KFB 10 SPRING 2026 BUNDLE OF BLISS
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"This, our celebratory 10th Anniversary Season, was simply too good not to do." - Kirby, Publisher knife | fork | book
Your KFB 2026 Spring Bundle awaits. And, it's fire. Poetry bliss.
HELEN ROBERTSON Lesbia
BEN ROBINSON [A] Sensitive Man
R. KOLEWE Holonomy
JIM JOHNSTONE Eye For An Eye
MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH Slutflowers
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JAMES LINDSAY Choral Coral Carol
BUY THE BUNDLE. ENJOY THE FEAST.
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MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
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from the award-winning author of Burning Province
Night falls, and I open the album
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
MICHAEL PRIOR
Shadows Under the Trees
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN 978-1-989355-80-0
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MICHAEL PRIOR is a writer, teacher, and editor. His most recent book of poems, Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020), won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC & Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016), which was named one of the best books of the year by the CBC.
Michael is the recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Residency, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and Hawthornden Literary Retreat. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies across North America and the UK, including Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Narrative Magazine, Sewanee Review, Kenyon Review, PN Review, Ambit, Poetry Daily, Global Poetry Anthology, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series.
Michael holds graduate degrees from Cornell University and the University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor of English and ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College, and also edits the Véhicule Press poetry imprint, Signal Editions.
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JAMES LINDSAY Choral Coral Carol
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from the author of Only Insistence and The Lake
Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.
Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight
JAMES LINDSAY
Choral Coral Carol
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-79-4
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A single long poem that whips into a called upon frenzy of euphoria. Bliss.
JAMES LINDSAY is the author of the poetry collections Only Insistence (icehouse poetry, 2023 Longlisted for the Nelson Ball Prize), Double Self-Portrait, Our Inland Sea (both Wolsak &Wynn), and the chapbooks The Lake (KFB, 2022 Finalist bpNichol Chapbook Award), Ekphrasis! Ekphrasis! (Anstruther Press), and Labour Day. He lives in Toronto where he works in publishing.
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R. KOLEWE Holonomy
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from the author of A Net of Momentary Sapphire. silence, then. The Wild Fox. + The Absence of Zero.
"...if the future exists it's all because of this week, all this week. The past no argument."
R. KOLEWE
Holonomy
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN 978-1-989355-85-5
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R. KOLEWE has published four previous collections of poetry Afterletters (Book*hug, 2014), Inspecting Nostalgia (Talonbooks, 2017), The Absence of Zero (Book*hug, 2021), and A Net of Momentary Sapphire (Talonbooks, 2023) as well as several chapbooks. You can find him on the web at kolewe.net.
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AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH Slutflowers
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from the authors of Matthew, Beast Body Epic / Terrarium, These Are Not the Potatoes of My Youth
AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH
Slutflowers
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-81-7
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Cover art: Angie Quick. "Addicted to the Bad Boys Part 1 & 2"
Springboarding from Genet's "Our Lady of the Flowers," Earl + Walsh seed/fashion queer their own erotic gardens in collaborative response. Part of KFB/wQr Fore4Play Series.
AMANDA EARL (she/her) is a queer writer, reviewer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry. Her latest book is Beast Body Epic, a collection of long poems provoked by her near-death health crisis (longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award). Her first poetry book, Kiki is ten years old. In 2024 Earl began an editing and literary events organization service. More at their Substack and AmandaEarl.com.
MATTHEW WALSH grew up in Nova Scotia and now lives in Toronto. Their celebrated book-length collection These Are Not the Potatoes of My Youth was a finalist for the Trillium and Gerald Lampert Awards. Previously their poems have appeared in Joyland the Capra Review the Antigonish Review the Malahat Review and Geist and in a chapbook entitled ICQ (Anstruther Press). Walsh's latest poetry collection Terrarium was published by icehouse poetry in Spring 2024, also a finalist for the Trillium and longlisted for the Nelson Ball Poetry Prize.
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HELEN ROBERTSON Lesbia
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"Every book is lucky to have been written but they do not all have the fortune to hear the flutter of their own pages. No matter your reinterpretation, no matter what is found in me, always the same delicate sound with each turn, yours, yours, yours."
HELEN ROBERTSON
Lesbia
Poetry. Pamphlet.
