it is only permissible to mention the weather

  • composed using only words from Orlando
    published in Blackbox Manifold: Issue 32
    August 2024
  • read online


  • cover_PamenarOnline

    What is the speed of threat?

  • call and response poem written in collaboration with Mary Paterson
    published in Pamenar Online Magazine
    22 June 2024
  • read online


  • cover_belladonna

    let's take hold

  • poem written in response to Lisa Robertson’s First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant
    (Belladonna* Chaplet #75)
    published by Belladonna* Collaborative
    30 April 2024
  • read online

  • cover_imRegen-Austaush3

    it is only permissible to mention the weather

  • audio poem / soundscape broadcast on:
    im Regen-Austausch #3
    Cashmere Radio, Berlin
    22 April 2024
  • listen online (starting at 20:38)


  • cover_somethingother

    confused as ever

  • poem published in:
    Something Other
    The Twelfth Chapter: On Disturbances
    December 2023
  • read online

  • cover_ThePleasureOfTheCoast

    Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast

  • poetry collection
    English with French facing pages
    published by Pamenar Press
    London: 1 November 2023
  • featured in Words from the Wild: the Nature of Poetry
    Royal Holloway, London, UK
    17 January 2024 - 24 March 2024
  • purchase the print book online here
  • view the browser-based version of The Pleasure of the Coast

  • cover_CityOfMarvels

    City of Marvels

  • poetry chapbook
    published by Broken Sleep Books
    30 November 3023
  • purchase online

  • cover_TheMinutes2

    begin / pretend

  • poem published in:
    The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions Volume 2
    Spring 2023


  • cover_osmosis

    the trees

  • poem published in:
    OSMOSIS
    23 March 3023
  • read online

  • cover_AllKeyboards

    Lament

  • poem published in:
    All Keyboards are Legitimate - Versions of Jules Laforgue
    edited and introduced by Suzannah V. Evans
    GUILLEMOT PRESS
    March 2023

  • cover_TheMinutes

    a field. a feed. a fold. a hold. a force. a foss. a hip. a heron.

  • poem published in:
    The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions Volume 1
    Spring 2022


  • cover_somethingother

    An Account of a New Comet

  • poem published in:
    Something Other
    The Tenth Chapter: On Visions
    September 2021
  • read online

  • cover_TCRweather

    The Incremental Coast

  • poem published in:
    The Capilano Review 3.45: Weather
    Fall 2021

  • cover_cbcbooks

    even this dust / some walks of late / of a feather / this slowly

  • four poems longlisted for:
    CBC Poetry Prize
    2021

  • cover_Magma80

    On the Wing

  • lyric essay published in:
    Magma 80: Avatars
    2021

  • cover_BFTK4

    TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]: A JAVASCRIPT FOR THREE VOICES

  • published in:
    BRICKS FROM THE KILN #4
    Edited by Natalie Ferris, Bryony Quinn, Matthew Stuart
    London, Chicago & Edinburgh
    December 2020

  • cover_wordsforworldsupended

    Words for Worlds Upended

  • poetry chapbook
    published by Guillemot Press
    Falmouth, UK: October 2020
  • illustrated by Antonia Glücksman

  • This is a Picture of Wind

    This is a Picture of Wind

  • poetry collection
    published by Longbarrow Press
    Sheffield, UK: June 2020
  • featuring an introduction by Johanna Drucker, and a poetic afterword by Vahni Capildeo
  • reviewed in SPAM Press Deep Cuts 2020
  • named one of the best poetry books of 2020 by The Guardian

  • cover_ageneralhistoryoftheair

    A General History of the Air

  • single-poem chapbook
    published by above/ground press
    Ottawa, Canada, March 2020
  • Review of A General History of the Air by Stan Rogal


  • zetmag

    Dubliners Under the Line

  • poem published in:
    ZeTMaG 5.1
    available online for six months
    January-June 2020

  • cover_LUNE

    Of Glass

  • poem published in:
    LUNE: The Journal of Literary Misrule
    Issue 3: Display
    Lancaster, UK
    October 2019

