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Kate Siklosi is a poet, scholar, publisher, and teacher who lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory / Toronto, Canada. Her work includes leavings (Timglaset 2021), which sold into its second printing, and six chapbooks of poetry. Her critical and creative work has been featured across North America, Europe, and the UK. She is also Sessional Faculty at McMaster University, curator of the Small Press Map of Canada, and co-founding editor of the feminist experimental small press Gap Riot Press.
"""In Selvage Siklosi invokes motifs of leaves, stitches, and botanical growth to demonstrate the fecundity of communicative networks. A poetic vitalism prevails as she tracks connections across generations, among vivid family scenes, but also through fertile systems of trees and fungi in the living earth. At once highly personal and suggestively abstract, Siklosi’s text addresses individual grief and loss in tandem with cyclic regeneration and continuity. Throughout, she moves deftly from standard poetic form to diagrammatic structures, spatial expressions, to the use of the graphic field to have language perform its visual dimensions on the page.”—Johanna Drucker ""Selvage takes up the continuum of an immigrant life seen by a granddaughter, a settler life by one who has known no other. From the language of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the language of trees, to that of pregnancy, Kate Siklosi constructs a quiet but vibratory familial botany in touch with the new land where it now thrives. Exposing roots, struggling over fates, her poems stitch past into future, building new forms that give memory and place to the generation to come.""—Erín Moure"
