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Sending and Receiving Letters: An Interview With Nadia Ragbar - EVENT Nadia Ragbar lives in Toronto with her partner and son. She has previously published her flash fiction work in This Magazine, as well as Broken Pencil. The Pugilist and the Sailor is her debut novel. ...

Melissa McDonald interviews Nadia Ragbar about her debut @invisibooks.bsky.social novel, "The Pugilist and the Sailor," for @eventmags.bsky.social:

“For All the Raw Edges, It Was an Extraordinary Way to Make a Life”: An Interview with Scott McIntyre The author of A Precarious Enterprise on a publisher's life, the power of stories, and advocating for Canadian voices.

Sara Gladders interviews Scott McIntyre about his new @ecwpress.bsky.social memoir, "A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing," for @readlocalbc.bsky.social:

Abbotsford! Take an early lunch break on March 17th and come see one of Canada's finest writers on a rare visit to the West Coast.

Sadiqa de Meijer Reading
Tuesday, March 17
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
UFV Abbotsford Library
Free and open to all!

“Never Trust Any Writer’s Explanations About Process or Anything Else”: An Interview With Tim Bowling - EVENT As a small boy, Tim Bowling liked to dream about one day publishing a collection of short stories. Fifty-five years later, his dream has come true! The author of 24 other works of poetry and prose, an...

Marie-Ange Routier interviews Tim Bowling about his new Freehand Books short story collection, "Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand," for @eventmags.bsky.social:

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Thanks!

The Lifelong Process of Knowing Our Minds Can Be Beautiful: An Interview with Amber Dawn The two authors talk about perverting pain, literary influences, and cultivating one's awareness of body and mind.

Interview #2 in my 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social about her new @arsenalpulp.bsky.social collection, "Buzzkill Clamshell."

I hope you enjoy it:

"Of the Workers at the Great Northern Cannery, West Vancouver" by Kevin Irie, from the new issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.

This issue also features four more Notes on Writing! 🥳

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“Transformation of Feeling into Art:” An Interview with Tree Abraham Interviewer Marlies Dubois talks with Canadian poet Tree Abraham about her poetry collection elseship: an unrequited affair out with Book*hug Press now! Marlies Dubois: elseship is a deeply persona…

Marlies Dubois interviews Tree Abraham about her new @bookhugpress.bsky.social poetry collection, "elseship," for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social :

Thank you for taking the time to read it and learn a little about Sandy. It means a lot.

Thanks, andrea.

It's a wonderful little book. And IFF a wonderful big one!

to give a form's refrains / a fighting chance - "Villanelles" Book Launch Change - Sandy Shreve (for Molly Peacock) Something has to happen as we sit inside my car waiting out a downpour. A stranger’s hand ...

Here's another interview of ours, this time about villanelles, from back in 2012 (it features a wonderful villanelle of Sandy's):

bassackwards and geezly and paralyzed - "Waiting for the Albatross" by Sandy (and Jack) Shreve May Day - Sandy (and Jack) Shreve I wonder what’s going on in the world to-day. The “storm petrels” I saw yesterday lived up to their ...

Here's an interview I conducted with Sandy about her collection of found poems, Waiting for the Albatross, back in 2015:

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Catherine Owen : Sandy Shreve (1950 – 2026) First, some randomly assembled facts of her life as a Canadian maker. Sandy Shreve wrote, edited and/or co-edited eight books and f...

Here's @cowenwriter.bsky.social's tribute to Sandy, which includes a couple of Sandy's poems. Thank you, Catherine, for writing it, and @robmclennan.bsky.social for posting it at @periodicities.bsky.social:

RIP Sandy Shreve (1950 – 2026) - BC Booklook Sandy Shreve, the poet, editor, community activist and visual artist who introduced poetry on Vancouver public transit on an ongoing... FULL STORY

Here is Sandy's obituary, in @bcbooklook.bsky.social:

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“An Uncommon Eye”: Reflections on the Life and Work of Sandy Shreve - EVENT One of the first friends I made in the poetry world was Sandy Shreve. Despite our gap in age and experience, Sandy took in this wide-eyed budding poet as a peer. I remember one day walking with Sandy ...

My dear friend, the poet Sandy Shreve, has died.

A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:

Cyanotype with white sphere/coin and fallen cedar leaves, clover and flowers. Book title is: shine like a dime in the dirt under the moon by Jessica Lee McMillan

My chapbook is now available for pre-order
on the Pinhole Poetry website!
pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/

Dakota Casey interviews @ianletourneau.bsky.social about his new @gaspereaupress.bsky.social poetry collection, "Metadata from a Changing Climate," for the Miramichi Reader:

“Saying No With Love”: A Conversation With Chelene Knight - EVENT Chelene Knight is the author of Braided Skin (Mother Tongue 2015), the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Aware...

Caitlyn Carr interviews Chelene Knight about her new @houseofanansi.bsky.social book, "Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love," for @eventmags.bsky.social:

So cool! That's a dream of mine.

CBC Books pitch meeting, 2056:

- The 14,000 Most Anticipated Summer Reads Written by Canadian AI.

- Canada Reads 2056: One Book to Reassemble the Confederation.

- Heated Rivalry: What Shane and Ilya can teach Supreme Leader Barron Trump and the Underground Resistance Network about compromise.

A Persistent Form of Disorientation: An Interview with Jumoke Verissimo Interviewer Breanna MacElwain talks with Canadian poet Jumoke Verissimo about her poetry collection Circumtrauma (Coach House Books, 2025) for The Woodlot! Breanna MacElwain:  Congratulations on th…

Breanna MacElwain interviews @awapointe.bsky.social about her @coachhousebooks.bsky.social poetry collection, "Circumtrauma," for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social:

An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.

What happens when two poets speak?

Joseph Kidney, one of the current #PoetryInTransit authors, sits down with legendary interviewer and poet Rob Taylor to indulge us with an examination of Kidney's prose, influences, and literary references. Unveil here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2026/01/28/a...

Speakerphone Your secret voice, / always a bit tired, lightly grazing / your throat, barely language To pray, not to ask, but to have the line open. To listen to the almost silence on the other end, to know your almost silence is being listened to as well (distant cars, clicks of a keyboard, a child laughing), to know your listening is being listened to (both sides on speakerphone, no one speaking) as you go about your respective days, tiresome appointments, dark highways. The sounds from either side coming through that narrow frequency range, the crackle and the hiss of this world, of that world. And OK, maybe a few words from you at the end of a hard day, a few words from the voice you haven't used: your secret voice, always a bit tired, lightly grazing your throat, barely language. You don't even know if it is coming from you or from the other side, the way when the leaves rustle we don't know if it's the wind or the tree that is speaking.

Raoul Fernandes, from the new issue of @thewalrus.ca

"Purge" by Guy Elston, from the Fall 2025 issue of @malahatreview.bsky.social.

“Weather is an immensely moving collection of poems attuned to poetry-as-living.”

Thank you to Shazia Hafiz Ramji and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for a really lovely double review of my and John Reibetanz' latest books.

You can get a copy of the new issue here:

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Broken Unpoetically: An Interview with Alexander Hollenberg Interviewer Wren Ashenhurst talks with Canadian poet Alexander Hollenberg about his poetry collection Human Story Will Not Consume the Cosmos (great title!), out with Gaspereau Press! ‘Wren A…

Wren Ashenhurst interviews Alexander Hollenberg about his @gaspereaupress.bsky.social poetry collection, "Human Story will not Consume the Cosmos," for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social:

An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.

My 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here! New interviews in the series will be coming out steadily over the coming months.

I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."

I hope you enjoy it:

Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*!

Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.