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poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press) robmclennan.blogspot.com www.patreon.com/robmclennan robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com robmclennan.substack.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 35m
some above/ground press author activity: Ben Robinson, Amanda Earl, Jérôme Melançon, Benjamin Niespodziany, Elena Zhang, Jacob Braun + Gregory Crosby, / @neonpajamas.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @lethejerome.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/10/some...
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some author activity: Robinson, Earl, Melançon, Niespodziany, Zhang, Braun + Crosby,
Ben Robinson is included in the "Canadian Poets Series" via Peripety and/or Tronies ; Amanda Earl's "14 Weeks with Jérôme Melançon" continue...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1h
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Taylor Zhang : on Choo Choo Press periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/tayl...
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Taylor Zhang : on Choo Choo Press
Choo Choo Press first began as a collaboration between me and the painter and designer, Emily Bluedorn. Emily and I had been circling...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1h
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Renato Gandia : How does a poem begin? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/rena...
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Renato Gandia : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin?       Perhaps a poem begins when the past stops agreeing with what we remember about it. Most of my poems begin t...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1h
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : David Herd : Die Wintereisse / @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/davi...
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David Herd : Die Wintereisse
i When it snows in the woods And I am there To witness The ice As I am privileged to watch it Seal the pond Soft Against the grass Out...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1h
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Stan Rogal : REPORT FROM THE DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/stan...
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Stan Rogal : REPORT FROM THE DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY
Al Purdy (1918-2000) in conversation with Stan Rogal                                              lying upsidedown by the water       ...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 2h
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emer O’Toole / @emerotoole.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emer O’Toole
Originally from the West of Ireland, Emer O’Toole  [photo credit: Trevor Browne] teaches performance, theatre and Irish studies at Concordia...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 16h
Adventuring, // @cirquedusoleil.bsky.social
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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newly posted: Stephen Morrissey : Sonja Skarstedt on Louis Dudek / @montrealprize.bsky.social @mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/step...
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Stephen Morrissey : Sonja Skarstedt on Louis Dudek
I first met Sonja Skarstedt and her husband Geof Isherwood around 1990 when they visited my home near Huntingdon, Quebec; a few year...
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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newly posted: Peter Carl Anderson: Mutterings periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/pete...
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Peter Carl Anderson: Mutterings
I don’t know why I love prose poems but I do. Prose poems — with their solid blocks of text, unbroken lines, and not-quite-this,...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre) : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa / @caitlinpress.bsky.social @garthmartens.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/book...
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book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre) : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa
hey, Ottawa! come out on Wednesday, October 21 to Perfect Books on Elgin Street to catch Victoria poet Garth Martens and myself launching ...
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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 23h
Hear more from @sannawani.bsky.social when she joins us on Thursday October 22 with guests Hannah Green and Chimwemwe Undi! www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18950/...
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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks to rob for posing this beautiful question!
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : When Did Art Stop Being Allowed to Die? / @sedserio.com ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/laur...
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Laura Kerr : When Did Art Stop Being Allowed to Die?
Art was not always promised forever. Some things were buried. Some burned. Some were worn smooth, repainted, eaten, forgotten. S...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Peter Carl Anderson: Mutterings periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/pete...
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Peter Carl Anderson: Mutterings
I don’t know why I love prose poems but I do. Prose poems — with their solid blocks of text, unbroken lines, and not-quite-this,...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Stephen Morrissey : Sonja Skarstedt on Louis Dudek periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/step...
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Stephen Morrissey : Sonja Skarstedt on Louis Dudek
I first met Sonja Skarstedt and her husband Geof Isherwood around 1990 when they visited my home near Huntingdon, Quebec; a few year...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Asbjørn Stenmark : Six poems : translated from Norwegian by the author periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/asbj...
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Asbjørn Stenmark : Six poems : translated from Norwegian by the author
The symbiosis Krill lies in bed screaming for his teddy bear. It doesn’t matter if it’s the blue teddy or the brown one, because Kri...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre) : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa / @caitlinpress.bsky.social @garthmartens.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/book...
