KFB | REVIEW SINISTER QUEER AGENDA TRAVIS SHARP ABOVE/GROUND, 2018. I dream so much f body I run out of small strips of paper In a way I feel like I’ve known Travis Sharp for years. I ingest his new chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda and I sense a deep connection to his words, […]
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What pulls She’s Having A Doris Day together is the sense of honesty about it all, the openness of voice and experience that weaves itself through the eight poems. What Kirby does with their work is important. The poems speak of how a search for personal identity is often fraught with challenges, but is just […]
KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI’s 2018 PICKS 1. “Chlorosis” by Michael Flatt and Derrick Mund (The Operating System) As they describe the book themselves, “A break-up letter to the world.” The Echopoetics of “Chlorosis” forces us to face the bitter truths about our environment. through their rhetoric we sit down with 3D Glasses to watch nature crumble all […]
KFB | REVIEW HEART & MOUTH & DEED & LIFE JM FRANCHETEAU Anstruther Press, 2018. I’ve been involved in Toronto’s small press scene for a few years now, and in those short few years, Anstruther Press has been a beacon for chapbook presses all around. In Toronto “Anstruther” has become virtually synonymous with “Chapbooks”, inspiring […]
KFB | REVIEW AN ABSENCE SO GREAT AND SPONTANEOUS IT IS EVIDENCE OF LIGHT ANNE GORRICK The Operating System, 2018 Raking knife|fork|book’s shelves for some experimental poetry I came across this little gem by Brooklyn’s The Operating System. I knew the moment I read the title, An Absence So Great and Spontaneous It Is Evidence of […]
In Montreal at Librarie Drawn & Quarterly: Turner skillfully renews the story of Samson & Delilah and the concerns of this chapbook are urgent and necessary. Don’t worry about the original story though, you already know it, maybe you’ve lived it. These poems sparkle, sharpen, and cut. Get a copy of this while you […]
KFB REVIEW CHLOROSIS MICHAEL FLATT and DERRICK MUND The Operating System, 2018 I can’t say I’m well acquainted with the independent literary scene outside Canada, but over the past few years, a small press from Brooklyn really stood out for me. The Operating System has managed to wow me over and over again with a […]
KFB REVIEW INSIDE|OUT JOSEPH OSMUNDSON Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018 I open Inside/Out and immediately I’m greeted with a rustic depiction of Boyhood; “Boys” getting dirty, “Boys” in school who allowed for a gaze to linger, “Boys” one could do homework with and laugh and “Boys” who eventually grew up to be mean. “Boys” where […]
KFB REVIEW RAIN SONGS DUSTY NEAL Permanent Sleep Press, 2018 First edition 6 x 9 94 pages Velvet finish Perfect bound /200 In case you’ve been out of touch with the independent book scene in Toronto, last March, Parkdale gave us a new little gem of a bookstore. Permanent Sleep Bookshop now occupies a cozy […]
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