Ongoing notes, mid-November 2024: Margo LaPierre, Geoffrey Young + Clint Burnham, / Anstruther Press League of Canadian Poets poetry in canada ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/11/ongoin…

Tonight!

I'll be launching The Book of Names @PinholePoetry Dec 4 Another Story Bookshop , hope to see you there!

Books: “Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry” by Jim Johnstone #poetry #books #reviews #JimJohnstone #dutifulness #dullness #AdamKirsch #anirresistibleforce #aguidingprincipal #entertainment #Canada #criticism quillandquire.com/omni/excerpt-f…

Wednesday, Nov 4 in Toronto

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Jim Johnstone's "Ride the Lightning", click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/ride-the…

"Science helped provide a framework to explore the world anew, but poetry fast became my preferred way of interrogating what it meant to be an individual living in it." #SundaySentence from Ride the Lightning by Jim Johnstone (2024 @TheNewQuarterly) tinyurl.com/2s2enbw9

Scotland's Into Poetry puts the spotlight on Canadian poets with Bruce Whiteman's review of 'Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry' by Jim Johnstone... intocreative.co.uk/jim-johnstone/

MA|DE's debut FULL-LENGTH collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is here! Published by Palimpsest Press & edited by Jim Johnstone, ZZOO stands at 124 pages & is the full & final vision of the project first glimpsed in our bpNichol Award-shortlisted chapbook A Trip to the ZZOO.

🇨🇦Friends: I am one of three judges for the £1000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Details are here: hippocrates-poetry.org/enter-the-hipp…... Let's go! Please RT at will, spread the word, do submit. The Hippocrates Initiative

After my last book, I couldn’t stop thinking and writing about angels, so here’s a new chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press that touches upon angels, a lesser known drunk history of Mennonites (of sorts) and a poem for my nephew’s son: anstrutherpress.com/#/windowful-by…

So pleased to be in The Malahat Review 229. I had such a good experience. They really attend to you there! And I'm coverish this time, hooray! Essay will be included in what_to_feel, how_to_feel from PalimpsestPress coming out soon.

Cover reveal! My new book of lyric nonfiction about a topic not yet covered in CanLit - non-neurotypical fatherhood of a non-NT child - is now available for preorder from PalimpsestPress. Click palimpsestpress.ca/books/what-to-… to preorder, or DM me. palimpsestpress.ca/books/what-to-…

Mighty Gordon Hill Press & Palimpsest Press team up with Guelph crowd so big I couldn't get it in one photo. Sorry, L and R parts of audience. Yay! Pictured, Luke Hill, Hollay Ghadery, and Adam Honsinger introduce, read, and sign respectively.

Join #NorthernReads online #BookClub & poet 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲-𝗚𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵, 𝗪𝗲𝗱. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟲 @ 𝟳𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧. --> form.jotform.com/223393766152258 GoodMinds.com is offering free shipping to Book Club guests! @NLPubLibraries WritersNL Goose Lane Editions Anstruther Press

TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Hollay Ghadery (she/her) talks to Margo LaPierre about “In Violet” (Anstruther Press) & upcoming “Ajar” Guernica Editions - Also on the show Alex Gurtis “When The Ocean Comes To Me” (Bottlecap Press) TUNE IN TONIGHT! #NationalPoetryMonth

"Now I have a little more time with the flowers that interrupt the runway’s lift. Thank you for this gift." #TodaysPoem #poetry Heaven by Jim Johnstone (@ampersandpr) (2025 @PoetryMagazine) tinyurl.com/3d2fn644

Today on GET LIT we talk to Jim Johnstone about his collection of poetry criticism, Bait & Switch + Dorianne Emmerton talks about the Brockton Writers Series. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca, on pods, and here: tinyurl.com/9bttud22 Brockton Writers Porcupine's Quill

At the clinic and just learned What_to_feel,_how_to_feel is a finalist for the Canada Council for the Arts award for nonfiction! Time to start seeing patients - a good place to hide (with thanks forever to Aimée Parent Dunn and Jim Johnstone)

You can now order a copy of my chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, directly from Anstruther Press: anstrutherpress.com/#/the-blades-o… This is a wee collection of occasional verse. Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press. #poetry #chapbook