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Paul Moorehead

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Poet. Dad. Cat roommate. My poetry collection, “Green”, is available from Breakwater Books. breakwaterbooks.com/products/green

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Part 2 of this engaging discussion. What do you think of Prufrock? #poetrypodcasts
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The Poetry Space_
Books Podcast · Updated Weekly · Join hosts Katie Dozier and Timothy Green for The Poetry Space_, a weekly poetry podcast featuring lively, free-wheeling discussions on poems, poetry craft, and the wr...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jack B. Yeats
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a quotation for our time.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Neilson’s debut collection — only just now reading it, though I’ve known his work for years — is distinct, vibrant, and daring. He tackles his themes — men’s mental health, love — unapologetically. #tinybookreviews #poetry #canlit #canadianpoetry #booksky #poetrysky
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Meniscus - Biblioasis
In the middle of his life, Robert Lowell wrote “Memories of West Street and Lepke,” a poem that reflected on Lowell’s recurrent manias and included the lines “My manic statement.” […]
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He Scammed the Book Business for Years. Is He Back?
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Filippo Bernardini Scammed the Book Business for Years. Is He Back?
The man who admitted to stealing hundreds of manuscripts swore he’d never do it again. New online skulduggery resembles his old tricks, and then some.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lively discussions with Canadian poets! Very engaging. #poetrypodcasts #poetry
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Page Fright: A Poetry Podcast
Books Podcast · Andrew French interviews established and emerging authors about breaking through as writers and finding their literary style.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not for me, but probably a very good podcast for a particular kind of poetry reader. If you’re approach to poetry is ethereal or metaphysical, this could be for you. #poetrypodcasts #poetry
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A Thousand Shades of Green
Books Podcast · Updated Weekly · A Thousand Shades of Green, hosted by Susan Richardson, is a podcast dedicated to celebrating contemporary authors. Join Susan to hear some of her favourite poems and...
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really interesting discussion of Eliot’s “Prufrock”. Looking forward to part 2. #poetrypodcasts #poetry #tseliot
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Prufrock Part 1: T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | ep. 153
Podcast Episode · The Poetry Space_ · September 18 · 1h 4m
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George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A couple years ago I started writing short fiction again after about 25 years off. The first of these stories is now at The New Quarterly, and it's a featured read, so you can get it for free right now, I think, through this link: tnq.ca/story/one-la...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“What if Frog is being chased by a big animal with many sharp teeth? What if he is being eaten up?” cried Toad.
In Toad's imagination, a furious wolf chases Frog through the woods.

From "Christmas Eve"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A collection both narrow and far-reaching: Le Guin bangs on repeatedly about fantasy and sci-fi not necessarily being not literature, and brings her intelligence to bear on a range of books and ideas. A peculiar author, whose essays I like better than her fiction. TBH. #booksky
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Ursula K. Le Guin — Words Are My Matter
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What. A. Book. “North” will definitely need a few re-reads to begin to scratch beneath its earths. Wonderful. #booksky #poetry #irishpoetry #tinybookreviews #seamusheaney
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North (Heritage Edition)
This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On this day in 1899, Helen Creighton was born in Dartmouth, NS. As a folklorist, she collected over 4,000 traditional songs, stories and beliefs over several decades. She wrote 13 books, including the best-selling Bluenose Ghosts in 1957. 📸 Nova Scotia Archives
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hmmm. They Might Be Giants Wilco Matthew Sweet REM Man or Astroman The Smugglers Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians Def Leppard Golden Earring Barenaked Ladies
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts
In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians | Letter
Letters: Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect, writes Dr Henry Bradford
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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm from Toronto, a Canadian city on the shores of Lake Ontario. The name of the lake and province comes from the Wendat word Ontarí'io, meaning great or beautiful lake. And it is!
Map showing Lake Ontario
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 25/08/2026
On the latest episode of the #PoetryOffTheShelf podcast, Emily Skaja and host Helena de Groot discuss cemeteries, pregnancy, and gardening the future. 🐌 Listen here: bit.ly/4gjb8FD
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PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A St. Albert resident amassed more than 350 2SLGBTQI+ children’s picture books — now an international archive believed to be the largest collection of its kind. The archive emerges in a time when access to books has become a political fight in Alberta: www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/a...
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Alberta senator unveils 'archive of hope' 2SLGBTQI+ book collection
Read the full story and comment on stalbertgazette.com
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Toad went to Frog’s house. He found a note on the door. The note said, “Dear Toad, I am not at home. I went out. I want to be alone.”
Toad stands on Frog's front door step, reading a note that Frog has left him.

From "Alone"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Frog and Toad went out to fly a kite. They went to a large meadow where the wind was strong. “Our kite will fly up and up,” said Frog. “It will fly all the way up to the top of the sky.”
Frog and Toad tramp through a windy meadow, kite in hand.

