new from above/ground press: Femme, by Julia Polyck-O'Neill

Femme
Julia Polyck-O’Neill
$4

Undervalue/Dark (after Sylvia Plath, “ELM: For Ruth Fainlight”)

I know the bottom . . .

It is what you fear.

                                   I do not fear it: I have been there.

put your money where your mouth is

put your mouth where your money is

your money is.

your mouth is.

                                  (I am terrified by this dark thing/

That sleeps in me)

         & at this point I think life writing is the better solution.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2016
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Produced, in part, for distribution as part of the Festival of Readers and The Concept of Vancouver conference in St. Catharines, Ontario, October 13-15, 2016. Thanks much to Gregory and Lisa Betts for their help and support. http://www.festivalofreaders.com

Julia Polyck-O’Neill is an artist, curator, critic, and writer. She lives in St Catharines, Ontario, where she runs the award-winning Border Blur Reading Series. She is a doctoral candidate in Brock University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities program, where she is completing a SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary and comparative critical study of contemporary conceptualist literature and art in Vancouver. She also teaches in visual culture in the department of Visual Arts at the Marilyn I. Walker School.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: THE PATIENT STORM, by Dana Claxton

THE PATIENT STORM
Dana Claxton
$4

They are heading in from the West and perhaps they are held up… not only in the valley, but by the river’s edge. Hm. Either way, we will have to depart soon and they can join us.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2016
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Dana Claxton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes film and video, installation and performance art. Her work is held in public collections, including the The National Gallery of Canada and Vancouver Art Gallery. Her work has been screened internationally, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (New York) and the Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis). Dana is of Hunkpapa Lakota descent and her family reserve is Wood Mountain Saskatchewan. Dana currently resides in Vancouver Canada and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

Produced, in part, for distribution as part of the Festival of Readers and The Concept of Vancouver conference in St. Catharines, Ontario, October 13-15, 2016. Thanks much to Gregory and Lisa Betts for their help and support. http://www.festivalofreaders.com

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: theory of rooms, by Drew McEwan

theory of rooms
Drew McEwan
$4

Rooms with furniture inside.
Inside buildings. Buildings repeat in a city.
Food left on table rewrites a presence.

A room refuses help. Chairs remain, and later.

Animals who live in maps of forests.
Forests shaped like rooms in building.
Animals labour to expand the boundary.

Rooms of forests on another coast.
Buildings recycle a muscular tension.
From a distance it looks the same.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2016
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Drew McEwan is the author the books repeater (BookThug 2012), a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award, and the forthcoming If Pressed (BookThug 2017), as well as numerous chapbooks including Cant tell if this book is depressing or if i’m just sad (No press 2016) and Conditional (Jackpine 2014). She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Produced, in part, for distribution as part of the Festival of Readers and The Concept of Vancouver conference in St. Catharines, Ontario, October 13-15, 2016. Thanks much to Gregory and Lisa Betts for their help and support. http://www.festivalofreaders.com
 
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Fugue, by Michael Turner

Fugue
Michael Turner
$3

Muse

The story is told of a woman who broke into the home of another woman, a writer, and forced her from her bed and into her study, where for three hours she held a loaded gun to her head after whispering the words, “Now write something.”

“It is difficult to write under such conditions,” the writer kept saying, writing, but at the end of three hours she happily announced that she might have the start of something, and that, said the intruder, was all she needed to hear.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2016
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism and song.

Produced, in part, for distribution as part of the Festival of Readers and The Concept of Vancouver conference in St. Catharines, Ontario, October 13-15, 2016. Thanks much to Gregory and Lisa Betts for their help and support. http://www.festivalofreaders.com

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com