Anna Swanson
@annajswan.bsky.social
Writer + Librarian + Wild Swimming + Free Palestine | The Garbage Poems (Brick 2025) | The Nights Also (Tightrope 2010) | annaswanson.ca | garbagepoems.com | she/her 🏳️🌈 🍉
Exciting news—my new book has a cover!!! Art by April White. Design by Natalie Olsen. 🩷🩷🩷
And… my publisher has agreed to print the illustrations in full colour! If you can, please support Brick Book’s pre-order campaign to cover the extra costs of colour printing: igg.me/at/garbagepo...
And… my publisher has agreed to print the illustrations in full colour! If you can, please support Brick Book’s pre-order campaign to cover the extra costs of colour printing: igg.me/at/garbagepo...
May 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Exciting news—my new book has a cover!!! Art by April White. Design by Natalie Olsen. 🩷🩷🩷
And… my publisher has agreed to print the illustrations in full colour! If you can, please support Brick Book’s pre-order campaign to cover the extra costs of colour printing: igg.me/at/garbagepo...
And… my publisher has agreed to print the illustrations in full colour! If you can, please support Brick Book’s pre-order campaign to cover the extra costs of colour printing: igg.me/at/garbagepo...
Not an accident. Not a natural disaster. Not a humanitarian crisis. Not a tragic or unintended side-effect. Not a famine. (drawing by weirdmomart on IG.)
May 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Not an accident. Not a natural disaster. Not a humanitarian crisis. Not a tragic or unintended side-effect. Not a famine. (drawing by weirdmomart on IG.)
Excited to be reading some garbage poems at the online launch of The Goose's "Waste" issue TOMORROW (Saturday) at 10am PT/1pm ET. Register (free) below. Join us for some thrash-themed art and writing. And check out that cover art by April White!!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-goose-...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-goose-...
April 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Excited to be reading some garbage poems at the online launch of The Goose's "Waste" issue TOMORROW (Saturday) at 10am PT/1pm ET. Register (free) below. Join us for some thrash-themed art and writing. And check out that cover art by April White!!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-goose-...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-goose-...
Last day for advance polls. PLEASE VOTE even if the system sucks.
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Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
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Remember YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote 🧵
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
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Remember YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote 🧵
April 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Last day for advance polls. PLEASE VOTE even if the system sucks.
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca
Remember YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote 🧵
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca
Remember YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote 🧵
Heading out to the Advance Polls to vote now. PLEASE VOTE.
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca
Remember - YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote.
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca
Remember - YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote.
April 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Heading out to the Advance Polls to vote now. PLEASE VOTE.
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca
Remember - YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote.
Useful resources:
Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca
Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca
Remember - YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote.
So thrilled to be included in this latest GARBAGE-themed issue of The Goose Journal!
The poem is from The Garbage Poems (forthcoming from Brick Books this Fall) & the cover features gorgeous garbage art by April White who also illustrated the book! Free online access: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/
The poem is from The Garbage Poems (forthcoming from Brick Books this Fall) & the cover features gorgeous garbage art by April White who also illustrated the book! Free online access: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/
February 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So thrilled to be included in this latest GARBAGE-themed issue of The Goose Journal!
The poem is from The Garbage Poems (forthcoming from Brick Books this Fall) & the cover features gorgeous garbage art by April White who also illustrated the book! Free online access: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/
The poem is from The Garbage Poems (forthcoming from Brick Books this Fall) & the cover features gorgeous garbage art by April White who also illustrated the book! Free online access: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/