MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, a unity of two voices fused into a single, poetic third. It is the name given to the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace — artists whose active solo practices, while differing radically, serve to complement one another. MA|DE’s work together is often exploratory in nature, formulating a set of shared visions, symbols and ciphers that invite the reader into their complex, continually-expanding internal universe.
MA|DE’s writing has appeared in numerous journals and chapbooks, and they have delivered workshops on collaborative writing at several festivals, including VerseFest Ottawa.
With the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, MA|DE completed their first full-length collection, ZZOO (which debuted with Palimpsest Press on their Anstruther Books imprint in Spring 2025 — order a copy here) and have now completed three further collections:
• Alphabeticals (out with Popnoir Editions in spring 2027)
• Detourism (out with Palimpsest Press in spring 2028)
• Twin Visible (out on submission — publisher TBA)
MA|DE is currently hard at work on several new, creatively divergent manuscripts, including:
• Fruit Body (a collaborative novel)
• Syndromes (an exploration of disability poetics)
New poems in BOOK XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy, CV2 (‘Animals’ issue), RABBIT (Australia) and THE EX-PURITAN
MA|DE‘s most recent chapbook, Expression Follows Grim Harmony (aka EFGH) was released with Jackpine Press (summer 2023) — order a copy here
Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There, the solo poetry debut by Jade Wallace, came out spring 2023 with Guernica Editions — order a copy here