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book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre) : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa
hey, Ottawa! come out on Wednesday, October 21 to Perfect Books on Elgin Street to catch Victoria poet Garth Martens and myself launching ...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
above/ground press intern Frankie is helping with assembly (folding, stapling, and the like,
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
above/ground press: 2027 subscriptions now available! , anticipating the press' thirty-fourth year of activity, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/10/abov...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
official update to WCW’s “plums in the icebox” just landed,
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Aoife’s ringette practice, opening up this new poetry book by Jean Day (Winter Editions),
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
dusie : the tuesday poem robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/dusi...
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dusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is more than thirteen years old , with new poems by more than seven hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For tho...
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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newly posted: Tyler Mills : Three poems from her / @tylermpoetry.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/tyle...
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Tyler Mills : Three poems from her
Between 1837 and 1852, Catherine gave birth to ten children. One died, at almost one. The affair with the young actress began in...
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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newly posted: Kim Fahner : A Mudlarker’s Diary, by Ariel Gordon / @kimfahner.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social @ariel-gordon.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/kim-...
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Kim Fahner : A Mudlarker’s Diary, by Ariel Gordon
A Mudlarker’s Diary , Ariel Gordon Pinhole Poetry, 2026       Anyone who follows Ariel Gordon on social media ( IG @janedayreader ) will ...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
above/ground press: 2027 subscriptions now available! , anticipating the press' thirty-fourth year of activity, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/10/abov...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Process Note #79 : T.S. Leonard / @mawsheinwin.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/proc...
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Process Note #79 : T.S. Leonard
The 'process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner : A Mudlarker’s Diary, by Ariel Gordon / @kimfahner.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social @ariel-gordon.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/kim-...
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Kim Fahner : A Mudlarker’s Diary, by Ariel Gordon
A Mudlarker’s Diary , Ariel Gordon Pinhole Poetry, 2026       Anyone who follows Ariel Gordon on social media ( IG @janedayreader ) will ...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Tyler Mills : Three poems from her / @tylermpoetry.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/tyle...
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Tyler Mills : Three poems from her
Between 1837 and 1852, Catherine gave birth to ten children. One died, at almost one. The affair with the young actress began in...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Sanna Wani : How does a poem begin? / @sannawani.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/sann...
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Sanna Wani : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin?       How does a poem begin? For me, with a feeling. For others, it’s a form of thinking – or being – or some oth...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
dusie : the tuesday poem robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/dusi...
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dusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is more than thirteen years old , with new poems by more than seven hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For tho...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey! We’ve been married fourteen years now! Here we are having lunch (which is a rare occurrence); everyone already knows that I’m ridiculously fortunate, because, of course, she is so wonderful; // @christinemcnair.bsky.social
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
new from above/ground press: Spirit House, by Ken Norris / @montrealprize.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-...
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new from above/ground press: Spirit House, by Ken Norris
Spirit House Ken Norris $6 Being me, it’s hard to believe. Faith so often seems like a scam. Forget about this life. Be humble, be poor, don...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the final day of rob's participation in tupelo press' 30/30 fundraiser, (september) / @tupelopress.bsky.social ; tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/304...
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We can Independent non-profit presses keep literary voices diverse!
a month's worth of new poems daily! join me in supporting literary publishing! I'm participating in Tupelo Press' Thirty days of poems project, composing and posting new work daily! the fun of pushing...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Touch the Donkey supplement #308 : seven questions for Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi / @pizamapress.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/09/ttd-...
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TtD supplement #308 : seven questions for Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY (Piżama Press) and THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET (FC2 / UAP) His...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the banff notebook : , eleven days in may (part ten, / @banffcentre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-banff-...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachary Brett Charles robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachary Brett Charles
Zachary Brett Charles (they/he) is a poet, multi-media artist, Spanish teacher, and apprentice gardener. They see mediums as powerful and p...
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
four quotes from Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, in his new interview in Touch the Donkey ( @robmclennan.bsky.social ) touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/09/ttd-...
