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christinemcnair.bsky.social
Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
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Never not disgusted by the way educational institutions use the language of disability and accessibility to justify their increased use of predatory AI. Apparently, instructors have no right to guard their IP against companies like Amazon, our lectures used to train the tech that will replace us.

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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

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I’m still very excited to have received my iron infusion last week but this iron flu is not pleasant.

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Canadian authors: registration for the Public Lending Right #PLR program is open now until May 1, 2025. This awesome program pays royalties to Canadian authors for books in Canadian public libraries. For those already enrolled, payments should be arriving soon. publiclendingright.ca

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Watching & reading mysteries to wash away general dread & yet another stay in bed illness with tea & hedgerows.

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if your library doesn't carry a book you'd like to read, make a recommendation (there's often a form for this on your library's website)! not only will you hopefully get to read said book, others will also be able to check it out too!

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A reminder that books by Canadian authors published by independently owned Canadian presses are almost always printed in Canada. The GST holiday ends on Valentine's Day so show #CanLit some love and head out to your local independent bookstore this week or next.❤️📚

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In Toxemia “McNair’s use of a prose line throughout the text seamlessly blends moves from critique & analysis to memoir to the immediacy of lived memory.” Melanie Brannagan Frederiksen on @christinemcnair.bsky.social's hybrid memoir for Winnipeg Free Press. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

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Sandra Ridley's muti-vocal video poem, the Season of the Haunt from Vixen @bookhugpress.bsky.social youtu.be/qwrfcyBWNno?...

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In 1959, 9 year old Ronald McNair was denied books at a segregated library, prompting police involvement when he defiantly refused to leave. He later earned a PhD in Physics from MIT, became an astronaut, and tragically died in the Challenger disaster. That same library is now named after him.

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Catching up with follows & starter packs — bookbinding, printing, writers & poets oh my!

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#SageHillWriting announced their 2025 Spring Poetry Colloquium with Métis poet Marilyn Dumont this year! I did this retreat in 2019 and it was a huge game-changer for me as a poet. Highly recommended! sagehillwriting.ca/writing-retr...

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Off the Shelf Reading Series Part 5 Featuring: CHRISTINE MCNAIR @christinemcnair.bsky.social + rob mclennan / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social February 28, 2025 : 7 pm SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver www.poetrycanada.org @poetryincanada.bsky.social

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Random stuff around Toxemia in 2024 —summaries and events and nice stuff. A couple links to online readings, and some upcoming events. christinemcnair.com/2025/01/11/t...

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hot tea is relaxing because you can throw it in the face of your enemies and get them to leave you alone

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"Narrative loose ends abound, as in this situation they must. The bottom line is life persists, the book was written. And it’s terrific.” Michael Bryson reviews Toxemia by @christinemcnair.bsky.social. michaelbryson.substack.com/p/book-revie...

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Toxemia by @christinemcnair.bsky.social is included in this great round up of favourite book covers of 2024 from @hamrevofbooks.bsky.social. hamiltonreviewofbooks.com/blog/2024/12...

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Here are ten of the most exciting & challenging books I encountered in 2024, a mix of nonfiction, fiction, & poetry, all books that made my brain fizz.

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A pill case is like an Advent Calendar in that you open it every day until you meet Jesus

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Thanks to Michael Bryson for the review of Toxemia! I really appreciate it. Its such an odd lonely thing to put out a vulnerable book like this & am grateful for every reader that takes their time with it. michaelbryson.substack.com/p/book-revie...

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HQftD: Toxemia “They remember things I forget and record things I shouldn't forget.They hiss at me and make me nauseous.There are things that need remembering there that I shouldn't forget.Forgetting…It just distributes the problem sideways.You can't undo.” @christinemcnair.bsky.social

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Toxemia is a "moving and compelling narrative, strange and edgy, unsettling. Unputdownable.” Kerry Clare reviews @christinemcnair.bsky.social's latest book on Pickle Me This. picklemethis.com/2024/10/15/_...

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Thanks much to Hollay Ghadery for the interview along fellow co-panelists Paige & Maurice!

