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russellcarisse.bsky.social
russell carisse
@russellcarisse.bsky.social
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poet. queer. dirt-farmer. trailer-trash. they/them
unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'gmaw territory

work currently or forthcoming in: ARC Poetry, Queen's Quarterly, Touch the Donkey, The Temz Review, Talking About Strawberries All The Time, and elsewhere.
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New Release!

That

H uman
E ffluence
A nd
P lastic

A prose poem exploring this world of garbage, and the rugged individualism that got us here.

review and signed copies on request also available from above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social

#poetry #canlit #smallPress
aforementioned chapbook in a plastic bag on a trash heap
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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my body is for labour

flair busybody room
foil busybody armor

moodily absorb fury

#poetry #anagram #vispo #concretePoetry #typewriters
typewritten text of the original post
August 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Moanday morning with the office crew
two kittens one looking at the camera the other sleeping in a typewriter
July 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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proof of life, self portrait
the face of a white guy's in the letterhead guide of a typewriter
July 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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literally, literally fixed with a shoelace, an hundred year old machine keeps ticking
#typewriters
random test letters typewritten, IT IS ALIVE
June 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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happy to find this little spider guarding its petal stage in the weeds this morning

#bloomscrolling
a close up of a daisy with a small brown spider on the white petals around a yellow fibonacci centre
June 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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a small pause in ww3 for peace
#silentSunday #bloomScrolling
buff rock with grey bubbles of lichen on it, forgrounded by silhouettes and greens of strawberry and grass
June 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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the mainspring was broken, it has been modified and respooled, the patient may pull through yet.
#typewriter
the inside pieces of a typewriter outside of the typewriter on an oak table
June 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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happy pride month!
rainbow over a poke n stab anarchy tattoo
June 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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oh the iffy moon

after the cover of Simon Brown's above/ground press chapbook, oh the iffy night.

#vispo #poetry #art #concretePoetry #typewriterArt
red text: moon, black text: oh the iffy nighy, in tightly packed overlapping lines of typewritten text that appears to be a moon and horizon
May 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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anyone lose their sunshine?
#bloomscrolling
very yello bunch of daffodils
May 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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poetry and labour 1a

#concretePoetry #poetry #vispo #minimalism #typewriterArt #typewriters
poetry in black forming hexagons, labour in red forming zigzags
May 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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sutured
cavernous
head space

#poetry #haiku #photo
a highly saturated pic of a close up of a cow skull that appears a landscape
May 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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out pecking with the crew
#bloomscrolling #chickens #ruralcore #farmyard
a bunch of pretty chickens in one fell shot, all standing about some daffodils
May 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Ganet Rock, NB.
13.5cm× 19.5cm
watercolour

(my great grandmother lived in this lighthouse and married a sea captain)
#art #watercolor #watercolour #lighthouse
a lighthouse with vertical black and white bars and a red top, with a green roofed house and sea walls, all on a tiny rock island
April 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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from my latest chap:

language bandit
again but dangle
bad language tin

#poetry #concretePoetry #anagram
descending text that criss-crosses
April 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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chicken's
lonely sun-
day walk

#poetry #haiku #chickens #silentSunday
black three toed chicken prints in snow
April 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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rural
sunrises
on tin
#poetry #haiku #photo
aluminium siding holding the reflected peachy sunrise with oldvine silhouettes in a tangle
April 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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contributor copies have landed!

#poetry #canlit
queen's quarterly on wood table with a military guy in drab colours, captioned, "flinty's had it with tariff threats!!" blustered spring across the tiny farm’s yard if you could call it a farm i mean i do well, not to myself but to others, in a puff up that stuffs the shade where the chickens hide from that heat made and thickened with the smell of shit. a country hick, city born and raised in dreams and fancy for something else, something found in field guides or rent-to-own brochures of woodlots in their green song of a different kind of poverty.
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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march 28th

what's the fuss
it's only slush
and a foot of snow?
black and white snow scene with a cheap plastic chair nestled in dozens of centimetres of snow
March 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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when the exhalations exhale
smoke in the golden hour that resembles a humanistic creature on all 4s that exhaling its own smoke
March 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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supple
striated
shadow
spaces
snowbound
scintillation
sparkles
so
subtly

#poetry
horizontal waves of snow drifts and tree trunk shadows
February 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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propaganda notice 3.2
#poetry #poem #concretePoetry #vispo
typewritten text in a receipt: propaganda notice: read red ad, read rad ed, poetry labour concrete, capital subsumed art awhile ago, this pome will never self-remunerate in t-31 seconds, munerate or mutiny, concrete labour poetry, pome is apple in French, labour is our lab, t-10, read red ad, read rad ed
February 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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concrete outtake 78.31
#poetry #concretePoetry #vispo #minimalism
a pyramid of red and black text: the HEAP was an experiment in stratified 31 seconds. on a line and balance by an inverted pyramid of black capital X's. white background.
February 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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concrete process 3.9a
#poetry #concretePoetry #vispo #typewriterArt
messianic figured dancers groped on stage four rounded squares being beaten with staves of hickory. each returning a new sound apon striking the square in alternate secessions of rope allowance by knot knittery one by one by one. . .
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM