some author activity: mclennan, Ladouceur, Babineau + Armantrout,

rob mclennan is interviewed by Oscar Martens; there is a new interview with Ben Ladouceur on The League of Canadian Poets blog, and he's a new poem up at The Walrus; Kemeny Babineau has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; and Rae Armantrout has a poem online at Granta.

backlist #8: Hawkins, Casamassima, Gold, Brockwell, Reid, Middle + Davey,

Given the above/ground press archive is together for the first time, I've been digging through boxes and discovering titles I thought either completely out-of-print or very close. It was suggested to me that perhaps I should start offering various titles to the public, simply to see what might appeal (scroll down here to see the entire list). 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:

58. the black prince of bank street, by William Hawkins
$15 each / 5 copies available
originally published in an edition of 300 copies, August 2007

59. Septology, by Christophe Casamassima
$10 each / 4 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies, November 2005

60. THE HOTEL VICTORIA POEMS, by Artie Gold
$10 each / 5 copies available
originally published in an edition of 250 copies, September 2003

61. Marin County Poems, by Stephen Brockwell
$15 each / 3 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies, February 2001

62. cuba A book, by Monty Reid
$15 each / 1 copy available
originally published in an edition of 300 copies, May 2005

63. A Creation Song, by Max Middle
$15 each / 4 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies, January 2004



 



64. Risky Propositions, by Frank Davey
$10 each / 10 copies available
originally published in an edition of 400 copies, February 2005

above/ground press on Parliament Hill: Clarke, Earl, Reid + mclennan,

As part of his tenure as current Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke hosted a poetry reading in Centre Block of Parliament Hill this past Friday afternoon, featuring poets Amanda Earl, Monty Reid, myself and Romanian-Canadian poet Diana Manole [who posted her own report on the event here]. Incredible thanks to Mr. Clarke and all on the Hill who had helped make such possible!

I was unclear whether or not a poetry reading had been held on the hill prior (apart from, say, Milton Acorn, who used to perform his poetry on the grounds circa 1970, or the complete reading jwcurry did of bpNichol's The Martyrology in the gazebo behind the Parliament Buildings in July 2006), but Clarke claimed this was the first official poetry reading on Parliament Hill, which was incredibly exciting to think about (although I always consider such statements suspect, and am hesitant to back such a claim without further research). Sponsored by The League of Canadian Poets, this year's #NationalPoetryMonth theme was "The Road," to which Clarke appended William Shakespeare as well, and most readers (but for myself) read a short excerpt of Shakespeare's work as part of their performance.

The room was perfect for the event, known as room 256-S Centre Block (I attempted more information on-line of the space, but found little but this array of photos), decorated with maps, and paintings of ships, trains and other modes of transport. The road, indeed.

Clarke later offered that he originally launched Whylah Falls in Centre Block in 1990, also, as organized by his MP, Dr. Howard Douglas McCurdy (I know numerous books have been launched on the hill, having even been in attendance for a mid-1990s event of Anglo-Quebec poets), but this the first, he suggests, with League funding (I'd be curious if there's a list anywhere of prior poetry readings on the Hill).

The crowd was roughly forty or so, predominantly made up of a variety of Hill workers (and even the Romanian Ambassador to Canada!) as well as poets Roland Prevost and Janice Tokar (who were good enough to take these photos with my terrible camera) and Chris Johnson. Clarke's reading included King Lear, Earl's included an array of unpublished work composed around her hospital scare from a few years back, Manole read from her Romanian-English poetry collection B&W, and Reid read a selection of pieces from a number of his published books (given, at that point, I was recovering from newborn and night two of three sleeping at the Montfort with Christine and baby, I'm amazed I recall so well; the afternoon was a bit hazy. I was even wearing clothes I'd been sleeping in...). I read two unpublished poems, including this piece, composed for newborn Aoife.

some author activity: Earl, Levin, Armantrout + Christie,

Amanda Earl has a new poem up at The Steel Chisel; A.J. Levin has a new essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Rae Armantrout has a new poem up at The Nation; and Jason Christie has a new poem posted at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month.

