rob mclennan
$4
Bytown, 1832
This watershed moment. Indexing. Her name, not in
cards. First raft of squared timber, sweet. Spent evenings in character. Head
stuck in asphyxia. Claimed territorial. Leave deposits in shadow, aureole. Lot
deformations, discoloured. Stood their ground by the stream. Imagine, canal.
Thirteen crops to sustain. Tributaries, a molten shape. Suddenly, naked. Will
the path never rosy. I will not be barren.
published in
Ottawa by above/ground press
Febuary 2014
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary
copy
Produced, in part, as a handout
for the 2014 AWP Conference and Bookfair, Washington State Convention Center& Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle WA, February 26 - March 1, 2014. Thanks
much to Susana Gardner for her (ongoing) help and support.
To pick up a
free copy at AWP, head over to the combined Black Radish / Dusie booth.
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,
he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, and was longlisted for the CBC
Poetry Prize in 2012. His most recent titles include the forthcoming notes and dispatches: essays (Insomniac press, 2014) and The Uncertainty
Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014), as well as the poetry
collection Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), and a
second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs
above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, 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 regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and
other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
rob mclennan
has published a ton of chapbooks over the entire two decade stretch of
above/ground press, most recently The creeks, (2013), The Laurentian Book of Movement (with Christine McNair; 2013), Trace, (2013), Poem beginning with a line by Pinder (2012), goldfish: studies in fine thread, (2012), Notes, on the subject of marriage (2012), Prelude: selections from a collaboration (with Christine McNair; 2012), This, circular tower (2012), Sextex: six poems from Songs for little sleep, (2012), The underside of the line,
(2011), metric: a collaboration (with
Lea Graham; 2011) and First you know, and then so ordinary (2010).
To order, send
cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423
Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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