My next book, Walking Well: Trails, Paths, Pilgrimages, will be out in a few weeks. It's currently available for preorder from Wolsak & Wynn. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/wal...
Sheri Benning
@sheribenning.bsky.social
Writer | forthcoming Civil Twilight (Carcanet); Field Requiem (Carcanet); The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet); et al. | Poems in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al. https://www.sheribenning.com/
fragment John Burnside, 'Taxonomy', The Light Trap (2002), p. 6. the neighbour's in-by, sky SW darkening with rain
Now that it finally feels like spring in Saskatoon, seems like a good time to share my spring poem from the January 2026 issue of @prairiefiremag.bsky.social.
My poem BIRTHDAY is up today at B O D Y Literature, an international journal based in Prague. A lotta life packed into these lines, including the jagged bits. Read it here: www.bodyliterature.com/2026/06/11/g...
B O D Y | A new poem by Garth Martens
Garth Martens is a poet and flamenco artist. His first book was a finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
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minnesota friends and friends of friends and out along the circles: I will send you a postcard, from me or from a well-wisher elsewhere (I'll act as a clearinghouse; no one else will receive your details) if you put your address in here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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feel like you can't do much from far away? here are three things you can easily do, wherever you are: 1. today, make a small donation to someone or an organization listed here: https://www.standwithm...
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Leaving home as inherited condition. Displacement as engine of industrial ag. Whatever became of my great-grandmothers. What they became when they landed here. What they thought or believed, couldn’t say, couldn’t do. Our present chews holes in shared memory. This will be my fourth book.
‘You Who Wronged’ by Czesław Milosz. For some reason or other this poem came to mind this morning. Written in a time of tyrants: #Poetry
Tomorrow, I join Jan Zwicky for a 20-minute pre-recorded performance of Jan’s new long poem, SAY IT, which arises from the depths of environmental cataclysm. After, poet Tim Lilburn will lead a conversation with me and Jan. Please join us! The event's on Zoom. Details below. 1/8
thebcreview.ca/2025/12/23/2... "Tell me what a human being is, and how a human being might still think and breathe, might step clear minded into the cataclysm"
Stepping 'into the cataclysm'
"It’s a call-out, a must-read." (Just read the damn review already!) —Steven Ross Smith reviews Say It, by Jan Zwicky (Victoria: Deer Mountain Pages, 2025) $15.00 / 9781778235849
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Tomorrow, I join forces with Jan Zwicky to read Jan’s new long poem, Say It, which arises from the depths of environmental cataclysm. Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.
being read—closely—is one of the most humbling joys, honors, in the world. thanks to Carol Rumens for this:
Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung
An elegant reflection on experience and imagination complicates a very familiar figure of speech
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Please join Evan Jones online on Tuesday 4 November for the launch of his new collection Men of the Same Name!💻 The event will be hosted by Jim Johnstone and will feature reading and discussion. Tickets cost £2, later redeemable against the cost of the book:🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Men of the Same Name: Carcanet Online Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Men of the Same Name by Evan Jones, hosted by Jim Johnstone. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. We will show the text during readings so that you can read along. Men of the Same Name is satirical, elegiac and memorable, bringing together lost books, burned libraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philosophers, Paris, statues of Niobe, patterns in history, war, displacement, the evils of ambition, and Pachynian tuna. What if, Jones asks, instead of using the ancient world as a metaphor for modern life, the poet uses modern life as a metaphor for the ancient world? Working in this way between allegory and reality, the book rethinks poetry’s changing relationships to politics and our historical moment. Registration for this online event will cost £2, redeemable against the cost of the book. You will receive the discount code and instructions for how to purchase the book in your confirmation email as well as during and after the event. Canadian poet Evan Jones [Ευριπίδης Ιωάννου] lives in Manchester. His first collection of poetry, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He co-edited Modern Canadian Poets (2010) and has since published Paralogues (2012) and Later Emperors (2020). His translation from the Modern Greek, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose of C.P. Cavafy (2020), was a TLS Book of the Year. Jim Johnstone is a Canadian poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023).
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Now THIS is how you write acknowledgments in a scholarly book (from Irmbtraub Huber's 2023 Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry). What a welcome note of urgency and conviction
From London Review of Books for 24/7/24 - just what I needed in these times:
Shane McCrae, one of my favorite living poets, has sent a chill up my spine.
Nimrod Journal@nimrodjournal.bsky.social · last yr.Today our free newsletter readers received a special preview—a poem by Shane McCrae, which will appear in our Winter 2026 issue. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...
Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading. freebloodybirds.com
On Sylvia Legris' intricate music: "This is about keenness of perception as well as melody and sound. A bird hatches with a 'typographic knack'; a blackbird’s 'eyes reflect a bony-socketed sun'". www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/p...
The Principle of Rapid Peering by Sylvia Legris | Book review | The TLS
So often contemporary poetry is concerned with politics, posturing or posing. Poets long for sympathy for their plight, admiration for their strength or
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Oskar Laske -The Bird Sermon of St. Francis of Assisi.
A poem from FIELD REQUIEM (@carcanet.bsky.social) for my beloved dad, the many selves of him. After his sudden death in December, I wanted winter to last for years and years, but the prairies have turned to spring, the crocuses are blooming. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...
Minor Doxology
Circle of light on the village street from his kitchen window where he stands in the slowing breath of nightfall, stares through that cold fire into sifting shadow: dusk-blue snow banked against the p...
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Two poems from THE CENTURY (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2020) appeared in @literaryhub.bsky.social a while back. Still applicable, so here they are again: lithub.com/two-poems-by...
Two Poems by Éireann Lorsung
Occupations for air A funeral shroud for each forgotten child, strand of frost-flowers across a face, curtain blooming full of the nothing wind is. Air through papers will be gentler than an immigr…
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Grateful and excited to have a poem out with South Dakota Review:
A short film that my sister Heather Benning made with @chadgalloway.bsky.social on the decommissioning of her sculptural installation, "The Dollhouse" nsi-canada.ca/film/the-dol...
The Dollhouse | National Screen Institute
The decommissioning of Heather Benning's artwork The Dollhouse.
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PN Review 280: wonderful piece by Lesley Harrison on gannets, quills and the luminous benefits of the handwritten poem. @pnreview.bsky.social #Poetry
A few snowy Novembers ago @chadgalloway.bsky.social, Heather Benning and I shot this film, based on one of my poems: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qysn...
Winter Sleep by Sheri Benning
YouTube video by The Paris Review
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‘until the town becomes a cinema’ from John Burnside’s last book, ‘Ruin, Blossom’
I am happy to have poems in the special summer poetry issue of the Fiddlehead. Here’s one of them.
How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.
