Kit Fryatt

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diminuitivegiant smallsmallth Books: forthcoming: All Things That Are Passing, with Ellen Dillon (Spite Press, 2026) Book of Inversions, with Harry Gilonis,(Veer2, 2025) Bodyservant (Shearsman, 2018)

A black and white cat on a bookshelf
15th century woodcut of a man wearing headgear and tunic but with bare feet and legs warming himself by a cauldron over a fire. His socks? are hanging on a rack above. Honestly it would give you chilblains just looking at it but it is the traditional labour of February, doing nothing.
Arse-end of a black bus with silver stripe and the words "you are the journery" (sic), the "are the" in an awkward graphic design stepped arrangement. It's regularly parked round my way and they've corrected the typo now but it was more meaningful the way it was
Cat-like foliate head at Ely Cathedral
Page from the IWU newsletter with notices of Rob Kiely's book Psalms and Kit Fryatt and Harry Gilonis's Book of Inversions. Psalms | Robert Kiely | Distance No Object, Oct 2025 Psalms reimagines the biblical psalm form through palaeontology. Language is treated as a fossil record: bones, sediments and trace impressions through which violence, extinction and memory can be inferred but never fully recovered. In poems that move between Gaza, deep time, Irish poetic marginalia and our mediadrenched everyday life, the work offers a haunting meditation on what remains, what erodes, and what refuses to be preserved. Book of Inversions | Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis | Veer2, Nov 2025 Book of Inversions is a daring poetic collaboration rooted in medieval and earlymodern Irish originals, yet boldly inverted. Fryatt and Gilonis reinterpret original Irish poems, flipping and recomposing them in contemporary registers. Satirical, irreverent, and formally adventurous, the book transforms inherited tradition into a site of play, tension, and renewal. Meanings slip sideways, rhythms unfold against expectation, and the ancient becomes startlingly new in this inventive re-imagining of our poetic past. For readers of books such as Geoffrey Squires' My News For You: Irish Poetry 600-1200, it is a must-have!