Frances Kruk

Frances Kruk is a contemporary Polish-Canadian poet living in London, UK. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the supervision of Redell Olsen. Recent writing can be found in journals such as Damn the Caesars, Sous les Pavés, onedit, fhole, ditch, and HOW2. She has exhibited visual work and performed solo and collaborative poetry, music, and interdisciplinary projects in various parts of Canada, USA, Cyprus, Ireland, and the UK. She edited the occasional micropress yt communication with Sean Bonney.

Works

• [http://veerbooks.com/Frances-Kruk-lo-fi-frags-in-progress lo-fi frags in progress (Veer 2015)
• DWARF SURGE (yt communication, 2013)
• Down you go, or, Négation de bruit (Punch Press, 2011)
• Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010)
• A Discourse on Vegetation & Motion (Critical Documents, 2008)
• dig oubliette (yt communication, 2006)
• clobber (yt communication, 2006)
• Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury Press, 2005)

Selected Performances

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

Exhibitions

• 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, AB 2004)
• Selected paintings - The Stephen Lawrence Gallery (London, 2010)

Further reading

• dark mucus
• 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).