new from above/ground press: Monty Reid’s In the Garden (sept series)

1. September

All the stems

are hollow.

It’s how the dead

breathe

there

in the anonymous ground

waiting for us

to go away. 

In the Garden (sept series)

by Monty Reid

$3

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

in an edition of 250 copies, March 2011

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Monty Reid is an Ottawa writer. Among his many books are Disappointment Island (Chaudiere), Lost in the owl Woods (BookThug), The Luskville Reductions (Brick) and A Poem that Ends with Murder (Apt 9). In the Garden (sept series) is the first unit of a year-long series of poems that have grown out of his backyard garden [see his January unit here]. Until recently, Monty Reid was Director of Exhibitions at the Canadian Museum of Nature. He now works in the garden full time.

And watch for Monty Reid's lecture on poetry as part of Ottawa's first annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival (with Marcus McCann) on March 11!