Max Middle's "A Creation Song" (above/ground press) reprinted online;

long out of print, Ottawa poet Max Middle's first above/ground press chapbook, A Creation Song (above/ground press, 2004) reprinted online by The Tyee;

http://thetyee.ca/Books/2010/07/30/BlockbusterPoem1/

are his two other above/ground press publications still available? possibly,

new from above/ground press: rob mclennan’s 16 Yonge

*

point on a point; discuss,

map of scatter, eyes
broadsheet about,

Toronto Star, the Hemingway in you
describes,

pinwheels, skipper, sailing ships

talk like a pirate day,
your birthday,

felt no sun,

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Yonge + Queen’s Quay govern,
nothing else disturbs,

distillery, grandstand
, emphasis against

the year has been, unequal

to place facts squared
or squarely, in a book

shape of a (shifting) harbour,

16 Yonge
by rob mclennan
$4

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
in an edition of 200 copies, August 2010
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy




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

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Glengarry (2011), wild horses (2010) and kate street (2010) and a second novel, missing persons (2009), An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) 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 expects to spend much of the next year in Toronto. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Marilyn Irwin’s for when you pick daisies

humidex

i am drunk off
your scent steam
lingers

august mist
bee sting
bug itch

sparks stream from cigarettes
casualties of war
fuse into fire escape

shift of sand sift

feather breath
kiss whispers
expose

soap scum scars
freckles there
that curve like pisces

for when you pick daisies  
Marilyn Irwin
$4

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies, July 2010
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
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

Originally published in a private edition by the author in an edition of 22 copies for a night above/ground poetry reading (with poets Cameron Anstee and Marcus McCann), lovingly hosted by rob mclennan at the Carleton Tavern, Ottawa, Ontario on July 16, 2010. A recent graduate of the Winter 2010 edition of rob mclennan’s seasonal poetry workshops and forthcoming graduate of Algonquin’s Creative Writing program, Marilyn Irwin can be seen (mostly) and heard (less) in and around the multi-faceted poetry scene of Ottawa.