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From the Intro:
Moon Writing is “an intersection and convergence of poems and visual works, exploring nature and culture, dream ecologies, secrets, the knife-edge of historical and personal ghosts in urban and rural areas, Toronto, Muskoka and the Haliburton regions of Ontario. We sent work back and forth, engaged in a visceral process of ‘listening’ in our respective retreats, to the moon, the beyond-realist forests & burgeoning signs across seasons. Whether emanating from the shores of lakes, rocks or roots and undergrowth to radio signals vaguely joining cities in silent or conflicted landscapes, in these mirroring yet not programmatic pieces we are seeking the elucidation of portents and inner voice. The resulting suite: intertwined linear, representational and abstract, the generative spiraling experience of psyche and the imaginary.
– Robert Frede Kenter
Catherine Graham reads: All Night I Dream Birdsong from Moon Writing
From Advance Praise
Text and image combine movingly in haunting tones of restless searching and longing, summoning the great female mythologies of the underworld to leave us with a hint, a hope, of return and recovery. This is a book which carries its dead with it yet suggests the power of vibrant poetic imagination might yet summon life from the dust. – Susie Campbell, author of Wasteland
Feminine and charged, these imagistic verses caution and prophesize, retelling fractures of lineage, death and the body politic, while Kenter’s striking visuals ring with lucidity, transporting the audience inside a fluid hybrid montage. – Vikki C., author of The Art of Glass Houses, Where Sands Run Finest & In the Blueprint of Her Iris.
This is a tour of dreamscapes: somehow two people are guiding us through an ethereal landscape;… time stops for as long as we want to dwell at the panorama presented… Su Zi (artist, poet, publisher of Red Mare)
Exquisitely crafted, simultaneously elusive and revelatory, the poems in Moon Writing speak in the language of dream, intuition, heightened perception. Here, Catherine Graham’s signature emblems — birds,, wildflowers, deer, the moon — become signs, messengers, conduits between the tangible and the transcendent, the living and the dead…Set in conversation with Robert Kenter’s complementary yet strikingly individual visual images, Moon Writing becomes a collaboration charged with an incandescent, restorative energy. — Kathleen McCracken, author of Mooncalves.
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Photo (c) Marion Voysey
Catherine Graham is the award-winning author of six collections of poetry, two novels and a hybrid work. She has been published internationally, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and her work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and on CBC Radio. Her eighth book, Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Her sixth poetry collection, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected is her ninth book. Forthcoming is a new book of poems on the life and art of Remedios Varo (Wolsak and Wynn/Buckrider Books, 2027). Her website is http://www.catherinegraham.com.
Robert Frede Kenter is an award-winning writer and artist and has been published widely for over 30 years in Canada, the U.S., the UK, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands. Robert’s latest books include IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (with Vikki C.) (Ice Floe Press, 2025), Father Tectonic (Ethel Zine, 2025), and EDEN (Floodlight Ed.). Robert grew up in Hamilton, Ontario (the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas). Robert’s texts and visual art projects have been featured widely in journals, anthologies and web projects, in galleries, in hybrid theatre and multi-media productions & performances and in collaborations with writers around the globe. His cover and book design for Talk Smack to A Hurricane, poems by Lynne Jensen Lampe was a finalist for the da Vinci Eye award from The Eric Hoffler Book Awards, 2023.
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