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founded July 1993 : MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY + NOW MORE THAN 1000 PUBLICATIONS TO DATE! Ottawa-based poetry chapbook + broadside publisher; publisher of The Peter F. Yacht Club (a writer's group magazine) + Touch the Donkey (a small poetry magazine) + G U E S T [a journal of guest editors], as well as home of The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993); edited/published/curated by rob mclennan

Saturday, October 1, 2016

some author activity: Pirie, mclennan, Saklikar, Collis + beaulieu,

Pearl Pirie writes on rob mclennan's work for Brick Books' Celebration of Canadian Poetry, and again, on rob mclennan and mentorship, for The League of Canadian Poets blog; part four of Renée Sarojini Saklikar's interview with Stephen Collis is now online; and derek beaulieu has five new visual poems up at A-Minor.
Posted by rob mclennan at 10:03 AM
Labels: A-Minor, Brick Books, derek beaulieu, essay, interview, Pearl Pirie, poem, poems, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, rob mclennan, Stephen Collis, The League of Canadian Poets

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upcoming events and appearances!

The Peter F Yacht Club Christmas party/reading/regatta! December 28, 2019 (Ottawa ON);

rob mclennan and Christine McNair at Lunch Poems at SFU, February 19, 2020 (Vancouver BC);


above/ground press 25th anniversary essays

above/ground press 25th anniversary essays

recent above/ground chapbooks

recent above/ground chapbooks
photo by Isabella Wang

The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993,

The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993,
recent and forthcoming titles from Franco Cortese, Andrew Cantrell, Ashley Yang-Thompson + Mikko Harvey, J.R. Carpenter, George Stanley, Anthony Etherin, Guy Birchard, Amanda Deutch, Melissa Eleftherion, Stan Rogal, Razielle Aigen, Rachel Kearney, Leesa Dean, Eric Baus, Zane Koss, Barry McKinnon, Ian McCulloch, Dale Tracy, Dennis Cooley, Pete Smith, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #7, Isabel Sobral Campos, Jessica Smith, Amanda Earl, Ben Robinson, Mary Kasimor, Margaret Christakos, Allyson Paty, Hawad (trans. Jake Syersak), N.W. Lea, Simina Banu, Lydia Unsworth, Ian McCulloch, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #6, Andrew K Peterson, Guy Birchard, Susanne Dyckman, John Newlove, Ben Meyerson, Natalie Lyalin, Zane Koss, Michael Dennis, Jane Virginia Rohrer, Pearl Pirie, Chris Turnbull, Stuart Ross, Marilyn Irwin, Ken Norris, Chris Johnson, Conyer Clayton, Frances Boyle, Michael Sikkema, Kemeny Babineau, Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Gary Barwin, Kate Siklosi, rob mclennan, Mairéad Byrne, Kimberly Campanello, Stephen Cain, Kyle Kinaschuk, Paul Perry, Gregory Betts, Gil McElroy, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #2, The Peter F. Yacht Club #27, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Stephanie Gray, Billy Mavreas, Alice Burdick, Heather Sweeney, R. Kolewe, Franco Cortese, Evan Gray, Dale Smith, Virginia Konchan, Joshua James Collis, Laura Farina, Jennifer Stella, Monty Reid, Anthony Etherin, Sarah Mangold, bodies and breath: a summer workshop anthology, Cole Swensen, MC Hyland, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #1, Jamie Townsend, Sacha Archer, Megan Kaminski, Emily Izsak, Sara Renee Marshall, Mark Laliberte, Lisa Rawn, Sean Braune, Michael Martin Shea, Melissa Eleftherion, Ian Dreiblatt, Kyle Flemmer, Uxío Novoneyra (trans. Erín Moure), Stephen Brockwell, Phil Hall / Stuart Kinmond, natalie hanna, Miguel E. Ortiz Rodríguez, Natalee Caple, Jason Christie, Travis Sharp, Beth Ayer, Jon Boisvert, Jenna Jarvis, Lise Downe, Allison Cardon, Lea Graham, Tim Atkins, Gregory Betts + Arnold McBay, Amanda Earl, Derek Beaulieu, Aaron Tucker, Dani Spinosa, Andrew Wessels, Marthe Reed, Kate Siklosi, Edward Smallfield, Amish Trivedi, The Peter F. Yacht Club #26, Steve McCaffery, Gary Barwin and Tom Prime, Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick, Alice Notley, Stan Rogal, Rachel Mindell, Eleni Zisimatos, Adrienne Gruber, Andrew Cantrell, kevin martins mcpherson eckhoff, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Valerie Coulton, Matthew Johnstone, Alyssa Bridgman, Natalee Caple, Elizabeth Robinson, Geoffrey Nilson, Eric Schmaltz, Joe Blades, Katy Lederer, Kristina Drake, Stephanie Bolster, Adele Graf, Buck Downs, Sarah Dowling, nathan dueck, Sarah Cook, Ian Whistle, Faizal Deen, The Peter F. Yacht Club #25, Marilyn Irwin, Lisa Robertson, Jordan Abel, Stephen Collis, Sandra Moussempès (trans. Eléna Rivera), Sarah Fox, Brenda Iijima, Jake Syersak, Helen Hajnoczky, Kyle Flemmer, philip miletic, Geoffrey Young, Carrie Hunter, Sarah Swan, John Barton, Carrie Olivia Adams, Dana Claxton, Andrew McEwan, Michael Turner, George Bowering, Pearl Pirie, Christian Bök, Neil Flowers, Lesley Yalen, Braydon Beaulieu, Pete Smith, Bronwen Tate, lary timewell, The Peter F. Yacht Club #24, Yuri Izdryk (trans. Roman Ivashkiv and Erín Moure), Kristjana Gunnars, Robert Hogg, Sarah Burgoyne, rob's fall 2015 poetry workshop participants, Katie L. Price, Roland Prevost, ryan fitzpatrick, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Hugh Thomas, Nicole Markotić, damian lopes, Jamie Bradley, Jennifer Kronovet, Karen Massey, Jennifer Baker, Kate Schapira, Andy Weaver, Susanne Dyckman, Emily Ursuliak, Eric Baus, Rachel Moritz, Janice Tokar, Sharon Harris, Noah Eli Gordon, Ben Ladouceur, Dennis Tourbin, Sarah Rosenthal, Camille Martin, Hailey Higdon, Rae Armantrout, Marcus McCann, Christine McNair and rob mclennan, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jill Stengel, Wanda O'Connor, Two Dutch Poets: Hélène Gelèns and Erik Lindner, Kaia Sand, Amy Dennis, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Abby Paige, Brecken Hancock, Shannon Maguire, Mark Cochrane, Deborah Poe, Cameron Anstee, Rob Manery, Robert Hogg, George Elliott Clarke, Jay MillAr, Kathryn MacLeod, Fenn Stewart, j/j hastain, Phil Hall + Andrew Burke, Deanna Young, Barry McKinnon, Michael Blouin + Elizabeth Rainer, Eric Folsom, Dennis Cooley, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Robert Kroetsch and dozens upon dozens of others...

