HUGE CONGRATS TO DEAN GARLICK WINNER OF 2023 EXPOZINE AWARDS (MONTREAL) ENGLISH ZINE DOMESTIC SUBLIME (knife | fork | book, 2023).
Category: KFBFertile
Fertil3 at The Printed Word Bookshop Dundas ON 25 August 2024
“Let’s do it for the poets.” “There is no better way to describe the chapbook, broadside, and zine publishers scattered across Canada than transient. The stop/start nature of the micropress “industry” is a solid reality. Presses come and go partially due to the lack of financial incentive—mostly micropresses are self-funded labours of love—and, more impactfully, […]
Readable. Clean. Meticulous. Striking. Pretty.* I don’t know exactly just how I lucked into this. By this, I mean a very special kinship shared/shaped by the love of good work. And food, and drink and plenty of laughs between us. I knew from reading Ralph’s work, his meticulous eye, and ear, he knows what belongs […]
To keep going, you need to feel you are making good work—or moving in the direction of making good work, or interesting work, or are interested in the work you are making—and see that as the thing you are aiming to do. Anything good that happens beyond is a bonus…” Cameron Anstee, Some Silences: Notes […]
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“We’ve got a pact,” Ziegler said. “You have permission to read for an hour, with no other interruptions.” “It’s about building community.” – VICKI ZIEGLER, “bookgaga” Ah! that oft-used word, “community.” I’ve heard rumours of a mythical “poetry community,” as though one in and of itself exists. My actual experience, there are highly valued small […]
“what I’m trying to say is / these waves are another kind of animal” Created to celebrate the second instalment of Fertile. OANA AVASILICHIOAEI Improbable Theatres DEAN GARLICK Domestic Sublime WILL MANNING Joan Would Say SUBHANYA SIVAJOTHY Singing Fish Notation KATE SUTHERLAND Nuptials à la carte or save with the bundle! and see them all at Fertile! > Schedule > […]
Launching poetry at the place for poetry. MICHAEL FLATT reads from his new KFB collection I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY supported by poet, R/B MERTZ reading from their upcoming CU T (Threadsuns, 2024) to a welcoming house at The Printed Word Bookshop, Dundas ON last night. Thanks James, and all who came out to […]
from I Can Focus If I Try the new full-length KFB collection by Michael Flatt
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