  • cover_SDUK

    A Year at Tottenham

  • poem published in:
    The Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
    Issue 5: Accounting
    Blackwood Gallery
    Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
    July 2019

  • cover_azimuth

  • poem published in:
    Azimuth: The Ecology of an Ear
    Sonic Art Research Unit
    Blackwood Gallery
    Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
    May 2019

  • The Forward Book of Poetry 2019

    The Voyage

  • poem published in:
    The Forward Book of Poetry 2019
    The Best Poems from the Forward Prizes
    Fabre & Fabre
    September 2018

  • PRISM

    After Making Witches

  • poem published in:
    #MeToo: A Poetry Collective
    Edited by Emily Critchley and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
    Chicago Review
    September 2018
  • read online

  • PRISM

    Once Upon a Tide

  • a script for live performance published in:
    Wretched Strangers
    Edited by JT Welsch and Ágnes Lehóczky
    Boilerhouse Press
    June 2018

  • An Ocean of static

    An Ocean of Static

  • a poetry collection
    published by Penned in the Margins
    London, UK: 2018
  • Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes 2018
  • Launched at The British Library, London, 27 April 2018
  • Presented at:
    Cúirt International Festival of Literature, April 2018
    Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2018
  • Download a sample (PDF)
  • Listen to an excerpt on Culture File, LryicFM
  • Interview:
    J.R. Carpenter talks to Elle Eccles about translation, migration, and variance in her newest poetry collection An Ocean of Static
  • Reviews and more information about An Ocean of Static
  • Buy now £12.


  • PRISM

    Which Way is West?

  • call and response poem
    co-authored with Mary Paterson
  • published in:
    PRISM International 56.2
    Vancouver, BC
    Winter 2018

  • paratext

    Brought / Away

  • poem published in:
    para-text 4
    London, UK
    November 2017
  • The Gathering Cloud

    The Gathering Cloud

  • book / media / art / history / science / essay
    published by Uniformbooks
    Axminster, UK: 2017
  • view the web-based version of The Gathering Cloud
    winner of the New Media Writing Prize 2016
    editor's pick for the Saboteur Awards 2017
    shortlisted for the Turn on Literature Prize
  • shortlisted for The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature 2017
  • Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Mary Paterson
    Furtherfield, 22 June 2017
  • Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Jan Baetens
    Cultural Studies Leuven, 14 August 2017
  • Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Ryan Ormonde
    Sabotage Reviews, 6 November 2017
  • more Information about The Gathering Cloud
  • purchase online


  • Arc Poetry Magazine

    Once Upon a Tide: A Script for Live Performance

  • performance script published in:
    Arc Poetry Magazine 82
    Ottawa, Canada
    Winter 2017

  • Oxford Poetry

    Instances of Englishness in Darwin's Voyages of the Beagle

  • erasure poem published in:
    Oxford Poetry : Erasure
    XVI.iii Winter 2016-17
    Oxford, UK

  • The Clearing

    There are Many Reasons for Planting Trees

  • generative poem co-authored with Camilla Nelson in:
    The Clearing
    Little Toller’s Journal for New Writing
    Dorset, UK, 2016
  • Read a generative version of There are Many Reasons for Planting Trees
  • Watch video documentation a live performance of There are Many Reasons for Planting Trees with Camilla Nelson

  • The Goose

    water.under

  • concrete poem in:
    The Goose 15.1
    A Journal of Arts, Environtment, and Culture in Canada
    Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016
  • Download a PDF of water.under
  • Watch video documentation a live performance of: water.under with SJ Fowler

  • The Other Room 8

    Etheric Ocean

  • performance script [excerpt] in:
    The Other Room Anthology 8
    The Other Room Press (2016)
    edited by James Davies and Tom Jenks
    associate editor Scott Thurston
  • Read the web-based version of: Etheric Ocean
  • Watch video documentation a live performance of: Etheric Ocean at The Other Room

  • Translating Horses

    When You Erase a Word >>>

  • generative poem in:
    Translating Horses: the line, the thread, the underside
    a poetry and visual art anthology
    edited by Jessica Hiemstra and Gillian Sze
    Baseline Press, October 2015
  • Read online: When You Erase a Word

