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ALL LIT UP’s 2025 ‘World Poetry Day’ Reading Recommendations!


World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.

Amazing to see ZZOO is a part of ALL LIT UP’s ‘30 must-read poetry collections’ list, recommended to help celebrate this special day — thanks for including us alongside so many other interesting artists (like Jessica Bebenek, Kyle Flemmer, Tea Gerbeza, Amy LeBlanc, Joseph Maviglia and Cecily Nicholson to name a few!)

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ALL LIT UP interviews MA|DE


“Part of our guiding ethos as MA|DE is a sense that we should optimally function like an indie band, with the publisher acting as a label. It’s crucial for us to be actively involved in every stage of the book’s life cycle—including writing, editing, designing, marketing and touring.”

ALL LIT UP talked to Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace, the duo behind MA|DE, about their collaborative process and their new book ZZOO (order here), which has FIVE very striking covers so that readers can select their favourite!

Read the interview here

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2025 Ontario ‘ZZOO’ Tour Announcement!

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After 6+ years collaborating together MA|DE is FINALLY GOING ON TOUR to promote our debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO!

We hope you’ll be able to join us at one of these launches:

FEB 28 TORONTO > Queen Books
MAR 01 GUELPH > ANAF Club 344
APR 12 LONDON > Little Wren Books
APR 13 ST. CATHARINES > Niagara Artists Centre / Phylum Reading Series
APR 26 WINDSOR > Biblioasis Bookshop
JUN 18 PETERBOROUGH > Take Cover Books
JUN 19 KINGSTON > Novel Idea
JUN 21 OTTAWA > Ottawa Small Press Book Fair
JUN 23 HAMILTON > Hamilton Public Library

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More details, including guest readers at every event, coming soon! And if you’d like to invite us to read somewhere, we’re still booking events for this year, just get in touch.

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5 New Poems in BOOK XI

A whole five of our poems appear in issue XI of Book XI, a “Journal of Literary Philosophy” housed at The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College. It feels extra lucky that these poems, from our forthcoming debut collaborative collection ZZOO with Palimpsest Press, are in the “Superstitions” issue. Enjoy poems such as:

1. “No Performances Today,” which is about a real-life cemetery for circus performers;

2. “Skybird,” in which two people who almost never go on planes write about the phenomenology of air travel;

3. “Sugarwhip,” a strange little diptych we struggle to describe, but it’s kind of about evolution;

4. “Subsidized Housing for Small Birds,” one of my personal favourite poems (and titles) from our book, which we wrote after perusing a handbook on bird-watching; and,

5. “Arbeitslied” (“work song”).

The issue is available to read in full for free online.