Poem published in The Walrus (January/February 2017). “I Open the Dryer and a Robin Sails Out” winner of 2016 Reader’s Choice Award for Poetry in The Walrus Magazine. “No More Potlucks,” “You Don’t Have To Choose But You Do,” “Better” in Fog Machine with an introduction by Gillian Sze (Winter 2017). “Bridgeland” in The Big Smoke (May 2017). “How Do You Respond To Conflict” & “Burn It All Down With Water” in ALPHA (Winter 2018). “Rainbow Rock-Climbing Club” in Heavy Feather Review (Summer 2018)
“Open Relationship with the Moon”, “Open Relationship with the Ocean” & “Borderlines” in Room Magazine 41.3 (The Queer Issue) “We All Want Marshmallows” in Cascadia Magazine (Fall 2018) “We Are Stupid Little Animals” & “Bad Women” in glitterMOB (December 2018) “For Ariss” in The Malahat Review, Queer Perspectives Issue (Winter 2019) “Self-Portrait of 2018” in Eighteen Bridges, (Spring 2019) “Obviously A Shitty Dream” in Vallum, Connections Issue (Spring 2019) “Time After Time,” “You Will Be Taken Care Of In Your Old Age,” “Shirley Temple’s Survival Guide,” “David Attenborough Narrates My Trauma Response,” “Libra Rising,” “73 Orcas Left In The Salish Sea,” “Star Names And Their Meanings,” “Where Are You From,” “White Rock,” “Grieflandia,” & selections from Under in Arc Magazine, Spring 2020 “I Lost My Metaphors When She Died” and “Someday in April,” in NUVO Magazine, Fall 2020 “Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season” in Room Magazine, Growing Room, Issue 44.1, Spring 2021 “Will the Forest Make My Father Happy” in CV2’s Daddy Issue, Winter 2022 Reading this book is like carrying on many chats at once and, like her characterization of a contemporary Anais Nin, ‘never recycling material.’” - Monica McClure, author of Tender Data “The witty, elegant poems in Renaissance Normcore refreshingly capture the experience of living next to, with, and beside self-revelations, bravely acknowledging the coexistence of truth and denial, through observations that fold in on each other: “Never underestimate my ability/ to gaslight myself.” Barclay writes of touching many cities at once and telling stories in at least four ways, and the effect is somehow lucid as a clean mirror.
I think Adèle Barclay should become very famous for her poetry-she’s so real and so true to her words that fame itself wouldn’t dare torque or twist anything without this poet’s permission.” - Brenda Shaughnessy, author of The Octopus Museum
Nobody else has this precise combination of revelry, wish, and command. “I love Barclay’s wildness that tames her reader-I love her direct flirtation and unflinching analysis.
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