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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Good news! @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social is hitting the ole dusty trail and bringing No Depression in Heaven to a bookstore near you! Get your local dose of the Grand Ole Opry at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social, @mcnallyrobinson.com, and more!

⁠📖No Depression in Heaven is available now! 📖

The background is a faded version of the cover of No Depression in Heaven focused on the cowboy silhouette with the guitar slung to their back. Inside the silhouette are a series of clouds in dark grey to apocalyptic orange-brown rising up from the belly to just below the shoulders.

The text reads:

Calgary, AB || October 21
Shelf Life Books | Doors at 7:00 p.m. with Conor Kerr, Jason Purcell

Vancouver, BC || October 24
Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall | Doors at 8:00 p.m.
with Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, Drew McEwan

Winnipeg, MB || November 5, 2025
with Cam Scott

Toronto, ON || November 13
Flying Books | Doors at 6:30 p.m.
with A Jamali Rad, Hajer Mirwali

Hamilton, ON || November 14
The City & The City Books | Doors at 7:00 p.m.
with A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, Zane Koss

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 2d

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 2d

If you're in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, or Hamilton this fall, I'll be swinging through with my new book No Depression in Heaven. I hope to see you there!

(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)

More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/

Image of a silhouetted cowboy singer with an illuminated dust cloud overlaid on their chest. Text on top of this image with information for the following poetry readings:

No Depression in Heaven tour for ryan fitzpatrick

October 21, 2025, at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, a book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Event at 7:00 pm.

October 24, 2025, at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall in Vancouver, the Talonbooks fall poetry launch, with readings from ryan fitzpatrick, Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, and Drew McEwan. Event at 7:00 pm.

November 5, 2025, at McNally Robinson Grant Park in Winnipeg, double book launch with ryan fitzpatrick and Cam Scott. Event at 7:00 pm.

November 13, 2025, at Flying Books College St in Toronto, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali. Event at 6:30 pm.

November 14, 2025, at The City and The City Bookstore in Hamilton, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, and Zane Koss. Event at 7:00 pm.

More info at talonbooks.com

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 2d

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_cop city swagger_ — Mercedes Eng

_cop city swagger_ was published by Talonbooks in 2024.

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 4d

newly posted: Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness
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Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness

How does a poem begin? Difficult questions, rob. To answer them, I sought clarity from texts by my man, Walter Benjamin. N...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 4d

Published in 2022, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew uses photos, maps, and treaty documents to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada.

Book cover of Whitemud Walking alongside the text: "Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew Weigel uses photos, maps, and treaty documents, including those related to his own family, to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada. Fun fact: Matthew's visual poems that marginalize treaty texts have occasioned several calls from bookstores concerned the book had printing errors!"

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 6d

Overheard on the train: Sears was the Amazon of its day.

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 6d

Filling out an author questionnaire, cherry picking all the easy questions first. "What's your full name?" Oh, I know that one!

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 7d

Toronto friends, we hope you can join us at the Queen Street location of Type Books on October 15 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the launch of two brilliant books - Khashayar Mohammadi's The Book of Interruptions and Rahat Kurd's The Book of Z:

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 8d

Edmonton friends, Jide Salawu launches Contraband Bodies at Audreys Books on October 16. This is his debut poetry collection. Congratulations, Jide!
https://bit.ly/46OhQ0s

@jidesalawu.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 10d

a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 9d

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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 12d

I think when you publish your fifth book of poetry you should get an award certificate that recognizes the high level of masochism you need to publish five books of poetry. (To be repeated every five books with a fancier certificate each time.)

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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 13d

Beast Fables is here with comic #1! 🦊🐓🐿️

First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore.

iskotaa.com/comics/beast...

Rey, a fox wearing a tunic, is sitting in front of a box on a small stool under a tree. She looks expectant. On the box is painted “Knigt errant” and a little sign says “cheep!”.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 13d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Calgary! Head to @shelflifebooks.bsky.social on October 21 to celebrate the launch of No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social, Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr, and crohnic by Jason Purcell. Can't wait to see you there!

A beige background with a centred, large typewriter. In the foreground, across the top, reads "Triple Book Launch, Shelf Life Books, Tuesday, October 21, 2025 7 p.m. MDT" in the top left corner are the logos for Shelf Life Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, and Talonbooks. In the centre in round frames are author photos of ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Underneath are the book covers for No Depression in Heaven (navy, western font, the silhouette of a cowboy with a guitar on his back with a dust cloud rising up inside the silhouette), Beaver Hills Forever (black and white cover, white on top, a beaver swimming with a lit match in black water. The orange of the fire and the author's name is the only colour in the cover), and crohnic (the cover isn't, but looks like, a cyanotype of tall navy trees and grass. There's an interplay of light and shadow).

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 16d

Shout out to whoever decided to put all those obscure nautical terms in the CanOx dictionary. They were very helpful. Thanks!

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 18d

Leanne Dunic does really interesting long-form narrative poetry that straddles genre. I'd encourage you to check out her work!

Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations to Leanne Dunic on winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (@bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social) for her book "Wet."

You can read my interview with Leanne about the book over at @readlocalbc.bsky.social:

Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne Dunic

Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint.

www.readlocalbc.ca

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations to Leanne Dunic on winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (@bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social) for her book "Wet."

You can read my interview with Leanne about the book over at @readlocalbc.bsky.social:

Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne Dunic

Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint.

www.readlocalbc.ca

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 19d

I'm about to get sucked into taking my nephew to the Demon Slayer movie. Is there anything I need to know about the lore? Or should I just give up on understanding anything right now?

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 19d

Inside you there are six or seven wolves

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 21d

This book announcement features a short sample from No Depression in Heaven if you want to check it out.

talonbooks.com/news/hot-off...

Hot Off the Press! No Depression in Heaven Is Here! » News » Talonbooks

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23d

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 23d

“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 23d

It's here! tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social has landed and is ready for its place on your bookshelf. These poems guide the reader through an interrogation of the ways we tour the spaces of language, stepping between the sayable and the unsaid. ⁠

talonbooks.com/books/tours-...

A copy of tours, variously by Drew McEwan is held up against the backdrop of an ivy-covered white exterior wall. The book cover is a painting of a blue corner of a room, the interplay of light and shadow is emphasized. The brush strokes are intentionally visible. The title is all lower case in a serif font in the to left corner, the author's name in a darker version of the same font in the bottom right.

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 25d

It’s a bit older, but I found this useful: nyupress.org/978081471495...

America in the Gilded Age

The third and updated edition of the classic account of America in the latter half of the nineteenth centuryWhen the first edition of America in the Gilded A...

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