The first book of Kenneth Leslie's poems to be published since 1972, courtesy of The Porcupine's Quill.
Read an essay about Kenneth Leslie, by Burris Devanney. Abstract of an essay I wrote about Kenneth Leslie for Arc Poetry Magazine. Hear me read Kenneth Leslie's poem "Lowlands Low." A web archive of Kenneth Leslie's poems. If you have Vision TV on your cable, you can catch a documentary film about Kenneth Leslie, God's Red Poet, by Halifax filmmaker Chuck Lapp. Hear the Upper Canada Choir singing Kenneth Leslie's "Cape Breton Lullaby," the lyrics of which are included in The Essential Kenneth Leslie. Order EKL from the publisher Order EKL from Amazon.ca Order EKL from Amazon.com Commentary on EKL by Paul Vermeersch for Open Book Toronto, March 14, 2010. Brief review of EKL in The Telegraph Journal, March 27, 2010. |
My second trade collection of poems. Track & Trace
is published by Biblioasis and illustrated by Seth.
TRACK & TRACE SHORTLISTED FOR 2010 ATLANTIC POETRY PRIZE Read sample poems from Track & Trace:       Fool's Errand       After the Blizzard       Skunk       Going Forward       There Is Something Intractable in Me       The Poetry in Him       Kaddish       The Same Man Never Steps into a River Twice       Rhythm       Heron, False Creek       Doe       Out       Press       Water Works Order Track & Trace from Amazon.ca Order Track & Trace from Amazon.com Order Track & Trace from McNally Robinson Review of Track & Trace in Quill & Quire by Fraser Sutherland, Oct. 2009. Review of Track & Trace by Dr. Ursus on his blog, Oct. 6, 2009. Review of Track & Trace by Paul Vermeersch on his blog, Oct. 28, 2009. Review of Track & Trace in The Coast by Sean Flinn, Nov. 5, 2009. Interview with Alessandro Porco about Track & Trace in Maisonneuve, Nov. 2009. How Poems Work column by Shane Neilson about "There is Something Intractable in Me" at Arc, March 2010. Review of Track & Trace in The Lance by Stefanie Helbich, March 17, 2010. Commentary on Track & Trace by Nigel Beale on his blog, April 7, 2010. Review of Track & Trace by Micheline Maylor in FreeFall Magazine, 20:1, May 2010. Review of Track & Trace by Kerry Clare on her blog, June 2, 2010. Anything But Hank!
Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets
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Ludicrous Parole
A limited edition chapbook of 100 copies published by Mercutio Press of Montreal in December 2005, with a second edition of 60 copies printed in September 2006. It contains seventeen poems, united by the idea of "voice": soliloquies, addresses, vernacular poems, and ventriloqual translations. Order Ludicrous Parole from Mercutio Press. Read a sample from Ludicrous Parole. An interview of me, focusing on "The Exterminator's Song to the Silverfish," which appears in Ludicrous Parole. |
A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks, March 2004. Fool's Errand is a sixteen-page chapbook, containing a baker's dozen of my poems. OUT OF PRINT Commentary on Fool's Errand |
A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, presented in a folded broadsheet format and printed on Arches watercolour paper, published by Frog Hollow Press of Victoria. "Achromatope" is a dramatic monologue in the voice of a colour- blinded painter, a verse adaptation of an essay by Oliver Sacks in his book An Anthropologist on Mars. ORDER "ACHROMATOPE" |
A limited varied edition of twelve signed and numbered prints, combining lithographic and intaglio techniques on cotton rag paper, produced by Halifax-based artist and printmaker Margaret Flood. Please contact me for ordering details. |