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Chaudiere Books

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Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers, chaudierebooks.blogspot.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #242 : Barâa Arar chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/10/six-...

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Six Questions interview #242 : Barâa Arar

Barâa Arar is a writer and editor, based in Toronto. Her creative and critical writing has appeared in The Markaz Review , This Magazine , ...

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Scribble the Lamp @sybillamb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

read this secret confession !

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Six Questions interview #242 : Barâa Arar chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/10/six-...

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Six Questions interview #242 : Barâa Arar

Barâa Arar is a writer and editor, based in Toronto. Her creative and critical writing has appeared in The Markaz Review , This Magazine , ...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Six Questions interview #241 : Rebecca Hirsch Garcia / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/six-...

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Six Questions interview #241 : Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia lives in Ottawa, Ontario. An O. Henry award winning author, her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review , PRISM ...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Six Questions interview #240 : Nadia Bozak / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/six-...

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Six Questions interview #240 : Nadia Bozak

Nadia Bozak lives in Ottawa and teaches at Carleton University. Her latest novel, Fret , has recently been published by ECW. Q: How long ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #241 : Rebecca Hirsch Garcia / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/six-...

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Six Questions interview #241 : Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia lives in Ottawa, Ontario. An O. Henry award winning author, her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review , PRISM ...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Six Questions interview #241 : Rebecca Hirsch Garcia / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/six-...

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Six Questions interview #241 : Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia lives in Ottawa, Ontario. An O. Henry award winning author, her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review , PRISM ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #240 : Nadia Bozak / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/six-...

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Six Questions interview #240 : Nadia Bozak

Nadia Bozak lives in Ottawa and teaches at Carleton University. Her latest novel, Fret , has recently been published by ECW. Q: How long ...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Six Questions interview #240 : Nadia Bozak / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/six-...

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Six Questions interview #240 : Nadia Bozak

Nadia Bozak lives in Ottawa and teaches at Carleton University. Her latest novel, Fret , has recently been published by ECW. Q: How long ...

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Vivien🗡️🗡️🗡️JustJ @vivien3daggers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is a quick 2 hour read:

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Six Questions interview [via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social] #239 : Sybil Lamb / @sybillamb.bsky.social @littlepuss.net ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/08/six-...

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Six Questions interview #239 : Sybil Lamb

Sybil Lamb is the author of I’ve Got A Time Bomb , The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly , and The Lost Little Gi...

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ELLEN OF GENEROUS @funnyposts.online · 31/08/2026

Sybil Lamb's books rule, a lot of u would enjoy

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Six Questions interview #239 : Sybil Lamb / @sybillamb.bsky.social @littlepuss.net ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/08/six-...

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Six Questions interview #239 : Sybil Lamb

Sybil Lamb is the author of I’ve Got A Time Bomb , The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly , and The Lost Little Gi...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Six Questions interview #238 : Harold Hoefle / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/six-...

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Six Questions interview #238 : Harold Hoefle

Harold Hoefle lives in Overbrook, where the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation lived for 8000 years. He’s been there a month. Before that, forty y...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #238 : Harold Hoefle / @mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/six-...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Six Questions interview #238 : Harold Hoefle / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/six-...

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Six Questions interview #238 : Harold Hoefle

Harold Hoefle lives in Overbrook, where the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation lived for 8000 years. He’s been there a month. Before that, forty y...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Six Questions interview #237 : August Chun / @augustchun.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/six-...

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Six Questions interview #237 : August Chun

August Chun is a queer, Han Chinese writer, organizer, and researcher based on unceded Ohlone land (Bay Area, California) and unceded Algon...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #237 : August Chun / @augustchun.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/six-...

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Six Questions interview #237 : August Chun

August Chun is a queer, Han Chinese writer, organizer, and researcher based on unceded Ohlone land (Bay Area, California) and unceded Algon...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Six Questions interview #237 : August Chun / @augustchun.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/six-...

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Six Questions interview #237 : August Chun

August Chun is a queer, Han Chinese writer, organizer, and researcher based on unceded Ohlone land (Bay Area, California) and unceded Algon...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! , in which an anniversary begins to be celebrated, / @meetthepresses.bsky.social @montrealprize.bsky.social @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/happy-thir...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Six Questions interview #236 : Sara Graefe / @saragraefe.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/06/six-...

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Six Questions interview #236 : Sara Graefe

Sara Graefe (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter and essayist who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #236 : Sara Graefe / @saragraefe.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/06/six-...

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Six Questions interview #236 : Sara Graefe

Sara Graefe (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter and essayist who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Six Questions interview #236 : Sara Graefe / @saragraefe.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/06/six-...

