Luke Kennard's Street Name

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I just ordered Luke Kennard’s third collection, The Migraine Hotel, yesterday (along with a collection of prose poems, The Bible of Lost Pets, by Jamey Dunham). Should be good.

This article from Gists and Piths is the kind of publicity a book needs – very well done!

Needless to say, I started looking for places that had been named after me and I was initially delighted to find a small Canadian town, Mackenzie, of just over 4,000 inhabitants. I felt quite honoured, and then I read the town description:

“Situated at the south end of Williston Lake, Mackenzie is the gateway to the largest manmade lake in Canada and home to the world's largest tree crusher…”