We’re back on track here on The Rock, with only one active case in the province after our flare up of the British variant last month. Now we go down to level 2 tomorrow and we’re emerging back into the light like vole coming out of the earth in Spring. Here’s hoping it sticks this time. Steady as she goes, b’ys.

- The Poetry In Voice finalists are here! Kid Power!;
- Did you know the government here is fucking over funding for disabled readers? I didn’t… shame;
- This SK indie bookseller doubled sales during the pandemic;
- Book workers to back Amazon workers’ union efforts;
- NBCC Awards handed out;
- Did you know there’s a book TikTok? I mean, I thought it was just all cute babies and mushroom foraging… And what amounts to children dancing in bikinis;
- Winterset Award handed out here in NL;
- On Amanda Gorman and Maya Angelou;
- National Poetry Competition in UK sees teacher win;
- Dylan Thomas rolls over drunkenly in grave as they announce poetry-less shortlist in his name;
- New Sappho or new Sappno?;
- LoTR ed. with Tolkien’s charming-but-crappy drawings coming;
- Italian dude mods one of them wee 3-wheeler trucklets into a mobile bookstore;