This concrete pastoral poem is a rift. This rift is in fact a river. The image was a collaboration between myself (Kaie Kellough), Laura Toma, and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo at LOKI design. It involved imposing text onto a mapped image of Alberta’s Bow River (which runs through the city of Calgary, where I grew up), then digitally abstracting the river-mapped letterforms.
Kaie Kellough is a novelist, poet, and sound performer. He is the author of the novel Accordéon, which was a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award, two books of poetry, Lettricity and Maple Leaf Rag, and two audio works, Vox:Versus and Creole Continuum. He has performed and published internationally. His upcoming work, Magnetic Equator (poetry), will appear with McClelland and Stewart in 2019. Author photo by Pablo Riquelme.