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Penn Kemp, poet & playwright

London, Canada

Penn's latest books are River Revery &Local Heroes (Insomniac Press) & Fox Haunts (Aeolus House). RiverRevery.ca features poems with animations from multimedia artist Mary McDonald.

"Penn Kemp is a writer with both international experience & a wide variety of connections within her local community. Primarily known as a poet, she is also a playwright & essayist, with expertise in editing and teaching. Penn works across a variety of poetic practices: she has, for example, been celebrated by the League of Canadian Poets as one of the foremothers of Canadian Poetry. Her work in new media forms has been documented in several doctoral dissertations. Since Coach House Press published her first book in 1972, Penn has pushed textual & aural boundaries often in participatory performance. Among her publications are 31 books of poetry & drama, 10 CDs of Sound Opera, 8 videopoems & Canada’s first poetry CD-ROM.

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