Mark Laliberte
@originobscure.bsky.social
Artist/Author/Designer • Book Fiend • Clutter Cultist • Collaborationist • Curiosity Hunter • Gentle Extremist TM — Co-founder of MA|DE (debut collection ‘ZZOO’ out Feb ‘25) — http://ma-de.ca + @madeprojects.bsky.social
Hey Windsor: LEVEL-UP YOUR CAREER! — Looking forward to being a panelist TONIGHT (Wed Oct 15, 2025, 5:30pm) for Arts Council Windsor & Region’s ‘Creatives at Work’ workshop series, alongside Jade Wallace & Nadja Pelkey … this event is free to attend — at ArtSpeak Gallery (1942 Wyandotte St E) …
October 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hey Windsor: LEVEL-UP YOUR CAREER! — Looking forward to being a panelist TONIGHT (Wed Oct 15, 2025, 5:30pm) for Arts Council Windsor & Region’s ‘Creatives at Work’ workshop series, alongside Jade Wallace & Nadja Pelkey … this event is free to attend — at ArtSpeak Gallery (1942 Wyandotte St E) …
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This past weekend MA|DE finally had the opportunity to launch ZZOO in Windsor at the always supportive Biblioasis Bookshop as part of their Canadian Independent Bookstore Day celebrations. A big cheer for everyone who came out to support us; it was a packed house. We truly felt the hometown love! 🙂
April 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This past weekend MA|DE finally had the opportunity to launch ZZOO in Windsor at the always supportive Biblioasis Bookshop as part of their Canadian Independent Bookstore Day celebrations. A big cheer for everyone who came out to support us; it was a packed house. We truly felt the hometown love! 🙂
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This past weekend we went on the second leg of our ZZOO tour: first stop London, ON at Jenny Berkel's lovely new Little Wren Books space (cleverly collocated with a flower shop)!
April 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This past weekend we went on the second leg of our ZZOO tour: first stop London, ON at Jenny Berkel's lovely new Little Wren Books space (cleverly collocated with a flower shop)!
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Always a pleasure to chat with Andrew French for their poetry podcast Page Fright!
In MA|DE's first appearance on the podcast, we talked with Andrew about ZZOO, the challenges of collaboration, what Mark and Jade have learned from each other, balancing a thousand different projects at once...
In MA|DE's first appearance on the podcast, we talked with Andrew about ZZOO, the challenges of collaboration, what Mark and Jade have learned from each other, balancing a thousand different projects at once...
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Always a pleasure to chat with Andrew French for their poetry podcast Page Fright!
In MA|DE's first appearance on the podcast, we talked with Andrew about ZZOO, the challenges of collaboration, what Mark and Jade have learned from each other, balancing a thousand different projects at once...
In MA|DE's first appearance on the podcast, we talked with Andrew about ZZOO, the challenges of collaboration, what Mark and Jade have learned from each other, balancing a thousand different projects at once...
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We weren't sure what to expect from a launch in Guelph, ON; Jade had never launched there and Mark hadn't launched there for several years. But Guelph well exceeded our non-expectations. ANAF was packed, and the mix of local and visiting readers, including...
March 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We weren't sure what to expect from a launch in Guelph, ON; Jade had never launched there and Mark hadn't launched there for several years. But Guelph well exceeded our non-expectations. ANAF was packed, and the mix of local and visiting readers, including...
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Our premiere launch for ZZOO, which happened in our old home city of Toronto a couple weeks ago, ended up being a wonderful way to bring our book out into the wild for the first time. It was lovely to catch up with so many friends, to be hosted by the charming Queen Books...
March 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Our premiere launch for ZZOO, which happened in our old home city of Toronto a couple weeks ago, ended up being a wonderful way to bring our book out into the wild for the first time. It was lovely to catch up with so many friends, to be hosted by the charming Queen Books...
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The first launches for ZZOO are happening this week, starting with Toronto's Queen Books on Friday February 28 at 6pm, with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social winter authors @teagerbeza.bsky.social & Kasia Jaronczyk, and Jim Johnstone as host. Can't wait to be back in Toronto & hope to see you there!
February 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The first launches for ZZOO are happening this week, starting with Toronto's Queen Books on Friday February 28 at 6pm, with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social winter authors @teagerbeza.bsky.social & Kasia Jaronczyk, and Jim Johnstone as host. Can't wait to be back in Toronto & hope to see you there!
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After 6+ years collaborating together MA|DE is FINALLY GOING ON TOUR to promote our debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO! 🐍🫏🦆We hope you'll be able to join us at one of these launches.
