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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks to Conor McDonnell for including ZZOO on a list of books that inspired his work for @49thshelf.bsky.social! And congrats to Conor on his latest poetry collection, What We Know So Far Is, out yesterday from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social!

Read the full list here: 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member...

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · 8d

Feels very appropriate for our book of animal poetry to appear on HOWL - CIUT 89.5FM! MA|DE recently chatted with @hollay.bsky.social about: what makes a ZZOO different from a zoo; writing for depth rather than clarity; what it's like to work with an editor as a two-person collaborative ...

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · 17d

🐶🐼There's particular delight in print review & MA|DE was lucky enough to experience that this week thanks to reviewer Matt Boylan, writing for @theampersandreview.bsky.social. Boylan has many insightful & laudatory things to say about ZZOO @palimpsestpress.bsky.social, including:

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · 19d

It's a quintessential right of passage for small press poetry books to be reviewed by @robmclennan.bsky.social and we're ever so grateful to him for bringing MA|DE's debut collaborative collection into the fold. Rob calls ZZOO "layered, and sharp” and remarks on its “smart and engaged language."

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 26d

That's when we're going too!!

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · 27d

🪲🐬🦩This Saturday September 13 at 2pm, we'll be reading at the Leamington branch of Essex County Library alongside Daniel Lockhart, Kathryn MacDonald, Carrie Lee Connel & Andreas Connel-Gripp. It’ll be our first time reading in Leamington & ZZOO’s first visit too. Hope to see you at this free event!

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 27d

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 27d

Looking forward to this book!

Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 27d

The Unravelling of Ou (by me!) is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, February 15, 2026, and is available for pre-order now. 🧦 📖

Here is the listing at one of my local bookstores!

tinyurl.com/5an25y7h

This book was made possible through the generous funding of Ontario Arts Council.

#canlit

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Word Problems," as you might guess, is from my forthcoming sophomore collection THE WORK IS DONE WHEN WE ARE DEAD, which will be out with @guernicaeditions.bsky.social in 2026.

THE BOOK OF JOBS was edited by Erin C Murphy and published by @oneart.bsky.social, so many thanks to them!

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just in time for Labour Day, the anthology THE BOOK OF JOBS: Poems about Work is out and includes my poem "Word Problems." Sneak peek is in the photo below; the rest of the poem and anthology are available to read for free online: oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...

The Book of Jobs: Poems about Work (edited by Erin Murphy)

Jade Wallace
Word Problems

1. Suppose that worker I, who has $7
in their bank account, uses a combination
of cash and credit to pay the $40
monthly phone bill. I then metes out their 10
gigabytes of data, app by app, until one bounces
back a task that I completes in 19
minutes on the way to their temp job.
For completing the task, I receives a $5.03
transfer of funds (after taxes and fees), of which $4.19
will eventually be used to pay for gas and the
long-term maintenance of I’s car. I earns $32.00
(after taxes and deductions) for working 3
hours at the temp job, though will not receive
that money for approximately 8
months, which is how long it will take for
the labour ministry to investigate I’s 15
page claim and issue a 25
page order requiring wages to,
in fact, be paid, as per section 22
of the Employees Are Not Volunteers Act.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 30

Literally takes less than a minute & important if you care about things like the Canada Council for the Arts!!

Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · Aug 30

Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this.

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · Aug 15

What a treat to talk to an interviewer like Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social (& elsewhere), who is equal parts enthusiastic & insightful about books. MA|DE had a great time chatting with Hollay about why we tried to treat each poetry reading on our ZZOO tour like...

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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · Aug 14

This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨Attention Editors🚨 This Magazine is looking for a News Editor! Do you have editing and news writing experience, connections to journalists, and a love of independent publishing? You might be the perfect fit! Full job description at the link below. Applications close Sept 5th!

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Contribute to This Magazine

This Magazine is hiring a News Editor! Applications are due Friday, September 5 at noon EST. Are you always on top of the Canadian news cycle? Are you well-versed on a wide variety of news topics? A...

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Ontario government continues to be embarrassing...

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Alberta, Ontario don't want feds to reintroduce First Nations safe drinking water law

Environment ministers in Alberta and Ontario don't want the federal government to reintroduce the safe drinking water law for First Nations.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 12

Agreed!

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 12

Great (critical) take on AI by Molly Cross-Blanchard in the latest issue of Write from The Writers' Union of Canada.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 11

My review of Samantha Jones' @sjonespoet.bsky.social's wonderful debut poetry collection Attic Rain from @newestpress.bsky.social, which appeared in the Fall 2024 issue of @thismagazine.bsky.social.