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Six Questions interview #236 : Sara Graefe

Sara Graefe (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter and essayist who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Maleea Acker, / @emaleea.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Maleea Acker,

Carpaccio I’m under the blue tarp. My feet hidden in polyester onesie pajamas, Max’s wolf suit but without the trap door. Climbing...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

National Poetry Month 2026 : Chaudiere Books blog, / @chaudierebooks.bsky.social @pw.org @canadianpoets.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/nati...

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National Poetry Month 2026 : Chaudiere Books blog,

In case you weren't aware, I've been posting daily poems all April for National Poetry Month over at the Chaudiere Books blog by an array o...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Junie Désil, / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Junie Désil,

Cento for a Beautiful Broken World Friends will you bear with me today I took a chair outside and – some things on this earth are uns...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Maleea Acker, / @emaleea.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Maleea Acker,

Carpaccio I’m under the blue tarp. My feet hidden in polyester onesie pajamas, Max’s wolf suit but without the trap door. Climbing...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Maleea Acker, / @emaleea.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Maleea Acker,

Carpaccio I’m under the blue tarp. My feet hidden in polyester onesie pajamas, Max’s wolf suit but without the trap door. Climbing...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Jordan Davis, / @jordandavis.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Jordan Davis,

from Free Throws Get away from the gold city and you feel naked without your chain “ Naked, in chains ” does that excite you It ’ s o...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Junie Désil, / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Junie Désil,

Cento for a Beautiful Broken World Friends will you bear with me today I took a chair outside and – some things on this earth are uns...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Junie Désil, / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Junie Désil,

Cento for a Beautiful Broken World Friends will you bear with me today I took a chair outside and – some things on this earth are uns...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Nancy Huggett, / @nancyhuggett.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Nancy Huggett,

Hieroglyphs Yesterday. It was cold. Again. Snow crusted field stiff with wetness, wind. Tamaracks storm- shaken, small bits of branc...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Cole Swensen, / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Cole Swensen,

Trees in Mist To ghost an oak once lost—an oak beyond all thought—and the haunt, a fact. We crushed aloft what a ghost creates o...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Jordan Davis, / @jordandavis.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Jordan Davis,

from Free Throws Get away from the gold city and you feel naked without your chain “ Naked, in chains ” does that excite you It ’ s o...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Jordan Davis, / @jordandavis.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Jordan Davis,

from Free Throws Get away from the gold city and you feel naked without your chain “ Naked, in chains ” does that excite you It ’ s o...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Lydia Unsworth,

BRESCIA He walked down his valley into the modern city and said— though whose valley is it and for how long do you, in order t...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Rahat Kurd, / @rahat.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Rahat Kurd,

The Harrowing Hour By the pen – By the anniversary pen he gave you last night, and the dishes he left in the sink this mornin...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Chris Johnson, / @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Chris Johnson,

drought left the leaner birds after Ellen Chang-Richardson’s “rain brings the angler fish” from Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Cole Swensen, / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Cole Swensen,

Trees in Mist To ghost an oak once lost—an oak beyond all thought—and the haunt, a fact. We crushed aloft what a ghost creates o...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Cole Swensen, / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Cole Swensen,

Trees in Mist To ghost an oak once lost—an oak beyond all thought—and the haunt, a fact. We crushed aloft what a ghost creates o...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Noah Sparrow, chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Noah Sparrow,

Excessive Positioning (excerpts) I am hungry most of the time and I’m not always wanting sex. This is a fact. One of my many favouri...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Catriona Strang, / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Catriona Strang,

A Wee Dram At the risk of my new teeth and reconfigured woolen borders plated in the rhythm and structures of an imagined rural life, le...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Chris Johnson, / @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Chris Johnson,

drought left the leaner birds after Ellen Chang-Richardson’s “rain brings the angler fish” from Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) ...

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chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

new poem; thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social!

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Chris Johnson, / @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Chris Johnson,

drought left the leaner birds after Ellen Chang-Richardson’s “rain brings the angler fish” from Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Catriona Strang, / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Catriona Strang,

A Wee Dram At the risk of my new teeth and reconfigured woolen borders plated in the rhythm and structures of an imagined rural life, le...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Noah Sparrow, chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Noah Sparrow,

Excessive Positioning (excerpts) I am hungry most of the time and I’m not always wanting sex. This is a fact. One of my many favouri...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Catriona Strang, / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Catriona Strang,

A Wee Dram At the risk of my new teeth and reconfigured woolen borders plated in the rhythm and structures of an imagined rural life, le...

Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Noah Sparrow, chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Noah Sparrow,

Excessive Positioning (excerpts) I am hungry most of the time and I’m not always wanting sex. This is a fact. One of my many favouri...

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Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart, / @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @ohiounivpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

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National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart,

Ars Poetica as Arctic Explorer I point my boat into the silent cold. We all make choices towards and away from each other. The Farth...