Garth Martens
@garthmartens.bsky.social
Poet | Palmero | Member of Palabra Flamenco | Producer of Dark Sounds | Author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi) and Remediation (JackPine) | Pronouns: he / him. | 🇵🇸 🌈 🍉
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Garth Martens
@garthmartens.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Apartheid Israel has now killed 680,000 Palestinians.
380,000 under 5 years of age.
479,000 children total.
Do not be okay with that.
380,000 under 5 years of age.
479,000 children total.
Do not be okay with that.
At the Victoria Festival of Authors this year, Christina Shah was, for me, the discovery of the weekend. Her work, her delivery of it—🤯👏
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Christina Shah / @christinashah.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Christina Shah
Christina Shah lives in New Westminster and works in heavy industry. Her work was shortlisted for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and selected...
robmclennan.blogspot.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
At the Victoria Festival of Authors this year, Christina Shah was, for me, the discovery of the weekend. Her work, her delivery of it—🤯👏
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Hey, just a reminder that @eventmags.bsky.social is open for submissions for this month and January. I am excited to read your new poems! BIPOC writers are especially encouraged to submit www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/
Submit - EVENT
What We’re Looking For We generally have two open submissions windows during the months of July and August and December and January. Submission windows will close on the last day of the month, or when...
www.eventmagazine.ca
December 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hey, just a reminder that @eventmags.bsky.social is open for submissions for this month and January. I am excited to read your new poems! BIPOC writers are especially encouraged to submit www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/
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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?
I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?
I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
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New data on the extent of casualties from the Russian invasion of Ukraine reveals that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
“For what did these people die for? What reason were they sent into this horrible meat grinder for?” asks foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.
“For what did these people die for? What reason were they sent into this horrible meat grinder for?” asks foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New data on the extent of casualties from the Russian invasion of Ukraine reveals that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
“For what did these people die for? What reason were they sent into this horrible meat grinder for?” asks foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.
“For what did these people die for? What reason were they sent into this horrible meat grinder for?” asks foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.
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"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
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"The prospect of reading Beckett's letters quickens the blood like no other's, and one must hope to stay alive until the fourth volume is safely delivered."
Tom Stoppard, blurb on dust jacket of The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009)
Tom Stoppard, blurb on dust jacket of The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009)
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"The prospect of reading Beckett's letters quickens the blood like no other's, and one must hope to stay alive until the fourth volume is safely delivered."
Tom Stoppard, blurb on dust jacket of The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009)
Tom Stoppard, blurb on dust jacket of The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009)
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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“We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
- Tom Stoppard
- Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
- Tom Stoppard
- Tom Stoppard
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Your third moment of calm: Sandhill cranes walking along the edge of marsh...
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Your third moment of calm: Sandhill cranes walking along the edge of marsh...
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I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Joseph Planta for Planta: On the Line. He's a warm and engaging conversationalist. Thank you Joseph! @joeplanta.bsky.social
thecommentary.ca/ontheline/23...
thecommentary.ca/ontheline/23...
Christina Shah | thecommentary.ca
The poet Christina Shah discusses her debut collection If: Prey, Then: Huntress (Nightwood Editions, 2025), with Joseph Planta.
thecommentary.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Joseph Planta for Planta: On the Line. He's a warm and engaging conversationalist. Thank you Joseph! @joeplanta.bsky.social
thecommentary.ca/ontheline/23...
thecommentary.ca/ontheline/23...
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Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE)
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE)
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
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And here's how to order Killing Spree. Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Killing Spree
A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose “great body of work . . . has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of...
us.macmillan.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And here's how to order Killing Spree. Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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On CBC, I talk about Jeffrey Epstein, the CIA and Mossad, referencing the excellent reporting at @dropsitenews.com -- yet it remains impossible to get mainstream USA media to discuss this evidence.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
On CBC, I talk about Jeffrey Epstein, the CIA and Mossad, referencing the excellent reporting at @dropsitenews.com -- yet it remains impossible to get mainstream USA media to discuss this evidence.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.
Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More
Sudanese climate diplomacy researcher Lina Yassin is supporting the Least Developed Countries Group at the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is composed of 44 countries, including Sudan,...
www.democracynow.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.
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A huge congratulations to previous VWF guest Omar El Akkad, who has won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his work, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
Canadian author Omar El Akkad's debut nonfiction work wins U.S. National Book Award | CBC Books
Akkad's powerful memoir won the U.S.-based award. The annual literary award program celebrates and honours authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A huge congratulations to previous VWF guest Omar El Akkad, who has won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his work, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
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Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.
Rep. Thomas Massie: Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies. That’s why they’re trying to stop this.
(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)
(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.
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Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan.
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan.
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
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Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,” says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the #COP30 conference.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,” says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the #COP30 conference.
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Thousands of people protested for climate action in Belém, the Brazilian city hosting this year's #COP30 climate summit.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/cop30_protest
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/cop30_protest
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Thousands of people protested for climate action in Belém, the Brazilian city hosting this year's #COP30 climate summit.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/cop30_protest
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/cop30_protest
Tomorrow, I join forces with Jan Zwicky to read Jan’s new long poem, Say It, which arises from the depths of environmental cataclysm.
Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.
Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Tomorrow, I join forces with Jan Zwicky to read Jan’s new long poem, Say It, which arises from the depths of environmental cataclysm.
Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.
Say It is a recent release from Deer Mountain Pages. Tim Lilburn will introduce this unique publishing venture and lead a discussion with us after the reading.