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Pub Date Oct 15 2026 | Archive Date Oct 31 2026


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Description

In Fairy, Kirby continues to mine their riches and fan the flames lit in their instant classic, Poetry is Queer. Their essays are an act of liberation they call “tending to each other’s freedom,” and are written with signature Kirby directness and panache, from early AIDS-activist monologues, to launching a counter city-wide “safe-sex” campaign that includes the public depiction of an affectionate gay couple, to leaving the States in a love that made them “the most beautiful boy in the world,” to becoming a Canadian queer poetry icon. Like countless fairies before them, Kirby scouts desire paths beyond mere survival for new queer voices to continue to amaze, flourish, and thrive. Or as Fairy says, “This way >>>” 

In Fairy, Kirby continues to mine their riches and fan the flames lit in their instant classic, Poetry is Queer. Their essays are an act of liberation they call “tending to each other’s freedom,” and...


A Note From the Publisher

US Price: $19.95 USD.

Keywords: LGBTQ+, Gay Marriage, AIDS, Sex, Queerness, Non-Fiction, Canadian Literature.

US Price: $19.95 USD.

Keywords: LGBTQ+, Gay Marriage, AIDS, Sex, Queerness, Non-Fiction, Canadian Literature.


Advance Praise

"Kirby’s Fairy is a torch song, a speedy car, a garden of stars, a disco spinning with cicadas, a never-ending glory hole. In Fairy, Kirby lays bare her softness, sings unstintingly the praises of those around her, and somehow in the process manages to show us just how formidable she is. An invitation to “Dance in the night of day,” Fairy is undeniable." — Barbara Tran, author of Precedented Parroting 

"“How does she know / she is not these flowers?” In this prismatic book, Kirby flowers, welcoming us into their well-tended garden. A work of liberation ontology, Fairy documents how this is possible, even when everything around us insists that we should not exist. Kirby remixes the grammars of borders around the self, honouring the specificity of experience within actual conditions, and how poetry can change reality while grieving and dancing, naming and asking. Three words are like three wishes: “Walk with me.” In Fairy, they come true." — Lisa Fishman, author of Write Back Now!

"Kirby’s Fairy is a torch song, a speedy car, a garden of stars, a disco spinning with cicadas, a never-ending glory hole. In Fairy, Kirby lays bare her softness, sings unstintingly the praises of...


Marketing Plan

  • Targeted pitching to author's local media sources.
  • Targeted review copy send-out. 
  • Social media campaigns (both with Palimpsest and River Street Writing).
  • Pitching for interviews with multiple online magazines. 
  • Open Book promotions.
  • Targeted pitching to author's local media sources.
  • Targeted review copy send-out. 
  • Social media campaigns (both with Palimpsest and River Street Writing).
  • Pitching for interviews with multiple online...

Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781997508236
PRICE CA$21.95 (CAD)
PAGES 248

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