backlist #7: STANZAS magazine (part three

Given the above/ground press archive is together for the first time, I've been digging through boxes and discovering titles I thought either completely out-of-print or very close. It was suggested to me that perhaps I should start offering various titles to the public, simply to see what might appeal (see lists one, two, three and four, as well as STANZAS magazine lists one and two). 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:

See a full bibliography of the long poem magazine STANZAS at http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2014/08/stanzas-magazine-bibliography-1993-2006.html

49. STANZAS #34, "Three Pieces of Glass" by Aaron Peck
$10 each / 7 copies available
May 2003

50. STANZAS #35, "Highway 99" by Meredith Quartermain
$10 each / 10 copies available
September 2003

51. STANZAS #36, "all sets go" by Daniel f. Bradley
$10 each / 9 copies available
November 2003

52. STANZAS #37, "Americausal" by Rob Budde
$10 each / 7 copies
January 2004

53. STANZAS #38, "Calcite Gours 1-19" by derek beaulieu
$10 each / 10 copies available
February 2004

54. STANZAS #39, "Dream Songs" by J.L. Jacobs
$10 each / 7 copies available
March 2004

55. STANZAS #41, "ottawa poems (blue notes)" by rob mclennan
$10 each / 5 copies available
May 2005














56. STANZAS #42, "Personal Peripherals 1-30" by Jan Allen
$6 each / 4 copies available
October 2005

57. STANZAS #43, "MORE FUN W/ 'PATAPHYSICS" by Sharon Harris
$6 each / 8 copies available
January 2006

backlist #6: STANZAS magazine (part two

Given the above/ground press archive is together for the first time, I've been digging through boxes and discovering titles I thought either completely out-of-print or very close. It was suggested to me that perhaps I should start offering various titles to the public, simply to see what might appeal (see lists one, two, three and four here, and my prior STANZAS list here). 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:

See a full bibliography of the long poem magazine STANZAS at http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2014/08/stanzas-magazine-bibliography-1993-2006.html

40. STANZAS #21, "this / evidence against you" by natalie hanna
$15 each / 2 copies available
October 1999

41. STANZAS #22, "an unnatural history of the sexes" by Anne Stone
$15 each / 3 copies available
January 2000

42. STANZAS #23, "cooleys key" by rob mclennan
$15 each / 4 copies available
March 2000

43. STANZAS #24, "Aequanimitas" by Chris McCreary
$10 each / 8 copies available
May 2000

44. STANZAS #25, "further revisions" by ryan fitzpatrick
$15 each / 2 copies available
July 2001

45. STANZAS #26, "SYNONYMS FOR FISH" by Gary Barwin
$10 each / 5 copies available
March 2001

46. STANZAS #29, "What Exile       This" by nathalie stephens (now Nathanaël)
$10 each / 6 copies available
January 2002

47. STANZAS #31, "Meteor Showers" by Gil McElroy
$10 each / 5 copies available
May 2002














48. STANZAS #32, "irregular heartbeats" by rob mclennan
$15 each / 3 copies available
September 2002

some author activity: Christie, Hall, Brockwell + Robinson,

Jason Christie has some new work posted at NationalPoetryMonth.ca; Phil Hall is interviewed by CBC Books; Stephen Brockwell has a new poem posted on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as does Elizabeth Robinson.

backlist #5: STANZAS magazine

Given the above/ground press archive is together for the first time, I've been digging through boxes and discovering titles I thought either completely out-of-print or very close. It was suggested to me that perhaps I should start offering various titles to the public, simply to see what might appeal (see lists one, two, three and four). 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:

See a full bibliography of the long poem magazine STANZAS at http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2014/08/stanzas-magazine-bibliography-1993-2006.html

30. STANZAS #6, "stiltman." by C.J. Lockett; "love & the automated bank teller" by Brian Burke
$15 each / 7 copies available
July/August 1995

