some author activity: Niespodziany, Brown, Unsworth, Melançon, Mody + Eleftherion,

Benjamin Niespodziany is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Simon Brown has some work in the eleventh and final issue of antilang; Lydia Unsworth has new work online at Pamenar Press; Jérôme Melançon is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Monica Mody is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; and Melissa Eleftherion has new work up at The Hunger, hot pink mag and The Hopper.

new from above/ground press: looping climate, by Matthew Gwathmey

looping climate
Matthew Gwathmey
$5

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Matthew Gwathmey lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Wolastoqey Territory, with his partner Lily and their five children. He studied creative writing at the University of Virginia and just completed his PhD at UNB. His first poetry collection, Our Latest in Folktales, was published by Brick Books in the spring of 2019.

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

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

 

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

an assemblage of writing in response
to the work of Monty Reid

including
poems, critical writings
and
philosophical transactions

with contributions by:
D.W. Adams
Cameron Anstee
Douglas Barbour
Wade Bell
Stephen Brockwell
Dennis Cooley
Rhonda Douglas
Chris Johnson
Kevin Matthews
rob mclennan
Colin Morton
David O’Meara
Pearl Pirie
Ryan Pratt
Rusty Priske
Sandra Ridley
Bren Simmers
D.S. Stymiest

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2022
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)

Monty Reid has published five chapbooks with above/ground press chapbooks, including Six Songs for the Mammoth Steppe (2000), cuba A book (2005), In the Garden (sept series) (2011), Moan Coach (2013) and Seam (2018).

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: parizeau, mclennan, Kaminski, Johnson + Graham,

df parizeau is interviewed via the Chaudiere Books blog; rob mclennan has some new work up at Court Green, as well as an interview, conducted by Lisa Fishman; and Megan Kaminski also has some poems at Court Green; Chris Johnson has a poem up at Olney; and Lea Graham won the 2021 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize over at the Bear Review, where she was also interviewed.

new from above/ground press: In the shadows, by Michael Boughn

In the shadows
Michael Boughn
$5

Visitors

Angels return, dance around the edge,
twice in a day, quiet rhetorical surprises
recall the fall, protective hands, mercy
for a mortal plummet’s failed ascent
to overheard song

Earth is no pillow
and there’s no escape
from the landing, Listen,
sweetie, they sing, but keep
your feet on the ground, tap, tap
tapping, & never ever try to illuminate
The Human Condition, stick
to the pebbles stretch out
before newly minted eyes
ineluctable terrain of the fallen

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Michael Boughn moved to Canada in October, 1966 because of opposition to the US war against Viet Nam. After studying with Robin Blaser for several years at SFU, he worked in the Teamsters on the Toronto lakeshore for nearly 10 years before returning to university in 1982 to study with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Iterations of the Diagonal, Dislocations in Crystal, 22 Skidoo / SubTractions, Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1 Illus. Ed., and City—A Poem from the End of the World.  Cosmographia – a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic was short listed for the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 2011, prompting a reviewer in the Globe and Mail to describe him as “an obscure veteran poet with a history of being overlooked.” With Victor Coleman he edited Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. He has also published books for young adults, including the Maple Award nominated Into the World of the Dead, a mystery novel, Business As Usual, a descriptive bibliography of the American poet, H.D., and numerous essays on film, writing, architecture and music. His most recent book is Hermetic Divagations—after H.D. From 2014 to 2018 he edited the online poetry disturbance known as Dispatches from the Poetry Wars with co-conspirator, Kent Johnson. A collection of his essays, Measure’s Measures, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press in 2022. He can most often be found with Case, his border collie pal, hanging out in dog parks or herding sheep.

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

new from above/ground press: west coast shorts, by Laura Kelsey

west coast shorts
Laura Kelsey
$5

the home, demolished

jagged pile of planks
plywood and metal
a tiny woman stoops
with bonnet already
rifling through, yanking
at wires like a bird
pulling worms 

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover art/design: Michael Harding

Laura Kelsey is a former newspaper editor and now a poet, performer and graphic designer living in Nanaimo/Snuneymuxw Territory, B.C. Her poems have appeared in the New Chief Tongue, the Carnegie Newsletter, pocket lint and Sea & Cedar Magazine. She has self-published three collections of poetry and releases music through www.laurakelsey.com.

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: Pirie, Ross, Barwin, mclennan, Stuart + Chernoff,

Pearl Pirie continues her series of mini-interviews with new interviews with Stuart Ross and Gary Barwin; the Chaudiere Books blog closes National Poetry Month with a new poem by rob mclennan; Cecilia Stuart is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and MLA Chernoff is interviewed by nothing/in particular.