some author activity: Atkins, Burdick, Boyle + Ross,

Tim Atkins has some new work up at The Abandoned Playground; Alice Burdick has some new poems up at The Brooklyn Rail; Frances Boyle has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; and Stuart Ross has posted an essay on death on his blog.

some author activity: Caple, mclennan, McCulloch, Robinson, Unsworth + hanna,

Natalee Caple has a new essay in the my (small press) writing day series; Tim Atkins has recent work in Tentacular; rob mclennan has composed a poem for the late Ian McCulloch; forthcoming author Ben Robinson has some new work up at Train : a poetry journal; Lydia Unsworth is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time; and natalie hanna has a poem included in the Poetry Pause series via The League of Canadian Poets (reprinted from Canthius).

some author activity: Burdick, hanna, Campanello, Atkins + Radmore,

Alice Burdick has a new poem up as part of National Poetry Month on the Chaudiere Blog, as does natalie hanna; Kimberly Campanello has an essay in the my (small press) writing day series; Tim Atkins has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; and Claudia Coutu Radmore has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets.

new from above/ground press: 1962 - 2018, by Tim Atkins

1962 - 2018
Tim Atkins
$5

Poem 217

This

poetry

which is

written

to effect

change

in the world

usually printed in

editions of

less than

500 &

read

only by poets

Oh how I love it

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
for the sake of the author’s participation in KANADA KONCRETE, verbi-voco-visual poetries in the multimedia age conference at the University of Ottawa, May 4-6, 2018.
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Tim Atkins has been a member of the summer faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and a member of Carla Harryman’s Poets’ Theatre in San Francisco. He is the author of many books, including On Fathers < On Daughtyrs (Boiler House Press), Atkins Collected Petrarch (a Times Literary Supplement book of the year), Koto Y Yo (both from Crater Press), 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Petrarch (Book Thug), and Horace (O Books). He is currently developing an MFA at the University of Roehampton with a focus on radical, experimental, LGBTQ, and BAME poetics and practice.

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

above/ground press at Kanada Koncrete, Loud Mouths: Anstee, Atkins, Beaulieu, Betts, Davey, Earl, Spinosa, etc

A cavalcade of above/ground press authors (including Cameron Anstee, Tim Atkins, Derek Beaulieu, Gregory Betts, Frank Davey, Amanda Earl and Dani Spinosa) will be performing Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 8pm at LOUD MOUTHS, an evening of short poetic performances by participants of Kanada Koncrete: Material Poetries in the Digital Age, this year's annual University of Ottawa Literature Symposium. The event will be free! Held at the Happy Goat Coffee Co., 35 Laurel Street, Ottawa.

See the Facebook event here.