K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦
@krwbooks.bsky.social
The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard coming Mar 2026.
Stan On Guard coming Mar 2026.
@sawpoet.bsky.social’s work is meant to be performed. The superb Infinite Audition does its best to approximate the experience, with a section of monologues c/w casting directions & another with a QR code to a background Bandcamp soundtrack. So get the book, yes. But see him live if you can.
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@sawpoet.bsky.social’s work is meant to be performed. The superb Infinite Audition does its best to approximate the experience, with a section of monologues c/w casting directions & another with a QR code to a background Bandcamp soundtrack. So get the book, yes. But see him live if you can.
@egnlafleur.bsky.social’s chapbook The Magi Come to Toronto is a gorgeous, grounded delight. Faith and queerness and ceremony. Wounds. The unhoused. The transcendent. All tangible as lake water, as steam from a sidewalk grate, as the rough bark of a tree.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
@egnlafleur.bsky.social’s chapbook The Magi Come to Toronto is a gorgeous, grounded delight. Faith and queerness and ceremony. Wounds. The unhoused. The transcendent. All tangible as lake water, as steam from a sidewalk grate, as the rough bark of a tree.
@itsakirby.bsky.social’s new chapbook Softie merges the concision of poetry with the rage of a political pamphlet, taking on the current autocratic anti-queer politico-religious climate with archness and elder-wisdom and hope.
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@itsakirby.bsky.social’s new chapbook Softie merges the concision of poetry with the rage of a political pamphlet, taking on the current autocratic anti-queer politico-religious climate with archness and elder-wisdom and hope.
For her poetry collection Ajar @margolapierre.bsky.social digs deep & brings back a raw high-wire reality that’s sometimes cryptic, sometimes jarringly clear. With hauntings. And survival. And grapefruit. Not easy to read. Or write, I assume. Or live through. But oh, the sparkling endurance.
October 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
For her poetry collection Ajar @margolapierre.bsky.social digs deep & brings back a raw high-wire reality that’s sometimes cryptic, sometimes jarringly clear. With hauntings. And survival. And grapefruit. Not easy to read. Or write, I assume. Or live through. But oh, the sparkling endurance.
@nikostratis.com’s The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman is gritty memoir of addiction and otherness and anger, of conformative masculinity and the agonizing incremental approach to a genuine self, all told in breathtakingly fine prose and artfully structured around a series of formative songs.
September 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@nikostratis.com’s The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman is gritty memoir of addiction and otherness and anger, of conformative masculinity and the agonizing incremental approach to a genuine self, all told in breathtakingly fine prose and artfully structured around a series of formative songs.
Do people still read Timothy Findley? They really should. I’ve just finished re-reading his 600 page doorstop Headhunter, in which a Toronto reeling from both a plague associated with birds and an upsurge in traumatized children finds itself peopled by figures from …
September 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Do people still read Timothy Findley? They really should. I’ve just finished re-reading his 600 page doorstop Headhunter, in which a Toronto reeling from both a plague associated with birds and an upsurge in traumatized children finds itself peopled by figures from …
In conventional English spy fiction the Brits are the protagonists and the rest of the world is the game board. @jinwoo-park.com’s cool, compelling, character-focused novel Oxford Soju Club neatly inverts this, with Korean spies playing cat and mouse in an oblivious UK.
September 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In conventional English spy fiction the Brits are the protagonists and the rest of the world is the game board. @jinwoo-park.com’s cool, compelling, character-focused novel Oxford Soju Club neatly inverts this, with Korean spies playing cat and mouse in an oblivious UK.
Broad in scope yet personal in focus, K.J. Aiello’s richly contextualized memoir The Monster and the Mirror explores mental illness, trauma, identity, good/evil, and the healing power of the fantastical mind spaces that myth and gaming and high fantasy and horror and comics can help provide.
July 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Broad in scope yet personal in focus, K.J. Aiello’s richly contextualized memoir The Monster and the Mirror explores mental illness, trauma, identity, good/evil, and the healing power of the fantastical mind spaces that myth and gaming and high fantasy and horror and comics can help provide.
@amalelmohtar.com’s rich, compact novella The River Has Roots immerses you in an off-kilter rural England where voices have shape and grammar is river-borne magic and Arcadia exists beyond a stone arch called Refrain. Plus there’s a wonderful complimentary and complementary short story.
July 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@amalelmohtar.com’s rich, compact novella The River Has Roots immerses you in an off-kilter rural England where voices have shape and grammar is river-borne magic and Arcadia exists beyond a stone arch called Refrain. Plus there’s a wonderful complimentary and complementary short story.
If you’re a dour biblical literalist, @meakoopa.bsky.social’s Dayspring may not be for you. But if your conception of the divine is expansive enough to contain multitudes, this cheeky, earthy, mystical, queer, wildly poetic postmodern riff on the gospels might be the delight you’ve been looking for.
July 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you’re a dour biblical literalist, @meakoopa.bsky.social’s Dayspring may not be for you. But if your conception of the divine is expansive enough to contain multitudes, this cheeky, earthy, mystical, queer, wildly poetic postmodern riff on the gospels might be the delight you’ve been looking for.
This is your occasional reminder that Call Me Stan isn’t a time travel story.
June 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is your occasional reminder that Call Me Stan isn’t a time travel story.
I wouldn’t have known about you or your work if I hadn’t discovered you here on BlueSky (I think because @andrewhickey.500songs.com reposted you), and now your Made up Yellow Saxon King is framed and lovingly displayed in Toronto. I’d call that a social media success, however modest.
