Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)

Our Ice Floe Press editor Jakky Bangkong-Obi is this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Congrats @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social. Brilliant poet!

seems there is more than 1 Pissoir haha... So the UK journal is Pissoir; the tagged account however is - an Only Fans site.. 🤣
This is what 1 gets for not checking.
In any event. Do enjoy the poem & ty to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing my work (Robert Frede Kenter) @rfredekenter.bsky.social

A recent prose poem by our EIC Robert Frede Kenter published in U.K. journal, Pissoir.

Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social

Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.

Open for Submissions Marginalia !
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @ringtales.bsky.social @miggyangel.bsky.social @roughghosts.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @rmfrt.com @amantineb.bsky.social

Cover template for our new project (an abstract field collage of possibility in colour)

A collage by Robert Frede Kenter -- trees layered and altered from an original, a notion of process and margins as well as visionary outerworlds. (c) 2025

Call for our new project send work to icefloeprojects@gmail.com attach video works in Mp4, sound in Mp3. prose and poems in word doc (with PDF attachment if formatting is complex); jpegs for visual work. Include an author photo and up to 100 word bio and a statement of process if its not clear in the pieces themselves. we will accept 10 pages for review, up to 5 pieces. looking for video / photo / poems / prose/ CNF / Essays / Hybrids / Art songs / spoken word/ field recordings / collaborations / translations etc.

Ice Floe is open for a new theme project, Always expansive, we are looking for hybrid work: We want you to include/ consider something about process and margins of a - journey - include 2 elements in a startling way! Think juxtapositions, memory, visions, hybridity.
icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...

Bravo !💐🔥

congrats to Lynne Lampe!
@ljensenlampe.bsky.social

juxtaposed images of city and lake (collages) by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025.

Please include an author photo and up to 100 word bio with your submission. VIDEO /PHOTO/ POEMS/ PROSE /CNF /ESSAY HYBRIDS /ART /SONGS /SPOKEN WORD COLLABORATION /TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com

collage of plants by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025

bio of guest editor Vikki C.

Submission 🪟is now open. Today to 18th Nov send your extraordinary experimental delicate visionary works w/2 elements: #poetry #art #video #sound #prose #essay etc. We accept work at icefloeprojects@gmail.com
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.

The Book Bag: Wonderful by Harry Baker Well the week started well and continued in the same vein. Sunday saw us head back to the allotment (and me saw down a rosemary tree that was starting to push onto the greenhouse) while the weather held off, then I attended the online launch of Merril D. Smith’s new collection, I signed a contract extension at work, saw some meteor action and I harvested our garden crop of Jack-be-little pumpkins. I also found time to write what I think is one of my best pieces of the year, sent off a submission, and realised I’d lost edits my on a poem I really like.

The Book Bag is here. This week has been Wonderful. Written by superstar poet Harry Baker and published by Burning Eye Books, this charming collection definitely brought me joy.

Also the playlist and news and opportunities with shout outs.

Take 5 and dive in...

Y’all, check out this Ice Floe call for innovative hybrids, vispo, etc. and while you’re at the website, spend time with the exciting work they’ve already published! #subsopen #vispo #collaboration

The submission doors are open at @icefloepress.bsky.social! Send us your original hybrid visions on the theme of Process/Marginalia/Otherworlds.

I'm honoured to be reading and guest curating for this call along with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social.

We look forward to receiving your work 🔥

Open Call !
@rfredekenter.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @whiskeyradish.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @adedayoagarau.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @kennethmc.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

juxtaposed images of city and lake (collages) by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025.

Please include an author photo and up to 100 word bio with your submission. VIDEO /PHOTO/ POEMS/ PROSE /CNF /ESSAY HYBRIDS /ART /SONGS /SPOKEN WORD COLLABORATION /TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com

collage of plants by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025

bio of guest editor Vikki C.

Submission 🪟is now open. Today to 18th Nov send your extraordinary experimental delicate visionary works w/2 elements: #poetry #art #video #sound #prose #essay etc. We accept work at icefloeprojects@gmail.com
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.

@jpiudik.bsky.social 💐

"On my first encounter with Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter’s haunting collaborative collection, In the Blueprint of Her Iris, I was instantly enchanted by the echoes of luminescence and colour in its title. It primed me for my entry into a rich experience of eco-human landscapes and otherworldly realism, a terrain where the trembling phrase, the refracted word, emerge in softness...." Excerpt of advance praise by Jaclyn Piudik, author of 'The Dark Oar, Celan translations' [Full text in image above]

So grateful to accomplished author, translator and educator Jaclyn Piudik for her perceptive reading and beautiful praise of 'In the Blueprint of Her Iris' 🙏

Available from Ice Floe Press via the link below 🔥

@rfredekenter.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social

#WritingCommunity

Ice Floe Press is opening for submissions 25th October – 18th November.

