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Patrick O’Reilly : Two poems THE INVENTION OF THE EXTINCTION OF THE AUK The imagination kindles and memory scrolls through its rolodex of gifs, finds  Auk: pen...

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Another fine poet on board for the Montreal International Poetry Prize jury.

a black-Brown Cairn terrier lying on its side next to a bilingual (French & English) edition of Emily Dickinson’s complete works

Co-working.

a black-Brown Cairn terrier lying on its side next to a bilingual (French & English) edition of Emily Dickinson’s complete works

Co-working.

Super excited about how the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize Jury is shaping up!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER

IONA LEE

Iona Lee is a writer from Edinburgh whose debut poetry collection, Anamnesis (Polygon, 2023), won the Somerset Maugham Award.

Follow Lee at www.ionalee.com!

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See…now…I don’t remember that quote! What did it refer to? I remember the way he would say “thinginess” and I really like to channel that energy and that pattern of thought.

Yes: and it was formative. I still think about it!!!

“Still very new, and slightly surprised to find itself in this awkward position, having been thrown into the gutter without hope of retrieval, it remains a most likable object on whose fate we will not dwell for long.”

— from Francis Ponge’s “Crate,” translated by Corey & Garneau

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER

JASWINDER BOLINA

Jaswinder Bolina's most recent book is the award-winning ”English as a Second Language and Other Poems” (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, 2023).

Find him at www.jaswinderbolina.com and @jaswinderbolina.bsky.social!

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“I wanted syllables / to hang on my frame like / clothes I could not afford / and give me a balletic glow.”

Heather Christle from “My Education” in Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press, 2025)

So pleased that Jaswinder Bolina is joining the jury of the Montreal International Poetry Prize! He’s such an original talent.

“Want to come in and type a poem on a 1920s Underwood? Sure, take a seat, don’t rush.

You’re over 90? Front of the queue.”

An inspiring piece. I love typing poems on my 80s-era electric typewriter. It’s transformative! And I have an older, non-electric model I need someone in Montreal to tune up.

three slabs of wet concrete sidewalk stretching out ahead of the camera with light snow on either side

Micro-mood:

Here’s another glimpse into our upcoming issue. We are ripe with anticipation at the opportunity to present you with more of Patrick O’Reilly’s work in our print edition.

We cordially (and enthusiastically) invite you to the launch of Scrivener No. 47. Tickets are going FAST. You'd be a fool to miss it. Link to tickets here: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

So pleased to welcome the wonderful poet and teacher (and Vermonter!) James Crews to my Poetry Writing class yesterday. Check out his newest book Turning Toward Grief, just out last month.

I was not a fool. I didn’t miss it. I’m not gonna miss it. :)

MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER DANCED BALLET, my debut full-length collection, comes out on March 17, 2026. You can pre-order it now, from all the usual places, or ideally from your favourite local indie! Thanks to Brick Books for bringing this into the world.

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Grateful for this little Notable Poem nod in the back of Best Canadian Poetry 2026. And thanks to @arcpoetry.bsky.social for publishing “On Breaking,” one of my several midlife climate grief poems.

Hardcover. Thumb notches. Dad bod. Farm-to-table. Beast mode. Love to see it!

I love a person wielding an umbrella against snow. It is such a whimsical form of “oh, I give up.”

I think I’m just not going to respond anymore to foolishness about how LLMs are a true substitute for thought. It’s an utter waste of time. People who commit to that idea will find out that it’s nonsense in time, and they aren’t going to listen until then.

close-up of mud and bubbles under ice

close-up of tangled frosted brown leaves

November field and alley report.

It’s been a privilege to serve on the committee for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and to witness how it builds community around contemporary poetry in a variety of styles that reach across global Englishes.

Cannot wait to read your work!

Really excited that Boris Dralyuk is joining the jury of the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social housed at McGill University. Huge fan of his poems and translations.

Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems guzzle XIII balcony collapsing, the roof rotting through, low rent; i’ll live here as long as i can.  nowhere to turn to that isn’t...

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Micro-season: more November snow; Dolly Parton’s cover of Emmylou Harris’s “Boulder to Birmingham; transit strike newly suspended; grasping for the title of a pigeon poem conceived at this bus stop.