On the left: a portrait of Raoul Fernandes against a blue background. On the right: text that reads “Your secret voice, / always a bit tired, lightly grazing / your throat, barely language.”
On speakerphone, two lives hum at opposite ends of the line, suspended in time by sound.
In this new poem, Raoul Fernandes captures the quiet intimacy of a phone call:
https://thewalrus.ca/speakerphone/
Prepping my submission now.
PINHOLE POETRY'S WINTER ISSUE James Croal Jackson Peter Schireson Jule Wong Kathryn MacDonald Frances Boyle Antony Di Nardo Kelly Shepherd Patrick Grace Gary Campanella Sky Davis Robbie Chesick Laura Nuckols Melissa Mack Dagne Forrest David Ross Linklater Allister White Julie Cameron Gray Alexandra McKay Monty Reid Concetta Principe Kate Rogers Amber Goodwyn Wenda Salomons Samantha Annie Bernstein Loch Baillie with Chapbook Love Letters from Kim Fahner to Ancestral Wings & from Rob Madden to Unbecoming JANUARY 3
Announcing the contributors of our next issue, Pinhole Poetry’s 16th issue! It’s going to be full of amazing poems, pinhole photography and a couple of chapbook love letters! Can’t wait for you to read it soon!
Pleased to share my poem Rattlesnakes, which I read and recorded for the short film Fissures (2025) by @keykode.bsky.social with a soundtrack by Andrea-Jane Cornell. The film is currently at various festivals
Dear pals, my Saskatchewan-based band, Natural Sympathies, is playing at POP Montreal next Saturday. Huzzah! Hope to see you there, Amber (+ Dana + Darcy + Tanner)
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Dear pals, my Saskatchewan-based band, Natural Sympathies, is playing at @popmontreal.bsky.social Montreal this month. Huzzah! Hope to see you there, Amber 💋💋💋
equal parts proud and embarrassed by this one. by far the best thing i've written, but also the most unhinged
2. Will embark on a little self-directed artist residency in my hometown (Montreal) too xo
((the book is a collection of Elizabeth Bishop’s poems))
📸: @keykode.bsky.social
Spring looking towards summer ⬇️
1. Very excited to be accepted into the Sage Hill Poetry Course this summer, led by poet Michael Trussler. I’ll be working on editing existing poems and writing some new ones to complete a chapbook manuscript. ✨
someone in rural sk looking to trade a $10k+ modular synth for a small tractor or mini excavator sometimes it's good here
TWINS
That’s so lovely! 💞
Authors for eSims — an online book auction raising funds to supply eSIMs to Palestinians in Gaza — is open for one more week.
120 Canadian writers have donated autographed books or special editions for the cause.
thestar.com/entertainment/…
Today for free and easy! Get a light buzz while listening to poetry 💋
Thanks to Nikko Snyder for including me as a guest on the first season of her new podcast @parentingcreative.bsky.social 💞 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
Dear Saskatchewan neighbours, please vote strategically xoxo info below!
#musicvotescanada #stoppierrepoilievre #cooperateforcanadam
The exhibit is on view until June 22nd in the Queen Elizabeth II Gallery at Government House.
‘Switchback’ is a poem about two perspectives of a time and place, in particular, my personal experience as a teenager living in an apartment building (with switchback stairs). The poem can be read in regular sequence or in two parts (left and then right or vice versa).
My poem on a wall!
Last night I attended the ‘Celebrate Poetry Month’ event presented by the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild at Government House, which also celebrated the opening of the Family+ exhibition. 🌸
It would be so nice to see you!
Very relaxed poetry + beer afternoon coming up soon. I’m thrilled to sip legendary brew from Regina’s OG craft brewery while listening to poetry! Saturday, May 3rd from 3-4:30pm. Presented by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brew Pub. FREE. (beer = not free lol) 💋 xo
National Poetry Month via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social day thirteen! with a new poem by Courtney Bates-Hardy, / @poetcourtney.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social ;
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International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
The Heating and Cooling Plant by architect Clifford Wiens, U of R campus
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Photo by @keykode.bsky.social
Taking refuge in comedy, poetry, wit and overall communal joy as much as possible these days. Came across this Jeff Nuttall clip...
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Studiously ignoring unwanted attention from an older white man in this cafe I’m in by practicing a new performance art piece I like to call ‘You Do Not Exist’