ISBN 978-1-989355-83-1
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HELEN ROBERTSON is a transexual, bisexual, genderqueer dyke moving through the lifelong process of accepting how lucky she’s been; using poetry to excise their ire and sorrow — hopefully turning it into something worthwhile.
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BEN ROBINSON [A] Sensitive Man
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from the author of As if, The Book of Benjamin, and Without Form
he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp.
BEN ROBINSON
[A] Sensitive Man
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-84-8
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BEN ROBINSON is a poet, musician and librarian. He lives in Hamilton, ON on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. His first book, The Book of Benjamin, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2023. His second, As Is, was published by ARP Books in 2024.
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JIM JOHNSTONE Eye for an Eye
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from the author of The King of Terrors, and The Ouroboros
I take back what I said earlier. I do
remember, I do –
JIM JOHNSTONE
Eye for an Eye
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ISBN 978-1-989355-82-4
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JIM JOHNSTONE is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023), and a collection of essays on micropress: Write, Print, Fold, and Staple (Gaspereau Press, 2023). Along with his wife, Erica Smith, he is the publisher at Anstruther Press, which is the subject of The Anstruther Reader: Ten Years of Poems, Broadsides, and Manifestos (Palimpsest Press, 2024).
SADIQA DE MEIJER Fieldwork
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“In the back seat of my parents' car, I liked to put my finger on the window and write long cursive words on the pastures. I wanted the seat on the right, because then I was writing into what had passed, instead of what was coming, which felt like the proper orientation. Decades later, I stood at the edge of a field that was blank with snow, and I felt again that old urge to write on it."
SADIQA DE MEIJER
Fieldwork
Based upon her 2024 Page Lecture
Lecture/essay
ISBN: 978-1-989355-75-6
Co-published with Fieldnotes
Spring 2025
Available for preorder (price guarantee).
Winner of the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language (Palimpsest Press, 2020) Poet Laureate. Kingston, ON sadiqademeijer.com
PHILIP HARE Understatements
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LIMITED EDITION [13] HAND-SEWN FELT SLIPCOVERS BY PHILIP HARE
"I've kept journals since the early 1980s. Each of the words that make up Understatement[s] has appeared somewhere in them. Many of them multiple times. Finding love & community profoundly affected how I engage with language. Words that once caused unseen scars are now badges with honour. They have become labels that have been embraced by the LGBTQ+community and are worn proudly, defiantly." [read more >]
PHILIP HARE
Understatements
Chapbook. Visual poetry.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-86-2
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PHILIP HARE is a multi-disciplinary artist living in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His work is primarily textile based but also incorporates repurposed materials such as worn denim jeans, safety pins, clothes pegs, and tampons. He also creates installations that are both immersive and performative.
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JACOB ALVARADO I Can Make It All Up To You
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"My legs were oaks. My knees; a forest-fire."
"His hand... slicked with sweat
from the shame of being unashamed"
"11:59 PM: a kiss away."
JACOB ALVARADO
I Can Make It All Up To You
Their poetry debut from KFB.
In his 'devotional' debut, I Can Make It All Up To You, Jacob Alvarado captures/frames desire like a tall glass of water, fresh in ways that are all at once recognizable and as new as a first kiss. The stuff of dreams itself. I keep returning to it, in love.
Now in it's Second Printing.
Jacob Alvarado is a writer, poet, and Executive Assistant for the Giller Prize. His book reviews can be found in The Ampersand Review. He lives and writes in Mississauga, Ontario.
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DALE MARTIN SMITH The Size of Paradise
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2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST
There is a wound the size of paradise.
"With a kind of clipped historical shorthand, the use of the fragment in The Size of Paradise becomes a supercharged lyrical force that is also sprung with time. The momentum of this capacious book-length sequence keeps turning outward as it investigates an inward subjectivity, not all together Dale Smith per se, but maybe a collective interiority where we find, “Dead things collect in words.” And more importantly we discover “There will be love as memory.” Smith has written a high-stakes recounting of time and experience expanding the world we live within and that lives within us. This book is out of doors. I love it." —PETER GIZZI, author of Fierce Elegy
The new full-length collection from the author of Sons, Flying Red Horse, and Blur
There was a story. There was a time.
There was a distinct sense of measure.
