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Matthew Tierney

@mtierney.bsky.social
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Poetry editor at Coach House Books. Science writer at U of T.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Q: Who is the Canadian Carl Phillips? Longlined, recursive, abstract, metaphysical lyric. Poems that would not survive a workshop and better for it.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Parry Sound Sonnet (14 sec.)
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
anti-vanity plate
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Real Estancy: “And then, when you think you can’t take anymore, the garage. OH…MY…SHARONA. This massive 2 car beauty is a quivering dream for anyone.”
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Agentic poet attends AI conference.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A “sadness / empty of sadness” is 😱… What a risky poem, what a payoff, @afmoritz.bsky.social .
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Ace poem. “There are things that trying solves but this / is not one of them.” —Robert Wood Lynn
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Some days you get your socks and underwear on then just say, fuck it, enough.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The sequence of these NYT answers from AI experts is hilarious. AI is more transformative than AGRICULTURE! Than SPECIATION! No, no, there's NO comparable! I'm on team steam engine. 🚂
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A Transtromer night if there ever was one. “roof silence” is a good descriptor for the quiet out there.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Well, well. Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉 forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...
Award winners in a row, holding books
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Gorgeous poem by Geoffrey Nutter; for anyone who’s read to a little one…
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The fine establishment where I’m about to eat has some toilet seat art framed by a toilet seat…natch.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'm reading next Thursday, May 22. Celebrating the Al Purdy Prize & foundation, including this year's winner, Al Moritz, with Molly Peacock. I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Nils Frahm tonight at Massey Hall. 🤯 I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Today is a Kid-A Da-Y…
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“you can’t write of discovery / without disco.” —Dancin’ Andy (Weaver)
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Still good.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Woof. No idea how the concept of this ad is supposed to play out but…I like it. I’m going with—hydrants rise up after years of being pissed on by 🐕.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Deactivated Twitter. Happy birthday to me. 🥴
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
“That’s the hardest thing about / becoming a poet, tomorrow you have to / wake up and become one all over again.” —Dobby Gibson
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
Karen Solie is reading NEW poems at some rando's launch. Toronto, you should come out! 🎙️ Wed May 8, Noonan's Pub (formerly Dora's), Broadview & Danforth. 🪩 eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...
Wed May 8, 7 pm, Noonan's Pub, 141 Danforth Ave.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Been proud to serve on the CH Poetry Board these past years. Sunday we join forces (w/o T. Liem, sadly) for the first time IN PERSON. Can't wait to see if I'm the tallest.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
#lunchtimereading
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Not bad for a lunchtime reading spot. 13th floor, Robarts.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Realizing yet again that poems (and poetry collections) are never finished only abandoned.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
Auden rhyming ‘know it’ with ‘poet.’ Merry Christmas, all.
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
‘What in the world’: Is there a better definition of time than James Schuyler’s?
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
I have written a book. It has a title. It has a cover. Some people have read it. In spring 2024, other people will be able to. ❣️Anne-Marie Turza: 'New forms for human heart and quiddity’ 🎱 Andrew Zawacki: 'Wise, wonky, poignant'
Cover of Lossless, a pattern of houses and pools
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