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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · 1d

To anyone who is currently looking to place their work: The Moth Poetry Prize is back, adjudicated this year by Ishion Hutchinson.

Thank you for putting on your contest again, @themothmagazine.bsky.social!

The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

The Moth Poetry Prize is now OPEN!

One of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems is back for 2025 – and we're very excited to announce that this year Ishion Hutchinson is joining us as judge.

More info below and on our website: bit.ly/mothpoetry25

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Longlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards, SHADOW PRICE by Farah Ghafoor is an “Urgent debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press

💛 SHADOW PRICE is available now. You can purchase it from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/sha... #booksky #canadian #poetry

Two copies of SHADOW PRICE feature a bright yellow cover, with an illustrated hand casting a shadow of a dog on the cover.

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

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National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social · Aug 26

📚 #NMAReadingList

🏆 Poetry — @arcpoetry.bsky.social

@josephkidney.bsky.social ’s Gold-winning poem is a surreal, lyrical take on Alberta mythmaking. “All my sorrows cauterized into desire.”

🔗 zurl.co/5FIXF

#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Aug 11

"held in no hands, made
without love, lovelier
than the intense attraction
between your eye-songs
and these desperate invocations of your little wanting heart."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
To Feel by Tim Bowling (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social)

To Feel by Tim Bowling — Montreal International Poetry Prize

The past tense of the verb ...

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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · Aug 10

New work from our 2024 juror @sarahwolfson.bsky.social out @thewalrus.ca.

Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy to have a new poem in the summer reading issue of @thewalrus.ca . Thanks to @cstarnino.bsky.social for the editorial stewardship. thewalrus.ca/and-then-cam...

And Then Came the Day | The Walrus

Afterward, let’s go home and lay failure, longing, / and some lost cicada husks all belly up on the table

thewalrus.ca

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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · Aug 7

New work from our 2022 finalist Jessie Jones. Enjoy!

periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · Aug 5

newly posted: Jessie Jones : Two poems / @gooselane.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/jess...

Jessie Jones : Two poems

Applying the face Near god, near good. Proscenium in shades of aristocratic veins. Vacant rotunda. Oil drops spun wide by light, b...

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · Aug 3

newly posted: Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin? / @sarahwolfson.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/sara...

Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin?

How does a poem begin? How does a poem begin? The question sparks in me a small rebellion. How should I know? Why should I...

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Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · Jul 11

Save the date! On Saturday, July 26, all are invited to attend a free online reading by four Canadian authors, followed by questions and audience discussion. We hope to see you there! Join me, Drew McEwan, Léa Taranto, and Madelaine Caritas Longman for an evening of writing on #OCD. #CanLit 1/2

Promotional poster for the virtual event, An Evening of Poetry and Literature. Four authors from across Canada share new writing on OCD. Photographs of the authors, Samantha Jones, Drew McEwan, Léa Taranto, and Madelaine Caritas Longman, are included above the event details. Date and time: July 26, 2025, at 7:00-8:30 pm EST/4:00-5:30 pm PDT. Registration link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/89578422916

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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · Jul 10

Congratulations to our 2022 juror Heather Christle for her new volume of poems Paper Crown.

What wonderful news to start the day!

Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · Jul 10

Heather Christle's newest collection of poetry, Paper Crown, will be released on August 5th, 2025! Pre-order your copy at weslpress.org.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · Jun 24

Happy pub day to ENJOY YOUR STAY AT THE SHAMROCK MOTEL by Andrew Kaufman! We hope to see you at its launch tomorrow night at TYPE Books (883 Queen St. W., Toronto) - starts at 7 PM, free and all welcome!

☘️🔑☘️

Book cover of Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel

Two reviews of EYSatSM: "A delightful concoction of whimsy and insight, the appealing short story collection Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel mixes cathartic experiences with fantastical occurrences, rooting its weirdness in recognizable emotions and desires." – Ho Lin, Foreword Reviews

"Kaufman’s clear-eyed humour and penchant for the bizarre shine through." - Literary Review of Canada

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to Rosanna Deerchild for winning the 2025 Indigenous Voices Award 2025 for Poetry in English for She Falls Again!