There was a heat. But never calm. Messiness.
Wide oak. How plastic lids exhale carbon.
DALE MARTIN SMITH
The Size of Paradise
Poetry. ISBN: 978-1-989355-65-7
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Poet and literary scholar, DALE MARTIN SMITH was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned a BA and PhD in English from the University of Texas, and an MA in Poetics from New College of California. He is the author of the full-length poetry collections Flying Red Horse (2021), Slow Poetry in America (2014), Black Stone (2007), American Rambler (2000), as well as the KFB chapbooks, Sons (2017), and Blur (2022). Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (2012) and two edited editions, An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson (both 2017), for which he received Simon Fraser University’s Charles Olson Award. His essays and poetry have appeared in Poetry, The Walrus, LA Review of Books, Boston Review, and Lambda Literary. With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, 1998-2004. Smith joined the faculty of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, in 2011. He is currently at work on an essay collection, That Tongue Be Time on the poetry and prosody of Norma Cole (2025).
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KIRBY she
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"She is joy's pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE
"She is a capacious city of rich human habitation, where elation is every day’s caring infusion. Her cityscapes are painted deftly—in few words, in pauses, in juxtapositions, in fond attentions, in breath and the difficulty of breath, by a poet who knows deeply that life is fragile and that age comes and alters us. She says: the world loves us back when we love it. Flowers, streets, lovers, skies, persons, walks, in/fusions. She is joy’s pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE, Theophylline A Poetic Migration Via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo)
"She reaches for the skies, as an ambitious sequence of poems, yes, but also in its conceptual stretch upwards, in its candour, its veneration of beauty, and its delicate ventilation of imagery. Here Kirby’s poems exist in a prolonged present, in the complexity of an intergenerational embrace, defying temporality in favour of an experiential ekphrasis—moments exceed chronology and model still lifes, to hold and behold. She supports great tenderness between every line." —KLARA DU PLESSIS, author of I'mpossible Collab and Hell Light Flesh
"Kirby’s She offers up prayers for the quotidian that are at once tender and resilient. Reading this collection reminded me of the ceremony inherent in poetry. A delight."
—ANNICK MACASKILL, author of Shadow Blight
By turns tender and trenchant, breathless and breathtaking, Kirby’s She recalls the small raptures and enduring resiliencies of a remarkable life. These poems—raucously wise and constellated by memory—guide us across decades and over borders, through devastating pandemics and a mother’s failing health, along streets cast with “quiet crisp blue light,” past an old family home surrounded by “trumpet vine shades” and “three kinds of lilacs,” into the intimacy of a morning spent with a beloved, all the while insisting on what matters: love, friendship, community, and a radical commitment to a better, kinder world.” These poems are filled with lines as hard-won as they are true: “who cares what spirits it took what / fates we face,” writes Kirby, “who cares it takes me a little / longer to get anywhere if at all...” —MICHAEL PRIOR, author of Burning Province
"Real joy lives in Kirby's She, joy that aches because it was earned, joy that rekindles itself—until it doesn't (and so must be savoured): "That recipe will go with her." A precious resource, these poems shimmer, and not just the ones I read through tears: grief, desire, inheritance, perseverance." —NEIL SURKAN, Unbecoming, On High
"In these everyday occasionals about friendship, mothers, the pandemic, aging, sex, and the body, Kirby opens themselves to a new hushed form that prioritizes their tender language. This is an intimate conversation you don't want to end. If this is your first time reading Kirby, I am jealous of you and you have picked an excellent starting point." —JAMES LINDSAY, author of Only Insistence
"She licks. She dances. She grieves. She doesn’t hold back. She watches a masturbator on a pandemic-empty street. On Mondays, She buys sameday meat to freeze. She remembers, and She forgets. She faces another day with dread. She night-walks. She acknowledges the half-life of a fluttering moth. She rails against the corporate co-opt. She ponders mortality. She naps at four. She is done. She is heartbreak. She is joy. She is beauty in all her glory. She lives. She is alive. She is Kirby. The book is SHE." —KATHRYN MOCKLER, author of Anecdotes
A REMARKABLE BOOK that is anti-corporate, anti-national, pro-queer body, and pro-queer sex is called SHE by my dear old friend Kirby from Knife Fork Book Press. Kirby has also lost many friends in the early years of the AIDS crisis, and you can feel the “I’m not taking shit from anybody” vibe all over these pages. —CACONRAD, Author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
From the author of Poetry is Queer and This is Where I Get Off, their highly-anticipated new full-length collection.
