edited by David Dowker
see here for David Dowker’s introduction
featuring new work by:
Nicole Raziya Fong
Lisa Robertson
ryan fitzpatrick
Catriona Strang
Allegra Sloman
Nikki Sheppy
Fenn Stewart
Pete Smith
Christine Stewart
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Author biographies:
Nicole Raziya Fong is a poet and painter living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. Her work seeks to delimit and reconstruct immaterial ampules of psychic experience, coaxing the incorporeal into inhabiting a more muscular physique.
She is the author of OЯACULE (Talonbooks, 2021), PEЯFACT (Talonbooks, 2019), the chapbooks 7 Series, Iterated by Colour (Hiding Press, 2021) and Fargone (Poetry Will Be Made By All, 2014), and has composed visual work for the collaborative chapbook Leguminosae Delusion Athletics with text by Andy Martrich (The Blasted Tree, 2022).
Her writing has appeared in various publications including Social Text, the Capilano Review, filling Station, the Volta and carte blanche, and has been translated into Swedish and French.
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The components of Lisa Robertson's long poem Boat have gone
through several publication lives; first as the single poem "Face/",
commissioned in 2002 by Rod Smith for Aerial 10, a journal of critical texts on and responses to the work of Lyn Hejinian, then as the
chapbook Rousseau’s Boat, from
Nomados (2004), next as the book R’s Boat,
from University of California Press (2010) and now as Boat, from Coach House (Spring 2022). Each publication extends and
further explores the initial compositional idea — to make a text that indexes a
lifetime of accumulated notebooks through systematic re-reading and selection.
Each poem in the series approaches the indexical process differently, reusing
earlier archival material as well as accommodating newer gatherings. The
eventual result will be a life-long autobiographical poem, built on the
accumulating detritus of her life.
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ryan fitzpatrick is the author of four
books and over fifteen chapbooks of poetry, including Sunny Ways (Invisible,
2023) and Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks, 2021). He has been
involved in the poetry communities of Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto. In
Calgary, he was an editor of filling Station magazine and one
of the organizers of the Flywheel Reading Series. In Vancouver, he earned his
doctorate at Simon Fraser University, where he worked on contemporary Canadian
poetry and space. In Toronto, he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the
University of Toronto Scarborough and started the online poetry micropress
Model Press.
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A founding member of the Institute for Domestic
Research, Catriona Strang is the author of Low Fancy, Corked, and Reveries of a Solitary Biker, and co-author of Busted, Cold Trip, and Light Sweet Crude with the
late Nancy Shaw, whose selected works, The Gorge, she
edited. She frequently collaborates with composer Jacqueline Leggatt, and
lives with her two grown kids on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Lands. Unfuckable
Lardass, which includes "Fuck Variations," will be published by
Talonbooks in the spring of 2022.
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Born in western Mi'kma'ki in 1958, settled in S'ólh Téméxw since 1996, Allegra Sloman works across a broad
range of word forms, including written correspondence with friends and family,
homilies, ranting, poems, a conlang called ‘bih-bah’ based on the sounds
basketballs make going through hoops, twenty tweets a day, open letters,
teaching a cat to speak, songwriting, stand-up comedy, essays, daily blogging,
fanfic, parody, and short stories. She is also self-publishing SF novels which
are available at leanpub.com/upsun. Much of her material is available
at allegrasloman.com
under creative commons 2.5.
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Nikki Sheppy is a poet, editor, and educator with a background in
literary scholarship. She was Managing Editor of filling Station magazine, and
an organizer for the short-lived, pandemic-curtailed East Loft Reading Series. Her book, Fail Safe (University
of Calgary Press), won the 2018 Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry Book of the Year, and her
chapbook, Grrrrlhood: a ludic
suite (Kalamalka Press), won the 2013 John Lent Poetry-Prose Award.
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Fenn Stewart teaches literature
& writing at Douglas College and UBC. She's the author of three chapbooks
plus Better Nature (2017). In 2021 she was thinking
about settler apocalypticism, and the history of Paldi, BC, with Jastej Luddu.
She lives on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories.
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Pete Smith,
immigrant from 1970s England, lives in Kamloops BC on land belonging to the
Secwépemc people. Publications include Bindings with Discords (Shearsman
2015), Strum of Unseen, A New Love/An Aching Stone and Sing . . .
Despite, all with above/ground press. Poems, translations, essays, reviews
in journals and presses in England, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia and an
expository chapter in The Salt Companion to John James (Salt Publishing
2010). On-line works at the Alterran Poetry Assemblage, Jacket (1st
series), Great Works, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Fortnightly Review,
among others. Short-listed for Malahat Review Long Poem Prize & Montreal
International Poetry Prize in 2015. Most recent translations are of Osip
Mandelstam’s Petrarch sonnets & the poems for Andrei Bely from the winter
of 1933-34, in Anthony Barnett & Ian Brinton’s annual, Snow #9 & #10.
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Christine Stewart teaches experimental poetics and creative research in the English and Film Department at the University of Alberta, on Treaty Six Territory/ Métis Region No. 4, and is the founding member of the Writing Revolution in Place Creative Research Collective. Selected publications: Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal with David Dowker, Book*hug. “Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge,” in Sustaining the West, Wilfred Laurier Press. “On Treaty Six from Under Mill Creek Bridge” in Toward. Some. Air, Banff Centre Press. The Odes, Nomados Press and Treaty 6 Deixis, Talonbooks.
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