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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 1d

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.

By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 1d

From “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World” in Ryan Fitzpatrick’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 1d

That’s great! You can thank Jordan Abel for the playlist. When I had him give me feedback on the MS, he was pretty insistent I include it because I sent him a version of it that I made for Catriona when we were doing the substantive edit and he said it was really helpful!

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto! Get ready for @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali! On November 13, head to Flying Books on College street for readings from No Depression in Heaven, No Signal No Noise, & Revolutions!
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Free to attend, RSVP required. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-talonboo...

A dusty pink background. Across the top it reads "Talonbooks Reading | Flying Books College Street | Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:30 p.m. EST | Across the middle are the author photos of ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali. Beneath these are their respective books, No Depression in Heaven (navy blue background, cowboy with guitar silhouette, clouds arise inside his frame), No Signal No Noise (cream background, a small square of horizontal black lines cross in the centre), and Revolutions (a light tan background with a red-mahogany circle with motion lines as though it has been spinning through sand). Beneath this are their names and the link to RSVP at.

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 1d

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 1d

history flips
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks

Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 5d

my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...

On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except

by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Good news! @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social is hitting the ole dusty trail and bringing No Depression in Heaven to a bookstore near you! Get your local dose of the Grand Ole Opry at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social, @mcnallyrobinson.com, and more!

⁠📖No Depression in Heaven is available now! 📖

The background is a faded version of the cover of No Depression in Heaven focused on the cowboy silhouette with the guitar slung to their back. Inside the silhouette are a series of clouds in dark grey to apocalyptic orange-brown rising up from the belly to just below the shoulders.

The text reads:

Calgary, AB || October 21
Shelf Life Books | Doors at 7:00 p.m. with Conor Kerr, Jason Purcell

Vancouver, BC || October 24
Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall | Doors at 8:00 p.m.
with Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, Drew McEwan

Winnipeg, MB || November 5, 2025
with Cam Scott

Toronto, ON || November 13
Flying Books | Doors at 6:30 p.m.
with A Jamali Rad, Hajer Mirwali

Hamilton, ON || November 14
The City & The City Books | Doors at 7:00 p.m.
with A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, Zane Koss

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 7d

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 7d

If you're in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, or Hamilton this fall, I'll be swinging through with my new book No Depression in Heaven. I hope to see you there!

(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)

More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/

Image of a silhouetted cowboy singer with an illuminated dust cloud overlaid on their chest. Text on top of this image with information for the following poetry readings:

No Depression in Heaven tour for ryan fitzpatrick

October 21, 2025, at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, a book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Event at 7:00 pm.

October 24, 2025, at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall in Vancouver, the Talonbooks fall poetry launch, with readings from ryan fitzpatrick, Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, and Drew McEwan. Event at 7:00 pm.

November 5, 2025, at McNally Robinson Grant Park in Winnipeg, double book launch with ryan fitzpatrick and Cam Scott. Event at 7:00 pm.

November 13, 2025, at Flying Books College St in Toronto, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali. Event at 6:30 pm.

November 14, 2025, at The City and The City Bookstore in Hamilton, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, and Zane Koss. Event at 7:00 pm.

More info at talonbooks.com

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 7d

cmagazine.com/articles/cop...

_cop city swagger_ — Mercedes Eng

_cop city swagger_ was published by Talonbooks in 2024.

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 9d

newly posted: Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/marc...

Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness

How does a poem begin? Difficult questions, rob. To answer them, I sought clarity from texts by my man, Walter Benjamin. N...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Published in 2022, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew uses photos, maps, and treaty documents to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada.

Book cover of Whitemud Walking alongside the text: "Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew Weigel uses photos, maps, and treaty documents, including those related to his own family, to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada. Fun fact: Matthew's visual poems that marginalize treaty texts have occasioned several calls from bookstores concerned the book had printing errors!"

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 11d

Overheard on the train: Sears was the Amazon of its day.

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 11d

Filling out an author questionnaire, cherry picking all the easy questions first. "What's your full name?" Oh, I know that one!

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 12d

Toronto friends, we hope you can join us at the Queen Street location of Type Books on October 15 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the launch of two brilliant books - Khashayar Mohammadi's The Book of Interruptions and Rahat Kurd's The Book of Z:

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 13d

Edmonton friends, Jide Salawu launches Contraband Bodies at Audreys Books on October 16. This is his debut poetry collection. Congratulations, Jide!
https://bit.ly/46OhQ0s

@jidesalawu.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 15d

a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 14d

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defector.com/good-riddanc...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 17d

I think when you publish your fifth book of poetry you should get an award certificate that recognizes the high level of masochism you need to publish five books of poetry. (To be repeated every five books with a fancier certificate each time.)

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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 18d

Beast Fables is here with comic #1! 🦊🐓🐿️

First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore.

iskotaa.com/comics/beast...

Rey, a fox wearing a tunic, is sitting in front of a box on a small stool under a tree. She looks expectant. On the box is painted “Knigt errant” and a little sign says “cheep!”.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 18d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Calgary! Head to @shelflifebooks.bsky.social on October 21 to celebrate the launch of No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social, Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr, and crohnic by Jason Purcell. Can't wait to see you there!

A beige background with a centred, large typewriter. In the foreground, across the top, reads "Triple Book Launch, Shelf Life Books, Tuesday, October 21, 2025 7 p.m. MDT" in the top left corner are the logos for Shelf Life Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, and Talonbooks. In the centre in round frames are author photos of ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Underneath are the book covers for No Depression in Heaven (navy, western font, the silhouette of a cowboy with a guitar on his back with a dust cloud rising up inside the silhouette), Beaver Hills Forever (black and white cover, white on top, a beaver swimming with a lit match in black water. The orange of the fire and the author's name is the only colour in the cover), and crohnic (the cover isn't, but looks like, a cyanotype of tall navy trees and grass. There's an interplay of light and shadow).

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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 21d

Shout out to whoever decided to put all those obscure nautical terms in the CanOx dictionary. They were very helpful. Thanks!

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