“Hello my gorgeousness.”
KIRBY
she
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KIRBY’s work includes Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021) What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020) This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019) She’s Having a Doris Day (KFB, 2017) & editor NOT YOUR BEST No. 2, The Queer Ass Fuck Issue (KFB 2021). They’re at work on a follow-up to Poetry is Queer, MORE (2026). Their Substack column, “The First Time” can be found at Send My Love To Anyone. They are the publisher at knife | fork | book kirbyshe.com
NORMA COLE Rainy Day
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Norma Cole’s forms of expression are ambitious. Her poems often (though not always) take small forms; they are made of short lines, in small stanzas, so that the space of the page starts to play an active role in the reading of them. Subtly, surreptitiously, these small packages explode in delicate, or sometimes not so delicate, arrays of color and attitude. Norma is famous for her empathic connections to people, artists and others, living and dead. Many of her poems carry dedications. She builds community as part of her poetic practice. On the other hand, she reserves a razor-sharp and ice-cold anger for the abuses of power and depradations of the morally corrupt as she observes them in the halls of power, here and around the world. The world is always calling in these poems; sometimes it is being called away, as we are made to look, through Norma’s poems, from the perspective of the universe. It is then that the human quality really shines through. Norma is a visual artist, in addition to being a writer, and has often worked in collaboration with other artists. Not just the look of her poems, but the images she shows us in them, will carry us a long way. - Vincent Katz, March 16 2021, Tribute to Norma Cole
An ordinary evening
is to be in danger
NORMA COLE
Rainy Day
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-68-8
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NORMA COLE was born in Toronto in 1945. She is a poet, painter, and translator. Her most recent books of poetry include Fate News (2018), Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside (2012), Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems, 1988–2008 (2009), and Spinoza in Her Youth (2002). Cole has also published the volumes To be at Music: Essays & Talks (2010) and Actualities (2015), a collaboration with painter Marina Adams. Her translations from French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then (1989) and Jean Daive’s A Woman with Several Lives (2009). Additionally, Cole edited and translated Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (2000). Her awards include the Fund for Poetry, Gertrude Stein Award, the Richardson Award for Non-Fiction Prose and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award for Poetry. She curated a show by Marina Adams at Cue Arts in NYC and collaborated with Adams in BOMB 114, Winter 2011. Her visual work has been shown at the Miami University Art Museum, [2nd floor projects] in San Francisco, “Way Bay,” at the Berkeley Art Museum and most recently her film, “By the Turning Bridge,” at Arion Press, San Francisco, and NIAD, Richmond, California. A book of her drawings, called DRAWINGS, with an introduction by Mary Ann Caws, just appeared from Further Other Book Works.
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JAY BESEMER Your Tongue is as Long as a Tuesday
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1.C. [Your tongue is as long as a Tuesday.] I want to stop & make you visible, but I don't. I'm shy or perhaps too fond of that thrill of uncertainty. Without solidifying my gaze & my sense of you, I can keep you at liberty. If I can see you, others are sure to. I do want to see you but not explain, not share, not risk you. Not risk you & me. We are at risk.
JAY BESEMER
Your Tongue is as Long as a Tuesday
Poetry. 64 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-60-2
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Poet and artist JAY BESEMER is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Men & Sleep (Meekling Press 2023); the double chapbook Wounded Buildings/Simple Machines (Another New Calligraphy 2022) and Theories of Performance (The Lettered Streets Press, 2020). He was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry, and a finalist for the 2017 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Find him online at www.jaybesemer.net and on Twitter and Bluesky @divinetailor.
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NEIL SURKAN Ruin
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Wanting grace so badly for myself, / I filled every opening.
From the author of Their Queer Tenderness, Unbecoming, and On High
NEIL SURKAN
RUIN
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-62-6
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NEIL SURKAN was born in Penticton, BC. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections — Unbecoming (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), which was selected as one of three finalists for the City of Calgary’s W.O. Mitchell Award, and On High (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018) — and the chapbooks Their Queer Tenderness (Knife-Fork-Book, 2020) and Super, Natural (Anstruther Press, 2017). His award-winning poems have appeared in numerous Canadian magazines.
