Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Q: Who is the Canadian Carl Phillips? Longlined, recursive, abstract, metaphysical lyric. Poems that would not survive a workshop and better for it. 040
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Real 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.” 100
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/05/2026A “sadness / empty of sadness” is 😱… What a risky poem, what a payoff, @afmoritz.bsky.social . 1253
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Ace poem. “There are things that trying solves but this / is not one of them.” —Robert Wood Lynn 121
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Some days you get your socks and underwear on then just say, fuck it, enough. 010
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The 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. 🚂 030
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A Transtromer night if there ever was one. “roof silence” is a good descriptor for the quiet out there. 000
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Well, well. Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉 forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz... 071
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Gorgeous poem by Geoffrey Nutter; for anyone who’s read to a little one… 010
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The fine establishment where I’m about to eat has some toilet seat art framed by a toilet seat…natch. 110
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I'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. 050
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Nils Frahm tonight at Massey Hall. 🤯 I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear. 010
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 13/01/2025“you can’t write of discovery / without disco.” —Dancin’ Andy (Weaver) 030
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Woof. 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 🐕. 010
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 040
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 16/04/2024Karen 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... 120
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Been 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. 030
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 08/01/2024Not bad for a lunchtime reading spot. 13th floor, Robarts. 030
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 29/12/2023Realizing yet again that poems (and poetry collections) are never finished only abandoned. 150
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 25/12/2023Auden rhyming ‘know it’ with ‘poet.’ Merry Christmas, all. 010
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 21/12/2023‘What in the world’: Is there a better definition of time than James Schuyler’s? 010
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 05/12/2023I 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' 060