Pearl Pirie

on Ken Norris' Green Wind;

new from above/ground press:

Frank St.

A sequence of poems by Cameron Anstee

$4

your fingers

and where they make familiar

and this room makes more sense

you arranged the furniture

while I picked up boxes

the things we carried here

and their shapes from light

our pillows match your birthmark

the ivy, and the umbrella, and the cactus

from Champagne

yes, we’ve kept these plants alive

and some days we remember

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies, March 2010; a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy (2010 subscriptions still available); to order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, $2) c/o rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7

Cameron Anstee lives in Ottawa ON, where he runs Apt. 9 Press.

new from above/ground press: A history of button collecting Helen Hajnoczky

A history of button collecting

Helen Hajnoczky

$3

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies, March 2010; a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy (2010 subscriptions still available); to order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, $2) c/o rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7

Helen Hajnoczky recently completed her BA Honours in English and creative writing from the University of Calgary, where her research focused on feminist avant-garde poetics. Her work has appeared in Nod, fillingStation, Rampike, and Matrix magazines, as well as in a variety of chapbooks. She is the current poetry editor of fillingStation magazine. Her first book of poetry, Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising, is forthcoming from Snare Books.

new from above/ground press: Some Forty by rob mclennan

Some Forty

by rob mclennan

$3

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies, mid-March 2010 for distribution during celebrations of the author’s fortieth birthday

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy (2010 subscriptions still available)

write for submission/subscription info, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7, or check out rob_mclennan@hotmail.com or abovegroundpress.blogspot.com

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections wild horses (University of Alberta Press), kate street (Moira), and a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and currently divides his time between Ottawa and Toronto. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.

new from above/ground press: Green Wind, by Ken Norris

Green Wind
by Ken Norris
$5

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies, March 2010; a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy (2010 subscriptions still available); to order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, $2) c/o rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7

Ken Norris was born in New York City in 1951. He emigrated to Montreal in the mid-1970s, and became a Canadian citizen in 1985. He currently teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Maine.