NMLCT is CBC Books "Top Pick"!

NMLCT is CBC Books poetry "Top Pick" for the second half of 2025. Thank you to the CBC and to everyone who has been supporting my book this year. I feel incredibly lucky. 

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NMLCT: MONTREAL LAUNCH ON OCTOBER 18

Montreal friends! I am coming to your beautiful city to launch NMLCT at the Rocket Science Room on October 18! I'll be joined by poets Liz Howard and Jessi MacEachern, with Jay Ritchie presiding over the evening as emcee. I am indebted to the assistance and hospitality of Leigh Kotsilidis for helping put this event together, and I hope you will join us and bring your poetry-loving friends along.

October 18, 2025

Montreal, QUEBEC

Montreal Launch for NMLCT

with Liz Howard and Jessi MacEachern

and Jay Ritchie as the MC. 

Rocket Science Room

#204-170 Jean Talon O., 

Atlas Building, Little Italy, 

Montreal, QC

Doors 6:30pm

Readings 7:00pm

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I’ll be at the Toronto Word on the Street Festival this weekend

I’ll be at the Toronto Word on the Street Festival this weekend. Come by the ECW Press booth at 11am on Saturday. I’ll be signing books. Come by and say hello!

At other time, I can be found at the booths for either Wolsak and Wynn Publishers or The Ampersand Review. 

Word On The Street’s 36th Annual Festival
David Pecaut Square
215 King Street W

Sat, Sept 27 – 11AM – 6PM
Sun, Sept 28 – 10AM – 5PM

I am coming to the Kingston WritersFest on September 19

I am coming to the Kingston WritersFest this Friday, September 19, for two events! 

At noon, I'll be doing my "How to Read a Poem" workshop, and at 1:30 I'll be sharing the stage with Callista Markotich and Terese Mason Pierre for a poetry panel called "Projections and Reflections" with host Jason Heroux.

I hope to see you then! 

Gert more information here.

Chris Banks reviews NMLCT

Chris Banks is a poet who always keeps me on my toes. I value his close reading, so this review of NMLCT will be one that I treasure for a long time.

"Honestly, I have not really read a poetry collection like this one. It’s a highly original book.... These spellbinding poems, at once allusive and engaging, are portents, wards against the artificial intelligence and misinformation we find so much of our modern lives are now mired in, but they are also, I think, signposts, maps for finding our way back out, through words, to our genuine selves...

"There is rigour and tension in these 16 line, formally-constrained poems, but also a sharp, restless and original consciousness that is the nucleus of this whole poetry collection. NMLCT encourages us to make new thoughts, new connections, new poems amidst the old abandoned computer code and made-to-sell cheap design work, amidst “the glitches” of background machine noise."

Check out The Woodlot and read the entire review here.

Selena Mercuri reviews NMLCT

Every writer looks forward to those reviews when the critic really understands what the book is trying to do. Selena Mercuri has done just that in her review of NMLCT in The Seaboard Review of Books. I am grateful. What a wonderful way to start the day!

"In NMLCT, Vermeersch creates a multimedia experience that mirrors the hybrid nature of contemporary digital life. The reader must navigate text, image, and code much as we navigate our daily digital environments. The poems argue for the irreplaceable value of human consciousness, intuition, and embodied experience in an age increasingly dominated by algorithmic thinking. NMLCT reminds us that the animal city, however threatened, remains our true home."

— Selena Mercuri,

The Seaboard Review of Books

Read the whole review here.

Rob McLennan reviews NMLCT

The first review of NMLCT is here, just days away from its official release. With thanks to Rob McLennan.

"Throughout the collection, Vermeersch builds his bricks of lyric narrative in lengthy and even gymnastic lines, more oriented in propulsive, almost staccato, sound than in his prior work.... The tension is palpable, shifting between an optimism for humanity or sense of doom, interspersed throughout."

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I'VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU (INTERVIEWS)

With the official publication date of my new book just two weeks away, I am grateful to Kathryn Mockler for interviewing me for her I'VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU series. I talk about memory, ghosts, and The Goonies, among other things.

Read on!