Ben Robinson

An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.

My 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here! New interviews in the series will be coming out steadily over the coming months.

I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."

I hope you enjoy it:

{A] Sensitive Man Ben Robinson

from the author of "As if," "The Book of Benjamin," and "Without Form"

"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."

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{A] Sensitive Man Ben Robinson

First look. #KFB10

"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."

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[A] Sensitive Man

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Hamilton Literary Awards 2025 winners announced Annual celebration of local authors and writers highlights works in five categories

Congratulations to @bengymen.bsky.social on being awarded the Kerry Schooley Award for his book As Is at the Hamilton Literary Awards. As Is was also shortlisted for the HLA Poetry Award. www.thespec.com/entertainmen...

Phil Hall : Talking of Duncan by the Hawkesbury River Robert Adamson and Juno Gemes (2009) Credit: Juno Gemes      I don’t believe Australia exists, though...

newly posted: Phil Hall : Talking of Duncan by the Hawkesbury River / @beautifuloutlaw.bsky.social ;
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On the left: an illustration of a hand forming a shadow puppet of a dog. On the right: text that reads “Gods, dogs, and the dark magic of Toronto novelist André Alexis. He’s written some of the most astonishing fiction of the past thirty years—works that defy explanation and linger like spells”

“If André Alexis appeared as a character in an André Alexis novel, this is exactly how his career would go.”

Writer André Forget looks back on the Quincunx Cycle and traces Alexis’s cosmically ironic path from failure to Giller Prize glory: thewalrus.ca/gods-dogs-and-th...

LITLIVE readings Dec 7, 7pm

Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, The Book of Interruptions │││ I can no longer afford humour a spear knocks at my caged heart and the rattles awaken a primal fear. a marble floor, a marble bust...

Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, The Book of Interruptions / @dearkestrel.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social ;
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Something about being bald and anxious that makes a man in a robe feel like Mr. Soprano.

Congrats, Jade! It was nice to see you in there.

"Abhor the gun/ but the pockets of my jeans/ never want for rocks."

Under Review: In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer - The New Quarterly Digital Edition Danila Botha Reviews Sadiqa de Meijer's In the Field, touching on form, authenticity, experiences, and more. Read now!

It was an honour to get to review @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social beautiful and evocative new book, In The Field.
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Every essay is a work of art. Thank you so much to @selenamercuri.bsky.social @thenewquarterly.bsky.social
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SHE'S WILD
& FREE!!! #takemeout #bustmyspine #TPL

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“Would you like to spend the day with me? I can show you around.” Ooooooooo, an adventure! My favourite kind of day. Let me grab my sunglasses!

Kirby @itsakirby.bsky.social
Reviews AS IS by Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social
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Peter Jaeger is on the 2025 Nelson Ball Prize long list! (along w Stebner, Robinson, Christakos etc Congratulations to the entire 2025 Nelson Ball Prize long list! Naturally, it is very exciting to see an above/ground press title on the li...

Peter Jaeger is on the 2025 Nelson Ball Prize long list! (along w Stebner, Robinson, Christakos etc
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Impromptu double Dennis afternoon ft. @tricialockwood.bsky.social

She Writes about Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Also Changing Canadian Poetry | The Walrus At fifty-eight, Karen Solie is one of our major poets. You might find her on her family farm in Saskatchewan

"What distinguishes her poetry is the skill with which she deploys her technique, the intelligence behind her offhand observations, and her commitment to hesitation, qualification, and doubt. She is incomparably precise, knowing just how long to let a poem go slack before pulling the line taut."

BIG DAY The boy is eight. He knows everything about Leviathan. If it had been my son and the Lord talking, every Were you there... ? would have been countered with a Did you know... ? And I imagine the Lord would have reached down and rubbed the boy's head and poured all the Scotch down the sink and sworn off gambling and stopped answering the phone when Satan called.

Sealey Challenge 2025, Day 21: from J-T Kelly's (@j-tkelly.bsky.social) above/ground press (@robmclennan.bsky.social) chapbook More of How to Read the Bible, "Big Day"

oh, Toronto poet (and above/ground press, Gordon Hill Press author etc) MLA Chernoff did such an incredible reading last night via Ottawa's riverbed reading series, / @mlachernoff.bsky.social

—and after finishing the book, I began to feel that all that was illusion, fantasy."

An Interview with Sheila Heti - Believer Magazine Sheila Heti and I met at the Gladstone, a beautiful old hotel in the West Queen West neighborhood of Toronto, on a cold, snowy January weekend. She was warm, friendly, and generous; on her way to the ...

An excellent and comprehensive interview with Sheila Heti:

"we have this idea that the point of life is to keep changing and growing and getting better and more moral and more efficient, and to do things more right and to dress more right and to have better relationships...

I love when a new title is an event. @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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legend

"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."

Ben ROBINSON benrobinson.work
"A Sensitive Man"
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a lovely article on translating titles:

"Perhaps due to this uncertainty, I’ve become obsessed with seemingly untranslatable titles and have catalogued titles—of books, but also of individual poems—which I rank on a scale of translatability."

perfect title