
Andy Verboom is from subrural Nova Scotia and lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax). He is the publisher of Collusion Books and the co-founder 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
“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)
Editing, Design, & Publishing
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)