☛ my books, current projects, collabs, &c. ☚
¶ Books
I’ve made two books of poetry, two of translation, and a story in verse for children.
Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book (2018)
These translations from a tenth-century miscellany of Old English verse received an American Book Award in 2019. ¶ Read “His Message” (Asymptote). ¶ Buy it here.
Curious Masonry: Three Translations from the Anglo-Saxon (2011)
This book marks the beginning of my long & fruitful relationship with Gaspereau Press. In 2012 it won First Prize in the Poetry Category of the Alcuin Society Book Design Awards. ¶ Buy it here.
Ox (2007)
My first book of poems – how young they are & I was! A few still stand up, though. Ox was a finalist for the BC Book Prize for Poetry in 2008. ¶ Read “Broken Ground” (Paris Review). ¶ Out of print, find some reviews here.
Works in progress
Poetry & Prose
I’ve got a couple of text-based works in the works.
Horsetail Rhizome (2027)
A shambolic omnibus gathering proses of mine written over the last 25 years. Reviews, blog posts, emails to students, dream transcripts, &c. To be published in 2027 by Palimpsest Press.
Stray & Stranger
A sequence of poems made in collaboration with my iPhone’s voice-to-text app. I harvest its errors & make of them some rough music. Here’s one.
visual Poetry
And some work in the nexus where word & image meet & cross-pollinate.
Undone
Undone is an elegy for my father. To make it I manipulate photos of the Mount Baker Wilderness (one of the places where I learned from him how to walk) with a digital threshold tool.
Red Black & Blues: A Monster Translation of a Text by Donald trump)
An asemic parody of one of his tweets made with Sharpies on cheap notebook paper. It became an artist’s book and now I’m looking into a trade edition. ¶ Read excerpts in DIAGRAM.
SIRI Falls Among the Things of the World
This graphic novella recounts the underworld journey of a newly sentient AI. The images are derived from security envelope linings. ¶ Read an excerpt in Ancient Exchanges.
¶ Collaborations
Two recent books made with other travellers in the realms of gold.
Fast-vanishing speech (2024)
An edited transcript of a conversation between Jim Johnstone, Klara du Plessis, Andrew Steeves & myself at the 2023 Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose on the subject of “literary creation & curation. ¶ Buy it here.
An incidental Printing of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” on Slipsheets (2023)
My essay “Beauty of the Antiphon” reads printer’s waste Andrew Steeves generated in another project as fortuitous visual poetry ¶ Buy it here.
Diverse & Sundry
A sampling of other works – visual poetry, errant translation, & the like.
Inanna Scient (2023)
A visual poem depicting Siri’s journey to the Singularity. Buy it from Anstruther Press here.
Glitch Apple (2022)
An errant translation of Genesis 3. ¶ As a chapbook by above/ground press. ¶ Online (where is the river). ¶ On making it (periodicities).
A Mostly Empty Interpretive Wonderland (2021)
A talk on Robert Grenier’s seminal work Sentences.
The Sirens (2020)
An experiment in asemic animation first published in Bellingham Review. ¶ View it here. ¶ Read my artist’s note.
The God Dumuzi and the Police Force Inside (2020)
On visual poetry & errant dictation, published in ottawa poetry newsletter.
Dumuzi (Mud Variations) (2020)
A take on Dumuzi that takes his earthly origin to heart, published in Ancient Exchanges.
Dumuzi Incipit (2018)
An asemic spinoff of Dumuzi, published in Asymptote, that plays with transcription conventions.
The Art of Compost 