Alastair Morrison

I wrote a section of this in each class at UCD - with Declan Hughes, Éireann Lorsung, Sarah Moss and Jonathan Creasy.

A Contract Their love ran out in March; their lease, in June. He moved where cash allowed, took the room strewn with near-junk unseen since their wedding day. Home, then, was like a drawer where one might lock loose pieces of a fallen antique clock. She lived in bed, ate oatmeal from a tray, read comics like a child bored with a cold. He searched the bars for something nice to hold. Then, drunk, he'd close his eyes and trace the day, the day's soft flicker, down to a shrinking dot, as though a ship were burning, far away. She saw his razor on the sink, the cot folded, the room he slept in not at all, where once she'd wrapped him, waiting, in a shawl and, warmed at last, he could pretend to wake. He waited now, unseen, for no one's sake.

So much going on in this remarkable poem by Joshua Mehigan.

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The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread.
Their greenness is a kind of grief

- Philip Larkin, “The Trees”

A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Autumn Cyclamen’

flock of flamingos balanced
on slender stemware

or mad flight of hats,
magenta origami,
by Schiaparelli,

above ground, you stand
poised as flames on candlewicks,
but under earth I

know you’re a heavy
dark mass

“Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Author photos of five people announcing the 2025 Baseline Press lineup. The authors are Susan Robertson, Dagne Forrest, Jasmine Gui, Salma Husain, and Steve McOrmond.

Gobsmacked, honoured and thrilled to have a Baseline chapbook coming in the spring.

A very cool call for subs! #Disability #CanLit
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Poetry Panel: On Crafting Collections, Mentorship, and Finding Your Readers - The Resilient Writers Radio Show Here's one for the poets!In this special episode of The Resilient Writers Radio Show, Rhonda Douglas hosts a poetry panel featuring four accomplished poets: Kess Mohammadi, Guy Elston, Lorne Daniel, a...

We're delighted to see Khashayar Mohammadi on this great poetry panel:
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“Across the parking lot, a Texas Roadhouse
is coming down, and some of us watch
and some lower groceries into cars’ trunks.

I am thinking of the mirrors in the bathrooms.
I am thinking of the drop ceiling…”

From “Folding” by Jane Zwart in ISSUE 27!

No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission.

If you identify as disabled, please submit!

Close-up photo looking down at the shallow edge of the Thames River in London, Ontario in the late summer. There are bare branches and twigs in the water, and green algae in places. The bright blue sky, white clouds and green trees are reflecting on the surface of the water

ISSUE 32 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Canada 🇨🇦 recognizes the State of Palestine.🇵🇸

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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. How am I supposed to adequately care for patients who are being constantly terrorized by immigration police?

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(I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )

Let’s mock them still

KIRBY “BEDTIME POEMS” 19 |03 MARK STRAND The Buried Melancholy of the Poet from ALMOST INVISIBLE (Knopf, 2012) 20 |03 NORMA COLE Still Today from FATE NEWS (Omnidawn, 2018) 21|03 ROXANNA BENNETT Intake Questionnaire fro…

100 Poems
Read by @itsakirby.bsky.social (under quarantine, 2020)

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You know, I think we all pretty much know what rough beast has slouched into Bethlehem to be born.

Chantal & Erín.
This. Wednesday.
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(if only she had wings to fly)

Come out!! Sept 22nd at Massy with @isabellawangbc.bsky.social @christinashah.bsky.social and Natalie Lim!

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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Three copies of my book 'In The Field' in a skewed stack among a Sarindar Dhaliwal print (a row of green pencil crayons), an Escher print (two hands drawing each other), a photograh of Etty Hillesum, another of the Kariokor cemetery, a Kenojuak Ashevak print (red bird plumage).

These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.

Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.

WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy?

LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science

WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs

Alberta NDP @albertaNDP Under her eye. Margaret E Atwood @ @MargaretAtwood Hi kids... #HandmaidsTale (the book not the series!) has just been banned in #Edmonton...don't read it, your hair will catch on fire! Get one now before they have public book burnings of it.

Margaret Atwood has entered the chat…

#Handmaid’sTale
#MargaretAtwood
#Canada
#Alberta

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Bismuth Zeppelin.

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.

Horrifying.

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History On a gray evening Of a gray century, I ate an apple While no one was looking. A small, sour apple The color of woodfire, Which I first wiped On my sleeve. Then I stretched my legs As far as they’d go, Said to myself Why not close my eyes now Before the Late World News and Weather.

Charles Simic, from Austerities (1982)