The poems I’ve been writing lately are so oddly populated with creatures. Donkeys and witches and moths and dogsharks and ghoul-headed lambs. I’m not really sure what is happening here. Also a lot of speakers getting lost in a fog or a trance or some foggy woods...I tend to compose a line to be short. They’re sometimes a sort of impulsive declaration. Like a rock coming down hard and fast against a piece of high-carbon steel. Something like a song lyric. Will this shoot sparks or not? One line is trying to hold the heat and light of the previous line, so it’s often using some of the same kindling. Maybe it’s the repetition of a sound. Maybe it’s a slant rhyme. I am trying to get back to the joy I had when I was fifteen and playing in a garage band. Hearing what my distorted guitar sounded like striking against / dissolving into another distorted guitar. There is a little of the same impulse there, thinking, what will I sound like today? What if I turn this up really loud?I feel a new freedom to let myself leap in and out of the surreal. One moment the vision will seem concrete and tight to me, and then it’s a leap into rabid dog flesh and a head of ash. I’m not sure what this is. As I get older, my old memories feel fuzzier, more dreamlike to me.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
new from above/ground press: Spirit House, by Ken Norris / @montrealprize.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-...
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new from above/ground press: Spirit House, by Ken Norris
Spirit House Ken Norris $6 Being me, it’s hard to believe. Faith so often seems like a scam. Forget about this life. Be humble, be poor, don...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the final day of rob's participation in tupelo press' 30/30 fundraiser, (september) / @tupelopress.bsky.social ; tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/304...
tupelopress.networkforgood.com
We can Independent non-profit presses keep literary voices diverse!
a month's worth of new poems daily! join me in supporting literary publishing! I'm participating in Tupelo Press' Thirty days of poems project, composing and posting new work daily! the fun of pushing...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachary Brett Charles robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachary Brett Charles
Zachary Brett Charles (they/he) is a poet, multi-media artist, Spanish teacher, and apprentice gardener. They see mediums as powerful and p...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tuesday poem #704 : David Herd : I was Saying to You about the Darkness / @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/09/tues...
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Tuesday poem #704 : David Herd : I was Saying to You about the Darkness
i. I was saying to you About the darkness Of this January morning The year’s refusal Becoming light These threads we weave As if w...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sylvia Legris, Sleep Gate / @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/sylv...
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Sylvia Legris, Sleep Gate
Subwake Palette, Fog Saline flat of silvery saltbush, scurfy, a twinflower’s tinny tone.  A figment of sea-blite in a spindrift of con...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey! We’ve been married fourteen years now! Here we are having lunch (which is a rare occurrence); everyone already knows that I’m ridiculously fortunate, because, of course, she is so wonderful; // @christinemcnair.bsky.social
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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For obvious reasons, it just wasn't quite on theme for my upcoming poetry collection The Work Is Done When We Are Dead from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social (Halloween 2026). But I do love to see it in this folio edited by @manahil.bsky.social for @robmclennan.bsky.social's periodicities.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the banff notebook : , eleven days in may (part ten, / @banffcentre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-banff-...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Touch the Donkey supplement #308 : seven questions for Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi / @pizamapress.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/09/ttd-...
touchthedonkey.blogspot.com
TtD supplement #308 : seven questions for Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY (Piżama Press) and THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET (FC2 / UAP) His...
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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Absolutely fuck off. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
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BBC Boss Says He Watched a ‘Pretty Good’ AI-Generated Episode of ‘Doctor Who’: ‘Everyone’s a Creator, Not All the Creativity Is Bad’
BBC boss Matt Brittin says he watched an episode of 'Doctor Who' entirely generated by AI which he deemed 'pretty good.'
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sylvia Legris, Sleep Gate / @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/sylv...
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Sylvia Legris, Sleep Gate
Subwake Palette, Fog Saline flat of silvery saltbush, scurfy, a twinflower’s tinny tone.  A figment of sea-blite in a spindrift of con...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tuesday poem #704 : David Herd : I was Saying to You about the Darkness / @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/09/tues...
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Tuesday poem #704 : David Herd : I was Saying to You about the Darkness
i. I was saying to you About the darkness Of this January morning The year’s refusal Becoming light These threads we weave As if w...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
small one at ringette practice (power skating), so starting to go through these new poetry titles by Kazim Ali and Paisley Rekdal, // @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @kazimali.bsky.social @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social
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