What does Gap Riot love more than two women in poetic conversation? It’s when those two women are absolute legends in the world of Canadian poetry, two hugely influential and long-invested contributors and caretakers of our field. In P.S., Kemp and Thesen spend a year writing to each other, once a month, and the result is 24 poems in conversation with each other that explore how poetic conversation works across months, across an ocean, across subjectivities, and across disparate ways of knowing. In the note that accompanies the text, the poets observe that their “ways of knowing are different but validated by one another.” This chapbook is page after page of reaching out, validating, hearing, and trying to understand and know each other. It’s a big ol’ hug of a chapbook, a fiercely feminine conversation we’re so grateful to be able to bring out to you.

Printed in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook has a colour cover in just the right shade of mauve. Cover designed and chapbook typeset by Kate Siklosi.