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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Join me for an afternoon online reading. Indulge in love and lust and see me (attempt) to make my girlfriend cry with words of heartfelt devotion.

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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Some of my favorite poems of mine and an absolute GORGEOUS design. So very delighted to be part of @knifeforkbook.bsky.social's 10th anniversary season www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p210/H...

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HELEN ROBERTSON Lesbia

"Every book is lucky to have been written but they do not all have the fortune to hear the flutter of their own pages. No matter your reinterpretation, no matter what is found in me, always the same d...

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Trans Library Telethon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOj... eTransfer to: donate@translibrary.ca

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Stunning poem! Congratulations!

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Sentimental in the best possible way. Thank you.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Many thanks to Carmine Starnino and the folks @thewalrus.ca for taking a chance on this sentimental carte de tendre.

And the Fish in the Tide

BY PHILLIP CRYMBLE

Come find me on the bench behind the lighthouse--
on the back slope of the south pier wall. The place

we came to share a codfish supper--where the packet
to the island lists and knocks against the rollers

and our shadows played on rock the builders blasted
from the harbour floor. Come find me on the Schlossweg

in Tirolo--where the alpine valley meadows sway in parables
of sunlight and the breezes from the basin are as cool as air

from mountain caves. We'll linger over haselnüsse gelato.
Buy speck and German menthols. Make love until our bodies

ache. Come find me at the Seaport Farmers' Market. I'll be
waiting by the water at our table in the shade. Remind me

of the hilltop. Of the maple where we carved our names. Come
find me. I'll be waiting. Come find me. Help me on my way.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I love these, Amanda! Can't wait to see more!

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congratulations, Nicola, and all long-listed poets!

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Alden Nowlan

Bobby Sands
for Robert Weaver

I did not cry for Bobby Sands, but I almost did, thinking of my grandmother whom I loved, and who
loved me,
and of how her voice would break when she told me again how her grandmother died in a field in County Wexford with green stains on her lips, her hands filled with grass, and of how in that same year the English wagonso escorted by English troops carried Irish grain
down to English vessels for shipment to England.
Yes,
yes, that was a long, long time ago; but somebody should remember Mary Foley, somebody should weep for her, even if it is only a drunken listener
to lying ballads. Being human, we
each of us can bear no more than a particle
of pain that is not our own; the rest is rhetoric. Better to shed a tear for Mary Foley
than to rant or babble about suffering that is beyond our capacity to comprehend. And what of Bobby Sands? We talk too much, all of us. In common decency, don't speak of him unless you have gone at least a day without food, and be sure you understand that he loved being alive, the same as you. Then say what you like. Call him a fool. Call him a criminal. You'll get no argument
from me. I'll agree with everything
you say in dispraise of gunmen. Oh, but Mary Foley's ghost was left in my keeping.
I know in my heart that if he had come to me
for a place to hide I could never have shut him out.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy birthday! 🎈🎈🎈🎈

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

An incredible issue full of incredible poems including five by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social !

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

His poems in the issue are astonishing!

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Sadly still revlevant

The Trans Debate
Do trans people exist
Yes
Do people who exist deserve human rights
Do you believe there are exceptions to the humans
for which human rights apply
If no - end of discussion
If yes - you have identified the problem And it's not trans people
@lucassjoness

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

An honour and delight to be a Tuesday poet. Thank you, @robmclennan.bsky.social

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Roberto Faria @betofaria.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

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Petition e-7195 - Petitions

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A heartbreaking poem by one of Canada's finest

A MARRIAGE

His paintings were small, suggestions
of houses, pinpricks of green for trees.
She'd set her glass down, say, Paint
like you're blind, from memory and passion—
two words he especially didn't care for.
She'd say, Paint like you're on fire.
But their house was already burning,
and he was going blind and deaf.
So he'd carry the painting back down
to the basement, resume with
his thinnest sable brush. He would
never touch her the way she wanted,
though she kept asking him to,
like this, in front of everybody.

— Julie Bruck

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What's better than a brilliant chapbook? Two brilliant chapbooks: Annick McAskill's "Verfondre | Wormmelt" and John Barton's "Labyrinth" both from Baseline Press.

A light cream rectangular chapbook on top of a large shale fossil fern. Verfondre | Wormmelt is centered at the top. Annick McAskill is centered under it. Below both is a reverse image of foliage including a fern. The background of the image is midnight blue.

A rectangular cream coloured chapbook lies flat slightly angled to the right. Labyrinth is centered at the top with John Barton centered below. A loosely drawn green spiral is centered on the bottom half of the cover. A brown and cream spiral shell faces outward overlapping the bottom right cover of the chapbook. The spiral on the shell echoes the spiral on the cover.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Just watch yourself. You know what happened to Nick Fury.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Does this mean we should buy you an eye patch?

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Two small ones. The first from "Verfondre | Wormmelt," Annick MacAskill’s new chapbook with Baseline Press, the second my little ditty for the day. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social