Celebrating 50 Years of Writing and Publishing!  

Books are the best gift… a respite from the rush.

Here are my recent offerings for your wish list, to share with poetry- and play-loving pals.

If you order the books from me, I’ll sign them for you! 
Penn Kemp
525 Canterbury Road
London Ontario N6G 2N5
pennkemp@gmail.com

Or order from your favourite bookstore, Indie?, or  Amazon, https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=Penn+Kemp&ref=nb_sb_noss.

RECENT POETRY COLLECTIONS

P.S.: collaboration of poems with Penn Kemp and Sharon Thesen. 22022. From GapRiot Press

A NEAR MEMOIR: NEW POEMS 2021. 1SBN 9781927734315. From Beliveau Press, $2O 

RIVER REVERY, 2019. From Insomniac Press, 1SBN 9781554832385. $2O + tax + postage

FOX HAUNTS, 2018. From Aeolus House / Quattro Books.1SBN 9781987872149 $2O + tax + postage

Local Heroes, 2018. From Insomniac Press, $2O + tax + postage

BARBARIC CULTURAL PRACTICE, 2016. From Quattro Books. $2O + tax + postage

And this anthology I edited:
JACK LAYTON: ART IN ACTION, 2013. From Quattro Books. To celebrate Jack Layton: Love, Hope and Optimism, Ongoing!*

If you love theatre and local history, two of my plays about Victorian explorer Teresa Harris are available: https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-dream-life-of-teresa-harris and https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-triumph-of-teresa-harris.
And this anthology,  available only from me. $20 in this format.  But for $12, without the colour, order from https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/performing-women.

You can also find my books in your Library, I hope.
Certainly London Public Library has them all, plus CDs and DVDS.

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS
I love collaborating with other artists!  Next up: Souwesto, with work by Dennis Siren.

I have been collaborating with multimedia artist extraordinaire Mary McDonald on http://riverrevery.ca, thanks to a London Arts Council CAIP grant.  See it to believe it!

VIDEOPOEMS
Enjoy watching my videopoems on YouTube!  With collaborators Dennis Siren, Bill Gilliam, Anne Anglin, Brenda McMorrow et al.

AUDIO POEMS
Many of my audio poems with beloved collaborators are up on the Ontario Independent Music Archive.
You can also listen to my sound poems on Soundcloud! 

BOOKS
  • River Revery. London: Insomniac Press. 2019.
  • Fox Haunts. Toronto: Aeolus House, 2018.
  • Local Heroes. London: Insomniac Press. 2018.
  • The Triumph of Teresa Harris. Playwrights Guild of Canada. 2017.
  • The Dream Life of Teresa Harris. Playwrights Guild of Canada. 2017.
  • Barbaric Cultural Practice. Toronto: Quattro Books. 2016.
  • From Dream Sequins. Toronto: Lyrical Myrical Press. 2012.
  • Helwa!. London: PigeonBike Press. 2011.
  • Pinceladas. Penn Kemp, Gloria Mulcahy. London: Pendas Productions. 2011.
  • Re:Animating Animus. London: Pendas Productions. 2006.
  • C'Loud. Toronto: Pendas Productions. 2003.
  • Sarasvati Scapes. Penn Kemp, Angela Hryniuk. Toronto: Pendas Productions. 2002.
  • Poem for peace in many voices. Vol. 1 & 2. Toronto: Pendas Productions. 2002.
  • Gathering Voices. Penn Kemp, Gloria Mulcahy. Toronto: Pendas Productions. 2002.
  • Suite Ancient Egypt. Salt Spring Island, B.C.: (m)Other Tongue Press, 2001.
  • Time Less Time / Quand cesse le temps. Penn Kemp with Gavin Stairs. Translated by Claude Gillard. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2001.
  • Incrementally. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2001.
  • Vocal Braidings. With Patricia Keeney. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2001.
  • Spring Suite. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2000.
  • Four Women Guelph, Ontario: Red Kite Press, 1999. Including When The Heart Parts.
  • What the Ear Hears Last. Toronto: Playwrights Union of Canada, 1994.
  • Throo: Wise Cracking C'Odes from the Lunar Plexus. Goderich, Ontario: Moonstone Press, 1988.
  • Eidolons. Fredonia N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1988.
  • Travelling Light. St. Catharines, Ontario: Moonstone Press, 1986.
  • Some Talk Magic. London, Ontario: Ergo Productions, 1986.
  • Incrementals. Toronto: Pendas Press, 1985.
  • Binding Twine. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed Press, 1984.
  • Animus. Mayne Island, B.C.: Caitlin Press, 1983.
  • Toad Tales. Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1981.
  • Changing Place. Fredericton, N.B.: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978.
  • Clearing. Vancouver: British Columbia Monthly, 1977.
  • Tranceform. [By Penny Chalmers.] Victoria, B.C.: Soft Press, 1976.
  • Bearing Down. [By Penny Chalmers.] Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972.