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MICHAEL FLATT I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY
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Ferrying between viscera and the virtual, the iris and the lens, Michael Flatt commits his attention to the vertiginous business of seeing seeing itself. Across a quartet of glitchhappy sequences which accrete, contract, and fracture like iPhone glass, his lyric phenomenology seeks to parse reality from its spectral façade, “studying the practice of light” to expand the ways we envision our precarious, prismatic selves. Fascinated by how flesh and bone interface with .exe and eye, I Can Focus if I Try is a vivid excursion through “our embedded-edge / intrascape.”
— ANDREW ZAWACKI, Unsun
Michael Flatt’s I Can Focus If I Try demands a different way of seeing. Built on a frame of Euclidean lyrics, it ebbs and flows elastically, allowing for engagement from a wide array of vantage points. Squint and you’ll find that these poems are “a martyrdom to any light source.”
- JIM JOHNSTONE, author of The King of Terrors
Flatt's poems’ experiments, in vision, in envisioning, let language oscillate, as inhale-exhale, as waves forward then breaking, so that the reader senses structures before they notice them, understands geometries before they know them. The lyric expansions and contractions within this collection surprise, even as their logics create anticipations. - AARON TUCKER, Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys and Catalogue d’oiseaux
Michael Flatt wrests nothing. Let the eye curve with them, an early line suggests, and so it does. In poems perceiving perception, we glide along the contours of things. Memories, images, ideas, actions, feelings. Nothing is settled, nothing so neat as to be totalizing or with reachable finitude, so unsettled this sensorium. To perceive, Flatt shows us, isn’t a matter of holding meaning in one’s hand, but of being buffeted by that onslaught. And the form follows the word. The language slowly fills in like the eye adjusting to shifting light, or the mind’s eye’s peeling revelation upon a flash of meaning. Like seeing an object whose horizon shifts as it turns, like reading a sentence whose meaning fills in as it slips away, like beach sand slipping through all our hands. These poems’ queer geometry defies expectation even as it reveals to us what we might expect when we simply open our eyes. TRAVIS SHARP, Yes, I Am A Corpse Flower
"What do we do with these gaps in our beauty?"
MICHAEL FLATT
I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY
ISBN: 978-1-989355-48-0
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MICHAEL FLATT is the author of Absent Receiver (SpringGun Press 2013) and, with derrick mund, Chlorosis (The Operating System 2018). He was named by J. Michael Martinez to the Poetry Society of America's list of New American Poets in 2013. He is the founder of Low Frequency Press, which publishes book-like objects of marginal aesthetics, and Threadsuns, a teaching press at High Point University, where he is an assistant professor of English.
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Neil SURKAN Ruin
Michael FLATT I Can Focus If I Try
Ayaz PIRANI Martyrs' Garden
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PAOLA FERRANTE THE DARK UNWIND
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All my life I've danced with a wolf, a long / slow waltz in the dark unwind ...
PAOLA FERRANTE
THE DARK UNWIND
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN 978-1-989355-45-9 (print)
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Paola Ferrante’s debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving A Lion Attack, (Mansfield Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her first short fiction collection, Her Body Among Animals, is forthcoming Spring 2024 from Book*hug Press. She is the Poetry Editor at Minola Review and lives in Toronto, Canada with her spouse Mat, and their son.
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AYAZ PIRANI Martyrs' Garden
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Imagine that:
to be put in your place.
Is there a greater gift
a bigger reward
a better high
a warmer embrace?
From the author of How Beautiful People Are
AYAZ PIRANI MARTYRS' GARDEN
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-54-1
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Design: R. Kolewe
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AYAZ PIRANI's books include Happy You Are Here, Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets and How Beautiful People Are, along with recent work in The Malahat Review.
DALE SMITH Sons Broadside
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k|f|b BROADSIDE 001 Poet DALE SMITH SONS Artist ANTHONY DIFAZIO Design NORMAN NEHMETALLAH Master Printer KYLE SCHLESINGER at CUNEIFORM PRESS
LIMITED EDITION of 50 19 x 12. Two-colour. Letterpress. Numbered. Signed.
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