alan Brownoff's design of ON BEAUTY was one of the winners in this design competition. We were able to host the traveling exhibition in November. It was another spectacular year for university press book design!

yet another birthday chair masterpiece by @mlobkowicz.bsky.social 🦈🎂❤️