some author activity: Lewin, McElroy, Cooley, Press, Nećakov + Earl,

Vivian Lewin has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as does Gil McElroy, and Dennis Cooley, and K.I. Press; Lillian Nećakov has a piece in the "one good memory" series, via Silver Birch Press; and Amanda Earl has a new poem in the "poetry pause" series for National Poetry Month via The League of Canadian Poets.

new from above/ground press: Apogee/Perigee, by Leesa Dean

Apogee/Perigee
Leesa Dean
$5

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

design by Nathan Vyklicky

Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guleph’s Creative Writing MFA program and an instructor at Selkirk College. Her first book, Waiting for the Cyclone, was a finalist for the 2017 Trillium and Relit Awards. Her novella-in-verse, The Filling Station, was recently published by Gaspereau Press and is based on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. She lives in Krestova, BC (unceded Sinixt territory), with her artist husband Matty Kakes and their daughter Scarlett Heart.

This is Dean’s second above/ground press chapbook, after The Desert of Itabira (2020)

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 rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Robinson, Shea, Trivedi, Hyland, Greenstreet, Nilson, Gray, Iijima, Young + Martin,

Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Martin Shea, Amish Trivedi, MC Hyland, Kate Greenstreet and others all have new work in TYPO 34; Geoffrey Nilson, Stephanie Gray (a poem for Brenda Iijima) and Geoffrey Young each have new poems up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month; and Camille Martin has been working on a number of collages lately, over at her blog.

new from above/ground press: Report from the Reimer Society. Vol. 1 No. 1

Report from the Reimer Society
Vol 1. No. 1
edited by rob mclennan
$7

an assemblage of writing in response
to the work of Nikki Reimer

including
poems, critical writings
and
philosophical transactions

with contributions by:
Jonathan Ball
andrea bennett
Jason Christie
Ryan J. Cox
Jen Currin
Dina Del Bucchia
ryan fitzpatrick
Kyle Flemmer
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Emma Healey
Nicole Markotić
Carmen Faye Mathes
rob mclennan
Adam Seelig
Kevin Spenst
Jeremy Stewart
Jonathan Valelly
Daniel Zomparelli

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
full list of published reports here
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Report on the Society logo by C. McNair, editor’s devil (retired)

Nikki Reimer (she/her/they/them) is a self-proclaimed “carbon-based life form of Ukrainian and Russian Mennonite descent who lives on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. She may or may not be undead. She writes poetry, essays and criticism, yells on the internet, and makes digital art.” They are the author of three books of poetry and multiple essays on grief. GRIEFWAVE, a multimedia, web-based, extended elegy, was published in February 2022. Her next collection, out this fall, is No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023).

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 rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: mclennan, Barton, Deutch, Bolster, Boyle + Niespodziany,

rob mclennan has a new(ish) poem up on his blog; John Barton has a poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Amanda Deutch, and so does Stephanie Bolster; Frances Boyle has new work up at Dust Poetry Magazine; and Benjamin Niespodziany has new work up at HAD, as well as The Boiler.

some author activity: Scroggins, Norris, Carisse, Hawes, Tracy, Mohammadi + Cadsby,

Mark Scroggins has a new poem up at talking about strawberries all of the time; Ken Norris is interviewed there, as is Russell Carisse, and so is James Hawes; Dale Tracy is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series; Khashayar Mohammadi has a poem up on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, and so does forthcoming author Heather Cadsby!

some author activity: Earl, Houbolt + Melançon,

Amanda Earl features at David O'Meara's Plan 99 Reading Series in Ottawa, alongside Gillian Sze and Adam Sol on Saturday, April 15, 2023; forthcoming author Kyla Houbolt has a new piece up at Sublunary Review, and another in IDLE INK; and Jérôme Melançon has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog to open this year's National Poetry Month.