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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In this essay @danielcowper.bsky.social discusses why poetry is so unpopular with general readers (link in the comments). He then takes a look at contemporary poetry that is popular (in terms of Amazon sales). It isn't to be missed!

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tsawassen and its environs! Please join @catwrites604.bsky.social and me for a reading tomorrow at 7pm, Nov 11th, at Albany books!

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P.W. Bridgman, Writer @pwbwriter1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

So begins a series of reflections on the writing life by the self-effacing @danielcowper.bsky.social. Concerns that Daniel raises in Pt I are (perhaps inadvertent) boastfulness--something to be avoided--and the sometimes subtle distinction between embarrassment and disgrace. Looking fwd to more.

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In which I make a fool of myself in a new way: Writing about Writing About Writing: an introduction to a series of essays I'll be posting on NVR over the next year or so. newversereview.substack.com/p/writing-ab...

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Writing About Writing; Embracing the Pratfalls and Possibilities

Letters from an Island 1

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Come one come all! Big stars Joseph Kidney and Dominique Bernier-Cormier and me too! Gibsons ; Reasons to Live Books ; 3pm, Sat May 3

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Daniel Cooper @dacooperpoet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Does bedtime feel like a futile battle, a quotidian struggle with entitled tots that leaves you deflated and a little defeated? Does your mini-me’s drama make you moan, and crave the silent and comforting cold of the deep, long-lasting darkness of sleep? If so, this might be the poem for you:

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

W.H Auden, The Sea and the Mirror, c. 2, Alonso’s speech. Is Auden… underrated?!?

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Got back from visiting family out east, to find that my author copies have arrived early. They look very handsome in the flesh. All praise to the team @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social for outstanding book design!

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Grateful to THINK for including a poem of mine in the new issue: a poem that is scrupulously accurate about my 5 year old’s talking in his sleep.

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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It's hard to believe but we're 35 days away from release day! Big thanks to @danielcowper.bsky.social for this lovely blurb!❤️ Check the link below to pre-order from your local bookstore! shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/9780889...

A book cover with a Hoopoe bird in front of a brown floral background. Text: I used to live here, Amy LeBlanc

Ivory floral background. Text:
I used to live here
Ready for pre-order
Available april 1

Sensual, sinister, and self-aware, Amy LeBlanc’s poems in I used to live here are alert to matters of mind, body, and magic. These tense, hungry poems are not so much laid out on the page as lying in ambush for you.

- Daniel Cowper, author of Kingdom of the Clock: A Novel in Verse

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

If you're interested in a review copy, please: - DM me; or - Email Jacqui at MQUP: Jacqueline PERIOD davis AT mcgill PERIOD ca If you're on the fence, don't forget that a physical book could, as fire-starter, save your life in an emergency.

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Publishing poetry is like tossing a rose in the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo, they say - but a blurb is like an echo heard before you let go! What echo? The kind words of wonderful poet, translator, editor, and scholar, 👑 @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Kingdom of the Clock!

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Musician, poet, politician, renaissance woman @mmburton.bsky.social has now weighed in on Kingdom of the Clock: Pre-order here if so inclined: www.mqup.ca/kingdom-of-t...

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Time to bottle some cider, mix up the next batch.

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The best part of bringing a new book into the world is certainly the part where you start collecting blurbs. Heavyweight verse novel reigning champ and gentleman of letters @jasonguriel.bsky.social is first with kind words for an untested welterweight.

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Here’s an old poem of mine. Old, but this time of the year keeps coming round.

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P.W. Bridgman, Writer @pwbwriter1.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"...profound, skilfully crafted, engaging & cathartic poems that deal with sometimes dark historical & political subject material...leaven[ed] with tender love poems & gentle sardonic humour." I'm humbled by Colin Carberry's review of "The World You Now Own". thehighwindowpress.com/2024/10/15/r...

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of the first real poems I wrote was along the immortal lines of “Don’t think twice it’s alright,” as the person I wrote it about observed some years later.

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You know what, I'm probably just going to post pure poetry content here. Here's my poem about halloween, and how it goes where I come from. www.newversereview.com/1-2-daniel-c...

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Poem by Daniel Cowper

Daniel Cowper, "Trick or Treating"

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Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is the kind of advice I need but struggle to put into practice.

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