We're honoured to have published this significant and important work from Rosanna Deerchild. You can learn more about She Falls Again here: chbooks.com/Books/S/She-...

A photograph of Rosanna Deerchild next to her book of poetry, She Falls Again, which has received the Indigenous Voices Award 2025 in Poetry in English.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hey! You should come out to the ottawa small press book fair today! I made shortbread! Noon to 5pm, Tom Brown Arena, upstairs;

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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!

Metatron Press @metatronpress.bsky.social · Jun 17

✶❂✷ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟕𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 ✷❂✶

✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 ✦
𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐞
❀ A seismic new voice in poetry — raw, mythic, and electrifying.

↠ Read the full announcement ✶
metatron.press/news/metatro...

Announcing the Winner of the 7th International Metatron Poetry Prize

Prairie-based Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye wins the Prize with 'The Goat’s Tongue'

metatron.press

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @shawnalemay.bsky.social's Apples on a Windowsill (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)!

Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness...

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...

The cover of Shawna Lemay's Apples on a Windowsill. It's a photo of several green apples and pears on the sill of a large open window, with sun shining on them. The interior room is very dark. Beyond the window, there is a deliberately-blurred light brick building

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · Jun 15

✨ July in CWC ✨

If you’ve been thinking of joining an intensive year-round writing community/program, I can’t speak highly enough of our CWC fam.

@alinaetc.bsky.social, @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Ken Babstock = July

www.consciouswriterscollective.com/join-the-wai...

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · Jun 11

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

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Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social · Jun 10

Next week Mcr Poetry Library will be hosting this brilliant reading showcasing some of our PhD researchers & poets 'Entangled with Mark Pajak, Anita Slater and Domenic Suntrapak'. Join us online or in-person @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

ENTANGLED Poetry Reading with Mark Pajak, Anita Slater, & Domenic Suntrapak, 20 Jun 2025

Reading, Manchester Poetry Library

www.mmu.ac.uk

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jun 8

the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, (Ottawa, ;
readings/chapbook launches by : Jason Christie, Monty Reid, Beatriz Hausner, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas + Mandy Sandhu,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-aboveg...

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · Jun 10

TONIGHT, 6PM at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street! Parliamentary Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi reads with Ottawa Poets Laureate David O'Meara + Véronique Sylvain! you should come!

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jun 10

S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook,
, remembering Rick McNair (1942-2007), missing Jordan Abel + reading Cameron Anstee,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 10

ISSUE 31 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

A photo taken from the shallow edge of the Thames River in London, Ontario in early summer. The sun is bright, and both banks have many green plants and bushes. There are rocks in front of the viewer that lead into the water, and the water reflects the trees and the blue sky

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · Jun 6

MONTRÉAL! LAST MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENT!

Book*hug presents a reading with Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There, and Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Re: Wild Her.

Monday, June 9, 2025
5:00-7:00 pm
L'Euguélionne, librairie féministe, 1426 rue Beaudry, Montréal, QC
Free to attend!

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jun 6

new from above/ground press: Witek, Kolewe, Christie, Ballard, Reid, Jenks, Tierney, Houglum + Quartermain,
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-...

new from above/ground press: Witek, Kolewe, Christie, Ballard, Reid, Jenks, Tierney, Houglum + Quartermain,

Terri Witek, DOWN WATER STREET $6 ; R. Kolewe, Tierra del Fuego (excerpts from a fiction) $5 ; Jason Christie, PSA $6 ; Micah Ballard, A ...

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Metatron Press @metatronpress.bsky.social · Jun 6

We’re thrilled to announce our first of four forthcoming 2026 titles:
✨ all the time by Xiaoxuan Huang @xiaoxuanhuang.bsky.social

A poetics of queer longing and silence as punctuation. Fragmented love letters. Philosophical breathwork. The emotional geometry of not-quite-saying.

April 17, 2026

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