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Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

This was interesting to do.

The Book of Dust: The Rose Field (Book of Dust, Volume 3) by Philip Pullman | Penguin Random House Canada The breathtaking conclusion to Philip Pullman's Book of Dust! This landmark trilogy, set in the world readers first glimpsed in The Golden Compass, continues the story of Lyra: "one of fantasy's most ...

Last book of the second trilogy: less of a ripping yarn than the first trilogy, and the wildly fractal inventiveness is toned down. Still enjoyable, but more in a filling-in-the-lore way, and a nice conclusion to Lyra’s story.

#tinybookreviews #booksky #hisdarkmaterials

The Poet’s Double | Sophie Pinkham In the early years of the Soviet Union, Konstantin Vaginov wrote fiction and poetry characterized by a sense of doubleness, ambiguity, and perverse humor.

“It is a mystery why Konstantin Vaginov was able to keep publishing into the 1930s, while his peers were silenced. Perhaps it was because of his own personal charm, his courtesy.” —Sophie Pinkham

Wellwater WINNER OF T.S. ELIOT PRIZE WINNER OF GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR POETRY WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE A Guardian, Financial Times, CBC, and Observer Best Book of 2025 The poems in Wellwater, Karen Soli...

Nobody needs me to review this book,
cf. many award wins. But I think it’s worth talking about: Solie’s influence is all over Canadian poetry. Lyric verse at odds with contemporary life, with sides of small towns and runaway capitalism.

#poetry #canlit #tinybookreviews

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Me in 1987 at CiTR Radio! All DJs are Volunteers. If you are into supporting independent Campus/ Community Radio feel free to www.donatetocitr.ca Also 2morrow Fri at 3:15pm (pst)doing a fundraising show for CiTR at player.citr.ca & www.twitch.tv/nardwuarserv... Doot doo!

I just realized I misspelled “Jorie”. I blame autocorrect.

Chili and Jodie Graham on a snow day. Partner is reading Wuthering Heights. Spawn #1 is at Nan’s. Spawn #2 is watching Inside Out 2. Spawn #3 is asleep (for now).

#poetry #chili #whatareyoudoingwithyoursnowday

Excerpts from a Burned Letter : Poems DescriptionAward-winning writer Joelle Barron looks back at history through queer eyes in their second poetry collection. Excerpts from a Burned Letter places the experiences of historical figures and...

Certainly one of my favourite recent collections. Shocking with its imagery. Erudite, but colloquial and visceral. The treatment of desire and otherness, while queer and rural on the page, is much bigger and more universal in the reading. Just wonderful.

#tinybookreviews #poetry #canlit #booksky

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DYK: requesting a Canadian book into your local library can financially benefit the author? 📚

It’s true, thanks to the Public Lending Right program, which is a Canada Council for the Arts initiative run by the PLR Commission.

Learn more about PLR:

publiclendingright.ca

#library #canlit

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 7 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Moorehead Paul Moorehead is a writer and physician living in Conception Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador with his partner, their three children, an...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Moorehead / @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social @paulmoorehead.bsky.social ;
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Books & Ideas: Michael Ondaatje in Conversation with Madeleine Thien | Vancouver Writers Fest Among the many international honours from Michael Ondaatje’s long and storied career: he is the only winner in history of the Golden Man Booker, awarded to the best work of fiction from the first five...

Just announced: Michael Ondaatje, the only winner in history of the Golden Man Booker, joins us on March 12 in conversation with fellow icon of Canadian letters, Madeleine Thien.

🗓️ Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 PM
📍 Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island

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Christ. This place. Tell me you’re gonna get rickets without telling me you’re gonna get rickets.

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I’ve been thinking about this. You’re probably on to something. Today’s kids’ programming can be weird, but mostly in a madcap anime-inspired way. Not in a just-strange kind of way. That probably did something to my brain.

This looks a great event.

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

Fuck these fucking thieves

Maggie O’Farrell on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, and Adapting Her Novel to the Screen Maggie O’Farrell was first struck by the homophonic similarity between Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and the titular character of his play, Hamlet when she was 16-years-old. She carried that intrigue ov…

Maggie O’Farrell on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, and Adapting Her Novel to the Screen
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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

Farewell to the mass market paperback (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Hard to interpret this as anything other than a rich man buying, for what is to him essentially chump change, something that is inconvenient to him just so that he can destroy it.

Great article, cited in the NYT piece I posted earlier.

The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists

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What’s With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry?

What’s With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry?

Good question. So many poets — even really good ones — are not good at reading their work aloud.

Promo Time | Kevin Power “This is what it sounds like…” Readers of a certain generation will perhaps automatically complete this phrase by saying “when doves cry.” But it isn’t

“To watch KPop Demon Hunters,” writes Kevin Power, “is to recognize that the corporate entertainment industries and the fandoms that they solicit and serve have now entered into a sort of closed loop.”

Meet the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize readers | CBC Books The longlists for the CBC Literary Prizes are chosen by a team of writers from across Canada. Meet who will be reading the submissions to the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize, which is open until March 1.

CBC Nonfiction Prize initial readers announced #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/litera...