(Mark is also secretly on this list twice, as he has a couple of pieces in The Anstruther Reader.)

and whether and how to engage with social issues in art without moralizing.

Many thanks to Hollay and Valentino Assenza for their tireless engagement with literature. ☺️

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Special thanks to Tali Voron-Leiderman for sending us a copy of the issue with some fancy Ampersand swag. 📘🖊

Read the review: theampersandreview.ca/new-page-99
Read the issue: theampersandreview.ca/issue-no-8-toc
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"richly intertextual contemporary poetry full of allusion & shrewd wordplay;" "an ontological exploration of the nature of being;" "shirks notions of anthropocentrism & deconstructs the duality between human and animal;" & "beautifully crafted language and masterful symbolism" among other laurels.

Read the full review here: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/made...

a spectacle, how we approach the formatting of every poem like a design exercise with a heightened sense of what it looks like on the page & the curious tendency of poems to shift their meanings over time even for their authors.

P.S. For those unfamiliar, GET LIT is part of CMFU fm at McMaster University, and has featured a great range of writers in the past; definitely worth a listen and a follow, in our opinion!

what sets 'ZZOO' apart from other contemporary lyric poetry collections & what’s on the horizon for MA|DE in the near future. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/g...

(Though if you want to choose your cover and get a signed copy, you'll still have to order directly from us.😇)

how the collection came together & how the hell we got 5 covers. Read the interview: alllitup.ca/a-set-of-var...

Realized this is actually our SECOND written interview but we're poets so you can't fault us for not being able to count.

You can read the full interview here: miramichireader.ca/2025/06/zzoo...