K.I. Press
K. I. Press grew up in Edmonton and in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. She has also lived in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto. She now lives in Winnipeg. Her previous publications include Spine (GP, 2004), Pale Red Footprints (Pedlar Press) and a poetry chapbook from above/ground press entitled Flame.
Pale Red Footprints
The poems of Pale Red Footprints were inspired by found journal material belonging to the poet's grandfather, a French Canadian who lived within the landscapes of northern Ontario, Alberta and the southwestern United States in 1930s poverty and later prosperity, through inescapable hardship and choices which shaped not only his life but the lives o …
Spine
In her second collection of poems, K.I. Press reflects on a great love of books and fictional characters, and of reading, printing and typography. Her poetry takes existing texts to thrilling heights, bringing Alice in Wonderland alongside Jane Eyre and the Bible. Readers will delight in the caustic silliness of poems like "Slushpile" and "Library, …
Types of Canadian Women
”I’ve worked on and off as a picture researcher for non-fiction books,“ says K.I. Press, ”during which time I looked at an awful lot of archival photographs. A few years ago I came across a book called Types of Canadian Women, Volume I, a 1903 illustrated biographical dictionary of society women – artists, nurses, missionaries, activists …
