Ryan Fitzpatrick
@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
Poet, critic, etc. Author of No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
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95books – 2025
Lunatic Engine – Paul Pearson Future Works – Jeff Derksen Furniture Music – Gail Scott Attic Rain – Samantha Jones Blood Belies – Ellen Chang-Richardson Revolutions &#…
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In the spirit of being consumerist and anti-intellectual, here is the list of books I read in 2025. I've been keeping track of my reading since 2009, when my friend Jonathan Ball and I challenged one another to read 95 books. This year I got there – 98 books read!
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ryanfitzpatrick.ca/95books-2025/
In the spirit of being consumerist and anti-intellectual, here is the list of books I read in 2025. I've been keeping track of my reading since 2009, when my friend Jonathan Ball and I challenged one another to read 95 books. This year I got there – 98 books read!
ryanfitzpatrick.ca/95books-2025/
ryanfitzpatrick.ca/95books-2025/
95books – 2025
Lunatic Engine – Paul Pearson Future Works – Jeff Derksen Furniture Music – Gail Scott Attic Rain – Samantha Jones Blood Belies – Ellen Chang-Richardson Revolutions &#…
ryanfitzpatrick.ca
December 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In the spirit of being consumerist and anti-intellectual, here is the list of books I read in 2025. I've been keeping track of my reading since 2009, when my friend Jonathan Ball and I challenged one another to read 95 books. This year I got there – 98 books read!
ryanfitzpatrick.ca/95books-2025/
ryanfitzpatrick.ca/95books-2025/
I started reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and there’s revelation that Sam Altman was thinking about being an author, so I’d like to say thanks to everyone who decided to be a writer rather than a cosmic-level asshole putting the planet at risk for capital.
December 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I started reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and there’s revelation that Sam Altman was thinking about being an author, so I’d like to say thanks to everyone who decided to be a writer rather than a cosmic-level asshole putting the planet at risk for capital.
"don't bet your ass on narrative"
—Erín Moure, O Cidadán
—Erín Moure, O Cidadán
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"don't bet your ass on narrative"
—Erín Moure, O Cidadán
—Erín Moure, O Cidadán
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Rob Jackson penned an in-depth review of ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in The Rocky Mountain Review.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Jackson penned an in-depth review of ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in The Rocky Mountain Review.
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Oh my god, I'm literally shaking after beating the Widow. The Last Judge is probably going to kill me in real life.
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Oh my god, I'm literally shaking after beating the Widow. The Last Judge is probably going to kill me in real life.
Great read on how Calgary can have one of the most expensive transit fares and also comically bad transit service
New Sprawlcast out this morning! Mmmm... I do love me some transit butter. You can listen to the episode or read the article version (or do both!) as you see fit. #yyccc
Spread thin: How urban sprawl is stretching Calgary Transit to the max | The Sprawl
A new city council tackles an old problem.
www.sprawlcalgary.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Great read on how Calgary can have one of the most expensive transit fares and also comically bad transit service
Thanks to rob for his close attention to No Depression in Heaven. I hope you'll check out this review (and his many other reviews).
ryan fitzpatrick, No Depression in Heaven / @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
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ryan fitzpatrick, No Depression in Heaven
I’m going to fake a grip on that old gospel ship Extract a scar across the sky I’m gonna shit out brinks ‘till Heaven sinks As I sur...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thanks to rob for his close attention to No Depression in Heaven. I hope you'll check out this review (and his many other reviews).
Reposted by Ryan Fitzpatrick
ryan fitzpatrick, No Depression in Heaven / @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
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ryan fitzpatrick, No Depression in Heaven
I’m going to fake a grip on that old gospel ship Extract a scar across the sky I’m gonna shit out brinks ‘till Heaven sinks As I sur...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ryan fitzpatrick, No Depression in Heaven / @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
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I hate the ants. I hate the birds. I hate the giant hamsters. I hate the big chungus linebackers. Otherwise enjoying myself.
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
December 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I hate the ants. I hate the birds. I hate the giant hamsters. I hate the big chungus linebackers. Otherwise enjoying myself.