  • Once Upon a Tide | J. R. Carpenter

    Once Upon a Tide >>>

  • generative prose in:
    The Junket - Issue 14
    Cambridge, UK
    23 May 2015
  • Introductory Essay: Once Upon a Tide
  • Read online: Once Upon a Tide
  • Call and Response: Toward a Digital Dramaturgy | J. R. Carpenter

    Eight Short Talks About Islands ...and by islands I mean paragraphs

  • article / performance script in:
    Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
    Volume 7, Number 1.
    September 2014
  • Read the web-based version of ...and by islands I mean paragraphs

  • this sea is nothing in sight but isles || J. R. Carpenter

    Three Approaches Toward the Edge of the Earth

  • generative poem in:
    CURA A Literary Magazine of Art & Action
    Issue 14, Fall 2014
  • Read online: Three Approaches Toward the Edge of the Earth

  • this sea is nothing in sight but isles || J. R. Carpenter

    this sea is nothing in sight but isles

  • generative poem in:
    3:AM Magazine
    2 September 2014
  • Read online: this sea is nothing in sight but isles

  • Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl | J. R. Carpenter

    Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl

  • performance script / poem in:
    Fourteen Hills
    The San Francisco State University Review, 20.2. 122-128.
    May 2014
  • Read the web-based version of Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl

  • The Ill-tempered Rubyist

    ## READ WRITE GARDEN ##

  • erasure poem written in Ruby in:
    The Ill-Tempered Rubyist
    edited by Karren Randall
    Propolis Press, 2013
  • Download a PDF of ## READ WRITE GARDEN ##
  • TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] || &Now Awards

    TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]

  • computer-generated narrative dialogue in:
    &Now Awards 2, The The Best Innovative Writing
    Davis Schneiderman, ed.
    Lake Forest College Press
    May 2013
  • read the computer-generated version of TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]
  • TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] || a global visuage

    TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]

  • visual code poem in:
    A Global Visuage
    Jörg Piringer und Günter Vallaster, eds.
    Vienna
    October 2012
  • read the computer-generated version of TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]
  • Whisper Wire || Rampike

    Whisper Wire

  • short essay and expert of computer generated poem:
    Rampike, Vol. 20 / No. 2 "Scientific Wonders"
    University of Windsor, Windsor, ON Canada
    November 2011
  • read the computer-generated version of Whisper Wire
  • Branch

    An Annotated Timetable of Notable Arrivals in Rome

  • a prose list:
    Dandelion: Literature & Art on the Edge
    issue 36 number i/iii
    Calgary, Canada
    April, 2011
  • Branch

    Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR

  • a sort-of short story:
    Branch Magazine
    Toronto & Montreal, Canada
    April, 2011
  • Read Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR in Branch
  • Read a computer generated version of Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR
  • Dragnet

    Best Behaviour

  • short story:
    Dragnet Magazine, Issue 1
    Toronto, Canada
    February, 2011

  • Lemonhound

    Two Poems and a Conversation With J.R. Carpenter

  • I've Died and Gone to Devon & A Turn for the Cold
    on Lemonhound
    Montreal, Canada
    November, 2010
  • Read Two Poems and a Conversation With J.R. Carpenter
  • GENERATION[S]

    GENERATION[S]

  • hybrid code narrative book:
    published by TRAUMAWIEN
    Vienna, Austria
    September 7, 2010
  • More Information about GENERATION[S]
  • Purchase Online
  • Le livre de chevet

    Les huit quartiers du sommeil

  • short story (translated into French by Daniel Canty) in:
    Le Livre de chevet
    an anthology edited by Daniel Canty
    published by Le Quartanier
    Montreal, QC, Fall 2009
  • read the Google Maps version of Les huit quartiers du sommeil (in English)
  • Ryga

    Truth, Dare, Double-Dare, Promise to Repeat
    Once or Twice a Year
    Air Holes

