some above/ground press author activity: Meredith Quartermain, rob mclennan, Dawn Macdonald, Buck Downs, Karl Jirgens, Daphne Marlatt, George Bowering + Fred Wah, / @buckdown.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/08/some...

some author activity: Quartermain, mclennan, Macdonald, Downs, Jirgens, Marlatt, Bowering + Wah,

Meredith Quatermain is in the Canadian Poet Series via Peripety and/or Tronies ; rob mclennan is interviewed as part of Kyeren Regehr's The ...

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am stoked to have a super-short prose essay in Strange Pilgrims this week: www.strangepilgrims.com/p/good-smoke...

Good Smoke by Dawn Macdonald

"A little bit just toughens you up." | Flash CNF #6

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The Wiki of Babel is a provocation . . . both a gift and a challenge. Dawn Macdonald engages with Kyle Flemmer's The Wiki of Babel as poetry and play at @theseaboardreview.ca Check it out! buff.ly/XhW1Jn7

The Wiki of Babel by Kyle Flemmer

Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

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Thank you, MQUP, for calling this review "beautiful"! It's an important book.

McGill-Queen's University Press@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A beautiful review of Shallow River of Tears: Canada’s Stalled Paths to Reconciliation by Andrew R. Basso and Andrea M.L. Perrella. Read the review: buff.ly/Nn5BODg Learn more about the book: buff.ly/DZR5oLO

"We should question whether it’s possible to go on making the art that first mattered to you, art arising out of humbler circumstances, art of resistance or even the everyday, after having imbibed the cocktails of the bourgeoisie." reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/prestige-i...

Prestige is antithetical to art

it's all about the money

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Guest post for The Woodlot -- thank you Chris for letting me into the conversation!

Chris Banks@chrisbanks6625.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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“…the man can turn a gorgeous phrase.” @yukondawn.bsky.social reviews this 2019 release of Shane Neilson's "homegrown" poetry for #ThrowbackThursday. @biblioasis.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theseabo...

The New Yorker just rejected my submission dated May 2023; needless to say I put in a new submission within minutes

First review of the SH week is from @subham6.bsky.social. After @yukondawn.bsky.social's review of The Coffin of Honey last week, we really need to be looking at non-genre presses this year. In the Amouzegar brothers' debut, "intertextual layering functions both as homage and subtle critique."

Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium by Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Mahbod Amouzegar

What does it cost to live in a world where tomorrow always brings joy? That question sits at the heart of Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium, the debut novel from brothers Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Mahbod …

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is now open for submissions for volume six! Poetry and visual art welcome! 🦬 🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬 Please check the website for all the particulars: buffalojournal.tumblr.com/sub #litmag

Have you spotted @yukondawn.bsky.social's latest for @strangehorizons.bsky.social? From the setup until nearly the final pages of the book, it isn’t clear what kind of a story Coffin of Honey is going to be. [...] By the time you get there, it might not matter anymore."

The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison

This book demands careful reading.

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New interview just went live! Great conversation about the power of storytelling and why it's so important to make our world magic again.

Hollay Ghadery@hollay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In this NBN episode, I interviews acclaimed B.C. author Peter Darbyshire about the fourth book in his Cross series, The Wonder Lands War (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/the-wonder-l... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social

Thank you Hollay for the chat!

Hollay Ghadery@hollay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In this NBN episode, I have a lively and super fun conversation with Dawn MacDonald about her Griffin Prize winning collection, Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/northerny #nationalpoetrymonth #yukonterritory #poet #poetry #canadianpoet

Happy Poetry Month! All @ualbertapress.bsky.social poetry is 30% for April - use code iP26 at checkout. ualbertapress.ca/search/?cate... Here are our gorgeous new volumes:

"The witch is a woman who collages herself out of other women." ... New review of Andrea Rexilius' hybrid poetry collection Seance of the Bees reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/andrea-rex... #booksky

Andrea Rexilius' Seance of the Bees

Collage sensibility

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"Goodbye, Super A ... it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind. The bakery section flooded when the roof fell in. I would have liked your yogurt, but it had just expired. Your freezers burned out long before your lunch meat ever did." ♡... I sing this tribute with love ...♡

Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦@biblioholic.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Alas, that particular ‘hood will now be a food desert #Whitehorse #Yukon

new from above/ground press: Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, Touch the Donkey #48 + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...

new from above/ground press: Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, Touch the Donkey #48 + a bilingual anthol eds. O'...

Towards A Poetry Of <something> Tentative / Notes from a stalled art project , Grant Wilkins $6 ; TWO , Rose Maloukis $6 ; inventions , Ro...

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new from above/ground press: , Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain, / @yukondawn.bsky.social @noahsparrow.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/new-from-a...

"A really pronounced style might feel in the way, but I think that science fiction is such a capacious genre that it has space for a lot of experimentation." Let's talk more about words! Thanks to @ndbooks.bsky.social and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for work that sparks these sorts of conversation.

Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style

Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald join Dan Hartland to discuss style.

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I had such a blast chatting with Dan and Paul. Please give it a listen, or check out the transcript if audio is not your jam

Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 SOUND THE PODCAST KLAXON! A new episode of Critical Friends has just arrived, fresh-faced, in your feeds. Paul Kincaid and @yukondawn.bsky.social talk to me about style: what is it, what place has it taken up in SFF, and why is it so fraught? Come for Le Guin and Vonnegut, stay for police raids.

and to cap off the Black History Month book posts, this controversial classic

another from Sean's library. Tough going for me, but if you're equipped to comprehend things like "its primary intertextual relations are with politico-ideological discourses and forms of praxis" then it's a solid read.

a banger, as the cover would imply

Before "James" and "The Trees", Percival Everett had already published a lot of books, and some of them are pretty out there (in the best way)

total-ly recommend

Nigerian-Albertan poetry

I don't have my letter because the mail takes a bit longer to get here but like my fellow authors I too am thankful for libraries, library users, and the program that pays authors for thier books being in libraries

I wish @fillingstation.bsky.social would assess my last submission so that I could submit all this new stuff to @fillingstation.bsky.social

situating dub poetry within the avant garde

some above/ground press author activity: Christina Wells, Eileen Myles, Gary Barwin, Larry Sawyer, Misha Solomon + Dawn Macdonald, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @mishasolomon.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/02/some...

some author activity: Wells, Myles, Barwin, Sawyer, Solomon + Macdonald,

forthcoming author Christina Wells has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series ; Eileen Myles has a new poem up at Discordia Review ; a new i...

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