small press book fairs we love

  • ottawa small press book fair (with links to other book fairs in Canada)

above/ground press "poem" broadsides

above/ground press "poem" broadsides

reviews of our titles!

reviews of our titles!

author interviews,

author interviews,

The Peter F. Yacht Club; occasional writer's group journal + annual Xmas party/reading/regatta!

The Peter F. Yacht Club; occasional writer's group journal + annual Xmas party/reading/regatta!

ottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal

ottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal

Touch the Donkey

Touch the Donkey
a small poetry magazine,

to contact editor/publisher rob mclennan, email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com; or write, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON Canada K1H 7M9

above/ground press rarities and backlist! (an ongoing list of items long out-of-print,

above/ground press rarities and backlist! (an ongoing list of items long out-of-print,

Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 (Chaudiere Books)

Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 (Chaudiere Books)

Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press)

Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press)

above/ground press

  • rob mclennan on old-school chapbook making, October 2018
  • In which I answer some questions on above/ground press for Entropy, as part of their small press feature, December 2016
  • "How to keep a small chapbook press alive for twenty-three years (a primer, at Open Book, October 2016
  • List of micro-publishers in Canada : Brick Books' Celebreation of Canadian Poetry, December 2015
  • "Six Questions For..." rob mclennan on above/ground press, October 2013
  • Pearl Pirie's report on the 20th anniversary reading / launch / party, August 2013
  • 'I am a child of above/ground," by Marcus McCann, August 2013
  • Marthe Reed resonds to Alejandro Butros on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, nous-zot press, August 2013
  • On small press publishing and above/ground press in particular by Gary Barwin, serif of nottingblog, August 2013
  • Celebrating 20 years of poetry with above/ground press by Alejandro Bustos, Apartment 613, August 2013
  • I simply began: above/ground press at 20 [an interview with rob mclennan], Apt. 9 Press, August 2013
  • Q & A: 20 Years of above/ground press: an interview with rob mclennan by Alison Lang, Broken Pencil blog, January 2013
  • ten questions for rob mclennan on above/ground press by derek beaulieu, March 2011
  • above/ground press at nineteen,
  • the peter f yacht club (a write-up + bibliography);
  • above/ground press: at sixteen
  • above/ground press: the angry teen years (fifteen)
  • above/ground press: ALBERTA SERIES (2007-8), online pdf chapbooks
  • above/ground press: what happens at fourteen
  • Alberta dispatch: interviews and writing from Edmonton by rob mclennan
  • interview with rob mclennan by Didi Menendez, Men of the World Wide Poetry World
  • interview with rob mclennan by Rusty Morrison on writing, reviewing, blogging and above/ground press
  • Ottawa X-Press article on small/micro press

editor/publisher rob mclennan's other web stuff

  • Chaudiere Books
  • Chaudiere Books blog
  • Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell)
  • alberta writing
  • ottawa poetry newsletter
  • ottawater (ottawa poetry pdf annual journal)
  • rob mclennan's main blog
  • seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics

other chapbook publishers

  • (m)Other Tongue Press, Saltspring Island BC
  • AngelHousePress, Ottawa ON
  • Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa ON
  • Baseline Press, London ON
  • Believe Your Own Press, Toronto ON
  • BookThug, Toronto ON
  • bywords, Ottawa ON
  • Ferno House, Toronto ON
  • Friday Circle (University of Ottawa), Ottawa ON
  • Frog Hollow Press, Victoria BC
  • greenboathouse books, Vernon BC
  • Jackpine Press, Saskatoon SK
  • Laurel Reed Books, Mt. Pleasant ON
  • Leaf Press, Lantzville BC
  • Lipstick Press, Gabriola Island BC
  • LyricalMyrical, Toronto ON
  • Mercutio Press, Montreal QC
  • NO PRESS, Calgary AB
  • Nomados Literary Publishers, Vancouver BC
  • PigeonBike, London ON
  • Pooka Press, Vancouver BC
  • Proper Tales Press, Toronto ON
  • red nettle press, Edmonton AB
  • Rubicon Press, Edmonton AB
  • Running the Goat, Books & Broadsheets, St. John's NFLD
  • Simulacrum Press, Burlington ON
  • The Alfred Gustav Press, North Vancouver BC
  • The Blasted Tree, Calgary AB
  • The Emergency Response Unit, Toronto ON
  • Wrinkle Press, Windsor ON

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