  • three short stories in:
    Ryga: A Journal of Provocations
    Okanagan College, Vernon, BC, Canada
    Fall 2009
  • Crannog 22

    in absentia

  • Cover art & prose poem:
    Crannog 22
    Galaway, Ireland
    Fall 2009
  • Read the electronic literature version of in absentia
  • Leonard Cohen You're Our Man

    Snow is Falling Somewhere

  • Poem, published in the anthology:
    Leonard Cohen You're Our Man
    Foundation for Public Poetry
    Montreal, QC
    Fall 2009
  • Words the Dog Knows

    Words the Dog Knows

  • Novel: published by Conundrum Press, Fall 2008
    Winner of the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book 2008
  • Read an excerpt of Words the Dog Knows
  • PURCHASE Words the Dog Knows
  • Words the Dog Knows

    Words the Dog Knows

  • Novel excerpt: published in Geist #71, Winter 2008-2009
  • Read the excerpt online: Words the Dog Knows
  • PURCHASE Words the Dog Knows
  • Carte Blanche

    Wyoming is Haunted

  • nonfiction: Carte Blanche, Vol. 7, July 2008.
    the literary review of the Québec Writers' Federation
    Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Prize 2008
  • Read Wyoming is Haunted
  • Air Holes

    Air Holes

  • Winner of the CBC/QWF Québec Short Story Competition, 2006.
    broadcast on CBC RadioOne - 88.5 in Québec July 2006.
  • Published in In Other Words: New English Writing from Québec,
    an anthology, Véhicule Press, Montréal, QC, Spring 2008.
  • Read an excerpt of Air Holes
  • Roads Out of Rome

    Roads Out of Rome

  • creative nonfiction in:
    Geist #63
    Vancouver, BC, January 2007.
  • Read Roads Out of Rome
  • Two Generations Ago

    Sniffing for Stories

  • an audio prose poem project in:
    In-situ Cité an interdisciplinary audio ensemble tour of Mile End, Montréal
    presented Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal during Les Journées de la Culture
    September 30 & October 1, 2006
  • More info on In-situ Cité
  • Read Sniffing for Stories
  • Two Generations Ago

    Two Generations Ago

  • a very short story presented in-situ in:
    The FORMER RESIDENT Project
    as part of Conflux 2006
    Brooklyn, NY, USA, September 14-17, 2006.
  • Read Two Generations Ago

  • Nth Position

    December 15, 2003

  • a poem in Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on
    an anthology of poems reflecting on consequences of 9/11
  • Read December 15, 2003
  • Download "Babylon Burning" from NthPosition.com
  • The Greyhound Eulogy

    The Greyhound Eulogy

  • a short story in:
    Matrix #74
    Montreal, QC, July 2006.
  • More about The Greyhound Eulogy
  • Read The Greyhound Eulogy
  • Hennessey's High Pasture

    Hennessey's High Pasture

  • short story in:
    The New Quarterly #98
    Waterloo, ON, April 2006
  • More about Hennessey's High Pasture
  • Read Hennessey's High Pasture
  • Lust for Life - The Prettiest Teeth

    The Prettiest Teeth

  • a short story, in the anthology:
    Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love
    editors, Claude Lalumière and Elise Moser
    Véhicule Press, Montréal, QC, January 2006.
  • More about The Prettiest Teeth
  • Read The Prettiest Teeth
  • Future Welcome - Searching for Volcanoes

    Searching for Volcanoes

  • a poem, in the anthology:
    Future Welcome: The Moosehead Anthology X
    editor, Todd Swift
    DC Books, Montréal, QC, December 2005.
  • More about Future Welcome: The Moosehead Anthology X
  • Ars Medica - Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment

    Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment

  • an illustrated essay,
    Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, Health and the Humanities,
    Toronto, Ontario, Fall 2005.
  • "Notions" was also presented as a web art project in:
    ENGAGING THE VIRTUAL, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, March 9 - April 23, 2000.
  • Artist's statement: Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment
  • view the web-art version of Notions of the Archival in Momory and Deportment
  • Carve - The Cape

    The Cape

  • a short short story,
    Carve, Montréal, QC, Fall 2005.
  • view the web-art version of The Cape