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Kevin Killian, Padam Padam: Collected Poems, eds. Evan Kennedy and Jason Norris, with an Introduction by Kay Gabriel /
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Kevin Killian, Padam Padam: Collected Poems, eds. Evan Kennedy and Jason Norris, with an Introduction by Kay Gabriel
That Certain Something I had an epiphany, Mama, it was going to be awesome a trio of white, green and orange clouds shaped like snakes...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Kevin Killian, Padam Padam: Collected Poems, eds. Evan Kennedy and Jason Norris, with an Introduction by Kay Gabriel /
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Scott Jackshaw, Stigmata
Some Theories of Atonement In the planetary scar tissue where I follow you in our last days together, where we sacrifice the clots of ...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Didn’t they used to have heaters at the c-train stations?
December 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Didn’t they used to have heaters at the c-train stations?
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Read this.
"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Read this.
"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Why are all of the enemies big chungus linebackers chasing me halfway across the map all of a sudden?
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Why are all of the enemies big chungus linebackers chasing me halfway across the map all of a sudden?
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Kicking off #ALUCozyFest is Dina Del Bucchia coming to us from a cozy spot in her home to read a passage about friendships, group texts, and perfect days from her book YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS (@talonbooks.bsky.social).
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December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Kicking off #ALUCozyFest is Dina Del Bucchia coming to us from a cozy spot in her home to read a passage about friendships, group texts, and perfect days from her book YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS (@talonbooks.bsky.social).
alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-di...
alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-di...
Here's the recording from my launch with the inimitable @vanishingsigns.bsky.social in Winnipeg last month. I was thinking about what a great event it was after Cam sent me a transcript of the Q&A. We had a great convo about poetry, cities, and country music!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
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Cam Scott & ryan fitzpatrick Dual Book Launch (MANOR's RANSOM / No Depression in Heaven)
YouTube video by McNally Robinson Online Events
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December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here's the recording from my launch with the inimitable @vanishingsigns.bsky.social in Winnipeg last month. I was thinking about what a great event it was after Cam sent me a transcript of the Q&A. We had a great convo about poetry, cities, and country music!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...
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the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
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submissions
periodicities is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .d...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...
Who told these ants in Silksong that they're allowed to fight like Elden Ring bosses?
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Who told these ants in Silksong that they're allowed to fight like Elden Ring bosses?
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I finally started Silksong, and I'm enjoying it, but man that game really just kicks you into the pool, huh?
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middle daughter, piano lesson; ladies and gentlefolk, the right honourable sir ryan fitzpatrick // @talonbooks.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
middle daughter, piano lesson; ladies and gentlefolk, the right honourable sir ryan fitzpatrick // @talonbooks.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
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Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!
This Thursday in Toronto!
Toronto! Get ready for @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali! On November 13, head to Flying Books on College street for readings from No Depression in Heaven, No Signal No Noise, & Revolutions!
Free to attend, RSVP required. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-talonboo...
Free to attend, RSVP required. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-talonboo...
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This Thursday in Toronto!
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Thank you to all who joined us for our fall 2025 launch! What a pleasure to share in an evening of literature with you, our amazing community.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thank you to all who joined us for our fall 2025 launch! What a pleasure to share in an evening of literature with you, our amazing community.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
Our gratitude to the team at the Secret Lantern Society, the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, to Danielle LaFrance for hosting, and to our amazing authors.
If you're in Vancouver, I hope you'll be able to make it out to Talonbooks' fall poetry launch at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall. It's looking like a busy weekend of poetry, but this should be worth your time. All of these books are excellent (though I might be biased). Hope you can make it!
TOMORROW!!
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
October 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you're in Vancouver, I hope you'll be able to make it out to Talonbooks' fall poetry launch at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall. It's looking like a busy weekend of poetry, but this should be worth your time. All of these books are excellent (though I might be biased). Hope you can make it!
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Regardless of statistics showing crime is dwindling, safety is a major concern for Calgarians—why?
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
Are you afraid of poverty?
Why responding to middle-class fears won’t make Calgary a more equitable city
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October 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Regardless of statistics showing crime is dwindling, safety is a major concern for Calgarians—why?
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.
In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.