Ben Ladouceur
@helloiamben.bsky.social
Author of novel "I Remember Lights" (2025) and 2 poetry books 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
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testing something about bluesky vids (here's a cute video of my dog realizing there's a man in the skylight)
January 22, 2026 at 9:57 PM
testing something about bluesky vids (here's a cute video of my dog realizing there's a man in the skylight)
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"The important thing is to tell the truth—and often 'what happened' is only the beginning of that."
@helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7
@helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7
“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur - EVENT
Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for ...
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January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
"The important thing is to tell the truth—and often 'what happened' is only the beginning of that."
@helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7
@helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7
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January 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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2026 is for the homosexuals
January 1, 2026 at 4:12 AM
2026 is for the homosexuals
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Really feels like in the last year AI boosters have given up the pretense that LLMs will enable any kind of new much less radical literature and the pitch now is solely "it lets you cut corners and spend less time on writing, and you have to use it because everyone else will be cutting corners."
December 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Really feels like in the last year AI boosters have given up the pretense that LLMs will enable any kind of new much less radical literature and the pitch now is solely "it lets you cut corners and spend less time on writing, and you have to use it because everyone else will be cutting corners."
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Astonishing study in metaphor.
(Peter Harley, in 31 Newfoundland Poets, Breakwater Books, 1979)
(Peter Harley, in 31 Newfoundland Poets, Breakwater Books, 1979)
December 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Astonishing study in metaphor.
(Peter Harley, in 31 Newfoundland Poets, Breakwater Books, 1979)
(Peter Harley, in 31 Newfoundland Poets, Breakwater Books, 1979)
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Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
5 perfect movies
Secrets and Lies
Party Girl
Elle
The Muppet Movie
Great Freedom
Secrets and Lies
Party Girl
Elle
The Muppet Movie
Great Freedom
5 perfect movies
• Maborosi
• Tokyo Story
• A Serious Man
• Paris, Texas
• Aftersun
• Maborosi
• Tokyo Story
• A Serious Man
• Paris, Texas
• Aftersun
5 perfect movies
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Princess Mononoke
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Sinners
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Princess Mononoke
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Sinners
December 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
5 perfect movies
Secrets and Lies
Party Girl
Elle
The Muppet Movie
Great Freedom
Secrets and Lies
Party Girl
Elle
The Muppet Movie
Great Freedom
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Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social are selected as top fiction books of 2025 by @49thshelf.bsky.social! ✨
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...
Our Top Fiction of 2025 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
The fiction that rocked the year that was.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social are selected as top fiction books of 2025 by @49thshelf.bsky.social! ✨
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49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...
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very cool! THE BEST! the absolute best,
rob mclennan's book of sentences hits the CBC Books Best Poetry of 2025 list!
https://ow.ly/c9p650XIzif
https://ow.ly/c9p650XIzif
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
very cool! THE BEST! the absolute best,
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Brett Josef Grubisic selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social for inclusion in Quill and Quire's Notable Books 2025 round-up.
Canada’s book community shares their favourite titles of 2025. Click here for over 20 titles: https://bit.ly/3XQIRfz
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Brett Josef Grubisic selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social for inclusion in Quill and Quire's Notable Books 2025 round-up.
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The Miramichi Reader selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social as a Best Fiction Book of 2025!
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The Miramichi Reader’s Best Fiction of 2025
It's the end of 2025 already, and so the "Best of" lists are surfacing! Here are some of TMR's Best fiction of the year, chosen by our dedicated team of contributors.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Miramichi Reader selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social as a Best Fiction Book of 2025!
miramichireader.ca/.../the-mira...
miramichireader.ca/.../the-mira...
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if you didn't know, I was recently a writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-frame. after the fact I wrote almost 2000 words about the highs and lows of living and writing in that cottage for 4 weeks and now @robmclennan.bsky.social graciously published these words on periodicities. thanks!
newly posted: Chris Johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social : “I’m so fuckin self conscious I doubt the motives for shitting”: on being a writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-frame in late Fall 2025
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Chris Johnson : “I’m so fuckin self conscious I doubt the motives for shitting”: on being a writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-frame in late Fall 2025
I watched a National Film Board documentary about P.K. Page’s life and literary career while I was the writer-in-residence a...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
if you didn't know, I was recently a writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-frame. after the fact I wrote almost 2000 words about the highs and lows of living and writing in that cottage for 4 weeks and now @robmclennan.bsky.social graciously published these words on periodicities. thanks!
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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A good one, by Ben Ladouceur, over at NewPoetry.ca!
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A good one, by Ben Ladouceur, over at NewPoetry.ca!
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
My criterion collection moment in the @bookhugpress.bsky.social archives.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My criterion collection moment in the @bookhugpress.bsky.social archives.
Tmrw in Ottawa, I'm reading w Canlit legend John Barton at a lovely bookstore! Come see! thespanielstale.ca/events/37534...
Poetry Launch - Compulsory Figures by John Barton | The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore
Hintonburg's independendent bookstore, and Ottawa's proudest indie.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Tmrw in Ottawa, I'm reading w Canlit legend John Barton at a lovely bookstore! Come see! thespanielstale.ca/events/37534...
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Pick up @helloiamben.bsky.social's new book from @robmclennan.bsky.social however you can.
very nice. a good reading as part of The Factory Reading Series with Michael Lithgow, Nathanael O’Reilly and Ben Ladouceur, (who is launching a new above/ground press chapbook,
September 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Pick up @helloiamben.bsky.social's new book from @robmclennan.bsky.social however you can.
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don’t give me my phone after an edible
September 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
don’t give me my phone after an edible
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#bookreview: I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social is "a lyrical read and a profound examination of the human condition through one man’s eyes.” Deb Stratis on Ladouceur's acclaimed novel for Historical Novel Society. historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/i-re...
I Remember Lights - Historical Novel Society
In this dual-timeline novel, a young man explores gay life against the backdrop of Montreal’s Expo ’67 and his involvement in the 1977 police raid on the gay bar, Truxx, ten years later. As both stori...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#bookreview: I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social is "a lyrical read and a profound examination of the human condition through one man’s eyes.” Deb Stratis on Ladouceur's acclaimed novel for Historical Novel Society. historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/i-re...
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“I Remember Lights kindles a bright future of gay romance, and asks who-, where-, however might we have kept it alight?" Andrew Woodrow-Butcher reviews @helloiamben.bsky.social's acclaimed novel for Plenitude Magazine.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“I Remember Lights kindles a bright future of gay romance, and asks who-, where-, however might we have kept it alight?" Andrew Woodrow-Butcher reviews @helloiamben.bsky.social's acclaimed novel for Plenitude Magazine.
plenitudemagazine.ca/no-place-lik...
plenitudemagazine.ca/no-place-lik...