Alice Burdick

Poetry pamphlet Body work by Alice Burdick (Opaat Press) rests atop green ferns

Poetry pamphlet Body work by Alice Burdick, open to the poem, rests atop green ferns

"Why bother a beast
whose memory is a roar
in an apparent cave?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Body town by Alice Burdick (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4wamz9tp

The cover of Ox Lost, Snow Deep, by Alice Burdick. The bottom two-thirds of the cover is white, with a black-and-white photo of an ox near the top, and the title and author's name lower down. The top third of the cover is a deep blue

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @aliceburdick.bsky.social's Ox Lost, Snow Deep (pub. @anvilpress.bsky.social) in Issue 31!

I loved [it]. It is full of subversions of fixed expressions and ideas, knock-your-socks-off observations and quirky aphorisms..

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-burdick...

2) This was the 1st of my 6 books to have ever been listed for any poetry awards. Ox made it to the longlist for the Raymond Souster Award too. I’m a poetry lifer, at it since the early 90s, writing without awards in mind & will continue. But it’s a nice encouragement for this aging poet. 🐂❄️

1) I’m so grateful that Ox Lost, Snow Deep was so deeply read & felt by the jury of the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award. This citation almost made me cry. Congratulations to Cory Lavender, who won the award, & to Annick MacAskill, also on the shortlist.

Ox Lost, Snow Deep  by @aliceburdick.bsky.social, is nominated for the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award!  Come celebrate all nominees at the NS Book Awards on Mon, June 2. Hear Alice read this Wed Live at The Carleton Hosted by Tara Thorne. Published by @anvilpress.bsky.social

Looking forward to this! Great company! @anvilpress.bsky.social

And Bukowski

Is it all Beowulf

Jay Miller reviews Lance La Rocque's Glitch (2020) Montreal poet, translator and reviewer Jay Miller was good enough to provide the first review of Lance La Rocque's Glitch (2020) over at ...

Jay Miller reviews Lance La Rocque's Glitch (above/ground press, 2020)
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/jay-...

Thanks, Chris! Even if I don’t win anything I’m savouring the lists!

Catherine Walker : on Little Books Collective For a small town in rural Nova Scotia, Lunenburg has an impressively robust and diverse ecosystem of writers and artists. It seems...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Catherine Walker : on Little Books Collective
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/cath...

I am so happy that Ox Lost, Snow Deep has been getting some love! It’s my 6th book, and the first one that’s been on any short and longlists ever! That feels great in itself. 🐂❄️ @anvilpress.bsky.social

Thank you to The League of Canadian Poets! Lovely to have Ox Lost, Snow Deep on the longlist for the Raymond Souster Award and in excellent company. 🐂❄️ A Feed Dog Book … from Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social

poets.ca/longlist2025...

Really lovely to see this insightful and generous review of Ox Lost, Snow Deep from Catherine Walker via The Miramichi Reader!
🐂❄️ @anvilpress.bsky.social

miramichireader.ca/2025/04/ox-l...

Jay Miller reviews Alice Burdick's I Am So Calm (2025) Montreal poet, translator and reviewer Jay Miller was good enough to review Alice Burdick's I Am So Calm (2025) over at Bibelotages . Than...

Jay Miller reviews Alice Burdick's I Am So Calm (above/ground press, 2025) / @aliceburdick.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/jay-...

My daughter’s very excellent drawing of our four very nice boycats. Actually spot on in terms of personality too.

@augustawynde.bsky.social and I had a great time reading to a very full house yesterday at the gorgeous LaHave River Books!

some author activity: Rogal, mclennan, Burdick, Jirgens, Browne, Berlatsky + Boyle, Stan Rogal is interviewed for National Poetry Month at All Lit Up, and a poem by rob mclennan is posted as part of such ; rob mclennan has a...

some above/ground press author activity: Stan Rogal, rob mclennan, Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Karl Jirgens, Laynie Browne, Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social + Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social ,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/some...

Absolutely! I find it funny that poetry is so often in the “other” category in terms of perceived value

Occasionally there’s still a PWYC jar here because of course there are costs to hosting in any space, but the general expectation seems to be that poetry readings are free. Aside from those associated with festivals

Alice Burdick, I Am So Calm Alice Burdick is simply masterful.

I’m super grateful to Jay Miller for his very astute review of my new chapbook I Am So Calm from above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social bibelotages.com/alice-burdic...

Background photo of a camping tent brightly lit from within, under a starry night sky. Text reads “in-person workshops with Alice Burdick, Stephanie Domet, Joanne Gallant, Tiffany Morris, and Sal Sawler. Flexing your creative muscles: summer camp for adults. June 23-27, Halifax”

You asked, and we’re answering: WFNS is finally offering a creative writing day camp for adults! 😎

June 23-27 at our office on the Halifax waterfront

writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

Touch the Donkey : new interviews with J-T Kelly, Jennifer Firestone, Austin Miles + Alice Burdick, Anticipating the release next week of the forty-fifth issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] , why not check out the interviews ...

Touch the Donkey : new interviews with J-T Kelly, Jennifer Firestone, Austin Miles + Alice Burdick, / @j-tkelly.bsky.social @aliceburdick.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/04/touc...

TtD supplement #274 : seven questions for Alice Burdick Alice Burdick writes poetry, essays, and cookbooks in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She is the author most recently of Ox Lost, Snow Deep (a fee...

Touch the Donkey supplement #274 : seven questions for Alice Burdick / @aliceburdick.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social ;
touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttd-...

Thanks for the conversation, @robmclennan.bsky.social !

I understand this cat jar

I will wish the best birds upon you!

Unfortunately not here in NS, but definitely in the past visiting St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in Florida. And re: redwing blackbirds, a lot in Toronto! They dive bombed my dad once when he had black hair and a red scarf

Egrets - I’ve seen a few

Reminder: on Saturday April 12th, 4-5 pm, catch @aliceburdick.bsky.social and @augustawynde.bsky.social reading poetry at the beautiful LaHave River Books. Free!
National Poetry Month! Local authors! 🎉🐂❄️🇨🇦📝📚📖