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Alastair Morrison
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Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 21
A poem of mine appears in the wonderful issue 25 of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social out today. Such a stellar journal to be involved with, such kind and incisive editing, so many great poets. Check out "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" here!

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Alastair Morrison "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" — THE SHORE
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Let this be the season of brave submissions and literary joy.
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
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periodicities is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .d...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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pinholepoetry.bsky.social
We’re missing pieces for our next issue!
We’re still looking for a few more poems and pinhole photography submissions.
Check out our guidelines on our website and send in work by Nov 28 to be considered for the Jan 2026 issue.

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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry

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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
alasmorrison.bsky.social
I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry

mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...
Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)
A photo of Phillip Crymble
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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One month until the disability issue deadline, folks. Keep those poetry submissions rolling in!
fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · Oct 31
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)
A photo of Phillip Crymble
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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One of the three Forrest Gander translations featured in the autumn issue of The Fiddlehead.
Indelible Radiance Translation of Jeannette Lozano Clariond It is perfectly itself, the tree fixed in your eyes. Poplar and blood. An image beaming its silver undersides: indelible radiance seeping out through little holes in the tracery. Leaking across the lake, the image advances toward you. But what remains beyond reach is the Word.
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Sitting pretty. 10~5 TODAY #smallpressfair @victoriacollege.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review!
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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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If you like this☝️you’ll almost certainly like this👇
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
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October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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monostich.bsky.social
A haunted house, but it’s the Criterion Closet you’ll never get to visit because you’re just a fucking poet.
October 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Lucky to have had two poems in @havehashad.com -- many thanks to @jlyocum.com for choosing them and to @neonpajamas.bsky.social, whose delightful weekly prompts inspired the first!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · Oct 17
TWO today from Stefanie Kirby!!

Here's the first. Click through for a bonus!

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A group of four diverse individuals, two women and two men, are laughing and smiling while sitting together at a table in a bright, modern office environment. They are engaged in a discussion with laptops and notebooks in front of them, showcasing a collaborative atmosphere.
October 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
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bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press
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December 31, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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knifeforkbook.bsky.social
TODAY at 2pm #withrowpark
knifeforkbook.bsky.social knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · Oct 2
What an astonishingly inspired trio. #WeReadTogether
@peacehearty.bsky.social #TrishSalah #JulieJoosten #attend

18 October 2pm Withrow Park (Logan at Danforth)
October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜

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Susan L. Leary At First, Obedience, Subsequently— Defiance. The wound, begging for attention: its half heart beating beneath a lace doily while the ugliness explodes to the surface. Why disrupt this flourish of peace, this little tomb of white space? She looks good, they'd said. Brave inside unworkable conditions. Dead or alive, we make an anniversary of our sorrow, expeditious with our buckets of spring. To what do we owe the pleasure? You fabricate worlds in dreams while a girl fabricates worlds on the page. This is what is meant by ritual. When we say, the pedigree of the mouth-body is good. There's no use determining for whom our company is intended. Every gesture is dangerous. Were I to cut my ear off, I'd give it to you. An image of the front cover of Cream City Review.
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review!
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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I wrote a section of this in each class at UCD - with Declan Hughes, Éireann Lorsung, Sarah Moss and Jonathan Creasy.
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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So much going on in this remarkable poem by Joshua Mehigan.
A Contract Their love ran out in March; their lease, in June. He moved where cash allowed, took the room strewn with near-junk unseen since their wedding day. Home, then, was like a drawer where one might lock loose pieces of a fallen antique clock. She lived in bed, ate oatmeal from a tray, read comics like a child bored with a cold. He searched the bars for something nice to hold. Then, drunk, he'd close his eyes and trace the day, the day's soft flicker, down to a shrinking dot, as though a ship were burning, far away. She saw his razor on the sink, the cot folded, the room he slept in not at all, where once she'd wrapped him, waiting, in a shawl and, warmed at last, he could pretend to wake. He waited now, unseen, for no one's sake.
October 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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So pleased to reissue @travissharp.bsky.social amazeballs @knifeforkbook.bsky.social debut YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER, (sold out print run) now downloadable @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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October 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM