My thanks to Geoff Cook and Chris Banks. Click here for the text.
New review in The Woodlot of The Cost of Living (The Artel Press, 2025)
Raining praise
T. J. Murray Visiting Scholar 2026
Honoured to be the T.J. Murray Visiting Scholar at Dalhousie this fall. Public lecture on Nov. 16, 2026 at 5 pm EST, and it’ll be digitally accessible too! I will permit emails in this instance to provide the link to those interested. This is full circle for me. From writing poetry as a Dalhousie medical student to teaching poetry to medical students to talking about teaching poetry to medical students. My talk will include material coming out in the PN Review! And the talk will express targeted thanks to Dr. Murray himself. I owe him so much! VITAMIN P FOR EVERYONE, VITAMIN P IN THE WATER!
D/deaf/HoH, Disabled, Mad, and Neurotypical Poetics Festival event 2026!
Nov 1! 7-9 pm, 27 Dundurn St. N (Staircase), Hamilton. Sonali Menezes, Conyer Clayton, Emma McKenna, Chris Banks, and Claud Spadafora. Suggested donation $10, PWYC. Image: headshots of readers with covers of their books, plus Ontario Arts Council and Gordon Hill Press sponsor logos. LITLIVELITLIVELITLIVE!
GHP/PQL Launch! Yayyyy
Everyone! Launch PQL/GHP Oct 14, 7:30 start at 401 Richmond Building, Sick Stories Bookstore! So cool as a venue, come out and seeeeeee! [Image: text listing event date, time, location, and readers/non-readers; image of all readers and covers of non-readers’ books provided.]
New review of The Reign
“It may be an event for poetry in Canada as strangely comprehensive as Hill’s book was in England half a century ago.” Guys, I’m “cosmically inclusive!” You can find me in the glow-in-the-dark bowling alley. Everyone check out the Fiddlehead Disability Issue! And thank you Alastair.
New review of What to feel, How to feel
“But it’s his dazzling erudition and tender, furious heart that will invariably compel his readers’ empathy and attention throughout these essays. Whether you’re seeking luminous language and experimental forms, a brilliant polemic, or a life-affirming meditation by a loving father and doctor, What to Feel, How to Feel is a singular, highly original disability treatise that establishes a new frontier for medical narratives in Canadian literature.” Yellow Bookie says thank you Kevin MacDonald and Owen Percy at The Ampersand Review for this attention.
Two Toronto readings in August
Hope to see you at one!
(1) August 18 2026, 7 pm, Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncy. Do come for STRUTHERMANIA, brotherrr! (Jenny Berkel, David Barrick, Alex Deng, Maureen Scott Harris).
(2) Aug 6 2026, Type Books Junction, 2887 Dundas St. W. Anna Veprinska, Qurat Dar.
Cool conference, Montreal, Feb 5-7 2027!
I’m on the scifi committee of this cool conference in Montreal, Feb 5-7 2027: “Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma, and Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination.” As you can see if you click, scholars of English, Canadian literature, & Health Humanities very much welcome! Please share. Last time a book came out of the conference held first in 2020; who knows, maybe in this, the second time out, we’ll end up doing it again! Please share the news if you’re in the biz.
Two new reviews
Two reviews that make me wonder why I’m so lucky.
(1) Sometimes the universe says, Hey, guy, here you go. Take heart. My thanks to Dawn Macdonald & The Seaboard Review.
(2) I always figured I was bad at this. Thank you Canadian Literature and Dominique Hetu. I relied on Dr. Hetu’s work to make my argument make sense, so it’s an honour to have her assessment.
