My latest in @nationalobserver.com where I argue we shouldn’t be giving government money to oilsands companies while they’re milking the cash cow and exporting their profits. #oilsands #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/o...

What we're reading today, in solidarity with the people of Iran: #IranianPoets #PoetryInTranslation #MiddleEasternPoetry #NoMoreWar

Written in 2017, Maggy de Coster's work speaks across time & space to this very day of illegal war & ongoing genocide. From Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets, translated by Danielle Legros George #BlueFlare #HaitianPoets #ZephyrPress

Michelle Mirabella's insightful, engaging interview with Edith Adams, translator of Guerrilla Blooms (Eulalia Books), Chilean-Mapuche poet Daniela Catrileo's multilingual collection: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/27/b... @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social @eulaliabooks.bsky.social #WorldPoetryDay

Birhan Keskin reading Kargo from the collection Fakir Kene. Earthly Conditions, Öykü Tekten's gorgeous translation of Keskin's work, is available from World Poetry. Read it! #WorldPoetryDay @birhankeskin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHpp... www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/i-wa...

Austrian poet Liesl Ujvary produces mesmerizing video poems. This one uses text from Good & Safe, recently translated by Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie. Check out the video & our review of the translation: youtu.be/piUzuK_kr_4?... www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/ujva... #Translation

a review by Sara Burant

🎉 ALTA is delighted to get to introduce you to the judges of the 2026 ALTA awards! Learn about the awards and our judges here: buff.ly/gUwdYHE And don't forget: Submissions to these prizes close on March 16 - just three weeks away! Learn more and submit here: buff.ly/6vmvmr8

An excerpt from "MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475–1564)" by Haris Vlavianos, translated from the Greek by Patricia Felisa Barbeito. Featured in WPR 12! Read the full poem: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/21/f... #translation #poetry #poem

We've been reading Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie's translation of Austrian poet Liesl Ujvary's 1977 Good & Safe (Sicher & Gut). Monika Rinck has called this "the book of the hour" : www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/ujva... @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social #PoetryInTranslation #Good&Safe

We go to the online pages of World Poetry Review when we're world-weary and need the refreshment and perspective poetry in translation offers, the beautiful dance of the poet, the translator, the page, the reader.

Announcing our first open call for submissions. The Transformation Review seeks reviews of and essays about poetry in translation for our inaugural issue. Please send us your work!! #PoetryInTranslation #CallForSubmissions #LitMag #Reviews #Essays

Save the date! World Poetry Review will be open for submissions for Issue 13 on Feb. 1st. Translators of poetry are encouraged to apply! Check out our submissions page to review our submission guidelines and to learn more about what we're looking for: worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast is flawed on so many levels. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/o...

Twenty-Two Poems by Paul Éluard, translated from the French by Ross Belot @rossbelot.bsky.social & Sara Burant, in WPR 12! Check them all out here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t... #translation #poem #poetry #poems

Beware of fossil fuel enthusiasts touting the latest IEA report and its supposed forecast of endless demand growth for oil. The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...

Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a favourite attack line, and Smith can still say she forced the federal government to move on pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/o...

congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/kare...

Just released: WPR 12! This issue features poetry translated from Chinese, Greek, Faroese, Persian, Spanish, French, Russian, and Italian! Check it out! worldpoetryreview.org @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social @rossbelot.bsky.social @georginamegan.bsky.social

Very excited to have my and Sara Burant’s translation of the Paul Éluard 22 section poem L’Univers-Solitude from Éluard’s 1932 collection La Vie immédiate in the latest issue of World Poetry Review. worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t... @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social

That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.

Yet across the political spectrum in Canada the big ideas from #DanielleSmith to @naheednenshi.bsky.social, from #Poilievre to @mark-carney.bsky.social are #MorePipelines. No longer surprised they don't care about burning the world down but you'd think they'd care about economics #cdnpoli #abpoli

My latest….The new Imperial Oil is a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada by Canadians. It’s the clearest sign yet that Canada’s oil story is drawing to a close. Our leaders still haven't noticed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...

As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.

As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/19/o...

Ontario's battle against bike lanes has always ignored facts and evidence. Now Alberta is making the same specious arguments. My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/04/opinion/bike-lanes-ford-smith-court-ruling

Back then the economy was the only concern; climate change wasn’t on the radar. We should celebrate the vision of the politicians and corporations of the time. But we're no longer in that era, and leaders need to enter the new one, Ross Belot writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/31/o...

Interesting piece by Kam Razavi, former Global News investigative reporter, on why Canada isn’t addressing its oil and gas emissions, I’m quoted in spots. medium.com/the-new-clim...

Piece authored by a few friends and me in the Calgary Herald calling for real discussions on climate change by all sides. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... ‪@ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social‬

There's a reason Canadian oil companies aren't investing in carbon capture. The rest of us should pay attention. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...

My latest op-ed discussing the shenanigans of Carney and Smith on the oilsands. and how they don't seem to be talking about the fundamentals. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/o...

Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions, writes Ross Belot www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/07/o...

a video to go with this post www.tiktok.com/@macleansmag...

my latest piece in Canada's National Observer....Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job. Accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...

Canadian politicians must accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and instead look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...

Pierre Poilievre has proposed large-scale oil sands investments. But Ross Belot, a former oil exec, says it's a bad idea—because production will decline no matter what Canada does. macleans.ca/economy/why-...

I have a piece in Macleans explaining why the oilsands boom ended and isn't coming back. And why Trump tariffs have nothing to do with that. macleans.ca/economy/why-...

More translations by Sara Burant and me from Paul Éluard's La Vie immédiate in the most recent Ezra: an online journal of translation. ezratranslation.com/current-issue/

A great start to the year with four of Sara Burant and my collaborative translations from Paul Éluard's La Vie immédiate published by rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social in his wonderful online journal periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/01/paul...

That threat by Doug Ford to cut off electricity exports to the U.S. was a bad move. Ross Belot crunched the numbers and Canada is far more dependent on U.S. energy than the other way around. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/18/a...

Ontario has far more to lose if the U.S. slashes energy supplies to Canada, than the other way around. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/18/a...

my latest piece in the National Observer detailing what a really really bad idea it is for Doug Ford to suggest disrupting energy across Ontario’s border. #cdnpoli #Ontario #dougford www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/18/a...

My latest piece in the National Observer www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/25/o...

My latest piece www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/02/o...