founded July 1993 : CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY IN 2023 + MORE THAN 1200 PUBLICATIONS TO DATE! Ottawa-based poetry chapbook + broadside publisher; publisher of The Peter F. Yacht Club (a writer's group magazine) + Touch the Donkey (a small poetry magazine) + G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] + periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as home of The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993); edited/published/curated by rob mclennan
Monday, March 28, 2011
Pearl Pirie's write-up on Haller, Liefso, Yang,
Poet/blogger Pearl Pirie did a lovely write-up on the recent reading by Aurian Haller, Brenda Liefso + Teresa Yang. Here's hoping Teresa might submit something to above/ground! Photo of Haller and myself by Pirie as well.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
new from above/ground press: The Peter F. Yacht Club #15 (VERSeFest special);
The Peter F Yacht Club #15
Edited & compiled & typeset & paid for by rob mclennan
March 2011 ; VERSeFest Ottawa special
$5
with new writing by:
published in Ottawa by above/ground press, March 2011
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
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
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 & in US $) to: rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7. copies will also be available at Ottawa's first annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival, March 8-13, 2011; www.versefest.ca
Previous issues still available (possibly) at $5 each. Issue #1, August 2003, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #2, April 2004, edited by Anita Dolman (out of print); Issue #3, September 2004, edited by Peter Norman and Melanie Little (out of print); Issue #4, September 2005, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #5, April 2006, edited by Max Middle; Issue #6, mis-numbered Calgary issue, February 2007, edited by Laurie Fuhr; Issue #7, writers festival issue, April 2007, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #8, “Edmonton issue,” October 2007, produced at the University of Alberta, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #9, Fredericton issue, January 2008, edited by Jesse Patrick Ferguson in “The Poets’ Corner” (Fredericton, New Brunswick), and produced at the University of Alberta; Issue #10, “in by one, out by four” special, March 2008, produced at the University of Alberta, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #11, “Edmonton issue the second,” May 2008, produced at the University of Alberta, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #12, “Fifth anniversary issue: Anarchy, Apocalypse, & Madness,” September 2008, edited by Amanda Earl; Issue #13, “lucky thirteen – the white album,” June 2009, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #14, “from one centre to another—a Toronto issue.” March 2010, edited by rob mclennan.
Edited & compiled & typeset & paid for by rob mclennan
March 2011 ; VERSeFest Ottawa special
$5
with new writing by:
Cameron Ansteeissue #15; irregular (very) writers group publication. Edited & compiled & typeset & paid for by rob mclennan in Ottawa, March 2011, “VERSeFest Ottawa special,” to coincide with the first ever annual VERSeFest, Ottawa’s newest poetry festival, March 8-13, 2011, as well as being above/ground press’ 600th publication!
Dennis Cooley
Amanda Earl
Lea Graham
Marilyn Irwin
Meghan Jackson
Ben Ladouceur
Marcus McCann
Gil McElroy
David McGimpsey
rob mclennan
Christine McNair
Sean Moreland
Wanda O’Connor
Pearl Pirie
Monty Reid
+ Karen Solie
published in Ottawa by above/ground press, March 2011
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
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
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 & in US $) to: rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7. copies will also be available at Ottawa's first annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival, March 8-13, 2011; www.versefest.ca
Previous issues still available (possibly) at $5 each. Issue #1, August 2003, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #2, April 2004, edited by Anita Dolman (out of print); Issue #3, September 2004, edited by Peter Norman and Melanie Little (out of print); Issue #4, September 2005, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #5, April 2006, edited by Max Middle; Issue #6, mis-numbered Calgary issue, February 2007, edited by Laurie Fuhr; Issue #7, writers festival issue, April 2007, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #8, “Edmonton issue,” October 2007, produced at the University of Alberta, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #9, Fredericton issue, January 2008, edited by Jesse Patrick Ferguson in “The Poets’ Corner” (Fredericton, New Brunswick), and produced at the University of Alberta; Issue #10, “in by one, out by four” special, March 2008, produced at the University of Alberta, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #11, “Edmonton issue the second,” May 2008, produced at the University of Alberta, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #12, “Fifth anniversary issue: Anarchy, Apocalypse, & Madness,” September 2008, edited by Amanda Earl; Issue #13, “lucky thirteen – the white album,” June 2009, edited by rob mclennan; Issue #14, “from one centre to another—a Toronto issue.” March 2010, edited by rob mclennan.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
new from above/ground press: Ross Brighton’s TEMPORAL MAZE DENTURE
TEMPORAL MAZE DENTUREby Ross Brighton$4
published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 300 copies, March 2011, as part of the Dusie Kollectiv #5; a dusi/e-chap, www.dusie.org
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
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
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 & in US $) to: rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7.
Ross Brighton is a New Zealand poet, based in Auckland. He is the author of A Draft From BIRDS, A Pelt a Shrub a Soil Sample, /K/:HAVEDONEWITH (forthcoming from June Gloom Press), and a limited edition forthcoming from Electio Editions. His work has appeared in Side Stream, Brief, Otoliths, Reconfigurations, No Tell Motel and Action Yes. He is reviews editor for the journal Tarpaulin Sky, and blogs on poetics and contemporary art at www.ignoretheventriloquists.blogspot.com.