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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are numerous elevators
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh fantastic! Looking forward to seeing that.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Great!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You will have wished you were there... @garthmartens.bsky.social and your dream logic are not to be missed!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Longing and resignation, sobriety and relapse, the sacred and the forsaken – these dualities are not resolved but lived in the comic and cosmic ever-presence of the body. Formally restless, intellectually alert, I felt at times these poems were reading my mind."
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"A prelude to eternity, this theopathic exploration asks again and again: What is it to die without dying? To live without living? What follows is the pre-ecstatic tremble of a life lived on the knife-edge between worlds, belonging to both and to neither...
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wow, this beautiful book by Dominique Béchard lives up to its name. Out Sept. 22 with @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Shad... I had the pleasure of writing this for the cover:
I'm holding up the book in my living room. The blue cover is shot through with lines of light.  Other-worldly and this-worldly at the same time.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
HELLLLOOOOOOO!
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨 New Canadian chapbook press alert!🚨 deuteragonist press is based in Victoria. They are currently open to submissions, looking for poetry manuscripts (25-40 pages), especially from BC poets: www.deuteragonistpress.com
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’m so happy to look at this every day
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🙏 Love being alongside my friend @eleekg.bsky.social who is on tour this very moment with the sometimes, forest.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🫀 🤍 💙
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for supporting my @royalroads.ca master's research with a Canada Graduate Scholarship. The project explores artist- and writer-in-residence programs in public universities across Canada, and the slipstream spaces between higher education and creative practice.
A selfie of me in an RRU ball-cap and grey summer suit jacket. I'm in the Dogwood Auditorium at RRU with beautiful metal artwork by Carey Newman Hayalthkin'geme behind me. I look very pleased to be belatedly sharing this, having adjusted to calling myself a scholar over the past year since receiving this great news.
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Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In which I read my poem “Potato Cellar” from Who Else in the Dark Headed There. Give it a listen.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’m so happy to look at this every day!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Two more readings coming up on our Atlantic tour. If you are in St. Andrews, join us at McGuire Chocolate with Bucca dell'Acqua books, or in Fredericton, at the Westminster Bookmark! @gooselane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @melaniesiebert.bsky.social
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Fantastic!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Congrats on the new book. Sorry to miss you in Victoria! We are on a little jaunt in Atlantic Canada ourselves. Looks like you’ve got some great readings.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Melanie and I kick off our Atlantic tour in Halifax this Tuesday at the Trident. A decade ago I was there with my first book, Twoism. It's awesome to return knowing how beautiful the city, poets and people are. @melaniesiebert.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May it be so!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So sorry to miss you, Rob! Though happily Melanie regaled me of your nights here.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
⚡️TONIGHT⚡️
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
❤️ Please join me in celebrating this beautiful book, journey and poet!
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Doctors: "I could perform your lifesaving surgery." Teachers: "I could transform the life of your child." Firefighters: "I could rescue you on your darkest day." Poets:
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨 LAST CALL 🚨 Only one day left to submit to the Claire Harris Poetry Prize! The prize is designed to enhance the visibility of debut poetry collections by poets from Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities 📜 All info and the submission portal at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wonderful!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
That and orbital structure. Hooph.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Wow!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
April 15! Garth Martens’ first book since his GG nominated debut—he has travelled a long way. With @biblioasis.bsky.social: www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...
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Who Else in the Dark Headed There - Biblioasis
In his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. A mother disappears. A...
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Beautiful—inside and out. Congratulations my friend.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Congrats! Loved it and glad it’s seeing success.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The jury: Her sensibility is unmistakable….There is often a fairytale quality to her imagery, a surreality; at other turns, she transforms the grit of everyday life into a glorious marvel. Turza is one of our finest poets, a visionary whose work has the texture of prophecy. I couldn’t agree more.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“There is often a fairytale quality to her imagery, a surreality; at other turns, she transforms the grit of everyday life into a glorious marvel. Turza is one of our finest poets, a visionary whose work has the texture of prophecy.”
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Yes! The jury: “Across the last decade, Anne-Marie Turza has become one of the most striking and idiosyncratic voices in Canadian poetry. Her sensibility is unmistakable: oblique, funny, touched with an unforced strangeness that feels like a genuinely new way of seeing.”
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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🚨NOW OPEN🚨 The Claire Harris Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! The biennial prize will be awarded to a full-length debut poetry collection by a writer who is Black, Indigenous, or from another racialized community. Details at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Wow!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Wow!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Thanks! I promise I wasn’t fishing. This festival had such a good thing going.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I love this aspect of the festival. The themes are so good too!
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Oh man this is my kind of book. The fierce, erotic lament of it. And just wildly smart. @paulvermeersch.bsky.social with @ecwpress.bsky.social 📖 ecwpress.com/products/nmlct
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Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Tomorrow, I join forces with Jan Zwicky to read Jan’s new long poem, Say It, which arises from the depths of environmental cataclysm. Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.
A photo of poets Garth Martens and Jan Zwicky.
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I’m a happy traveller alongside Melanie Siebert, who is on a DC Reid Poetry Prize junket for her stunning book, Signal Infinities. 📖 @melaniesiebert.bsky.social With fellow Victoria Book Prizes nominees and organizers.
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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Dear @theglobeandmail.com Please bring back poetry reviews that reflect the complexity and deep engagement of our thriving CanPo world! We need discussion, critique, and space not mini synopses, and coverage of primarily non Canadian writers.
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Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Please join us for Victoria's inaugural reading of the DC Reid Book Prize Finalists on November 5th at Cafe Fantastico! Congratulations to Cynthia Woodman Kerkham, @melaniesiebert.bsky.social and Kayla Czaga! Hosted by the fabulous @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social Tickets are FREE on Eventbrite.
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival is here! Nov 7-8 in Abbotsford! Charlie Demers Evelyn Lau Brian Bartlett Kayla Czaga Joseph Dandurand Daniela Elza Andrew French Taryn Hubbard Jen Sookfong Lee Christina Myers Heather Ramsay Nick Thran Info and *free* tickets: www.fvwritersfestival.com
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Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Tomorrow night! I perform with poet Patrick Friesen alongside two of Canada's best flamenco artists, guitarist Gareth Owen and dancer Denise Yeo. Learn more, and buy tickets, here: www.vancouverflamencofestival.org/palabra-flam...
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I love that my ❤️ Melanie Siebert is shortlisted for the inaugural DC Reid Poetry Prize! The jury calls it an 'extreme act of empathy and a profoundly ethical gesture towards the “unknowable interiority” of others' Cheers to her and for this new #Victoria #poetry award! @melaniesiebert.bsky.social
A stunning headshot of Melanie Siebert in a crisp white dress shirt, big smart looking glasses and tumbly hair. Along with the watery cover of her book Signal Infinities with art by Christina Brown and Designed by Dylan Browne.
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