June 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I wouldn’t have known about you or your work if I hadn’t discovered you here on BlueSky (I think because @andrewhickey.500songs.com reposted you), and now your Made up Yellow Saxon King is framed and lovingly displayed in Toronto. I’d call that a social media success, however modest.
If you care about sports, human rights, gender identity in general or trans issues in particular & you want to understand the reality rather than the hyper-politicized biases flooding our media, Harrison Browne and @rachelbrowne.ca bring the receipts in their concise, readable analysis Let Us Play.
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If you care about sports, human rights, gender identity in general or trans issues in particular & you want to understand the reality rather than the hyper-politicized biases flooding our media, Harrison Browne and @rachelbrowne.ca bring the receipts in their concise, readable analysis Let Us Play.
If you’ve ever been baffled by how American Christianity could reach the point of enthusiastically supporting a Donald Trump, Professor of Religion @bradleyonishi.bsky.social ’s excellent book Preparing for War neatly maps the decades-long process that got them there, culminating in Jan 6.
June 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you’ve ever been baffled by how American Christianity could reach the point of enthusiastically supporting a Donald Trump, Professor of Religion @bradleyonishi.bsky.social ’s excellent book Preparing for War neatly maps the decades-long process that got them there, culminating in Jan 6.
If you’re looking for engaging, wry, well-crafted new crime fiction, Greg Rhyno is your author and divorced municipal employee Dame Polara is your reluctant second-generation sleuth. I burned through Who by Fire and Who by Water (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social) and I can hardly wait for the third.
May 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you’re looking for engaging, wry, well-crafted new crime fiction, Greg Rhyno is your author and divorced municipal employee Dame Polara is your reluctant second-generation sleuth. I burned through Who by Fire and Who by Water (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social) and I can hardly wait for the third.
This is pretty much indistinguishable from Doug Ford’s attitude toward the courts.
May 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is pretty much indistinguishable from Doug Ford’s attitude toward the courts.
Our obvious starting point—that @manahil.bsky.social is a very fine poet—somehow failed to prepare me for how good Heliotropia is. Warm-hearted. Embracing. Meticulously crafted. Whimsical. Fantastical. Botanical. Astronomical. Sometimes verging on chant or prayer. Plus Star Trek.
May 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Our obvious starting point—that @manahil.bsky.social is a very fine poet—somehow failed to prepare me for how good Heliotropia is. Warm-hearted. Embracing. Meticulously crafted. Whimsical. Fantastical. Botanical. Astronomical. Sometimes verging on chant or prayer. Plus Star Trek.
I’m not sure how a novel that opens with twenty-one attempts at a suicide note manages to be so amusing while still treating its subject matter seriously, but with its rich characters and delicious prose style Emily Austin’s We Could Be Rats pulls it off. Plus I do love a flexibly reliable narrator.
April 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I’m not sure how a novel that opens with twenty-one attempts at a suicide note manages to be so amusing while still treating its subject matter seriously, but with its rich characters and delicious prose style Emily Austin’s We Could Be Rats pulls it off. Plus I do love a flexibly reliable narrator.
David A. Robertson’s impressive memoir All the Little Monsters is a deep, personal dive into the experience of anxiety and depression. Honest, reassuring, and hopeful.
April 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
David A. Robertson’s impressive memoir All the Little Monsters is a deep, personal dive into the experience of anxiety and depression. Honest, reassuring, and hopeful.
The prose poems in Jason Heroux’s Like A Trophy From The Sun (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) will have you smiling and going ‘ah, yes, of course’ at the most charmingly impossible things.
April 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The prose poems in Jason Heroux’s Like A Trophy From The Sun (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) will have you smiling and going ‘ah, yes, of course’ at the most charmingly impossible things.
The extraordinary and necessary new @guernicaeditions.bsky.social anthology Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, edited by Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom, delivers what its title promises: diverse and powerful works inspired by, directed at, and supportive of Iran’s feminist revolution.
April 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The extraordinary and necessary new @guernicaeditions.bsky.social anthology Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, edited by Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom, delivers what its title promises: diverse and powerful works inspired by, directed at, and supportive of Iran’s feminist revolution.
An encounter in a Corsican harbour town forces a young Englishman to face the trauma that took him there. A wrong turn in the Nevada desert unmoors a recent high-schooler’s reality. Eerie sisters haunt an Irish beach, opening a space for lost family and dark possibilities.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An encounter in a Corsican harbour town forces a young Englishman to face the trauma that took him there. A wrong turn in the Nevada desert unmoors a recent high-schooler’s reality. Eerie sisters haunt an Irish beach, opening a space for lost family and dark possibilities.
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Just finished @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s excellent recent translation of Homer’s Iliad. A beautiful, readable, carefully researched translation with all the nuance and narrative momentum you could ask for as a reader.
March 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Just finished @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s excellent recent translation of Homer’s Iliad. A beautiful, readable, carefully researched translation with all the nuance and narrative momentum you could ask for as a reader.
I’m delighted to have discovered this new, updated edition of @shawnmicallef.bsky.social’s book Stroll, which is both a refreshing look at the Toronto I know and a wonderful street-level guide to many pockets of it I don’t. The wanderings will commence once the weather is more accommodating.
February 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m delighted to have discovered this new, updated edition of @shawnmicallef.bsky.social’s book Stroll, which is both a refreshing look at the Toronto I know and a wonderful street-level guide to many pockets of it I don’t. The wanderings will commence once the weather is more accommodating.