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Poet. Flamenco artist. Member of @palabraflamenco. Poetry collections with @biblioasispublishing + @houseofanansi. 🇵🇸 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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I’m excited to share that I’m touring Quebec and Ontario with my new book of poems, WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE, out with @biblioasispublishing!

I’m pleased as heck to read alongside so many talented writers, and to bring this book to new readers across the country. Hope to see you at one of these readings!

October 18 — Montreal, QC
@Accent_open_mic
Bar Le Record, 8–11 p.m.
With poets @lochbaillie and David B. Gosselin, followed by an open mic.

October 19 — Quebec City, QC
@morrincentre, 7–9 p.m.
With poet @sadiqademeijer, followed by an open mic.

October 21 — Ottawa, ON
@perfectbooksottawa, 7–8:30 p.m.
With poets @rob_mclennan_writer, Jennifer Baker, and @margo_lapierre.

October 22 — Windsor, ON
@biblioasis_bookshop, 7-8:30 p.m.
Triple book launch with poets Dominique Béchard and @leighkotsy.

October 24 — London, ON
@littlewrenbooks, 4-6 p.m.
With poet @alexboydwriter.

October 25 — Toronto, ON
@typebooks, 7-9 p.m.
With poets @carolyn_smart_poet, Dominique Béchard, and Jim Johnstone.

October 28 — Guelph, ON
@bookshelfnews, 6-7:30 p.m.
Book launch with poet @thelittlesparrows and writer @the_artofsoil_collective.

October 29 — Hamilton, ON
@theprintedwordbookshop, 7-9 p.m.
With poets @tanismacdonald, @jaclyndesforges, @farehmalikpoetry, and @alexander_hollenberg.

Swipe through the images for individual event graphics, and share with anyone who might like to join us!

With gratitude to @coachhousebooks, @bookhugpress, @gaspereaupress, @vehiculepress, @ghp_pql, @mawenzihouse, @palimpsestpressbooks, @caitlinpress.daggereditions, @guernicaeditions, @goose_lane. by @garthmartens

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Delphine is two-and-a-half years old and expressive as heck. Imagine, behind the heart filter I’ve used to hide her face, eyes that are jacked with wonder, as though every detail of this effort of mine is a joy of hers.

I recorded this in March after receiving author copies of WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE, my newly published second book of poetry.

I encourage you to order it from your local bookstore of choice, or you can order it from the publisher through the link in bio. by @garthmartens

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Some news. I have a new book of poetry forthcoming this April. It’s called Who Else in the Dark Headed There. I’m grateful it will soon be in the world, though for a while I wasn’t sure I wanted it to exist.  
A mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming.
 Beneath this waking world is another world, of the overheard, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure, a “muscled concentration” that reorders, resuscitates, and redoubts.

You’ll find it in bookstores on April 14. You can also preorder it, right now, either through my publisher or your local indie bookstore of choice: link in bio, etc.

I’ll read from it this spring and summer:
• March 27 — Vancouver (SFU Library)
• April 10 — Victoria (with Planet Earth Poetry & The Malahat Review)
• April 14 — Kelowna (launch)
• April 30 — Victoria (launch)
• August 16/17 — Cumberland (with Cascadia Poetry Festival)

Details soon.

If you’re a reviewer or bookseller, and would like an advance copy, send Biblioasis a message!

“Poems of intense emotion, the torque on the language extreme—as it must be, reaching this far into the dark, this honestly.”
—Jan Zwicky

#CanLit #IndiePress #PoetryCommunity #CanadianPoetry #SmallPress by @garthmartens

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See you tonight, Montreal! Join me, @lochbaillie, and David Gosselin at @accent_open_mic! taken in Bar Le Record by @garthmartens

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A new poem of mine, PALMAS, is a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. The piece comes out of my nineteen-year study of flamenco, and it’s a companion piece to DOESN’T LOOK FAR, another flamenco poem of mine that you can find online at Hawkeye Magazine. by @garthmartens

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Sunday Oct 18th @barlerecord

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@lochbaillie
David B Gosselin
@garthmartens by @garthmartens

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How is writing an act of transformation? Hear a memoirist, a poet, and a translator explore this topic in the Victoria Festival of Authors event Translation and Transformation. Join Danielle Geller, Garth Martens, and Yilin Wang in conversation with moderator Iain Higgins on Friday, October 16 at Langham Court Theatre for this must-see panel.

Tickets available on a sliding scale at the VFA website, linked in our bio. by @garthmartens

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Today, September 26, is the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Journalists.
Last September, Canadian Writers for Palestine released this Open Letter, to decry the systemic murder of members of the press by the israeli regime. I share it again today. The deaths have not stopped.

We stand with Palestinian journalists, the bravest on the planet.
We condemn their killings by the Israeli state as war crimes.
Each paid with their life, for another to have the truth.
Our names bear witness to theirs.
Art by Noura Alqasasia by @garthmartens

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This weekend, I’ll be reading and performing up-Island in Cumberland, BC. Join us if you can.

On Saturday afternoon, environmental philosopher Jason Wirth will give a talk about the poetry of Jan Zwicky. Jan and I will then perform her long poem Say It, followed by a Q&A.

On Sunday, I’ll read from my new book, Who Else in the Dark Headed There, alongside Robert Bringhurst, who will read from Buying the Ghosts a Drink, a book of interviews soon to be released by Gaspereau Press.

I’d love to see you there.

#BritishColumbia #CanLit taken in Cumberland, British Columbia by @garthmartens

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I’m really pleased to see this poem, “Nothing But Glass, Snow,” online for folks to read, especially at @unlikely.stories.

This poem is a kind of rupture at the centre of my new book, Who Else in the Dark Headed There (@biblioasispublishing, 2026).

You can read the poem in full via the link in my bio. by @garthmartens

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My poem “Afterwinter” from Who Else in the Dark Headed There (@biblioasispublishing, 2026). by @garthmartens

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