Found some original prints of Stalwarts Sons while packing up records. Tucked in a test press. This was from our cross Canada tour in 2011 taken in Winnipeg by friend Warren Humeny. This might have been the beginning of my now perpetual moustache. The top one there was in a wild rhubarb patch on an abandoned dock. The dart board photo was used on the back cover of our LP Stay Cold. Babies.
#stalwartsons
(Almost) all the Mission of Burma related LPs I own.
I'm definitely missing the one Tang one with Peking Spring on it. And I know there's more solo Roger work out there. But a pretty tasty collection...
Cataracta, Jan 2026
Been a minute since I've done some typewriter pieces. I've been going through the archives and reassembling for a new manuscript. But of course, always had to make something new.
#typewriter #typeart
#typewriterart #concretepoetry #visualpoetry typestract
Husky House issue 7 OUT NOW
My (usually) quarterly zine of mini essays on punk/culture/the creative act.
Contents:
Being soft on yourself / Jan Morris' Hav books / My Take on the Alternate Take of "Marquee Moon / Arbor Labor Union tipping the hat to Molina / Listers / Heat re: Alex Colville / The Eagles support Your Coming Out / Facel Vega / Embrace remix? / Cancon alterna-rock / Product Placement in Degrassi / Bjork as Christmas Music //
$5 in person/$6 mailed. Subscriptions accepted
#huskyhousezine
The best and most intriguing books I encountered this year. I managed to hit my 52 goal. Probably in these orders, but I don't really believe in ultimate ranks. Few of these are actually new but.. All these are recommended in different ways.
FICTION
They by Kay Dick
The Bewitched Bourgeois by Dino Buzzati
A Luminous Republic by Andres Barba
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Nights Master by Tanith Lee
The Incident Report by Martha Baille
Elidor by Alan Garner
Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Alphabetical Diaries by Shelia Heti
GRAPHICS
Tongues by Anders Nilsen
2120 by George Wylesol
World Heist by Linnea Sterte
ART and the CREATIVE ACT
TzAR pixel art anthology ed by Kyle Flemmer
Swiz by Swiz
9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off by Raymond Biesinger
CONCRETE
Sweethearts by Emmett Williams
After Words ed by Steve Clay
Bill Jujobe by Bill Cobbing
No Business - a new "chapcard" by Kevin Stebner. A shuffeable poetry project, 26 unique cards, all hand-stamped. 26 micro poems, culminating in a macro one. No Business explores wordplay, modern morality, randomness and the creative act.
Limited to 26 copies. $8 if you want one
Kevin Stebner reads November 13 @pagesbooks
Discussion to follow. @revolutionwinter
Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician. He produces visual art using old videogame gear, and produces music and soundtracking with his chiptune project GreyScreen, post-hardcore in his band Fulfilment, as well as alt-country in the band Cold Water. Stebner has published a number of typewriter visual poems and other concrete work in chapbooks, including Timglaset, The Blasted Tree, No Press, above/ground, among others — and has recently published two books, Game Genie Poems, a collection of lipogram poems written in a Nintendo Game Genie from The Blasted Tree, and Inherent, a collection of 100 letraset concrete poems from Assembly Press. He is also the proprietor of Calgary’s best bookstore that’s in a shed, Shed Books. Stebner lives in Calgary, Alberta.
kevinstebner.com
#poetry #indielit #literature #canlit #poem #yycarts
"We are even more pretty"
Completed a costume I've been conjuring for years. Quintuplets don't count.
#thekingofallcosmos
#kingofallcosmos
#katamaridamacy
"This is a sigil for inspiration. Writer's block has no hold, the ideas flow freely. May the muse find you when you need her."
In these most recent series of new work since Inherent, I've been feeling the need to really instill meaning into the work. Especially in my most recent songwriting, I've felt the need to become more didactic and message forward. So too, here. And even in a medium of concrete poetics, a medium that is technically word-free, I've been seeking to create poems that are fully message driven. Across the board, personal and societal, a set of poems to address the needs of the now. Here, a series to the creative minded, so often met with discouragement and hardship.
These are a wish to the world, a wish to you as a person. A sigil for inspiration.
New chapbook from No Press. New series using an entire sheet of the typeface Buster. Get at me for one. I've got a few copies, (but some also available from the ever encouraging @derek.a.beaulieu )
