Tsawassen and its environs! Please join @catwrites604.bsky.social and me for a reading tomorrow at 7pm, Nov 11th, at Albany books!

W.H Auden, The Sea and the Mirror, c. 2, Alonso’s speech.

Is Auden… underrated?!?

Got back from visiting family out east, to find that my author copies have arrived early.

They look very handsome in the flesh. All praise to the team @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social for outstanding book design!

Grateful to THINK for including a poem of mine in the new issue: a poem that is scrupulously accurate about my 5 year old’s talking in his sleep.

Publishing poetry is like tossing a rose in the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo, they say - but a blurb is like an echo heard before you let go!

What echo? The kind words of wonderful poet, translator, editor, and scholar, 👑 @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Kingdom of the Clock!

Musician, poet, politician, renaissance woman
@mmburton.bsky.social has now weighed in on Kingdom of the Clock:

Pre-order here if so inclined: www.mqup.ca/kingdom-of-t...

Time to bottle some
cider, mix up the next batch.

The best part of bringing a new book into the world is certainly the part where you start collecting blurbs.

Heavyweight verse novel reigning champ and gentleman of letters @jasonguriel.bsky.social is first with kind words for an untested welterweight.

Here’s an old poem of mine. Old, but this time of the year keeps coming round.

One of the first real poems I wrote was along the immortal lines of “Don’t think twice it’s alright,” as the person I wrote it about observed some years later.