How can a work feel full and sparse at the same time? How can something so digital feel so natural? And how can these bits of nature feel so technological, too? Kemptville, Ontario-based poet and artist Chris Turnbull’s x° is a collection so varied, so multifaceted, we’re having a hard time knowing what to call it. Visual poetry, multimedia poetry, photo-collage, concrete, ecopoetics, decolonial, lyric, experiment … it’s all these things, but most of all, it’s BEAUTIFUL. Here, form is never more than an eruption of content. This big, beautiful chapbook is absolutely full of space and exploration, and the kind of beautiful visuals we’ve come to expect from Turnbull’s genre-busting work.

Printed in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook and all the art in it is Chris Turnbull. It was typeset by Dani Spinosa, although tbh it pretty much just came to us this gorgeous. Cover design by Dani who typed out the title on a piece of birch bark using her Olympia, with help from Kate Siklosi and Jesse Pajuäär.