SOUND OPERAS, SOUND POETRY
  • The Dream Life of Teresa Harris: a Sound Opera. Penn Kemp, Mary Ashton, Panayiotis Giannarapis. London: Pendas Productions. 2018.
  • Helwa!: a Sound Opera, Experiencing Ancient Egypt. Penn Kemp, Mary Ashton, Panayiotis Giannarapis. London: Pendas Productions. 2018.
  • Luminous Entrance. Penn Keemp, Anne Anglin, Brenda McMorrow, Rob Menegoni. 2011. (DVD)
  • Night Vision: a Sound Opera. Penn Kemp, Bill Gilliam. London: Pendas Productions. 2011. 
  • Five Eerie Pieces. Penn Kemp, Dennis Siren. Pendas Productions. 2010. (DVD)
  • Luminous Entrance: a sound opera for climate change action. Penn Kemp, Anne Anglin, Brenda McMorrow, Ruth Douthright, Rob Menegoni. DVD by Dennis Siren. Pendas Productions. 2010. 
  • Memory Vision. Penn Kemp, Bill Gilliam. 2008.
  • Darkness Visible: a Sound Opera. Penn Kemp, Chris Meloche. Pendas Productions. 2006.
  • Trance Dance Form: a Sound Opera. Penn Kemp, Bill Giliam, Jean Martin. Pendas Productions. 2006.
  • Re:Animating Animus: a Sound Opera. Pendas Productions. 2005.
  • Soundspoke. Penn Kemp, Anne Anglin, Bill Gilliam, Rick Sacks. Distillery Jazz Festival, Pendas Productions. 2004. 
  • Gathering Voices. Penn Kemp, Anne Anglin, Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy. Pendas Productions. 2003.
  • Convergence: Poets for Peace. Penumbra Press. 2002.
  • Time Less Time. Penn Kemp, Darren Copeland, Claude Gillard. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2001. (CD)
  • Two Lips. Penn Kemp, Anne Anglin, and Susan McMaster. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2001. (CD)
  • "Ancient Egypt: On The Other Side Of Time." Four Women, Live. With Anne Anglin; also Marianne Micros, Gloria Mulcahy, Colleen Thibaudeau. London, Ontario: Centre for Studies in Creativity, 2001. (CD)
  • From The Lunar Plexus: A Sound Opera. Penn Kemp, Bill Gilliam, John Magyar. Design Gavin Stairs. Toronto: PsychoSpace Sound Studios, Pendas Productions, 2001. (CD)
  • From The House of Pan. Bill Gilliam, Penn Kemp, Marianne Micros, and Gloria Alvarnaz Mulcahey. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2000. (CD)
  • Breakfast at Epiphonemes. Sounding with Penn Kemp, Honey Novick (singer), and Dan Sargeant (guitar). Web page: http://breakfast.musicpage.com.
  • On Our Own Spoke. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 2000. (CD/CD-ROM)
  • Two Lips. Pendas Productions, 2000. (CD)
  • When the Heart Parts. Sound opera with Anne Anglin and John Blackwood. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 1999. (CD)
  • Reading in Carnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry. Eds. Stephen Scobie & Douglas Barbour. Red Deer College Press, 1999. (CD)
  • Souwesto Words: 25 Poets in Southwestern Ontario. Ergo Productions, 1999. (CD)
  • Temporary Harmonies. Toronto: Pendas Productions & Butterfly Effects, 1996. (audiotape)
  • Epiphanies. With David Prentice and Anne Anglin at the Glen Gould Studio. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 1995. (audiotape)
  • On Your Own Spoke. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 1995. (audiotape)
  • Inspiritrice. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 1995. (audiotape)
  • Jamming in the Bardo. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 1995. (audiotape)
  • What the Ear Hears Last. Toronto: Pendas Productions, 1994. (audiotape)
  • Sensasound 90. With Lillian Allen, Rafael Baretto-Rivera, bill bissett, Paul Dutton, Clifton Joseph, and Steve McCaffery. Toronto: 1990. (audiotape)
  • Throo. With David Prentice. Moonstone Press, 1989. (audiotape)
  • Ear Rings. Sound poems with David Prentice & Anne Anglin. Underwhich Editions, 1987. (audiotape)
  • Elementals, Audiographics, New Wilderness Foundation, NYC, 1985.
  • Trance Dance Form. With Coby Stoller. Soft Press, 1976.
  • Clouds. Performance of anti-fear, anti-nuclear chants with Anne Anglin.
  • Animus. Sound poems from the book Animus and the play Eros Rising. Findhorn Spring Festival of the Arts 84: with Australian aboriginal musicians. Music Gallery performance May 86: with jazz violinist David Prentice. (Caitlin 1977)
  • In Spirit Trees. Feminist sound poems and chants from Trance Form.

