KIRBY Softie
“Fairy knows / Where when to take cover, fuck in the / Shadows. Dance in the night of day.”
To celebrate their appearance at Soft Fest 3 (with the Angie Quick), Kirby put together a chapbook of new writings, Softie, to especially mark the occasion!
KIRBY
Softie
Poetry. Chapbook. 24 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-989355-76-3
Cover: Kirby. Photo by Daniel Ramalho
Interior Cover: Detail of quiltwork by Vicki Ziegler Photo by Kirby
Layout: Ralph Kolewe
KIRBY: When Finner (Midnight Mass Books) approached me to be a part of London’s beloved grassroots festival envisioned by the lovelies at Soft Flirt, I got so turned on by the whole idea of a festival devoted to S O F T (shades of the electronic music Festival of Drifting i.e. Labradford, Pan•American mid-90s) She thrives in softness… plush meadows, moss patches beneath a tree, of course… she IS a shade plant, not to mention in their heart of hearts, a “softie”… a term herstorically applied as somehow pejorative which always puzzled me, “The Fairy of Delicates,” whose greatest strengths are a tenacious weave of grace and tenderness. So, I wanted to make/bring something special for MEET CUTE and culled from new writings I’m in the thick of spinning for my new book Fairy (Spring 2027, Palimpsest Press), and all this has brought Softie into being. That, and London inspires the fuck out of me, the mightiest visionaries, artists and queers I aspire to (shout out to Good Sport, TAP, Andrés & Kyle, Ian, Karen *kisses* all!) and a place she feels right at home. “Let’s get soft!”