Matthew Tierney
@mtierney.bsky.social
Poetry editor at Coach House Books. Science writer at U of T.
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Matthew Tierney
@mtierney.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Lossless reviewed.
"The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U.
Speaking of reviews...
"The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U.
Speaking of reviews...
"Then, in 2023, she decided on a whim to write a poem instead.
'I wrote about how I had a month left until my twenties were over and I put it up online,' said Balka."
INSTANT. NEW. YORK. TIMES. BESTSELLER. 😱 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
'I wrote about how I had a month left until my twenties were over and I put it up online,' said Balka."
INSTANT. NEW. YORK. TIMES. BESTSELLER. 😱 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Poet Josie Balka on going from TikTok to the page
Loves of Our Lives, Balka’s second book after her New York Times bestseller explores the types of love people experience throughout their lives
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"Then, in 2023, she decided on a whim to write a poem instead.
'I wrote about how I had a month left until my twenties were over and I put it up online,' said Balka."
INSTANT. NEW. YORK. TIMES. BESTSELLER. 😱 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
'I wrote about how I had a month left until my twenties were over and I put it up online,' said Balka."
INSTANT. NEW. YORK. TIMES. BESTSELLER. 😱 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
My book also in the bucket of poetry for the “tetchy” people who think &tc. 😠
Our Holiday Sale continues: all books at www.chbooks.com are 17% off today!
Today we're recommending poetry for the techy people who think they hate poetry. Perfect for your cousin who's always up on the latest tech and your brother-in-law who loves tech bro podcasts: chbooks.com/Collections/...
Today we're recommending poetry for the techy people who think they hate poetry. Perfect for your cousin who's always up on the latest tech and your brother-in-law who loves tech bro podcasts: chbooks.com/Collections/...
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My book also in the bucket of poetry for the “tetchy” people who think &tc. 😠
Reposted by Matthew Tierney
microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Well, well.
Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉
forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...
Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉
forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...
October 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Well, well.
Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉
forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...
Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉
forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...
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The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55
Lossless reviewed.
"The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U.
Speaking of reviews...
"The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U.
Speaking of reviews...
September 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lossless reviewed.
"The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U.
Speaking of reviews...
"The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U.
Speaking of reviews...
Gorgeous poem by Geoffrey Nutter; for anyone who’s read to a little one…
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Gorgeous poem by Geoffrey Nutter; for anyone who’s read to a little one…
The fine establishment where I’m about to eat has some toilet seat art framed by a toilet seat…natch.
August 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The fine establishment where I’m about to eat has some toilet seat art framed by a toilet seat…natch.
😱: “I found myself dwelling on what creators face: producing work of deep value from shallow resources, and doing it in a society that treats their labour as disposable even as it consumes it constantly.”
“As we put together the Summer Reading issue, I found myself dwelling on what creators face,” writes editor-in-chief @cstarnino.bsky.social. “Producing work of deep value from shallow resources.” Read the full Editor’s Note here: thewalrus.ca/we-can-still-mak...
August 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
😱: “I found myself dwelling on what creators face: producing work of deep value from shallow resources, and doing it in a society that treats their labour as disposable even as it consumes it constantly.”
Is there a word that has been more sapped of meaning than “thrilled”…
July 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Is there a word that has been more sapped of meaning than “thrilled”…
I'm reading next Thursday, May 22. Celebrating the Al Purdy Prize & foundation, including this year's winner, Al Moritz, with Molly Peacock.
I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.
I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.
May 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I'm reading next Thursday, May 22. Celebrating the Al Purdy Prize & foundation, including this year's winner, Al Moritz, with Molly Peacock.
I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.
I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.
Nils Frahm tonight at Massey Hall. 🤯
I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.
I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.
May 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Nils Frahm tonight at Massey Hall. 🤯
I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.
I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
Reposted by Matthew Tierney
Really excited to have Karen Solie on Vic’s campus next year as the Shaftesbury Writer in Residence.
www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-pro...
www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-pro...
Shaftesbury Creative Writer-in-Residence » Victoria College
www.vic.utoronto.ca
March 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Really excited to have Karen Solie on Vic’s campus next year as the Shaftesbury Writer in Residence.
www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-pro...
www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-pro...
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I am asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here at home.
March 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I am asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here at home.
Reposted by Matthew Tierney
When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text: Noli timere. “Don’t be afraid.”