Honoured to be guest editing this series along with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥

We look forward to your hybrid work on the theme of PROCESS/MARGINALIA/OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S).

Full details: icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...

YouTube video by adam28xx Deanna Durbin & Leopold Stokowski - Mozart 'Alleluia' & Wagner 'Lohengrin' Act 3 Prelude

I understand that Mr. Stokowski. Remember - we open for #submissions for Marginalia/ Process / Otherworlds on Oct. 25th!
curated by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social

send your original unpublished #hybrid works to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSo8...

Ty to Julian Cason, a lovely gentleman poet in Cardiff Wales for his beautiful reading of IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS, my new collaborative work with @vikkicwrites.bsky.social, poet extraordinaire! Avail from Ice Floe Press. @icefloepress.bsky.social website. (Easy to locate on google). 😎 #review

Small Press Fair - TIFA Come meet the people behind Canada’s independent publishing houses at TIFA’s Small Press Market. With 19 exhibiting small presses from across Ontario, this is a rare chance to explore the beauty and b...

For #poets #readers #publishers #writers in the #toronto area On Nov 1. from 10am to 5pm Ice Floe Press will be at the TIFA Small Press Market Fair w/ our various wares! #poetry #smallpress #canada #books #prose #art #bskywriters
At Victoria Chapel U. Toronto
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So lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris alongside Audacity of Form by @rfredekenter.bsky.social — one of my all time favourite hybrid books!

An absolutely beautiful pairing. We hope you enjoy these & have a relaxing Sunday, @danadelibovi.bsky.social 💐📚☕️

@icefloepress.bsky.social #books

Two books and a candle. Audacity of Form by Robert Frede Kenter and In the Blueprint of Her Iris by Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter

Sunday morning—our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social enjoying this beautiful gift of books from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social — Thank you!💙📚

TIDAL Tide of blunt force pain recedes So simple this territory of remission What to ask of the preternatural light at shore an icon of driftwood This is how I float towards my mother

Picture of my mother as a young girl in Halifax, N.S.

My mother’s family came to N. America to escape autocrats, dictators, pogroms, fascism(s). That she would appreciate NO KINGS Day falls on her birthday today, I have no doubt. Happy Birthday Helen🕯️/& a mother poem of mine published
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social first anthology, 2nd
#SilverBranches.

Honored to announce that Ice Floe Press is reopening with a new project.

We will open for subs Oct. 25th for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/ OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S).

Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social joins me as guest editor. Looking for hybrids, collaboration, experimental new unpublished work w/2 elements.

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Announcement!🔈

ICE FLOE PRESS will be opening for submissions from 25th Oct-18th Nov.

I am honoured to be guest curator along with brilliant @icefloepress.bsky.social EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social
🔥

Seeking hybrid works on the theme of PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S).

Get ready!!

OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S) Ice Floe is excited to announce a new on-line project is opening for submissions on the 25th of October. We will accept work until Nov. 18th, 2025. In the spirit of experimentation, hybridity and c…

Announcing!
ICE FLOE PRESS reopening for Submissions Oct 25th.
Full sub prompt below at website link
Guest Editor Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social
We are looking for new, original hybrid work on:
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)
icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...

OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S) Ice Floe is excited to announce a new on-line project is opening for submissions on the 25th of October. We will accept work until Nov. 18th, 2025. In the spirit of experimentation, hybridity and c…

Announcing!
ICE FLOE PRESS reopening for Submissions Oct 25th.
Full sub prompt below at website link
Guest Editor Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social
We are looking for new, original hybrid work on:
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)
icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...

Thanks so much, Todd! Lovely to see IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS reached you & hope you enjoy it!

This unique hybrid collection is
available via @icefloepress.bsky.social 🔥

Poems by Vikki C. & striking visual art by Robert Frede Kenter

@rfredekenter.bsky.social

icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

A poem erasure in yellow and rust-red with text -- evoking factories, brick walls, industrial piping etc. text include: "three-month waiting period workers must have a work permit upon arrival similar to health inspections of housing typically carried protections It is Man

A glitch collage of motherboards and city blocks, using various elements, microscopic and enlarged with the text "disseminate" fractured. grey, black, ruby red, forest green, royal blue, pink, yellow are some of the fragments of colour blocks and glitch elements.

An excerpt from a erasure/redaction sculpture including wood, tiny rectangular stamps, circled words and asemic drawing... from the obituary of a Canadian immigrant woman who was written of as being "introverted", "deeply" "born", "volunteered" "from "her family" primarily a monochrome drone piece inside the larger work.

Author Note: I put these fragments together as a stanza in a poem, visual sequence of juxtapositions, breath, beats & musical tone, exploring links between history, gender rights, housing, impact & reach of capitalism/dystopia
#hybrid #vispo #poetry #resist #excerpt
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