Inspired by David Lynch’s Wild at Heart and the devastating impact of oil and plastic on marine life; these haiku focus on tactility, a singular creature or image of nature, and the frisson of surprise. But what function has surprise when we’re drowning in alarms? In Sailor, C’est l’heure, Rasiqra Revulva has encoded the warning into poetry, transforming the noise and resisting inaction. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of sixty 4.25” x 5.5” chapbooks printed in full colour, available from our online store, and you can view the haiku series using the link below.
Poetry Chapbook - body of stone by Helen Robertson
A collection of lyric poetry in four parts, Helen Robertson’s debut chapbook is by turns wry, punchy, and heartfelt. body of stone is attuned to the many ways power acts through language, and with self-affirming tenacity, Robertson writes through and against cis- and hetero-normativity to celebrate a queer and trans body surviving and thriving in the face of violence and oppression. A limited edition of 60 copies of body of stone has been printed on granite grey paper and bound into Italian high-cotton paper in china grey, available now from The Blasted Tree store. The entire collection can be read online via the link below.
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Poetry Booklet - Four Poems by Rose Knapp
A collection of four short, haiku-like poems playing with assonance and alliteration. Each of these offerings by poet Rose Knapp is a mini meditation on a subject like art, nature, or science. The collection has been produced in a limited edition of 60 booklets hand-bound with white thread into one of four different covers of various colours. You can read Four Poems following the link below, and copies of the booklet are available for purchase from The Blasted Tree’s online store.
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Graphic Narrative - Amend by Bea Keeler
Tackling issues of anger, self-control, and personal growth, Amend is the second graphic narrative by repeat Blasted Tree collaborator Bea Keeler. Through both writing and illustration, Keeler addresses the triggers and explosive reactions that can spill out into daily life, eroding relationships, accountability, and faith in ourselves. Amend is especially compelling read against Keeler’s previous graphic work, PUFFERFISH, published in 2017. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 60 copies of this comic, available now from our online store. Read Amend online following the link below.
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Poetry Longsheet - THE WORLD IS ON FIRE by Greg Hill
THE WORLD IS ON FIRE is a poem written entirely using words made up of letters from the poem’s title in the order they appear (R-I-S-E, for instance). Within this limited set of words experimental poet Greg Hill finds a warning, a word to the wise. The Blasted Tree has produced an edition of 60 longsheets on canary yellow paper featuring THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, available now from our online store. Read the poem by following the link below.
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Poetry Leaflet - Genesis by Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin’s visual poem Genesis is a two-part tribute to Amanda Earl, done in the style of her Vispo Bible, which warps and layers text to create flowing, totemic imagery. Barwin’s versions take up the Hebrew text of Genesis, and his results reflect the typographic geometry of this written language. A limited edition of 60 leaflets have been produced, the two-part poem printed on glossy photograph paper then tucked into tent-folded black card stock. You can view the visual poem online following the link below, and copies of the leaflet are available in The Blasted Tree’s online store.
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Poetry Chapbook - Tourner by Chris Warren
A visual abecedarium by UK poet Chris Warren, Tourner collects the ghostly afterimages of letters turned upon themselves while dissipating as if into a fog, fading letter-forms built up in layers of typographic architecture. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 60 chapbooks of Tourner, each a stack of 3.25” x 3.25” printed cards secured with a steel binder clip and black spine band. Disassemble, rotate, re-arrange, and rebind the images to conjure your own eerie abecedarium! Chapbooks are available from the online store, and the collection can be seen following the link below.
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Poetry Leaflet - We Didn't Consent by Hann Jade
A visual poetry leaflet incorporating collage, illustration, and text, We Didn’t Consent is by Calgary-based poet Hann Jade. Charged with the innocence of childhood and a fascination with morbidity, this visual poem is as grotesque as it is relatable. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 60 leaflets sealed into glassine bags with a red thread pull-string. Read the poem online following the link below, copies of the leaflet are available in our online store.
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Poetry Leaflet - The Antibodies by Dona Mayoora and Terri Witek
The Blasted Tree presents a collaborative visual poem by boundary-defying multimedia artists Dona Mayoora and Terri Witek. The Antibodies is a triptych of imagery layered over concrete that speaks to the issue of parity. We have produced a limited edition of sixty leaflets featuring the triptych in full colour, folded and tucked into 3.25” x 5.5” grey paper sleeves. Copies of the leaflet are available from our online store, and you can see all three visual poems by following the link below.
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Poetry Chapbook - The Enfolding by Kevin Stebner
Kevin Stebner’s typewritten concrete poetry combines an Escher-like mastery of geometric space with precisely-executed typographic patterns to render scenes and objects inspired by pixel art and video game architecture. The Enfolding contains a selection of 17 visual poems arranged to suggest a narrative and printed in black and sea blue. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of sixty chapbooks, each 7” x 7” and hand-bound with black thread. View The Enfolding by following the link below, and copies of the chapbook can be found in our online store.