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Ryan Fitzpatrick
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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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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/
Image of a silhouetted cowboy singer with an illuminated dust cloud overlaid on their chest. Text on top of this image with information for the following poetry readings: No Depression in Heaven tour for ryan fitzpatrick October 21, 2025, at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, a book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Event at 7:00 pm. October 24, 2025, at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall in Vancouver, the Talonbooks fall poetry launch, with readings from ryan fitzpatrick, Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, and Drew McEwan. Event at 7:00 pm. November 5, 2025, at McNally Robinson Grant Park in Winnipeg, double book launch with ryan fitzpatrick and Cam Scott. Event at 7:00 pm. November 13, 2025, at Flying Books College St in Toronto, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali. Event at 6:30 pm. November 14, 2025, at The City and The City Bookstore in Hamilton, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, and Zane Koss. Event at 7:00 pm. More info at talonbooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Copies of my brand new poetry book No Depression in Heaven just arrived on my doorstep! Available wherever you get your books. I hope you’ll give it a look. talonbooks.com/books/no-dep...
A photo of a stack of the book No Depression in Heaven alongside an LP copy of The Famous Carter Family and a trucker hat that reads “Get me to God’s Country”
September 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I just received a stack of my new chapbook in the mail from Edmonton-based Agatha Press. Slop poems for our caps lock era. It’s a beautiful little publication. Order a copy from the press if you’re inclined. They do great work! www.agathapress.com/shop/p/as-lo...
A small stack of my new chapbook titled “AS LONG AS I’M ALIVE I HAVE INFINITE CHANCES”
August 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Hi all, please check out this brand new Model Press chapbook, a poetry and photography collaboration from Kristen Smith and Dorothy Jeffries that reflects on landscape. Available now at the link below!

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White text on burgundy background: jet by Kristen Smith (poems) and Dorothy Jeffries (photographs)
July 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Hi all, I hope you’ll take a look at this new Model Press online poetry chapbook, Deriventrancelate by Edmonton/Vancouver poet Michael Barnholden. It’s hefty and funny with some cowboy flair (if you need some Stampede counterprogramming). ryanfitzpatrick.ca/wp-content/u...
White text on burgundy background: Deriventrancelate by Michael Barnholden
July 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Check out this new poetry chapbook from Model Press by Peterborough poet Laurie D. Graham. Her last book Fast Commute was stellar and this is a sneak peek at her next book, due out in 2026. Available now for free at the link below!

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White text on a burgundy background that reads: Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D. Graham.
February 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Check out this new poetry chapbook from Model Press, a series of abecadarian acrostics from Calgary writer Kevin Stebner. It’s a fun time! ryanfitzpatrick.ca/wp-content/u...
White text on a burgundy background that reads: Another Boring Canada Day, Ten Micro A to Z Acrostics by Kevin Stebner
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Getting ready to do some important and festive book research by reading Minnie Pearl’s Christmas at Grinders Switch with an introduction by Tennessee Ernie Ford - a very real book!
The cover of Minnie Pearl’s Christmas at Grinders Switch with an introduction by Tennessee Ernie Ford. The cover features a drawing of Minnie Pearl leaning on a fence
December 11, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Hi all, Model Press has just released a new poetry chapbook: wallpaper by Calgary poet Samantha Jones. It includes a fun mix of visual and textual work. Check the whole chapbook out at the link! ryanfitzpatrick.ca/wp-content/u...
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November 12, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Check out Hesitations by Tarini Fernando, a new online poetry chapbook from Model Press. If you’re into wild experimentation with poetic form, it’s for you! Available at the link! ryanfitzpatrick.ca/wp-content/u...
White text on a burgundy background that reads: Hesitations Tarini Fernando
October 21, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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I miss Alf hog and orcas
The BlueSky image celebrating 10 million users that shows when I joined. I am number 71,209, the first 1%, and joined on May 11, 2023
September 16, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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I’m extremely pleased to have my poem “Context Collapse Disorder” in the Happy Birthday issue of Touch the Donkey, which is one of the more interesting poetry mags going. Hit @robmclennan.bsky.social up for a copy or subscription. touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2024/03/touc...
Two copies of the new issue of Touch the Donkey, a poetry magazine. The cover features the mag’s logo with an image of some festive balloons below it.
April 12, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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I was the editor on this one. It’s great! I hope you’ll give it a look. talonbooks.com/books/?youre...
The cover of You’re Gonna Love This, the new poetry book by Dina Del Bucchia. On the cover is the image of a woman glaring out from a TV set. My Instagram caption about the book that reads: This time last year, I was lucky enough to stumble into the opportunity to be the substantive editor of You’re Gonna Love This, the recently released book of poetry by Vancouver poet Dina Del Bucchia. I’m obviously a little biased, but I’d encourage you to give it a look. The book deepens Dina’s pop poetic through a reflection on television as a medium that inquires into the practice of binge-watching, asking what she (and we) get from watching so much. You’re Gonna Love This is filled with two competing impulses. Dina braids a series of often zany “recap” poems alongside a vulnerable memoir practice that reflects on caregiving, domestic partnership, and mental health. It’s very moving. I think that people who have read Dina’s previous book will be surprised by You’re Gonna Love This. It’s a book about the ways the fantasies offered up by media crash into our very real lives. I hope you’ll give it a read!
April 8, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Today is the one year birthday of my most recent book Sunny Ways. Thanks to anyone who bought a copy or checked it out of the library. It’s nice to know that there were a few folks riding along as I tried to process one of our compounding global crises! invisiblepublishing.com/product/sunn...
Screengrab from Invisible Publishing’s email newsletter from over a year ago that features my book Sunny Ways. A picture of the book accompanied by the following text: Sunny Ways by ryan fitzpatrick Available April 4, 2023 New poetry from ryan fitzpatrick that examines environmental collapse and the denials that underpin extractive capitalism. From the collection: “taking a sip of San Pellegrino through a straw you just banned because a straw is a kind of pipeline you can ban without letting go of something” A pre-order button then the text: “How do we deal with a global crisis when it puts food on the table?”
April 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Kacey Musgraves: “When I look at you, I’m always looking through anime eyes”

