The top 10 and the top 2 dozen of the year. Some of these were really tight calls. And a have a dozen still underway that I may finish this year. Could happen. 2025 Poetry: Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D Graham (Model Press, 2025)Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (Stelliform Press, 2025)Hawk & Moon […]
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Year End Audit
I suppose I could do this Jan 1st and to a degree will. I had a few guiding goals going into the year: Abandon books instead of slog, read more BIPOC, more queer, more in translationmore by disabled, more in French. About 10% BIPOC. On French, I finished none. What/who counts as disabled? Bit hard […]
Statistics
My books read tends to go up by title on twitter while #TodaysPoem tends to go up at Instagram. Annually, since 2012, I have shared the metrics of what I consumed. I track by nation, age, genre, gender, queerness, colour, format, source and rating. Data gradually got more granular over the years. In 2012, I […]
Top 25 reads
What is the top fifth of the books completed thus far this year? My favourite books and chapbooks read are these: Poems/Essays Quiet Night Think: Poems and Essays by Gillian Sze (ECW, 2022) Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty by Bahar Orang Bookhug, 2020) Novels/Short Fiction A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little […]