
Click here for the piece by Luke Beirne.

Click here for the piece by Luke Beirne.

Part of the permatour! Surprising sales at the Albion last Tuesday night, great crowd. Thanks to River Street for running a great ship. And people came from work, NO WAY, that’s a feat rarely accomplished. With thanks to those friends especially.
I’ve recuperated from the book tour and writing residency. Photos from London, Toronto, Montreal, QC, Fredericton, Saint John, and North Tryon.










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My hybrid verse novel concerning Willard, an intellectually disabled man, and a white-tailed buck, set at the dawn of the Cold War in southwestern New Brunswick. Damn, Julie Scriver does beautiful work.
I now have an opportunity to get more American eyes on Canadian poetry. Hooray! The first instalment of my review roundup running every 3 months appears today here. And it’s on the front page!

I have a new article out in Image on Spencer Reese. Willard (an intellectually disabled man left behind in the expropriated land that would become CFB Gagetown), a character from my upcoming book The Reign with Goose Lane Editions , would say MOOOOOOON. How did they know – Appalachians, moon? My thanks to Nick Ripatrazone – check out his The Habit of Poetry, it rules, I learned so much.

A friend visited Chicago and lookee lookee, ty friend!


Last weekend I attended the Imagination Writers’ Festival at the beautiful Morrin Centre in Quebec City. It had been a longstanding dream to have my work interpreted musically — and it came true on April 16! Depicted are the movements performed by the Orchestre Symphonique du Quebéc & prose description that was juxtaposed to “Deep Religious Faith,” a poem that first appeared in The Walrus and that later was collected in You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations with Goose Lane Editions. Plus a picture of the wonderful trio.