I wrote about these words, why I stopped fighting cancer, and knowing a black bear for @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13... #booksky #cancer #naturewriting
I wrote about these words, why I stopped fighting cancer, and knowing a black bear for @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13... #booksky #cancer #naturewriting
How not to be afraid
Increasingly, the problem for people like me isn’t dying from cancer, but learning to live with it
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text: Noli timere. “Don’t be afraid.”
I wrote about these words, why I stopped fighting cancer, and knowing a black bear for @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13... #booksky #cancer #naturewriting
I wrote about these words, why I stopped fighting cancer, and knowing a black bear for @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13... #booksky #cancer #naturewriting
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Meta AI missed two of my four books, the f*ckers! Plus among the dozen or so poems & articles they did pirate, they missed a TON of online content, prose & poetry that I've published over the years. What am I, chopped liver?
March 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Meta AI missed two of my four books, the f*ckers! Plus among the dozen or so poems & articles they did pirate, they missed a TON of online content, prose & poetry that I've published over the years. What am I, chopped liver?
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I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"and you can see that I am a sensitive man" 🌼
Congratulations to Matthew Tierney, whose poetry book — Lossless — has been longlisted for the 2025 Al & Eurith Purdy Poetry Prize!
Learn more about Lossless on www.chbooks.com, and make sure to check out our pub day Q&A with Matthew at the link in our bio!
🎉 🎉 🎉
Learn more about Lossless on www.chbooks.com, and make sure to check out our pub day Q&A with Matthew at the link in our bio!
🎉 🎉 🎉
March 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"and you can see that I am a sensitive man" 🌼
Hertz in G&M, sugarcoating:
"Flight Risk is not so bad that it is good – it is simply so bad that it is really terribly awfully very very very bad, the kind of zero-effort exercise that will leave even the most bruised and battered action-movie junkie begging for the sweet release of death itself."
"Flight Risk is not so bad that it is good – it is simply so bad that it is really terribly awfully very very very bad, the kind of zero-effort exercise that will leave even the most bruised and battered action-movie junkie begging for the sweet release of death itself."
January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hertz in G&M, sugarcoating:
"Flight Risk is not so bad that it is good – it is simply so bad that it is really terribly awfully very very very bad, the kind of zero-effort exercise that will leave even the most bruised and battered action-movie junkie begging for the sweet release of death itself."
"Flight Risk is not so bad that it is good – it is simply so bad that it is really terribly awfully very very very bad, the kind of zero-effort exercise that will leave even the most bruised and battered action-movie junkie begging for the sweet release of death itself."
👀 Some welcome transparency here:
On jury work: "Of the 118 books, I read 27 cover-to-cover (23%). I read less than 10% of 42 of the books (36%)...
On winners: "70% of the finalists for the 2023 and 2024 Governor General’s Awards were first books; prizes too often treat writers like new cars"
👏👏
On jury work: "Of the 118 books, I read 27 cover-to-cover (23%). I read less than 10% of 42 of the books (36%)...
On winners: "70% of the finalists for the 2023 and 2024 Governor General’s Awards were first books; prizes too often treat writers like new cars"
👏👏
As I read the 100+ poetry books submitted for the Fred Cogswell Award, I took notes on both the books and the tricky act of judging poetry.
I've compiled some of them into an essay for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it!
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/01/19/s...
I've compiled some of them into an essay for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it!
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/01/19/s...
Some Notes on Judging Poetry – Rob Taylor
by Rob Taylor In May 2024, I was invited to judge the Fred Cogswell award for the best Canadian poetry book of 2023. I said yes immediately, having long been a fan of the prize’s structure (and, of…
the-wood-lot.ca
January 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
👀 Some welcome transparency here:
On jury work: "Of the 118 books, I read 27 cover-to-cover (23%). I read less than 10% of 42 of the books (36%)...
On winners: "70% of the finalists for the 2023 and 2024 Governor General’s Awards were first books; prizes too often treat writers like new cars"
👏👏
On jury work: "Of the 118 books, I read 27 cover-to-cover (23%). I read less than 10% of 42 of the books (36%)...
On winners: "70% of the finalists for the 2023 and 2024 Governor General’s Awards were first books; prizes too often treat writers like new cars"
👏👏
Today is a Kid-A Da-Y…
January 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today is a Kid-A Da-Y…
“you can’t write of discovery / without disco.”
—Dancin’ Andy (Weaver)
—Dancin’ Andy (Weaver)
January 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“you can’t write of discovery / without disco.”
—Dancin’ Andy (Weaver)
—Dancin’ Andy (Weaver)