All are welcome to hear visiting Orion Series poet, sound artist and writer Kaie Kellough when he speaks on “Self Inside Sound”: 7pm, Wednesday March 4, in the New Student Lounge, main floor of The Mearns Centre – McPherson Library. Free & open to all.
Kaie Kellough is a poet, sound performer and fiction writer whose work crosses genres and disciplines. He is concerned with language, migration, inequality and the intersections of social engagement and form. Kaie’s long poem, Magnetic Equator (McClelland & Stewart, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Griffin Poetry prize. His collection of short stories, Dominoes at the Crossroads (Véhicule, 2020), was nominated for multiple national awards, and won the AM Klein prize for fiction. His latest long poem, Interposition, will be published in 2026 with McClelland & Stewart.
Since 2011, Kaie has collaborated on audio compositions with saxophonist and synthesist Jason Sharp. Their performances have been broadcast by jazz festivals across Europe and Canada. Their first group album, FYEAR, featured a 9-piece ensemble and was released in 2024 on Constellation Records. Kaie is currently pursuing graduate work at Queen’s University. He studies post-colonial literatures, with a focus on Caribbean and Black British writing. Kaie continues to craft new passages.
Presented by the Department of Writing, the University of Victoria Libraries & Art Collections and the Orion Series in Fine Arts.