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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 3d

October 5 is Do Something Nice Day.
Small acts of kindness can have a big impact.

Of course, our minds go directly to books!
-Read someone a story
-Gift a book
-Say thank you to a bookseller or a librarian

Our website: https://bit.ly/46M0lM2
##DoSomethingNiceDay

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 6d

I have three tiny poems up at the fine online journal "talking about strawberries all of the time". One is based on a dream I had less than two weeks ago so that may be a record for time elapsed from dream to publication.

talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 6d

The 2nd day/15th issue: new poetry by Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social and Greg Bem @gregbem.bsky.social , flash fiction by Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social , and The art of writing #117: an interview with Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 8d

“Both of Joseph’s 21 Things books belong on the shelves of all Canadians who care about how we live together as peoples within the boundaries of a nation state.” @yukondawn.bsky.social reviews this necessary title for #truthandreconciliationday

www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/21-things-...

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 10d

Jenna Butler's prose poetry collection Magnetic North -- I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this one but it turned out to be pretty good!

@ualbertapress.bsky.social
#booksky

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Jenna Butler's Magnetic North

Sea voyage to Svalbard

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 15d

This has been by far my most popular post on Bluesky, even though I'm mostly here as a poet

Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 25d

I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive

#Rstats

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 17d

Containers and linkages in D.S. Stymeist's Cluster Flux:

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D.S. Stymeist's Cluster Flux

Containers and linkages

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 21d

good stuff!

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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 22d

@yukondawn.bsky.social reviews Zane Koss's Country Music in Issue 70 of The Ex-Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/story-as-ele...

Story as Elegy in Zane Koss’s Country Music

Read Dawn MacDonald's review of Zane Koss's "Country Music" in Issue 70: Summer 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 24d

such a fun book! really a treat to read and review

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 24d

Was delighted to have a chance to review Kyle Flemmer's hilarious space-themed experimental poetry book, Supergiants, over at Strange Horizons.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

@kyleflemmer.com
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

#booksky

Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer

What is humanity, that we seem to see ourselves across the skies?

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 25d

I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive

#Rstats

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Agnes Etherington Art Centre--who even are they? What will they think of next?

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#booksky

Agnes Etherington Art Centre's Telling Stories, Secret Lives

The book of the exhibition

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Sep 2

"8. When two birds sing the same song, they're the same bird."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Bird's Ten by Dawn Macdonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social) from Northerny (2024 @UAlbertaPress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2vnr7s47

Poetry collection Northerny by Dawn Macdonald (University of Alberta Press) sits amidst black-eyed susans and other flowers

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Bird's Ten" by Dawn Macdonald from the poetry collection Northerny

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George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · Aug 29

There's NewPoetry today from Dawn MacDonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social‬). newpoetry.ca/2025/08/29/u...

Unidentified Boat

Dawn Macdonald a goat, a wolf and a cabbage need to cross a river. the cabbage cannot swim, but that’s okay, can roll under water. can breathe beyond atmosphere goatcabbageandwolf these go t…

newpoetry.ca

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 24

Let’s talk about the pleasures of reading books we don’t understand! Featuring Dennis Cooley's enjoyably nonsensical poetry collection, abecedarium.

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Dennis Cooley's abecedarium

Salutary weirdness

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 19

This luxury treatment is a practical solution to a deadly fungal frog infection

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A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs

Anthony Waddle’s unconventional approach resulted in a stunningly practical solution to fight a deadly fungal infection.

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Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social · Aug 20

Big thanks to Dawn Macdonald for writing so insightfully about Lost Signal. And thanks to my old friend Jack for spreading the word. I love it when worlds collide.

Lost Signal: Poems by Chris Hutchinson

Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 17

"It’s a bit presumptuous of me to “review” Ken Babstock’s Swivelmount." ... but I do so anyway

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@coachhousebooks1.bsky.social

#booksky

Ken Babstock's Swivelmount

A gestural mark

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excerpt from Dawn Macdonald's poem "Animal Snap," gently printed on the card game it interprets.

Read two of Dawn's poems, "Animal Snap" and "Robert Graves' 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑀𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛," in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/da...

@yukondawn.bsky.social

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Whitehorse Public Library has finally started getting in some newer poetry! Thank you library! So, that means I get to do a review of Conor Kerr’s 2023 collection, Old Gods.

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@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

#booksky

Conor Kerr's Old Gods

On and off the road

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Just noticed this list is described as coming from "the author of Dawn Macdonald." So yes, it was transmitted in a flash of divine inspiration from the beyond

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 8

It was such a treat to curate this fun list!

49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · Aug 8

We've got a recommended reading list of playful poetry from the author of Dawn Macdonald, author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press), winner of the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize, awarded by the Griffin Poetry Prize! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/07... #CanLit #Poetry

Playful Poetry · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks OKD for revisiting my poem through the lens of genre

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · Aug 4

Our August newsletter features an investigation into genre by OKD poetry/fiction reader @xpsychoxlinguistx.bsky.social, including a look at the poem "Breakfast, 3 a.m." (which OKD published in July) with the poet @yukondawn.bsky.social. Also, of course, news and updates from July. Enjoy!

What genre am I writing in, anyway? 🤷

An exploration of poetry and fiction, plus news and updates from OKD alums and staff

okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 3

"The poems in Micheline Maylor’s 2017 University of Alberta Press collection Little Wildheart centre on the body: its erotics, its genetics, its dissolution and its consonance with the animal."

New review at reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/micheline-...

@ualbertapress.bsky.social

Micheline Maylor's Little Wildheart

An elegant biology

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · Aug 1

This looks really cool

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