Ryan Fitzpatrick
@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
Poet, critic, etc. Author of No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
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Cam Scott & ryan fitzpatrick Dual Book Launch (MANOR's RANSOM / No Depression in Heaven)
YouTube video by McNally Robinson Online Events
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Here's the recording from my launch with the inimitable @vanishingsigns.bsky.social in Winnipeg last month. I was thinking about what a great event it was after Cam sent me a transcript of the Q&A. We had a great convo about poetry, cities, and country music!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
Here's the recording from my launch with the inimitable @vanishingsigns.bsky.social in Winnipeg last month. I was thinking about what a great event it was after Cam sent me a transcript of the Q&A. We had a great convo about poetry, cities, and country music!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
Cam Scott & ryan fitzpatrick Dual Book Launch (MANOR's RANSOM / No Depression in Heaven)
YouTube video by McNally Robinson Online Events
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here's the recording from my launch with the inimitable @vanishingsigns.bsky.social in Winnipeg last month. I was thinking about what a great event it was after Cam sent me a transcript of the Q&A. We had a great convo about poetry, cities, and country music!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
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the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
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submissions
periodicities is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .d...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...
Who told these ants in Silksong that they're allowed to fight like Elden Ring bosses?
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Who told these ants in Silksong that they're allowed to fight like Elden Ring bosses?
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
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middle daughter, piano lesson; ladies and gentlefolk, the right honourable sir ryan fitzpatrick // @talonbooks.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
middle daughter, piano lesson; ladies and gentlefolk, the right honourable sir ryan fitzpatrick // @talonbooks.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
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Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!
This Thursday in Toronto!
Toronto! Get ready for @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali! On November 13, head to Flying Books on College street for readings from No Depression in Heaven, No Signal No Noise, & Revolutions!
Free to attend, RSVP required. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-talonboo...
Free to attend, RSVP required. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-talonboo...
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This Thursday in Toronto!
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Thank you to all who joined us for our fall 2025 launch! What a pleasure to share in an evening of literature with you, our amazing community.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thank you to all who joined us for our fall 2025 launch! What a pleasure to share in an evening of literature with you, our amazing community.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
If you're in Vancouver, I hope you'll be able to make it out to Talonbooks' fall poetry launch at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall. It's looking like a busy weekend of poetry, but this should be worth your time. All of these books are excellent (though I might be biased). Hope you can make it!
TOMORROW!!
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
October 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you're in Vancouver, I hope you'll be able to make it out to Talonbooks' fall poetry launch at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall. It's looking like a busy weekend of poetry, but this should be worth your time. All of these books are excellent (though I might be biased). Hope you can make it!
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Regardless of statistics showing crime is dwindling, safety is a major concern for Calgarians—why?
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
Are you afraid of poverty?
Why responding to middle-class fears won’t make Calgary a more equitable city
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October 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Regardless of statistics showing crime is dwindling, safety is a major concern for Calgarians—why?
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
Thanks to Jonathan Ball for chatting with me about poetry, country music, and my book No Depression in Heaven on his podcast Writing the Wrong Way. Jon always has an interesting slant on things, so it was fun to hear his take. I might've said a few things too!
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Is Ryan Fitzpatrick Country Enough for Morgan Wallen? (Poetry Claps Back)
Podcast Episode · Writing the Wrong Way with Jonathan Ball, PhD · 2025-10-16 · 59m
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October 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thanks to Jonathan Ball for chatting with me about poetry, country music, and my book No Depression in Heaven on his podcast Writing the Wrong Way. Jon always has an interesting slant on things, so it was fun to hear his take. I might've said a few things too!
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
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I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.
By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.
By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee
MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.
thetyee.ca
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.
By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.
By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.
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From “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World” in Ryan Fitzpatrick’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN
October 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
From “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World” in Ryan Fitzpatrick’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN
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history flips
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks
Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks
Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
history flips
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks
Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks
Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.
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I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
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my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...
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On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except
by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…
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October 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...
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/
(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)
More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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/
(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)
More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/
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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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October 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
newly posted: Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/marc...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/marc...
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Beast Fables is here with comic #1! 🦊🐓🐿️
First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore.
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First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore.
iskotaa.com/comics/beast...
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Beast Fables is here with comic #1! 🦊🐓🐿️
First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore.
iskotaa.com/comics/beast...
First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore.
iskotaa.com/comics/beast...
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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
thewalrus.ca
September 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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...
Leanne Dunic does really interesting long-form narrative poetry that straddles genre. I'd encourage you to check out her work!
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:
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
September 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Leanne Dunic does really interesting long-form narrative poetry that straddles genre. I'd encourage you to check out her work!
This book announcement features a short sample from No Depression in Heaven if you want to check it out.
talonbooks.com/news/hot-off...
talonbooks.com/news/hot-off...
Hot Off the Press! No Depression in Heaven Is Here! » News » Talonbooks
talonbooks.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This book announcement features a short sample from No Depression in Heaven if you want to check it out.
talonbooks.com/news/hot-off...
talonbooks.com/news/hot-off...
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"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."
“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...
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 ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"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."