a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune,

Hey! It's me and Toronto poet (and above/ground press author) Sean Braune! We hung out together recently, the first in a long time, so that was cool. It has been a while since I've done one of these, so thought it worth mentioning that I've a poem up at Pamenar Press online, "Reading Kaveh Akbar’s Pilgrim Bell by our new inflatable pool," a piece I composed during the same period I was working a review of that book [see that here; remember?]. Otherwise, I had two poems up at Blood + Honey, another up at George Murray’s NewPoetry, a further at Scrivener Creative Review, even more over at Noir Sauna, and another at Colin Dardis’ Poem Alone. An interview I did some time ago, conducted by Victoria Cole for Horseshoe Literary Journal, is now online (I only found out recently! did you see my 2023 post from being out in Newfoundland, for their literary festival?) and interviewed again, more recently, by Mia Funk for the Creative Process. Despite my claim that I've barely been poem-ing, it has been a year for such over here. I'm probably waist-deep into a further collection, ever since returning home from Ireland (and attempting to shape random notes and thoughts together into something coherent).

Don't forget that my fall poetry title, the book of sentences, is up for pre-order (I do have copies on-hand, if such intrigues). Plans are afoot for a fall Ottawa launch in October, so keep your eyes peeled for that (announcing that soon, with a new essay on the collection, over at my substack). And did you see this real nice review that Paul Pearson did of my poetry title, the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press, 2022)?