maple leaf rag - arbeiter ring publishing 2010



Maple Leaf Rag is a dynamic, jazz-infused riff on Canadian culture. With rhythm and edge, Kaie Kellough’s verbal soundscape explores belonging, dislocation and relocation, and national identity from a black Canadian perspective. This collection of poems is both written word and musical score — a dictated dub replete with references to African Canadian and African American culture (current and dated), Canadian history and politics, and characters ranging from dancers to piano players to boxers. (from the jacket)
will be available in April 2010!

lettricity - cumulus press 2004
"Kaie Kellough declares Cool Age Québécitude, remixing urban vibes with négritude. His poetry, spare chic Shakespeare, shakes CanLit with reggae riff, steelpan quakes." - George Elliott Clarke

(s)languages, sounds, scat newscasts, carifiesta parades traffic through montréal. LETTRICITY catches these currents and channels them into a bop-inflected poetry that may induce you to utter an anagrammatical dedication to a tan nation, to flumox la langue de l'angoisse officielle, to remember dismembered memories, to be nocturnal, nicotine-nerved, to beg ire of your ancestors, to dig a skunk low funk. ceci n'est pas un accident.(from the jacket)