Andy Verboom is from subrural Nova Scotia and lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax). He is the publisher & editor of Collusion Books and the co-founder & publusher of long con magazine.
His poetry has won Frog Hollow’s Chapbook Contest & Descant’s Winston Collins Prize, been shortlisted for CV2‘s Young Buck Prize & Arc‘s Poem of the Year, and appeared in CAROUSEL, Prism, The Puritan, Vallum, & elsewhere.
DBL (knife fork book, 2020) is his sixth chapbook.
Poetry
“Widow’s Nostredame” in Chaudiere Books’ National Poetry Month feature (Apr 2022)
“Delusional Structures of the Inner Ear” in CAROUSEL 44 (Aug 2020; Dec 2020) as the first link in CHAIN, an ongoing, global series of response poems
“The Barer Sheet” & “Campfire Rounds from Ancient Earth” (collaborative performances) for Sesquisharp at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts (Aug 2019)
“Reconnaissance” in Contemporary Verse 2 41.1 (July 2018) as Young Buck Poetry Prize Honourable Mention & in the Luna Mouths Atlantic poets series (Dec 2019)
“The Toys to Have” in The /temz/ Review 2 (Jan 2018)
“Of the Building of Cities” in The Lampeter Review 15 (Dec 2017)
“Roofspeak” in PRISM international 56.1 (Nov 2017)
The Wide Skirt / Der weite Rock / The White Rock / Der weiße Stein / The Wise Stain… (durational performance) at TAP Centre for Creativity (Oct 2017)
“There Emigrate Bullets” in Word Hoard 5 (Nov 2016)
“Jesus H. Christ Does Private Dancing” in The Puritan 35 (Nov 2016)
“The Megafaun: Fact or Fiction?” in Vallum: Contemporary Poetry 13:2 (Nov 2016) and the Vallum Blog’s Poem of the Week (Dec 2016)
“The Critique of a Handsome Vacuum” in Arc Poetry Magazine 81 (Nov 2016)
“Sea Cucumber Elegy” in Contemporary Verse 2 29.1 (July 2016)
“Gastromance” in Arc Poetry Magazine 80 (June 2016) in the Poem of the Year Shortlist
“Evil Arrow-sign God” & “Vesuvian Man” in BafterC 8.1 (May 2016)
“On Watching ‘Makin’ Bacon Pancakes 10 Hour Version'” in 300 Hours a Minute: Poems about YouTube Videos (Desert Pets Press, 2015)
“Moon Hill” in Hart House Review (Spring 2015)
“Counting Half the World” in Hart House Review, Winter Supplement (2015)
Criticism
“Of Mermaids and Men: a review of Jessie Jones’s Nix” in PRISM international (2018)
“Theses on the Criticism of Popular Songwriting” (2017), co-written with David Janzen
Conscientious Conceptualism and Poetic Practice series (2017), as editor-in-residence at The Town Crier
“Poetry could be Bullshit: From Scatology to Conscientiousness” (2017)
“Ethics in Constraint: Liberation and Determinism in the Misheard Lyric” (2017), co-written with David Huebert
“Speaking of ‘Lyric Conceptualism’: Space, Time, and the Travelling ‘I'” (2017), co-written with Kevin Shaw
“Review of Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance” (2015)
“Review: Christine Leclerc’s Oilywood” (2015)
“Paradoxy: Interpretive Environments, Time Travel, and the Unrereadable” (2013)