From "The Kite"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just a little more than one week left to participate in our annual chapbook search! Details & guidelines here: pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-con...
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Heaney. Hammock. Cola. Chips. Aaaaahhhh. #poetry #irishpoetry #booksky
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The other day I was playing on an outdoor stage with my daughter, who is 3. She wanted me to do a play for her, an audience of one. So I stood on the stage and began, “To be or not to be…” She immediately exclaimed, “To be!!” So it’s not that hard.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Is Carney finally figuring out that it’s not possible to actually meaningfully negotiate with Drumpf and his cronies?
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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse
Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into...
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Award-winning cartoonist Scott Chantler will make his licensed comic debut with FLASH GORDON: TWO WORLDS, a two-part graphic novel debuting from Mad Cave this November.
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Scott Chantler to reimagine FLASH GORDON in TWO WORLDS
Flash Gordon: Two Worlds, a two-part graphic novel by Scott Chantler, will imagine a world where Flash never became a hero.
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Innovation is the empty calorie of corporate jargon." Read from Taryn Hubbard's BEAUTIFUL UNKNOWN FUTURE (@talonbooks.bsky.social), a collection of long poems that hold space for messy feelings about motherhood, the climate crisis, family ghosts, and office dynamics. alllitup.ca/two-poems-be...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Frog was in his garden. Toad came walking by. “What a fine garden you have, Frog,” he said. “Yes,” said Frog. “It is very nice, but it was hard work.”
Toad leans across the fence talking to Frog, who is working in his garden.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Toad poured many glasses of water over his head.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“It’s an avalanche!” cried Toad. Frog and Toad jumped away. Frog was trembling. “I am not afraid!” he shouted.
Frog and Toad scramble away from the avalanche of rocks.

From "Dragons and Giants"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 13/08/2026
In this archival episode of the #PoetryOffTheShelf podcast, Fanny Howe and host Helena de Groot discuss the sky, visions, and the beam that killed the landlord, plus an excerpt from Howe's posthumous collection. Listen here: bit.ly/4hMaBNN
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Mahua Cavanagh @mahua.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The article is good. One point though: Scrivener doesn’t use AI. The generative AI function is Apple Intelligence and I would recommend all authors to turn it off. That will remove it from Scrivener and everywhere else. You can learn more from this article: www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
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Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
Seeing AI icons in Scrivener on Mac? That's Apple Intelligence built into macOS Sequoia and Tahoe. Scrivener itself contains no AI features.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m reading a poem tonight on the @rattlepoetry.bsky.social podcast! (The show starts at 8:00 Eastern, readings at around 9:00 Eastern.) #poetry
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Hemat Malak: Shelf Life, Identity, Form, and Australian Poetry | Rattlecast 353
YouTube video by Rattle Poetry
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sometimes I think modernism was a bothersome literary affectation. Plath is a bit better than most of it: the opacity and cleverdickishness are restrained, the reliance on allusion not so absolute, there is at least some mind given to the experience of reading. #booksky #poetry #tinybookreviews
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Ariel: Introduced by Emily Berry
‘The world is blood-hot and personal’: in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel.
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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My favourite found poem of all time is the index of firsts lines in The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara.
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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 05/08/2026
We're excited to announce the 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows: Xochi Quetzali Cartland, Fatima Jafar, Noel Munguia-Moreno, Shaina Phenix, and Tariq Thompson! 🎉 Learn more about this year's brilliant cohort: bit.ly/4coV2rx
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Poetry Foundation Announces the 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows
Honoring extraordinary young poets with more than $145,000 in prizes
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New Books Network’s poetry podcast is a wide-reaching collection of new poetry and books about poetry. There’s something in here for everyone. #poetry #poetrypodcasts
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New Books Network - New Books Network
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Snail is probably my favourite secondary F&T character.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If there’s a “criticism is biography” school in poetry, there’s a “poetry podcast is autobiography” school. Helena de Groot hosts this charming series of discussions with contemporary poets. Not a craft podcast so much as an exploration of a version of the poetic mindset. #poetry #poetrypodcasts
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Write a book about writing for mystery (artistic, not whodunnit): a tough mission, one not quite completed here. (This is a problem with several of the books in the “The Art of…” series.) I don’t know that I’ll be any more mysterious after this. Still, readable. #booksky #tinybookreviews
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The Art of Mystery | Graywolf Press
The fourteenth volume in the Art of series conjures an ethereal subject: the idea of mystery in fiction. Mystery is not often discussed—apart from the genre—because, as Maud Casey says, “It’s not easy...
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Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fuck me. Fuck us all, really. The fact that somebody invented a machine to cut the spines off of books to scan them is a hate crime aimed at anyone who speaks a language.
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