Me, an asexual:
Panel from the One Piece manga where Monkey D. Luffy is able to resist the love beam of Snake Princess Boa Hancock. Here you see him trying to block a series of heart shapes blasting through him.
March 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Just got the 4000th like on my levels in Mario Maker 2 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
It’s a screenshot of my page in Super Mario Maker 2 where my Mii is waving at you and you can see the 4000 likes I’ve gotten on my levels!
March 16, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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NEW POETRY CHAPBOOK
MODEL PRESS 032
Happy Hour by Mark Laba

“Of all the places to come across Toulouse Lautrec’s bidet / at a lacrosse team fundraiser. Go figure?”

Available now for free at the link

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White text on a grey background that reads: Happy Hour Mark Laba
December 19, 2023 at 6:14 PM
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NEW POETRY CHAPBOOK

MODEL PRESS 031
BOREHOLE by Sam Weselowski

“Don’t know
if I’m the bore
or the hole”

Available for free at the link

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White text on grey background that reads: BOREHOLE Sam Weselowski
November 28, 2023 at 5:04 PM
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NEW POETRY CHAPBOOK
MODEL PRESS 030
Orbits by Julian Day

“The aging god of late summer steps out / of the drainage pond, brushing off mud / and flapping fish. We stare at each other / uneasily: this again? Already?”

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White text on grey background that reads: Orbits Julian Day
November 7, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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I found out this morning that an article I’ve been working on with my friend Deanna Fong is finally out. It’s about the work of poets Danielle LaFrance and Anahita Jamali Rad. If you’re interested and would like a copy, drop me a line at [email protected]

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Text that reads: ASAP Journal Heavy-Hand Holding: Dwelling in Contradiction with Danielle LaFrance and Anahita Jamali Rad by Ryan Fitzpatrick and Deanna Fong ASAP Journal John’s Hopkins University Press Volume 8, Number 2, May 2023 Pages 325 to 354
November 5, 2023 at 4:22 PM
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POETRY CHAPBOOK

MODEL PRESS 014
Homecoming by Sarah Hilton

Available for free at the link. Check it out!

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#poetry
White text on grey background that reads: Homecoming Sarah Hilton Poem from chapbook that reads as follows: prompt for 2021 this will be the last of giving third chances, the ending of art becoming callous at birth. make room for your next poem to form in the hollow of your clavicle. It will summon softness—peristeronic basin.
October 25, 2023 at 5:18 PM
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William Carlos Williams (qtd by Bob Perelman) 👀
William Carlos Williams (quoted by Bob Perelman): “Forcing twentieth-century America into a sonnet - gosh, how I hate sonnets - is like putting a crab into a square box. You’ve got to cut his legs off to make him fit.”
October 12, 2023 at 11:04 PM
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I’ve quietly had a busy week of publishing between this and Reverse Sumptuary. This festschrift showed up on my porch this morning without announcement and I’m honoured to have all these folks pay such attention to my work. If you’re in Toronto, hit me up for a copy. Otherwise, drop rob a line!
Three copies of the chapbook festshrift of my work. Yellow cover with an official looking academic-style logo and my name off to the side.
October 12, 2023 at 10:27 PM
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MODEL PRESS 007
Heavy Metal Litany by Jason Christie

“to die against each other screaming with glee awash in blue and black light eternally pitched between sound and whatever comes before fire”

Available at the link

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White text on grey background that reads: Heavy Metal Litany Jason Christie
October 4, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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MODEL PRESS 020:
eke, my novel
by rhoda rosenfeld

“It’s not the roses, it’s the hips”

Poetry chapbook available for free at the link. Check it out!

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Cover page for eke, my novel. White text on grey background that reads: eke, my novel rhoda rosenfeld
September 22, 2023 at 4:36 PM