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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
@icefloepress.bsky.social
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indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
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We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
Poster for Sub extension for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) 2 elements hybrid work Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Open till Nov 30, 2025 Send up to 5 works or 10 pages max Attach video works in Mp4 format/ sound works Mp3 poems and prose in word doc (with extra PDF attachment if work requires complex formatting) Send art and other visuals in 72 dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files a time of acceptance. Include an author bio and photo up to 100 words with submission. We are looking for video / photo / poems / prose /CNF /ESSAY /hybrids/ Songs / Spoken word/ Collaborations/ Translations / Transliteration. Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Ty and looking forward to unpublished new innovative works!
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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.
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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.
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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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 [email protected]
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.
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.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It's available! A new brilliant collaborative work. It combines #writings of @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and #art/vispo of @rfredekenter.bsky.social. A back & forth fine-tuned visionary process of not-programmatic but parallel, converging, image-text pieces making a third. For sale at our website now!
Cover image IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS, poems: Vikki C. Art: Robert Frede Kenter. Book placed in vines. Cover & photo: Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025.
September 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS -
Poems: Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Art Poems: Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Now available for pre-order at the Ice Floe Press website. Under Store/Books: a full colour hybrid extravaganza of whirling deconstructed Anthropocene tropes.
September 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Delicate, intimate, mysterious, the poems in Spectra (2018) by Ashley Toliver coalesce & break apart. Toliver, through collaged associational suites investigates nature/self, family illness & ecologies My Day 25 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
Cover for Spectra by Ashley Toliver, poetry from Coffee House Press (2018). black and white image a collage-vispo x-ray of the head, neck layered in ominous magic. Art by Samantha Wall. excerpt from long poem Ideal Machine in future rites I lie down on the operating table glassy and overdue the surgeons take roll in choirs hands like night swimmers badwater below the sea under lightest implication the body breaks through under lightest implication the crocuses push through peat as a gesture for belief from HOUSEKEEPING (a suite of prose poems) Dear stone fruit: I haven't wept anywhere in at least seven days. Outside the lunar engine clicks and flinches. I go on gargling with port wine, heavy dashes of clipped lullaby. Dear stone fruit: today's is a season for waking to ankle weights roused from our darkest houses. The light angles over the net in a drastic lunge to pivot. Point. Counterpoint. All that we came for irradiates. From Title poem Spectra, (an excerpt) the phenomenal body great machine of a body that turns as a blossom turns somersaults of fragrance and rot I close my eyes and see how the wind lulled the valley honestly despite itself ripening magic on top of magic on top of magic ***
August 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Honoured to reveal the cover for the upcoming Ice Floe Press book, 'In the Blueprint of Her Iris'.
A hybrid-collaboration of #Poems: Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social &
#Vispo: Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Robert & Vikki worked tirelessly on this project. Beginning our autumn!
Cover of the upcoming hybrid collection. A dreamy cosmos of blue tones: taking you into the startling world of this delicate and ferocious interweave of eco-philosophical edgy poems and art visuals. Cover by Robert Frede Kenter.
August 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Delighted to share my poem 'X-Ray (Berlin Hologram)' from the latest @ballastjournal.bsky.social One of two pieces I have in the journal; the other a poem dialogue with Venya Gushchin
'...Night. A drawn & quartered revery.' (c) 2025.
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My poem X-Ray (Berlin Hologram) from the journal Ballast, issue 3.2. It begins, "A month after. Dreaming mouths. Spilling onto streets,/sheets of rain. She raises a hat filled with water. Spring morning,/somersaulting couches./Conch shells, spit words, rage..."
June 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Edifice City Heroic 2 (c) 2025 by Robert Frede Kenter.
This is the image that we created for the @vikkicwrites.bsky.social /@rfredekenter.bsky.social collab. Robert made a few variants as part of recent ongoing #Vispo series hybrids of similarly configured image/collage pieces.
Listen here:
May 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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An update. To help Moira J. Saucer achieve full care/treatment for her increasingly painful dental issues. We really are so grateful for all the donations to date. We still need to raise more than 50% of the amount needed. Moira will visit UAB Dental on April 1. Help us get her to the finish line.
March 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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'How many poems are everywhere: what modern poetry can look like while children are dying under rocket fire? Suck my death. Suck my verse like a lollipop whore: we’re all icy.'
Mykyta Ryzhykh at Ice Floe Feb New Works
#ukraine #poetry #blueskypoets #resist #hybrid
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writer photo and bio artist bio and photo
March 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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#dystopian #prose #music
The trials made me hungry. A creature estrogenized to seduce the shape of military prowess – without too much harm or death – until we lost control. You were trained to march, to catch the eye of potential dealings – but never to touch.
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January 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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EXPERIMENTAL REVIEWS:
Send us unique, challenging, groundbreaking essays: Imagine a call-response of your choice up to 2000 words. Poems, artworks, short vid, prose, hybrids!
We are accepting work at: [email protected]
Submissions open now thru March 15 for Experimental Essays/Reviews.
January 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Some of the amazing Ice Floe Press books in print!
@miggyangel.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social and #ardenhunter
Available at our website:
#poetry #visualart #hybrids #vispo
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Four Ice Floe Press Books in a forest window: Miggy Angel's Boy, Bestiary, Robert Frede Kenter's Audacity of Form, Talk Smack to a Hurricane by Lynne Jensen Lampe, and STOP FIDGETING by Arden Hunter.
January 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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The woman I have known & loved
All my life is writhing
In pain. Yet, she would not let me take

