Kirk Ramdath is the publisher, editor, and designer of Florencia Bay Books and the waxpoetryart.com publications. He has read and performed at poetry events in Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and many other cities in Canada. Kirk had the honour of opening the world-famous Peace Bridge in Calgary in 2012. Watch the video.
Kirk has been a publisher since 2005. He also organized many dozen poetry events, around the 2010s. Particularly, open-mic poetry events with a featured artist. Kirk's first book, Love in a Handful of Dust, was published by Florencia Bay Books in 2025 and was originally published in print by Frontenac House in 2011.
In 2002, Kirk obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, with Distinction, and a Minor in Philosophy from the University of Calgary, in Canada. Kirk was born in Trinidad and Tobago, moved to Canada at age 10 with his family, and now writes and publishes from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
– Love in a Handful of Dust, online book, Florencia Bay Books, September 2025, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
– "the story of the steel pan", poem, The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 34, 2020
– "naparima hill", poem, The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 34, 2020
– "a mother plans", poem, The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 34, 2020
– "hyarima, before driving the spanish from trinidad", poem, Freefall, Vol. XXV, Number 3, Winter 2015/2016.
– "grade seven recess", poem, Freefall, Vol. XXV, Number 3, Winter 2015/2016.
– "penbrook", poem, Freefall, Vol. XXV, Number 3, Winter 2015/2016.
– "Naming", poem, The Calgary Project: A City Map in Verse and Visual, March 2014, Calgary, Alberta.
– "Montreal", poem, Caffe Beano Anthology 2, BHouse Publications; July 2011, Calgary, Alberta.
– Love in a Handful of Dust, poetry manuscript, 72 pages, Frontenac House, March 2011, Calgary, Alberta.
– Medicine Hat Public Library (2012: Medicine Hat)
– Lethbridge Public Library (2012: Lethbridge)
– Calgary International Spoken Word Festival (2011: Calgary) Feature
– Daybreak: Alberta, program, CBC Radio One (2011: Calgary)
– Bookmark, program, CKUA Radio (2011: Calgary)
– Single Onion Poetry Reading Series (2010: Calgary) Feature
– Calgary International Spoken Word Festival (2010: Calgary)
– Ellipsis Tree Collective Fundraiser (2009: Calgary)
– Tongues of Fire (2009: Victoria) Feature
– Tonight it's Poetry (2009: Saskatoon) Feature
– "Kirk Ramdath's top 5 books of poetry", Feature in Swerve Magazine (Calgary Herald), December 16th, 2011.
– "Local poet Kirk Ramdath covers the profound to the profane", Interview in Calgary Herald, October 2nd, 2011.
– "Miracles of everyday love and life", Review in FFWD Weekly, August 18th, 2011. (Calary)
– Interview with Russell Bowers, Daybreak: Alberta, CBC Radio One, March 2th6, 2011 (Calgary)
– Interview with Brenda Finley, Bookmark, CKUA Radio, March 13th, 2011 (Calgary).
– Avenue Magazine profile, December 2007 (Calgary).
– SLAM!, Access TV, 2006 (Calgary)
– waxpoetryart.com – Independent, international, online poetry and art publications.
– Florencia Bay Books – An independent publisher.
– KirkRamdath.net – Personal website.
– Kirk Ramdath Originals – New original work by Kirk Ramdath.
– Mary Shelley's Frankenstein – Read the classic novel.
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