February 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
After 6+ years collaborating together MA|DE is FINALLY GOING ON TOUR to promote our debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO! 🐍🫏🦆We hope you'll be able to join us at one of these launches.
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🙀 ‘ZZOO’ WEEKENDER — week 3 of photographically highlighting our variant covers and their pet names … this one is the SERPENTINE version (each nickname is noted on the back cover next to the bar code) — 👁 the eye on this cover is a human one (yes, we are animals too) 🪱
February 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🙀 ‘ZZOO’ WEEKENDER — week 3 of photographically highlighting our variant covers and their pet names … this one is the SERPENTINE version (each nickname is noted on the back cover next to the bar code) — 👁 the eye on this cover is a human one (yes, we are animals too) 🪱
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Time for another EXCERPT FROM ‘ZZOO’: a notable poem from the second section (of four) of the book (this one is ‘Land’) is “As the Next Day Dawned.” It deifies/mythologizes goats who learn to walk upright. Often, in real life these are simply animals born without forelegs.
February 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Time for another EXCERPT FROM ‘ZZOO’: a notable poem from the second section (of four) of the book (this one is ‘Land’) is “As the Next Day Dawned.” It deifies/mythologizes goats who learn to walk upright. Often, in real life these are simply animals born without forelegs.
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HEY WINDSOR: Signed copies of ZZOO — in all 5 cover variants! — now available at @biblioasis_bookshop … we stopped in to double-sign a stack of copies yesterday … get ‘em while they last
P.S. official launch scheduled at the bookstore for MAR 13 — special guest readers announcement coming soon 🙂
P.S. official launch scheduled at the bookstore for MAR 13 — special guest readers announcement coming soon 🙂
January 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
HEY WINDSOR: Signed copies of ZZOO — in all 5 cover variants! — now available at @biblioasis_bookshop … we stopped in to double-sign a stack of copies yesterday … get ‘em while they last
P.S. official launch scheduled at the bookstore for MAR 13 — special guest readers announcement coming soon 🙂
P.S. official launch scheduled at the bookstore for MAR 13 — special guest readers announcement coming soon 🙂
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“The Extended Mourning of Orca-J35” originally appeared in the 7th, and unfortunately final, issue of Savant-Garde in 2022. The poem is still available to read in full on their site, if you want to get a sense of what you can expect from ZZOO: www.savantgarde.ca/the-extended...
Poetry: The Extended Mourning of Orca-J3 | Savant-Garde
By MA|DE. like wailing in
whalesong or waning
on a blue morning
www.savantgarde.ca
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“The Extended Mourning of Orca-J35” originally appeared in the 7th, and unfortunately final, issue of Savant-Garde in 2022. The poem is still available to read in full on their site, if you want to get a sense of what you can expect from ZZOO: www.savantgarde.ca/the-extended...
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(In the time since we wrote it, Tahlequah went on to have another calf, her third who survived, but her fourth calf, born in 2024, sadly also passed away and was again carried alongside her mother in a seeming ritual of grief.)
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
(In the time since we wrote it, Tahlequah went on to have another calf, her third who survived, but her fourth calf, born in 2024, sadly also passed away and was again carried alongside her mother in a seeming ritual of grief.)
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EXCERPT FROM ZZOO—One of our favourite poems from the first of four sections of the book (this one is ‘Water’) is “The Extended Mourning of Orca-J35.” You may remember Orca J35, aka Tahlequah, from the news in 2018, when she was observed carrying her dead second-born calf alongside her for 17 days.
January 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
EXCERPT FROM ZZOO—One of our favourite poems from the first of four sections of the book (this one is ‘Water’) is “The Extended Mourning of Orca-J35.” You may remember Orca J35, aka Tahlequah, from the news in 2018, when she was observed carrying her dead second-born calf alongside her for 17 days.
On this day in 1958, the Lego brick patent was filed! To celebrate, I’m sharing a piece I created in 2008 for LEGO 50-15, a collaborative/ constraint-based writing & art portfolio celebrating the 50th Anniversary of plastic lego blocks (project organized by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social for No Press)
January 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
On this day in 1958, the Lego brick patent was filed! To celebrate, I’m sharing a piece I created in 2008 for LEGO 50-15, a collaborative/ constraint-based writing & art portfolio celebrating the 50th Anniversary of plastic lego blocks (project organized by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social for No Press)
First trip to Detroit of 2025 — came home with several books, including: JG BALLARD’s final short story collection in hardcover 🔥 ‘The Bridge’ a collaboratively-written horror novel ⚡️ ‘Dark Dreamers’ a book of interviews with authors 🧟♂️ + a few new additions to my ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ collection 📚
January 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
First trip to Detroit of 2025 — came home with several books, including: JG BALLARD’s final short story collection in hardcover 🔥 ‘The Bridge’ a collaboratively-written horror novel ⚡️ ‘Dark Dreamers’ a book of interviews with authors 🧟♂️ + a few new additions to my ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ collection 📚
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS
Do you or your publication want a review copy of ZZOO, MA|DE's debut full-length collaborative poetry collection, out in February with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social? Message us!
