Thursday, December 10, 2009

new from above/ground press: & look there goes a sparrow transplanting soil by Emily Carr

& look there goes a sparrow transplanting soil

Emily Carr

$4




published in Ottawa by above/ground press
in an edition of 200 copies, December 2009
add $1 for postage (outside Canada, add $2 & in American currency)
with cheques to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor,
Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7
2010 subscriptions now available


Emily Carr is writing to loot to hew & Eden, a book of poetry that explores happiness from feminist & ecocritical perspectives. In 2010, directions for flying is forthcoming from Furniture Press & 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2 is forthcoming from Parlor Press. Emily has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center & the Jack Kerouac House. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Gargoyle, Margie, Caketrain, ISLE, Fiddlehead & The Antigonish.


Cover image by kevin mcpherson eckhoff

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

new from above/ground press: Poems for Lainna by rob mclennan

Poems for Lainna

by rob mclennan

$4


love is an impossible narrative



there are too many blue cars in this province.

too often beer commercials on television


are the last stop of wisdom. at the hands of the swarm,

came thus but another swarm. a plethora of bees.


if a murder of crows, why not just a pint, then, of poets?


most contemporary horror films

are but scenes of sudden surprise.


emus run wild through the streets of Edmonton.

someone just let them go.


if this is sinful excess, then let it be sinful.

let it be everything it need be then multiplied.


my three fingers that elevator on Whyte

that went nowhere until


we pushed back the button.


this is a true story.


love is a fading photograph

with newer pictures laid overtop.


there are too many blue cars in this province.

cars you can count on the fingers of one hand


coloured peach, lime, orange. the cupboards are bare.


I am caught up with the smooth skin

of an impossible country.


published in Ottawa by above/ground press

in an edition of 200 copies, December 2009

add $1 for postage (outside Canada, add $2 & in American currency)

with cheques payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor

Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7

2010 subscriptions now available

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Gifts (Talonbooks, 2009), a compact of words (Salmon Publishing, Ireland, 2009), kate street (Moira, Chicago Il, 2009) and wild horses (University of Alberta Press, 2010), as well as a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press, 2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry & poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and currently divides his time between Ottawa and Toronto. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Monday, December 7, 2009

above/ground press at the toronto small press book fair

THE TORONTO SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR AT THE GLADSTONE HOTEL, DECEMBER 12TH, 2009

Because the Toronto Reference Library is having construction work done this fall, we're moving to the fabulous GLADSTONE HOTEL on Queen Street West for this season's Toronto Small Press Book Fair. We're really excited about the location, and we're thrilled to announce the new December date—perfect for holiday shopping, right in the middle of the festive season.

DATE: Saturday, December 12th. (Readers and performers including rob mclennan at 1:30pm on-site)

TIME: 10 am-5 pm (presses should be on-site by 9:30 at the latest—doors open at 9 am)

ADDRESS: 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto M6J 1J6
(Directions: Queen Street West & Gladstone (near Dufferin). Some street parking, some parking in front of Woolfit's on Queen. Nearest paid parking lot: Queen & O'Hara. Public Transit: TTC Queen Streetcar (the stop is right in front of the Gladstone Hotel!) (Facilities for people with disabilities)