  • Saint-Urbain Street Heat - Nth Position

    Saint-Urbain Street Heat

  • a poem, NthPosition.com, August 2005.
    more information about Saint-Urbain Street Heat
  • Read Saint-Urbain Street Heat on NthPosition.com
  • Precipice - Short Stuff

    Precipice

  • Winner of the CBC/QWF Québec Short Story Competition, 2003.
    First broadcast May 22, 2004 on CBC RadioOne - 88.5 in Québec.
  • Published in Short Stuff: New English Writing from Québec,
    an anthology, Véhicule Press, Montréal, QC, Spring 2005.
  • More about Precipice
  • Read Precipice
  • Carte Blanche

    Wasn't One Ocean

  • short story for, Carte Blanche, Vol. 2, June 2005.
    the literary review of the Québec Writers' Federation
    Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Read Wasn't One Ocean
  • Carte Blanche

    Aerial Photograph

  • short story for, Carte Blanche, Vol. 1, January 2005.
    the literary review of the Québec Writers' Federation
    Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Read Aerial Photograph
  • Pixelware, a sublime forgery

    Pixelware, une sublime forgerie

  • exhibition brochure texts - four fictions.
    Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sze Lin Pang, Penelope Umbrico
    January 6 to February 5, 2005 at Dazibao in Montréal.
    February 10 to March 10, 2005 at Gallery 44 in Toronto.
  • more about the exhibition:
    Dazibao - centre de photographies actuelles
    Gallery 44 - centre for Contemporary Photography
  • Read the Pixelware texts online: ENGLISH ou FRANCAIS
  • An Affair in Ruins

    An Affair in Ruins

  • short story in:
    Nthposition
    London, UK, June 2004.
  • More about "An Affair in Ruins"
  • READ An Affair in Ruins
  • Knight Literary Journal

    Bi-Coastal

  • short story, Knight Literary Journal, Volume II
    Spout Spring Virginia, USA, April 2004.
    edited by Charles Cutter.
  • More about Bi-Coastal
  • READ Bi-Coastal
  • NthPosition

    Commuter Train Exchange

  • poem, in the ebook, Poems for Madrid
    free for download: http://www.nthposition.com/
  • Streeteaters

    Peevish Brain

  • poem for the magazine, Street Eaters
    Brain Storms / Illness issue, #21, June, 2003.
    Streaters Productions
    Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Aftermath

  • poem for the magazine, Street Eaters
    Weather / Elements issue, #22, July, 2003.
    Streaters Productions
    Montréal, Québec, Canada
    for more information about Street Eaters
  • 100 Poets Against the War

    Averse To War

  • poem for the book, 100 Poets Against The War
    edited by Todd Swift
    Salt Publishing
    Cambridge, UK & Applecross, Australia
    March 3, 2003.
    ISBN: 1-876857-98-6
    Purchase online All profits go to Amnesty International.
  • poem for the chapbooks,
    100 Poets Against The War, and 100 Poets Against The War Redux
    Chapbooks available as of Monday, January 27, 2003
    Free Download: http://www.nthposition.com (as a PDF file)
    Press Release: 100 Poets Against The War
  • Flux

    Mythologies of Land Forms and Little Girls & Patent Plastic

  • two short stories
    FLUX, A Magazine of Queer Expression
    Montréal, Québec, Canada
    Spring, 1997.
  • Etc. Montreal

    The influence of a Maritime Climate

  • artist's page
    Etc. Montréal, Revue de L'Art Actuel, Issue # 37
    Montréal, QC, Spring 1997.
  • The Orchard of Innumerable Plans

  • short story
    Blood & Aphorisms Issue #23
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Summer 1996.

    Jennifer" & "Confessions of a Young Fetishist

    two short stories in Blood & Aphorisms, Issue #22
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Spring, 1996.
  • Postscript

    Mythologies of Land Forms and Little Girls

  • illustrated short story
    Postscript, A journal of graduate criticism and theory
    Representing The Body, Vol. 2. No. 1.
    Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
    Spring 1995.


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