Saturday, October 13, 2018
some author activity: Barwin, Braune, mclennan, Polyck-O'Neill, Boisvert + Dennis,
Thursday, October 11, 2018
25th Anniversary of above/ground press at OIWF: w Ridley, McElroy + Mangold
with Sandra Ridley, Gil McElroy and Sarah Mangold
Hosted by Stephen Brockwell
as part of the ottawa international writers festival
"The impact of above/ground press has been so great, some authors can’t remember a time without it."Tuesday, October 30, 2018
— Apt. 613
FREE EVENT
7pm, Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks Street Ottawa
As part of its silver anniversary year, the above/ground press has produced a limited edition set of single-poem broadsides by an array of above/ground press authors.
Curated by publisher/editor rob mclennan and designed by Christine McNair, the series will be launched by Sarah Mangold, Gil McElroy and Sandra Ridley, who will be joined on-stage by rob mclennan for a conversation on the press’s twenty-fifth year. Moderated by Stephen Brockwell.
More details on the broadsides to be announced very soon! Copies will, of course, be available at the event;
See Sandra Ridley's bio here ; Gil McElroy's bio here ; Sarah Mangold's bio here
for further information on the event and the festival, check out the link here
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Derek Beaulieu named Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
For immediate release
Calgary’s former Poet Laureate Derek Beaulieu [and above/ground press author] named Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
BANFF, AB, October 9 – Derek Beaulieu, an award winning professor at the Alberta College of Art and Design and Mount Royal University, has been appointed the next Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Beaulieu will take up his post on October 15, 2018 and is thrilled to be taking on this important role. Born in Montréal, Beaulieu moved to Calgary as a young boy and has built his career here.
“I grew up in Alberta, and have worked with the artistic and literary community here and across the country for decades. I believe that Banff Centre is unique in Canada as a place where writers come to explore their craft and be mentored by some of the most illustrious figures in literary arts. I am thrilled to get this opportunity to add to the rich legacy of literary arts at Banff Centre,” said Beaulieu.
As Calgary’s former Poet Laureate (2014–16), Beaulieu enjoyed being a cultural ambassador for the literary and visual arts, something he will continue while at Banff Centre. An award winning instructor, Beaulieu has taught creative writing and contemporary literature. A prolific author, editor, and visual artist, his work has also been exhibited internationally in over 20 solo and group exhibitions.
“We are so pleased Derek is joining our team at Banff Centre. It’s exciting to have an author and artist from Alberta to lead Literary Arts. We know Derek will succeed magnificently in this new role,” said Janice Price, President and CEO of Banff Centre.
“Derek impressed us all with his passion, ideas, and commitment to the regional, national, and international literary world. Derek is widely celebrated for his lifetime achievements, his depth of experience as an educator, and as a published writer. He is also a builder of community and an advocate for the role art can play in shaping our understanding of who we are that made him a perfect fit,” said Howard Jang, Vice President of Arts and Leadership of Banff Centre.
Derek Beaulieu is the author and editor of 20 collections of poetry, prose, and criticism including two volumes of his selected work Please No More Poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (2013) and Konzeptuelle Arbeiten (2017). His most recent volume of fiction, a, A Novel was published by Paris’s Jean Boîte Editions.
Beaulieu lives in Calgary with his wife and daughter and will be relocating to Banff this fall.
For more information, please contact:
Jenny Spurr
Manager, Communications
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Banff, Alberta
T1L 1H5
tel: 403.431.0261
jenny_spurr@banffcentre.ca
Saturday, October 6, 2018
some author activity: Armantrout, Moure, Waldrop, Eleftherion + Gruber,
Friday, October 5, 2018
above/ground press at Canzine Ottawa / October 13
You should totally come out if you are able. Free to get in! Yay!
noon to 6pm
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Ottawa Art Gallery - Galerie d'art d'Ottawa
50 Mackenzie King Bridge, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 0C5
All of this, of course, simply as build-up to the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair on November 24th, an event that will be celebrating (as you know) twenty-four glorious years!
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
above/ground press: 2019 subscriptions now available!
And 20th anniversary reissues of titles by Gil McElroy and John Newlove are already scheduled for 2019! Gah!
2019 annual subscriptions (and resubscriptions) are now available: $65 (CAN; American subscribers, $65 US; $90 international) for everything above/ground press makes from the moment you subscribe through to the end of 2019, including chapbooks, broadsheets, The Peter F. Yacht Club and G U E S T and Touch the Donkey (have you been keeping track of the dozens of interviews posted to the Touch the Donkey site?).
Anyone who subscribes on or by November 1st will also receive the last above/ground press package (or two) of 2018, including those exciting new titles by all of those folk listed above, plus whatever else the press happens to produce before the turn of the new year, as well as Touch the Donkey #19 (scheduled to release on October 15), a journal that already turns five years old in 2019!
Why wait? You can either send a cheque (payable to rob mclennan) to 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 7M9, or send money via PayPayl or e-transfer to rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com
Monday, October 1, 2018
new from above/ground press: Study of a fox, by rob mclennan
rob mclennan
$5
Self-portrait, extant
Exhaustion sets in. Accelerated meaning. By too lean a mix. True, that. Am I not human? Green is the news. A narrative beckons. Absolute. Crossing a surface. Blood in the water. What I can relate to. Hard-core. What is interesting, conceptually. The universe: folds, and unfolds. We pretend we’re the centre. We have to. Take every precaution. Don’t cry. Our tomatoes, abundant. Despite our best efforts. Hold on. Hold. Listen. There was a light inside that. One can’t help but notice.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection A perimeter (New Star Books, 2016), How the alphabet was made (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and Household items (Salmon Poetry, 2018). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Christine McNair), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He is “Interviews Editor” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a former contributor to the Ploughshares blog and Open Book, editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
This is mclennan’s sixtieth above/ground press chapbook, following snow day (2018) and It’s still winter (2017), and above/ground press’ 900th item overall. This chapbook, along with It’s still winter, is part of the as-yet-unpublished manuscript, “the book of smaller.”
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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