Rob Taylor
@roblucastaylor.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
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The students in my ENGL 389 class at UFV spent the fall interviewing Canadian authors on their new books. The results were *fantastic*.
The interviews will be published in a variety of magazines throughout 2026. I'll link them all in this thread.
The interviews will be published in a variety of magazines throughout 2026. I'll link them all in this thread.
My dear friend, the poet Sandy Shreve, has died.
A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:
A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:
“An Uncommon Eye”: Reflections on the Life and Work of Sandy Shreve - EVENT
One of the first friends I made in the poetry world was Sandy Shreve. Despite our gap in age and experience, Sandy took in this wide-eyed budding poet as a peer. I remember one day walking with Sandy ...
www.eventmagazine.ca
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
My dear friend, the poet Sandy Shreve, has died.
A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:
A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:
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My chapbook is now available for pre-order
on the Pinhole Poetry website!
pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/
on the Pinhole Poetry website!
pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 AM
My chapbook is now available for pre-order
on the Pinhole Poetry website!
pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/
on the Pinhole Poetry website!
pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/
CBC Books pitch meeting, 2056:
- The 14,000 Most Anticipated Summer Reads Written by Canadian AI.
- Canada Reads 2056: One Book to Reassemble the Confederation.
- Heated Rivalry: What Shane and Ilya can teach Supreme Leader Barron Trump and the Underground Resistance Network about compromise.
- The 14,000 Most Anticipated Summer Reads Written by Canadian AI.
- Canada Reads 2056: One Book to Reassemble the Confederation.
- Heated Rivalry: What Shane and Ilya can teach Supreme Leader Barron Trump and the Underground Resistance Network about compromise.
February 8, 2026 at 11:22 PM
CBC Books pitch meeting, 2056:
- The 14,000 Most Anticipated Summer Reads Written by Canadian AI.
- Canada Reads 2056: One Book to Reassemble the Confederation.
- Heated Rivalry: What Shane and Ilya can teach Supreme Leader Barron Trump and the Underground Resistance Network about compromise.
- The 14,000 Most Anticipated Summer Reads Written by Canadian AI.
- Canada Reads 2056: One Book to Reassemble the Confederation.
- Heated Rivalry: What Shane and Ilya can teach Supreme Leader Barron Trump and the Underground Resistance Network about compromise.
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What happens when two poets speak?
Joseph Kidney, one of the current #PoetryInTransit authors, sits down with legendary interviewer and poet Rob Taylor to indulge us with an examination of Kidney's prose, influences, and literary references. Unveil here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2026/01/28/a...
Joseph Kidney, one of the current #PoetryInTransit authors, sits down with legendary interviewer and poet Rob Taylor to indulge us with an examination of Kidney's prose, influences, and literary references. Unveil here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2026/01/28/a...
An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney
The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.
www.readlocalbc.ca
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
What happens when two poets speak?
Joseph Kidney, one of the current #PoetryInTransit authors, sits down with legendary interviewer and poet Rob Taylor to indulge us with an examination of Kidney's prose, influences, and literary references. Unveil here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2026/01/28/a...
Joseph Kidney, one of the current #PoetryInTransit authors, sits down with legendary interviewer and poet Rob Taylor to indulge us with an examination of Kidney's prose, influences, and literary references. Unveil here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2026/01/28/a...
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Raoul Fernandes, from the new issue of @thewalrus.ca
January 31, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Raoul Fernandes, from the new issue of @thewalrus.ca
"Purge" by Guy Elston, from the Fall 2025 issue of @malahatreview.bsky.social.
February 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
"Purge" by Guy Elston, from the Fall 2025 issue of @malahatreview.bsky.social.
“Weather is an immensely moving collection of poems attuned to poetry-as-living.”
Thank you to Shazia Hafiz Ramji and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for a really lovely double review of my and John Reibetanz' latest books.
You can get a copy of the new issue here:
arcpoetry.ca/editorials/m...
Thank you to Shazia Hafiz Ramji and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for a really lovely double review of my and John Reibetanz' latest books.
You can get a copy of the new issue here:
arcpoetry.ca/editorials/m...
February 2, 2026 at 9:23 PM
“Weather is an immensely moving collection of poems attuned to poetry-as-living.”
Thank you to Shazia Hafiz Ramji and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for a really lovely double review of my and John Reibetanz' latest books.
You can get a copy of the new issue here:
arcpoetry.ca/editorials/m...
Thank you to Shazia Hafiz Ramji and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for a really lovely double review of my and John Reibetanz' latest books.
You can get a copy of the new issue here:
arcpoetry.ca/editorials/m...
February 1, 2026 at 10:56 PM
My 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here! New interviews in the series will be coming out steadily over the coming months.
I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."
I hope you enjoy it:
I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."
I hope you enjoy it:
An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney
The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.
www.readlocalbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 8:54 PM
My 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here! New interviews in the series will be coming out steadily over the coming months.
I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."
I hope you enjoy it:
I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."
I hope you enjoy it:
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Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*!
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*!
