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Interposition: Poem
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Expected 24 Mar 26Featured in the Publishers Weekly Spring 2026 Preview
From Kaie Kellough, poet, sound performer, and Griffin prize winner, comes a linguistic incursion into desire, technology, and the absurd.
Kaie Kellough (Magnetic Equator, Griffin Poetry Prize winner, 2020) returns with a long poem that repurposes the language of the present. Interposition borrows its vocabulary from the news, entertainment, war, advertising, technology, and the everyday tragedies of popular culture. It reveals the morbid humour of our inability to distinguish between the urgencies of personal achievement and climate crisis. It compresses sound and rhythm into paradox, and it conflates absurdity and emergency.
Mapping the continued encroachment of capital and virtual culture upon our psychic space, Interposition examines how, with each click, we are reconstituted online and sold back to ourselves, and How do we uncouple our selves from our avatars?
From Kaie Kellough, poet, sound performer, and Griffin prize winner, comes a linguistic incursion into desire, technology, and the absurd.
Kaie Kellough (Magnetic Equator, Griffin Poetry Prize winner, 2020) returns with a long poem that repurposes the language of the present. Interposition borrows its vocabulary from the news, entertainment, war, advertising, technology, and the everyday tragedies of popular culture. It reveals the morbid humour of our inability to distinguish between the urgencies of personal achievement and climate crisis. It compresses sound and rhythm into paradox, and it conflates absurdity and emergency.
Mapping the continued encroachment of capital and virtual culture upon our psychic space, Interposition examines how, with each click, we are reconstituted online and sold back to ourselves, and How do we uncouple our selves from our avatars?
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I’ve been on a roll reading good poetry! I really enjoyed reading Interposition by Kaie Kellough! This is a long poem and I really liked the mention of Canadian references like The Real Canadian Superstore and Timbits. Timbits were even mentioned twice! I liked how slang and text shorthand was used like thru, cuz, and truthiness. I liked how that language and the mentions of technology like iPhone and MacBook grounded this poem in a very contemporary setting. I would definitely read this book again!
Thank you to McClelland & Stewart via NetGalley for my free advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
Thank you to McClelland & Stewart via NetGalley for my free advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
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