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We recently toured four cities, six festivals, and 29 performances. We join traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and storytelling.

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Some news from our producer and co-founder @garthmartens:

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:
• 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_books 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 @palabraflamenco

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Flamenca and author Rebeca Dunn-Krahn interview’s Garth Martens for the Victoria Festival of Authors. ***link in bio*** QUEBEC & ONTARIO, he’s coming your way over the next 2 weeks. Don’t miss out on hearing him read! Seriously. by @palabraflamenco

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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 @palabraflamenco

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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 @palabraflamenco

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I’m so so in love with my community and flamencos I get to dance with. Gratitude Guapas ❤️‍🔥 …a couple moments from the Tientos last night 💕 #yyjflamenco #themintrestaurant taken in Victoria, British Columbia by @palabraflamenco

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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 @palabraflamenco

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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 @palabraflamenco

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

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In which I read my poem “Night Corridor” from Who Else in the Dark Headed There.

Give it a listen.

Want to check out the book? The link’s in my bio. by @palabraflamenco

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brewing or fermentación o aparecimiento… Gracias a todo 💕 taken in Peña La Platería by @palabraflamenco

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Stills from the Alborea and some exclusive afterparty footage 🕶️ #catsofgranada taken in La Alborea Flamenco by @palabraflamenco

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