The latest poem for *In the Third Sleep: the Kay Sage Ekphrastic Poem Project* is by Gillian Sze! Check it out here: inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

NEW PAINTING! "Balloons" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

The success of The Backrooms & other recent horror fictions has brought the concept of "liminal spaces" to the mainstream. This idea was central to the development of my latest book NMLCT, as I hope my poem "The Nucleus" demonstrates. NMLCT is published @ecwpress.bsky.social. #liminalspaces #poetry

NEW PAINTING! "Beheaded Horse" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Beheaded Horse" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

My 2024 painting "Coronal Mass Ejection Error" (24”x 36”, acrylic on canvas) has a new owner and will soon be on its way to a new home. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Prison Diptych" 22" x 30" (x2), acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Orphans" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

This is all the painting I have done in the last ten days. I don't remember the last time I had this kind of creative deluge in any form. I think these paintings are an embodied form of thinking that is bringing me closer to my next writing project. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

Reading Dorothy Livesay this morning.

NEW PAINTING! "Body" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

I probably won’t make paintings this size very often because storing them will be a challenge.

"Vox Polypi" 42" x 72", acrylic on paper, 2026. Not enormous in the art world, but (at six feet wide and nearly four feet high) "Vox Polypi" is the single largest painting I have ever made. See more on my website. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Lineage Diptych" 22" x 30" (x2), acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Shelter Diptych" 22" x 30" (x2), acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Ouchie" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Mother and Young" 22" x 30", acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Children's Hospital Diptych" 22" x 30" (x2), acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Triptych of a Haunting" Individual panels. 22" x 30" (each), acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Triptych of a Haunting" 22" x 30" (x3), acrylic on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

Somehow I was in Berlin for the Berlin Poetry Festival 19 years ago. Where does the time go?!

NEW PAINTING! "Destroyer Figure Wearing Seven-Legged Horse as a Crown" 22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, coloured pencils, inkjet printer and collage on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

This is what they sound like.

In 2024, I started a new series of works on paper. Feeling constrained by the hard-edged elements of my "Error" paintings, I wanted to explore a more gestural and expressive idiom. I called those first attempts "The Wrong Paintings". You can see them all here: www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/the-wrong-...

"You Cannot Do This" by Gwendolyn MacEwen.

NEW PAINTING! "Destroyer Figure Amid a Barrage" 22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

Finally was able to deliver this painting to its new owner. I love it when these treasures find a good home. "Architecture of the Island of Wrong Animals" 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper. 2025. SOLD. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

NEW PAINTING! "Destroyer Figure as the Surgeon" 22.5" x 30", acrylic, graphite, crayons and coloured pencils on paper. www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

Here I am standing in front of David Hockney’s 1968 painting “American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)” at the Art Institute of Chicago three years ago. RIP David Hockney. You were fabulous.

The Canadian Griffin Prize is reinstated! I am so pleased! Thanks to everyone who rallied behind Canadian poets, and to the Griffin Trust for hearing us. griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2026-a...