• Supergiants

Supergiants

by Kyle Flemmer

April 8, 2025 | ISBN 978-1-998408-14-6 | 104 Pages

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For millennia humanity has looked upwards and traced stories in the night sky, projecting our human wants and desires outward. In Supergiants, Kyle Flemmer turns his gaze in the other direction. What does our reach for the stars say about us? Working with the technical language of engineering and astrophysics, Flemmer reorients the reader within our galaxy. Families of asteroids expand to contain their physical attributes, the mythic stories of their names and the histories of real people. We see the course of lunar exploration through the fate of the flags planted on each mission. Nebulae, blue giants and black holes… Read more

Advance Praise

“Kyle Flemmer revels in the language of astronomy and the names we pin on celestial objects like flags on the Moon – but goes beyond wordplay to ‘transcription of the human element.’ In sequences like Astral Projection and Stellar Sequence, he maps correspondences between scientific concepts and our other thought patterns – mythological, political and personal. Deeply inventive and thought-provoking.” – Alice Major, author of Welcome to the Anthropocene and Knife on Snow

“The bright and inventive constellations of Flemmer’s poems bend ho-hum literary space-time with texts infused by both light and gravity, delicacy and resonance, intelligence and wit, and transmit the alienness, tenderness and wonder of what it is to find oneself an earthling and already living in the future.” – Gary Barwin, author Scandal at the Alphorn Factory and Yiddish for Pirates

Events with Kyle Flemmer

    • Supergiants Kyle Flemmer (Hollay Ghadery, New Books in Poetry, 06/05/2025)
      Host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Calgary poet Kyle Flemmer about the hubris and accomplishments of humanity, our earthly (in)significance, bringing science to poetry and much more. 
    • Why I Wrote This Book Issue #44 — MORE Poetry!! (The Miramichi Reader, 13/04/2025)
      "My goal was to explore science through poetry, bringing a lifelong interest in astronomy together with a newfound passion for formal experimentation in my creative practice."

  • Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher and digital media artist from Calgary in Treaty 7 territory. He founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Co. in 2014 and released his first book, Barcode Poetry, in 2021. Flemmer is the author of many chapbooks and his work has appeared in anthologies and exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Supergiants is Kyle's first trade book of poetry, and his next, The Wiki of Babel, is forthcoming from the University of Calgary Press.