Annick MacAskill

KIRBY she "She is joy's pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE​"She is a capacious city of rich human habitation, where elation is every day’s caring infusion. Her cityscapes are painted deftly—in few words, in pauses, in juxta...

A REMARKABLE BOOK that is anti-corporate, anti-national, pro-queer body,& pro-queer sex is called SHE. Kirby has also lost many friends in the early years of the AIDS crisis you can feel the “I’m not taking shit from anybody” vibe all over these pages. CACONRAD
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"Kirby’s SHE offers up prayers for the quotidian that are at once tender and resilient. Reading this collection reminded me of the ceremony inherent in poetry. A delight." - Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social

KIRBY
She @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Congratulations to Karen Solie for winning the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 with WELLWATER! 🎉

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Poetry collection Murmurations by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press) sits on a snow-covered table, leaning against a red brick column

Handwritten transcription of the poem Flying by Annick MacAskill from the poetry collection Murmurations

"so the silvery gull floats like an apostrophe
over the green campus

one body paused in the weight of another."

#Todayspoem #poetry
Flying by Annick MacAskill (@thisisannick.bsky.social) from Murmurations (2020 @gaspereaupress.bsky.social) plenitudemagazine.ca/writing-abou...

Tomorrow night! Be there or be somewhere else but preferably be there!

Refaat’a family is facing eviction. Please donate if you’ve been impacted by his life: chuffed.org/project/1093...

"His laughing mouth is full of coal"

-Sheldon Currie, the Ballad of Charlie Dave (from Margaret's Museum)

Opaat Press publisher @thisisannick.bsky.social hosting their Second Anniversary Poetry Bash #HalifaxCentralLibrary #earliertoday

Photo: @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social

I believe it! And thank you!

Thanks so much, Paul!

Thank you so much for coming!

Had such a good time today I only took one photo! Thanks to everyone (all 120 of you) who came out. You were a great audience.

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Love me a poetry bash. #haveablast #LuckyHaligonians
#OpaatPress #secondanniversary @thisisannick.bsky.social

TODAY 2-4PM #HalifaxCentralLibrary

20 Poets.
2 Hours.
1 hell of a celebration.

Free & open to all. #OpaatPress @thisisannick.bsky.social
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This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

Thank you thank you! 🙏🏻💓💜

Love me some single poem poetry pamphlets.

Congrats @thisisannick.bsky.social & #OpaatPress

367 Days Later: Reflecting on a Year of Opaat Press I published a pamphlet of Nanci Lee’s poem “Palindrome” last Boxing Day, marking the beginning of Opaat Press. Opaat was an idea that had been lingering in the back of my mind for over a year. I wa…

SATURDAY 2-4PM #halifaxcentrallibrary
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Huge congrats to publisher @thisisannick.bsky.social & the poets of #OppatPress on this, their #SecondAnniversary celebration.

Read more about the micro-presses' herstory here:
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This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

Poetry collection The Outer Wards by Sadiqa de Meijer (Vehicule Press) sits atop a notebook with a golden cover

Handwritten transcription of the poem "The Second Arrow" from the collection The Outer Wards by Sadiqa Meijer - the book is held open with a small piece of red brick and an uncapped black pen rests on the notebook page

"It's a good trick, and, unexpectedly, repeatable."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Second Arrow by @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social from The Outer Wards (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/the-out...

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.

The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

When I catch myself in such intense poetic earnestness...

Everyone:
Literally everyone:
Me on social media: THIS IS A PRO-POETRY ACCOUNT.

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Come hang out with us at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social on December 22 for some seasonal scary stories!

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Vincent
Sharon Cave
2020

Women Operators
George Reid
1917

The Three Sapindaceae Graces
Bogdan Molea
2009