Frances Kruk is a contemporary

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poet living in London, UK. She completed her PhD at

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, under the supervision of Redell Olsen. Her writings have been published in journals including ''Damn the Caesars'', ''Sous les Pavés'', ''onedit'', ''fhole'', ''ditch'', and ''HOW2''. She has exhibited visual work and performed solo and

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, music, and interdisciplinary projects in various parts of Canada, USA, Cyprus, Ireland, and the UK. She also edited the occasional micropress publication Yt Communication with her late husband, the poet Sean Bonney.

Works

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Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry
' (Mercury Press, 2005) * ''Markmallan'' (No. Press, 2005) *''clobber'' (yt communication, 2006) *
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' (yt communication, 2006) * ''How2 Quick Flip'' (with Maggie O’Sullivan) (2007) *

' (Critical Documents, 2008) *

' (Shearsman, 2010) *

' (Punch Press, 2011) * ''Thirst (2012) *

' (yt communication, 2013) *

' (yt communication, 2014) *''lo-fi frags in progress'' (Veer, 2015) * ''Kruk Book: An Anthology for Frances Kruk'' (with Sascha Akhtar, Tom Allen and Tom Betteridge) (2022)

Selected performances

*Tar Disaster Project - Planetarium One (Calgary, 2002) *Tar Disaster Project - Jazz Festival Calgary (Calgary, 2003) *High Performance Rodeo/Mutton Busting (Calgary, 2004) *Crossing the Line (London, 2006–2009) *Opened (London, 2006–2008) *Calgary International Spoken Word Festival (Calgary, 2005) *TEST (Toronto, 2007) *The Program (Providence, Rhode Island, 2007) *Just Buffalo (Buffalo, New York, 2007) *PerformingIdentity/Crossing Borders (Nicosia, 2007) *SoundEye Festival (Cork, 2008–2009) *textmusictext (London, 2009) *The Other Room (Manchester, 2009) *Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival (London, 2010) *Cambridge Reading Series (Cambridge, 2010)

Exhibitions

*Selected paintings - The Stephen Lawrence Gallery (London, 2010) *''Thought Process'' - photo and text installation at The Little Gallery, with photographer Anna Mandelkau (Calgary, 2004) *''a day in the life of particle girl coming to terms with her anger at the rules of gravity'' - mixed media art/performance installation, The Little Gallery (Calgary, 2004)

Short films

''The Balance'' (with Joshua Whitford) (2013)IMDB website, ''The Balance''
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References

External links

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*Robert Sheppard, Scott Thurston, "Editorial"
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
vol. 1, no. 1, September 2009, pp. 3–9). *Keith Tuma
"Some Younger British Poets"
(Chicago Review 53:1, Spring 2007). *David Grundy
Review of ''Down You Go; Or, Négation de Bruit''
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