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
🎵Boy-cott Save-On🎵 *Clap clap clapclapclap*
B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison's Virginia warehouse could become ICE facility | CBC News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in talks to buy a Virginia warehouse owned by British Columbia billionaire Jim Pattison and plans to turn it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...
cbc.ca
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 AM
🎵Boy-cott Save-On🎵 *Clap clap clapclapclap*
Sure, you hear "The conclusion of the epic trilogy..." frequently enough, but how often does that sentence finish "... of poetry anthologies!"
Don't miss out!
Don't miss out!
In Sublime, celebrated poets from across North America consider the beauty, fragility and decline of ice. They ask: what will be released as the planet’s ice melts? And how will this reshape the planet we call home? Pre-order now at caitlinpress.com/Books/S/Subl... @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Sure, you hear "The conclusion of the epic trilogy..." frequently enough, but how often does that sentence finish "... of poetry anthologies!"
Don't miss out!
Don't miss out!
"Compact Disc" by @jessicaleemcmillan.com, over at NewPoetry.ca:
Compact Disc
Jessica Lee McMillan you held one of the first CDs and said this is the future and the mirrored finish caught our faces through a veil of shifting rainbows, light bouncing from billions of u…
newpoetry.ca
January 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM
"Compact Disc" by @jessicaleemcmillan.com, over at NewPoetry.ca:
Heck yes! It's a damn good book, maybe Solie's best (which is saying a lot!).
Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize
Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural Canada
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Heck yes! It's a damn good book, maybe Solie's best (which is saying a lot!).
I've waited more than a decade to be able to say this: hell yeah, new Elizabeth Bachinsky!!!
@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social
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@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social
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January 19, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I've waited more than a decade to be able to say this: hell yeah, new Elizabeth Bachinsky!!!
@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*!
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*!
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.
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Out May 12: On Occasion: Poems for the People ed. Sina Queyras
A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.
chbooks.com/Books/O/On-O...
A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.
chbooks.com/Books/O/On-O...
January 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Out May 12: On Occasion: Poems for the People ed. Sina Queyras
A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.
chbooks.com/Books/O/On-O...
A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.
chbooks.com/Books/O/On-O...
Oh hell yes! A selected poems from one of the best poets around.
"Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025" by Russell Thornton, just released by @harbourpublishing.bsky.social:
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
"Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025" by Russell Thornton, just released by @harbourpublishing.bsky.social:
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
January 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Oh hell yes! A selected poems from one of the best poets around.
"Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025" by Russell Thornton, just released by @harbourpublishing.bsky.social:
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
"Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025" by Russell Thornton, just released by @harbourpublishing.bsky.social:
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
"Flashlight" by Karen Solie, from Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (@biblioasis.bsky.social), edited by Aislinn Hunter.
January 11, 2026 at 8:55 PM
"Flashlight" by Karen Solie, from Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (@biblioasis.bsky.social), edited by Aislinn Hunter.
I love to see @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social encouraging folks to pick up a copy of Forests of the Medieval World by Don Coles, though I am way ahead of him 😂
the-wood-lot.ca/2026/01/07/f...
the-wood-lot.ca/2026/01/07/f...
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I love to see @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social encouraging folks to pick up a copy of Forests of the Medieval World by Don Coles, though I am way ahead of him 😂
the-wood-lot.ca/2026/01/07/f...
the-wood-lot.ca/2026/01/07/f...
Check out the sharp new @gaspereaupress.bsky.social website!
Gaspereau Press – Cultural Outfitters and Literary Wildreness Guides
gaspereaupress.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Check out the sharp new @gaspereaupress.bsky.social website!
Q: What is a song over six minutes long that's worth every minute?
A: Fela Kuti's "Everything Scatter."
A: Fela Kuti's "Everything Scatter."
January 2, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Q: What is a song over six minutes long that's worth every minute?
A: Fela Kuti's "Everything Scatter."
A: Fela Kuti's "Everything Scatter."
The students in my ENGL 389 class at UFV spent the fall interviewing Canadian authors on their new books. The results were *fantastic*.
The interviews will be published in a variety of magazines throughout 2026. I'll link them all in this thread.
The interviews will be published in a variety of magazines throughout 2026. I'll link them all in this thread.
January 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
The students in my ENGL 389 class at UFV spent the fall interviewing Canadian authors on their new books. The results were *fantastic*.
The interviews will be published in a variety of magazines throughout 2026. I'll link them all in this thread.
The interviews will be published in a variety of magazines throughout 2026. I'll link them all in this thread.
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In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine
5 perfect movies
• Maborosi
• Tokyo Story
• A Serious Man
• Paris, Texas
• Aftersun
• Maborosi
• Tokyo Story
• A Serious Man
• Paris, Texas
• Aftersun
5 perfect movies
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Princess Mononoke
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Sinners
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Princess Mononoke
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Sinners
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• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Gremlins
• Run, Lola, Run
• Fargo
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Gremlins
• Run, Lola, Run
• Fargo
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
December 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
5 perfect movies
• Maborosi
• Tokyo Story
• A Serious Man
• Paris, Texas
• Aftersun
• Maborosi
• Tokyo Story
• A Serious Man
• Paris, Texas
• Aftersun