Ken Babstock

Illustration of a kitchen on fire, with a man sitting at the kitchen table, holding a phone to his ear, with a laptop in front of him.

May 2021 / Memoir

When Death Is Preferable to Taxes

April 6, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Ken Babstock

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit helped me survive COVID-19’s first wave. Then the government tried to claw back the cash

A black-and-white portrait of a man against a pink and purple background

Poetry

Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

November 4, 2019 - by Ken Babstock

The sheep-horse has a feather in its cap, / a single hieroglyphic / eye

June 2012 / Poetry

Hoffos at MOCCA, Hester at ACCA

June 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Ken Babstock

Subfusc, innerwhelmed, surfing some weightless valence of privilege and white glare on the esplanade at St Kilda. Sun batters a quincunx of big, deliquescent palms. The harbour’s all Piaget Chronograph. …

April 2007 / Poetry

Caledonia

April 12, 2007July 5, 2017 - by Ken Babstock

Then we came out in numbers. As Canadians we came out in numbers with flags. With flags aloft and hooting we stepped out in anger and in numbers. In numbers …

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When Death Is Preferable to Taxes

Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

Hoffos at MOCCA, Hester at ACCA

Caledonia

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