AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH Slutflowers
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
OUT SPRING 2026
Part of KFB 10th Anniversary Season
Purchase now at a special PREORDER price.
(Note: we'll send a festive gift notice on Holiday orders.)
Cover: Kirby
Design/layout: R. Kolewe
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.