The Absence of Zero is available from Book*hug:

“Turning shadow into transient beauty”
always beginning as ashes begin
as objects end as objects
& no different disperse now & eventually

Margaret Christakos wrote a wonderful essay on the book, “Attentive and Exacting:
R. Kolewe’s The Absence of Zero.”

There’s a good discussion of the book here, as well as an interview, in which I try to explain the Riemann curvature tensor and other things.

There’s a video of the Toronto launch of the book here.

There’s a sort of video introduction to the book, here.

I read a section of the book and talked about it with Dianne Chisholm and Margaret Christakos, as part of the Distance As A Keeping series at Green College of the University of British Columbia. There’s a video here.

At the Miramichi Reader, Zoe Shaw’s review calls The Absence of Zero “a worldview, intentionally formatted to encourage negative capability.”

Over at periodicities, rob rob mclennan wrote a nice review, summing up with “This really is a remarkable book.” In 2023, rob placed The Absence of Zero at the top of his list of “books worth repeating” for 2022.

There’s also a short review by Paisley Conrad in Arc Magazine here.

An extract is available in a chapbook from Knife | Fork | Book, titled The Wild Fox.