Samantha Jones’ debut poetry collection, Attic Rain, is a nuanced articulation of the mindspace of Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Jones uses form—the brevity of haiku, the recurrences of villanelles, the queries of mondos—to make visceral OCD’s reiterative fixations
and rituals. Such rituals are conveyed with insightful complexity; they are soothing, grounding, as natural as water moving over the same path repeatedly to make a river, even as the force that propels them is terror. Attic Rain achieves the impressive feat of both portraying and reenvisioning OCD: by drawing it as maps, organizing it into graphs, annotating it as music, and ultimately transforming it into poetry.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm late but I had a good reason this time! Anways here's my review of Deepa Rajagopalan's stunning debut short fiction collection Peacocks of Instagram from @houseofanansi.bsky.social, which appeared in the Summer 2024 issue of @thismagazine.bsky.social.

The title of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut short story collection sounds like an exposé of social media celebrity, but it’s so much more. Peacocks of Instagram peels back surfaces to reveal surprising and satisfying depths. Influencer personas are counterpoints in multi-layered lives. There are mothers travelling to India for kidney transplants, spouses misleading each other in dances of infidelity. Rajagopalan throws and pulls problems ordinary as raw clay into 14 glossy, engrossing, interconnected narratives. Amid mundane indignities, her characters find fulfillment glimmering like fresh snow, and slices of righteous revenge as sweet as free cheesecake at a company party.

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · Aug 10

Earlier this week, we had a 15-minute chat scheduled with Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social for episode 455 of his GET LIT podcast, which quickly turned into a 30-minute interview. We discussed where collaboration begins, how two very serious people manage to make playful work ...

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Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today on GET LIT: Jade Wallace and Mark Laliberte aka MA|DE. We discuss a bunch of things including their latest, ZZOO.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/yc5u7bzj

@nycterosea.bsky.social @marklalib.bsky.social @madeprojects.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you happen to be a member of LCP @canadianpoets.bsky.social, you can get 15% off + free shipping on many new and forthcoming Canadian poetry collections, including MA|DE's ZZOO, if you order through @alllitupcanada.bsky.social anytime between now and Saturday August 9! 🐙🐍🦋 alllitup.ca/books/zzoo/

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Aug 1

Why does the new version feel like it's glaring at me 😭

Also: relatable.

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · Aug 1

In the fog that consumed the entire month of March (thanks COVID), we totally lost track of this interview, the ACTUAL first written interview MA|DE ever did about 'ZZOO.' Our very belated thanks to the wonderful @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for chatting with us about how MA|DE came together ...

“A set of variant covers in a bookstore might be thrilling and mysterious”: An Interview with MA|DE

For the past several years, MA|DE—Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace—has been carving out a unique space in the literary landscape, embracing collaboration as both a practice and an ethos. Their work is a fusion of poetic experimentation, visual artistry, and deep engagement with the traditions of literary and artistic partnerships in Canada.

In this interview, Mark and Jade take us through the origins of MA|DE and the journey of their full-length poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest Press), which included an ambitious approach to their cover design (there are five cool covers of ZZOO to choose from!). With a keen eye on the intersections of poetry, visual art, and literary publishing, MA|DE continues to push the boundaries of what a poetry collab can be.

Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace: To tell the story of MA|DE, we have to go back to 2018. That’s when we—Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace—first began working together. In the beginning, our collaboration was single-celled, a free-form thing. We wrote together in a shared document, word upon word, line upon line, without much sense of where it would all end up. We wrote daily, and just began building poems.

As we continued working together, day into month into year, the specific nature of our collaboration started to take shape, or reveal itself. We were writing and experimenting. We were also looking at the history of collaboration in Canada, both in the visual and literary arts scenes—and, to be honest, we felt more spiritually connected to long-term artistic collaborations like General Idea, Public Studio and FASTWÜRMS (who, incidentally, were Mark’s MFA advisors at the University of Guelph back in the early 2000s). We began calling ourselves MA|DE in reference to our shared projects—taking on the branded positionality of a contemporary pop group, adopting a “band name” of sorts. For us, this naming gesture is symbolic: it indicates that this collaboration has a life of its own, and hopefully a long one; it is not simply the brief nexus of two writers’ careers, as so many literary collaborations are. MA|DE is a kind of entity or spirit we manifest, our third mind.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Jul 25

Incredibly relatable content!

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Jul 25

This post is less adoring & more grumpy about book blurbs than my previous article, but also aims to include a lot of practical tips for improving the experience, whether you're requesting a blurb, writing one, or reading one. It's also funnier.
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Brockton Writers Series 09.07.25 Report – The Good & Bad of Book Blurbs

Jade Wallace (they/them) is a poet, novelist, and critic. They are the author of two poetry collections, a genderless novel, and, under the name MA|DE, two collaborative poetry collections. Most re…

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