Do you or your publication want a review copy of ZZOO, MA|DE's debut full-length collaborative poetry collection, out in February with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social? Message us!
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
CALL FOR REVIEWERS
Do you or your publication want a review copy of ZZOO, MA|DE's debut full-length collaborative poetry collection, out in February with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social? Message us!
Do you or your publication want a review copy of ZZOO, MA|DE's debut full-length collaborative poetry collection, out in February with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social? Message us!
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PICK YOUR FAVOURITE FROM 5 VARIANT COVERS!
January 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
PICK YOUR FAVOURITE FROM 5 VARIANT COVERS!
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DID YOU KNOW you can get special signed copies of ZZOO directly from us at MA|DE HQ?
Not only can you:
1) order from our publisher @palimpsestpress.bsky.social;
2) preorder from your local independent bookseller;
3) order from the big bads;
YOU CAN ALSO JUST MESSAGE US!
Not only can you:
1) order from our publisher @palimpsestpress.bsky.social;
2) preorder from your local independent bookseller;
3) order from the big bads;
YOU CAN ALSO JUST MESSAGE US!
January 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
DID YOU KNOW you can get special signed copies of ZZOO directly from us at MA|DE HQ?
Not only can you:
1) order from our publisher @palimpsestpress.bsky.social;
2) preorder from your local independent bookseller;
3) order from the big bads;
YOU CAN ALSO JUST MESSAGE US!
Not only can you:
1) order from our publisher @palimpsestpress.bsky.social;
2) preorder from your local independent bookseller;
3) order from the big bads;
YOU CAN ALSO JUST MESSAGE US!
Thanks to Rachel Poliquin for the wonderful ZZOO blurb ❤️🐊✨
The other coolest thing is when an author you don't know personally, who owes you nothing, blurbs your book, only because you're both clearly interested in overlapping fields. We are BREATHLESS with thanks to Rachel Poliquin for this lovely endorsement of ZZOO!
January 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thanks to Rachel Poliquin for the wonderful ZZOO blurb ❤️🐊✨
Thanks @garybarwin.bsky.social thanks @tomprime.bsky.social co-blurbing the new book! Much appreciated
It was so very cool of @garybarwin.bsky.social and Tom Prime, multi-time collaborators themselves, to do a COLLABORATIVE BLURB for our debut full-length collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, available for preorder now from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social.
January 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks @garybarwin.bsky.social thanks @tomprime.bsky.social co-blurbing the new book! Much appreciated
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New year, new book!
MA|DE's debut collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is available for preorder now from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social: palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-m...
MA|DE's debut collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is available for preorder now from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social: palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-m...
January 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New year, new book!
MA|DE's debut collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is available for preorder now from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social: palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-m...
MA|DE's debut collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is available for preorder now from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social: palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-m...
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Unboxing our debut book of poetry does NOT go as we expected...
December 30, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Unboxing our debut book of poetry does NOT go as we expected...
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WHAT IS ZZOO?
You keep hearing us talk about our (MA|DE's) debut full-length poetry collection ZZOO from Palimpsest Press. But what exactly is this book even about?
You keep hearing us talk about our (MA|DE's) debut full-length poetry collection ZZOO from Palimpsest Press. But what exactly is this book even about?
January 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
WHAT IS ZZOO?
You keep hearing us talk about our (MA|DE's) debut full-length poetry collection ZZOO from Palimpsest Press. But what exactly is this book even about?
You keep hearing us talk about our (MA|DE's) debut full-length poetry collection ZZOO from Palimpsest Press. But what exactly is this book even about?
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MA|DE's debut FULL-LENGTH collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is here! Published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social & edited by Jim Johnstone, ZZOO stands at 124 pages & is the full & final vision of the project first glimpsed in our bpNichol Award-shortlisted chapbook A Trip to the ZZOO.
January 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
MA|DE's debut FULL-LENGTH collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is here! Published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social & edited by Jim Johnstone, ZZOO stands at 124 pages & is the full & final vision of the project first glimpsed in our bpNichol Award-shortlisted chapbook A Trip to the ZZOO.