SELECTED WORKS IN TRANSLATION
  • Miguel Neneve, Poemas escolhidos de Penn Kemp / Selected poems by Penn Kemp. Pendas/Abecan, 2004  
  • Poem for Peace in Many Voices,  by Penn Kemp. 136 translations. Pendas Productions, 2004
  • Gujarati, Nita Ramaiya. Selected poems from Throo and Animus (Gujarati), 1991-94. Trans. Shirin Kudchedkar. Kavita (Poetry). Ed. Suresh Dalah. Mumbai, India: Jama Bhoomi Press.
  • Time Less Time. Claude Gillard, French; Nicholas Zsifkov, Romanian; Daniel Kolos, Hungarian.
  • Selected poems from Incrementally. Trans. Claude Gillard.

SELECTED POEMS IN ANTHOLOGIES
  • Canadian Woman Studies: Vol 33, No 1-2 (2018-2019) Vol 31, No 1-2 , Vol 30, No. 1-2-3 (2015-2016)
  • Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, 2018
  • GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times. Editors: Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon, and Tanis MacDonald. Frontenac House, Calgary
  • Canadian Ginger anthology, 2017. Oolichan Books. Editors, Kim Clark & Dawn Kresan. 
  •  Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food. Rachel Rose, editor. Anvil Press Publishers, October, 2017. https://alllitup.ca/books/S/Sustenance#overview,
  • Time and Place: a Cultural Anthology, Fall 2017 issue. Hamilton, 
  • Imagination in Action anthology, 2007. Mercury Press. Editor Carol Malyon.
  • Moonlight Over Topanga. Brideswell Press, 2001. 
  • Great Lakes Logia: The Great Lakes Project. Broken Jaw Press, 2001. 
  • SEEDS 3: A Poetry Anthology. Ed. Richard M. Grove. Toronto: Hidden Brook Press, 2000. 
  • Four Women. By Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy, Colleen Thibaudeau, Penn Kemp, and Marianne Micros. Guelph, Ontario: Red Kite Press, 1999. 
  • I Want To Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps: Poems of Quirky Romance. Ed. John B. Lee. Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, 1999. 
  • Siolence: Poets on Women, Violence & Silence. Ed. Susan McMaster. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1998.
  • We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada's Poets, 1978-1998. Eds. John Barton and Rita Donovan. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1998.
  • Illegitimate Positions: Women & Language. Eds. Susan McMaster and Cathy Ford. Toronto: Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, 1992.
  • And Other Travels: An Anthology of Poems. St. Catharines, Ontario: Moonstone Press, 1988.
  • Women and Words: The Anthology. Ed. West Coast Editorial Collective. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1984.
  • To Say the Least: Canadian Poets from A to Z. Ed. P. K. Page. Toronto: Press Porcépic, 1979.

SELECTED PERIODICALS
  • Arc, Canadian Author & Bookman, Cross-Canada Writer's Quarterly, Descant, Herizons, The Malahat Review, Poetry Canada Review, Poetry Toronto, Quarry, Room of Our Own, Tessera

SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES EDITED
  • Women & Multimedia, Poetry Collaboration/Elaboration. Editor, contributor. Living Archive Series, Feminist Caucus, League of Canadian Poets. 2016.
  • Performing Women. Editor, contributor. Living Archive Series, Feminist Caucus, League of Canadian Poets. 2016.
  • Jack Layton: Art in Action. Editor, contributor. Toronto: Quattro Books. 2013. 


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