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rob mclennan, Christine McNair and the Magpie Poets at #SingleOnion 206! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_I6...

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Cassidy Mcfadzean on the devastating decision by Sheridan College's Administration to axe its excellent Creative Writing and Publishing Program.

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Opening Night for @versefestottawa.bsky.social's Fall Edition is this Thursday, November 28. Alice Burdick, Manahil Bandukwala, Stuard Ross, and Véronique Sylvain. Advance tickets here: www.showpass.com/versefest/ #Ottawa #Poetry #Poetrysky

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Dear Calgary — please come out to this reading if you can & buy books from @shelflifebooks.bsky.social! Tonight at 7pm— Single Onion reading series.

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HEY CALGARY! don't forget that @christinemcnair.bsky.social & I are reading TOMORROW via the single onion series at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social! + if not in person, you can also stream the event live on The Single Onion YouTube page: www.youtube.com/@SingleOnion... shelflifebooks.ca/events/14127...

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I’M READING TONIGHT in Kingston with rob mclennan & Alison Chisholm with musician Megan Hamilton as part of the Drift/Line Series, lovingly hosted by poet Wanda Praamsma ; www.instagram.com/p/DBsIWCxtAg...

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newly posted: Kim Fahner : Toxemia, by Christine McNair / @christinemcnair.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/11/kim-...

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ATTN #Ottawa #Queers and #Poetry Nerds: Who's coming to see @delbauchery.bsky.social, @ehjchang.bsky.social, and actually-for-real Shani Mootoo with me at Writers' Fest tonight? (Tix at the link below, they have an online option too) writersfestival.org/events/fall-...

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Hello self. Did y’know it helps your Access copyright $ if you actually enter your books and publications into the claim form? Like that whole book you published in 2017? Remember that book? Helloooooo?

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My post on lost words and a recommended reading list on 49th shelf: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10...

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CBBAG Ottawa Valley meeting is tonight at 6pm at the Carleton University book arts lab! Anyone in town interested is welcome to attend — whether they are a CBBAG member or not — and the meeting happens every second Wednesday each month. Details the same as here: cbbagottawa.ca/category/act...

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Mini book tour w/ upcoming events in Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Calgary & Vancouver w/ space for extra readings Oct8-Nov3 or Nov8-11th. Do you need a hybrid poetic memoir reader for an event? I’m usually entertaining & will rarely ever have the flexibility I do this fall! (See: work/life/kids.)

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hey! above/ground press is at The Ampersand Festival, with Christine @christinemcnair.bsky.social as our first ever table-proxy! theampersandreview.ca/the-festival... ; she's also on a panel, re: her new hybrid/poetic memoir Toxemia (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) ; bookhugpress.ca/event/christ...

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Fabulous news for #MedievalSky today: the British Library has brought 1000 digitized manuscripts (MSS) back online: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman.... Congrats to all the BL staff who have made this recovery possible.

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Looking forward to celebrating the Ottawa launch of Toxemia with Christine McNair at Club Saw on Tuesday, October 1 at 8:30pm! Club Saw, 67 Nicholas & Livestreamed at WritersFestival.org.

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tonight in St. Catharines ON! me an' Christine McNair an' Stephen Cain! 6:30pm!

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TONIGHT! Come upstairs and hear @robmclennan.bsky.social read from his new book and buy books and have snacks and look out big pretty windows on Beechwood!

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hey, Niagara! its me an' @christinemcnair.bsky.social running a workshop! and we're reading that evening (6:30pm) in the same space, fyi, with the most amazing Stephen Cain,

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This has landed in our house; rejoice!

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the Ottawa launch of On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press) is a week away! “A deeply moving portrait, from embryonic scrapbooks and quotidian diaries to the many births which compose a life.” Laynie Browne, Intaglio Daughters robmclennan.substack.com/p/ottawa-boo...

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Six Questions interview Ivia Chaudiere Books) #209 : Christine McNair / @christinemcnair.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @versefestottawa.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2024/09/six-...

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