What is not hers. Freedom, like blood, should
Be everyone’s inheritance.
My country is a penciled flower in the middle

Of a papered sea
- Bola Opaleke
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January 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Our New Works January Project begins on Monday! We will be featuring work this month by international writers, visual artists, poetry, fiction and more. Subscribe to our blog at our website and receive free published pieces all year round!
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An apricot coloured backdrop poster with fractured visual poetry images announcing this month's New Works project. Among the contributors will be Moira J. Saucer, Vikki C., Bola Opaleke and more! Poster design and all art by Robert Frede Kenter.
January 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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News at our website Open for Subs Jan 10-28 for NEW WORKS FEB & Experimental Essays (a new series).
Send orig. unpublished work to [email protected]
#poetry #prose #essays #video #art #hybrid #vispo #collab up to 2500 words NEW WORKS/Ex reviews.
Open for Submissions for 2 projects for Feb. 2025. We are reading work Jan 10-28th for NEW WORKS FEBRUARY and for EXPERIMENTAL REVIEWS. In both projects we want previously unpublished, experimental works: poems, prose, hybrids, video, image-text, collaborations, experimental essays. For the essay project explore a book you read in 2024 and do a response piece that can be a poem, a story, a CNF, a video, a photo set or a hybrid of all.
January 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Do have a read of these beautiful searching poems, accompanied by collages and photos created especially by award winning widely published writer and artist, Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social Click the ol' link to reach our website and have a look around🎆🥰

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Black and white author photo. Joshua Trees in the California Mohave desert. A wide angle color shot of the desert and the sky. Anindita bio.
December 5, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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From Ice Floe Press: Arden Hunter's 'Stop Fidgeting' a #vispo collection #poems #images #visualpoetry #collage #glitch #transpoetics #critique Publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social modeling the front cover and some interior pages & back page notes and blurbettes. You can find this at our website. ❤️‍🔥
Robert Frede Kenter, Ice Floe Publisher, modeling multi-talented Arden Hunter's ice floe press collection of their visual poetic works exploring fashion and consumerism pink yellow colour scheme robert in orange an excerpt from Stop Fidgeting by trans poet visual artist cutbow quarterly publisher Arden Hunter glitch collage layered critique of advertising fashion and consumer identity / alterity Another page spread from "Stop Fidgeting" a vispo collection by Hunter Arden. text/image collage Back cover of Stop Fidgeting available from Ice Floe Press incl. blurb by Street cake Magazine publisher Nikki Dudley yellow pink colour scheme
November 26, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Our Nov New Works Project Feature for today!
Welcome Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam with collaborative tan-renga poetry
November 20, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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January 11, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Recently at Ice Floe Press website: The start of our 2024 programming incl. the long running Geographies series incl. 2 poems by Nigerian poet, Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. To read the full feature & check out the rest of the series at our New Works menu:
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January 10, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Ice Floe Press Books in Print! More books coming 2024-2025. We have a sale on now at the website. Help support a micro-press continue to produce original, award-winning books such as 'Talk Smack to A Hurricane', a debut #poetry collection by Newfoundland-born, Missouri-based poet Lynne Jensen Lampe.
A photo of our nine books currently in print at Ice Floe Press www.icefloepress.net Works by Kushal Poddar, Whiskey Radish, Lynne Jensen Lampe, Samuel Strathman, Robert Frede Kenter, Arden Hunter and Miggy Angel. As well a beautiful collection of poems, stories, art by 72 international contributors on Love during the Pandemic.
January 2, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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IceFloePress Sale! Incl. Anthology: Love & Other Affinities w/ work by wealth intl. poets, artists, prose writers incl. Catherine Graham, Hasan Namir, Ronna Bloom, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Sue Finch, Marian Christie, Yasmine Bolden, Lee Potts, Kushal Poddar, Ankh Spice
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December 15, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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We published a lot of work from around the world this year: in 3 series - Geographies 2022, Dispatches, and Cassandra/Chorale. Here is one link to 2 poems by Amaleena Damlé w/ art by F. Frede Kenter.
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December 6, 2023 at 10:15 PM