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talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first day of our seventeenth issue includes new poems by Doris Fiszer and Andrew K. Peterson, prose by Ken Sparling, and The art of writing #132: an interview with Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My first Best of the Net nomination!

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CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New online review of Horses by Jake Skeets! Dawn Macdonald writes, "Skeets seems to see a vast pattern that weaves through time, connecting human and animal, the ancestral and the descendent." Read it here! contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/hors...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

some above/ground press author activity: Meredith Quartermain, rob mclennan, Dawn Macdonald, Buck Downs, Karl Jirgens, Daphne Marlatt, George Bowering + Fred Wah, / @buckdown.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/08/some...

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some author activity: Quartermain, mclennan, Macdonald, Downs, Jirgens, Marlatt, Bowering + Wah,

Meredith Quatermain is in the Canadian Poet Series via Peripety and/or Tronies ; rob mclennan is interviewed as part of Kyeren Regehr's The ...

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

am stoked to have a super-short prose essay in Strange Pilgrims this week: www.strangepilgrims.com/p/good-smoke...

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Good Smoke by Dawn Macdonald

"A little bit just toughens you up." | Flash CNF #6

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UCalgary Press @ucalgarypress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Wiki of Babel is a provocation . . . both a gift and a challenge. Dawn Macdonald engages with Kyle Flemmer's The Wiki of Babel as poetry and play at @theseaboardreview.ca Check it out! buff.ly/XhW1Jn7

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The Wiki of Babel by Kyle Flemmer

Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank you, MQUP, for calling this review "beautiful"! It's an important book.

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"We should question whether it’s possible to go on making the art that first mattered to you, art arising out of humbler circumstances, art of resistance or even the everyday, after having imbibed the cocktails of the bourgeoisie." reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/prestige-i...

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Prestige is antithetical to art

it's all about the money

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Guest post for The Woodlot -- thank you Chris for letting me into the conversation!

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 11/06/2026

“…the man can turn a gorgeous phrase.” @yukondawn.bsky.social reviews this 2019 release of Shane Neilson's "homegrown" poetry for #ThrowbackThursday. @biblioasis.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theseabo...

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The New Yorker just rejected my submission dated May 2023; needless to say I put in a new submission within minutes

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

First review of the SH week is from @subham6.bsky.social. After @yukondawn.bsky.social's review of The Coffin of Honey last week, we really need to be looking at non-genre presses this year. In the Amouzegar brothers' debut, "intertextual layering functions both as homage and subtle critique."

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Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium by Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Mahbod Amouzegar

What does it cost to live in a world where tomorrow always brings joy? That question sits at the heart of Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium, the debut novel from brothers Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Mahbod …

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Buffalo (x8) | submissions closed @buffalomag.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is now open for submissions for volume six! Poetry and visual art welcome! 🦬 🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬 Please check the website for all the particulars: buffalojournal.tumblr.com/sub #litmag

A wall of cats with names, ages, and hobbies

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Have you spotted @yukondawn.bsky.social's latest for @strangehorizons.bsky.social? From the setup until nearly the final pages of the book, it isn’t clear what kind of a story Coffin of Honey is going to be. [...] By the time you get there, it might not matter anymore."

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The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison

This book demands careful reading.

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Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New interview just went live! Great conversation about the power of storytelling and why it's so important to make our world magic again.

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Michelle Lobkowicz @mlobkowicz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Happy Poetry Month! All @ualbertapress.bsky.social poetry is 30% for April - use code iP26 at checkout. ualbertapress.ca/search/?cate... Here are our gorgeous new volumes:

Three books of poetry propped up on a cabinet. From left to right the books are Sublunary by Lisa Richter, Evacuations by Kevin Irie, Nighthawks by Lisa Martin.

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"The witch is a woman who collages herself out of other women." ... New review of Andrea Rexilius' hybrid poetry collection Seance of the Bees reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/andrea-rex... #booksky

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Andrea Rexilius' Seance of the Bees

Collage sensibility

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"Goodbye, Super A ... it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind. The bakery section flooded when the roof fell in. I would have liked your yogurt, but it had just expired. Your freezers burned out long before your lunch meat ever did." ♡... I sing this tribute with love ...♡

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

new from above/ground press: , Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain, / @yukondawn.bsky.social @noahsparrow.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/new-from-a...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"A really pronounced style might feel in the way, but I think that science fiction is such a capacious genre that it has space for a lot of experimentation." Let's talk more about words! Thanks to @ndbooks.bsky.social and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for work that sparks these sorts of conversation.

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Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style

Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald join Dan Hartland to discuss style.

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I had such a blast chatting with Dan and Paul. Please give it a listen, or check out the transcript if audio is not your jam

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

and to cap off the Black History Month book posts, this controversial classic

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

another from Sean's library. Tough going for me, but if you're equipped to comprehend things like "its primary intertextual relations are with politico-ideological discourses and forms of praxis" then it's a solid read.

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

a banger, as the cover would imply

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Before "James" and "The Trees", Percival Everett had already published a lot of books, and some of them are pretty out there (in the best way)

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I don't have my letter because the mail takes a bit longer to get here but like my fellow authors I too am thankful for libraries, library users, and the program that pays authors for thier books being in libraries

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I wish @fillingstation.bsky.social would assess my last submission so that I could submit all this new stuff to @fillingstation.bsky.social

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

situating dub poetry within the avant garde

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Valerie Mason-John responds to James Baldwin

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Two deep-rooted charmers on plant communication (yes, there are emails!) by @yukondawn.bsky.social : “Leaf Rust” and “Lichen on Moss.” Read them in our Winter issue www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m... Dawn won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize for her poetry collection, Northerny

To: Poplar
From: Clover
Subject: Leaf Rust

“Leaf Rust” by Dawn Macdonald in -ette

Illustration of clover plant

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

massive biography of this pioneering data scientist and sci-fi writer

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

super problematic but VERY EXCITING 1930s newspaper serials about a megalomaniacal mastermind out of Harlem who plots to take over the world

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

continuing with the "education" theme for today's Black History book recommendation

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Really fine review to start the week from @yukondawn.bsky.social on CF Ramuz, whose Into The Sun has just been reissued by @ndbooks.bsky.social, in a translation by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. “Ramuz’s sentences have the beauty of a beam of sunlight through swirling dust.”

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Into the Sun by C.F. Ramuz, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan

How did this accident occur? No idea. Is there anything we can do to stop it? No.

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Issue 7 is now live! With new work by: Lauren Camp Theodore Heil Marc Kaufman @yukondawn.bsky.social @nataliemarino.bsky.social Adam McOmber www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

-ette issue 7 cover with writers names and snow graphics

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

hey i've got stuff at the beautifully designed online journal -ette review www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

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-ette issue 7: winter 2026

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

reminders for all of us involved in post-secondary education

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In which we explore my likes and dislikes, and meet this stunning first collection from poet Alexander Hollenberg! #booksky @gaspereaupress.bsky.social reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/alexander-...

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Alexander Hollenberg's Human Story will not Consume the Cosmos

"by which I mean something always escapes"

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

not the first time I've repped this classic

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

another selection from Sean's bookshelf

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I have a small piece in the inaugural issue of Journal of Experimental Practice, out of NYU -- mine is a "fake translation" of Paul Valery, seizing false cognates and mishearing the sounds of French; one of a little series and possible future chapbook. wp.nyu.edu/artsampscien...

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Fall 2025 Issue – Journal of Experimental Practice

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Today's book recommendation courtesy of my husband Sean, who is the main philosophy reader around here.

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just read the words "Open Mic" as "Ozempic"; that is the feeling of 2026

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