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.
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Sunday, 12 October 2025
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.
with Liz Howard and Jessi MacEachern
and Jay Ritchie as the MC.
#204-170 Jean Talon O.,
Atlas Building, Little Italy,
Montreal, QC
Doors 6:30pm
Readings 7:00pm
Friday, 26 September 2025
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
Monday, 15 September 2025
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!
Sunday, 14 September 2025
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.
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
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!
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Rob McLennan reviews NMLCT
Click here to read the whole review.