31. STANZAS #10, "Crashing Out" by I.M. Wiley
$10 each / 5 copies available
October 1996

32. STANZAS #11, "Re: Crossing" by Colin Morton; "Ferries Taken" by Aiden Baker
$10 each / 5 copies available
February 1997

33. STANZAS #12, "BLONDES ON BIKES: 1-20" by George Bowering
$25 each / 4 copies available
April 1997

34. STANZAS #13, "inside     first floor     at the randomization factory" by meghan lynch (now Meghan Jackson)
$15 each / 2 copies available
June 1997

35. STANZAS #14, "A Medical History of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan" by Carla Milo (now Carla Barkman)
$15 each / 5 copies available
September 1997

36. STANZAS #15, "from last leaves" by rob mclennan
$15 each / 5 copies available
January 1998

37. STANZAS #17, "from COAST ALL JOURN ALL" by Jay MillAr
$15 each / 4 copies available
May 1998

38. STANZAS #18, "TWELVE POEMS FOR HUMAN BUTTERFLIES" by Greg Evason
$15 each / 5 copies available
September 1998












39 STANZAS #19, "t sea ache" by Joe Blades
$15 each / 3 copies available
February 1999

new from above/ground press: Odds Are, by lary timewell

Odds Are
lary timewell
$4

The distinction disappears but the things remain, as if history were

(history were) an afterimage. Aspirate the h out of it; a unit of eulogy,

one. Arbitrary, so long as we are consistent. Colloquial is not illiterate.

To follow a task greater than to lead. Resolute happiness counting

the beats in anomalous time, reading down the page in 4D. Reading con-

sonantal discontent, boring into the infernal meantime speakers re-

present. Choosing less before sufficient, we position an exit more glorious.

The day is done but (inserted) here to do over again, the work more ill-advised

& ungrammatical than ever. A re-arrangement that never signals defeat. In-

verted, the institution becomes parenthetical to process. When you think

about it too long, nonce-word. Greek stems, Latin advocatus diaboli. Instantly

plausible, pattern. Not precision & cogency, but cut & dried. Supposed,

the unspoken (heard) analogies themselves dispense sense. Writing is

exception-tested, & subsequent practice discriminates, attends based on market

value. That it must count for something fair seems unfair. Only the un-

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2016
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

lary timewell is a North Vancouver writer recently returned from 20 years in Fukushima. The co-founder and publisher of the late 1980s and early 90s Tsunami Editions, he has published a number of titles, including two chapbooks from Obvious Epiphanies. Some of his latest work from the expanding manuscript molecular hyperbole recently appeared in Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, eds. Paul Nelson, George Stanley, Barry McKinnon and Nadine Maestas (Lantzville, BC: Leaf Press, 2015).

This is his second chapbook with above/ground press, after tones employed as loss (2013).

Produced, in part, as a handout at The New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 15-17, 2016. Much thanks to Marthe Reed for her help and support. http://www.lavenderink.org/poetryfest/schedule/

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

some author activity: Turnbull, Clarke, Earl + Greenstreet,

Chris Turnbull is interviewed by Ian Whistle over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; George Elliott Clarke has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month; Amanda Earl has a new poem up at h&; and Kate Greenstreet and The Factory Reading Series get a nice mention over at Amanda Earl's blog.

backlist #4: Dachsel, Desberats, Bowling, Winter 2, mclennan + Barbour,

Given the above/ground press archive is together for the first time, I've been digging through boxes and discovering titles I thought either completely out-of-print or very close. It was suggested to me that perhaps I should start offering various titles to the public, simply to see what might appeal (see prior lists: one, two and three; further lists to come). 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:

20. learning to breathe, Marita Dachsel
$10 each / 4 copies available
originally published in an edition of 300 copies, May 1996

21. PURDYESQUE, ed. rob mclennan
George Bowering, Stephen Brockwell, Gwendolyn Guth, Steven Heighton and rob mclennan
$10 each / 5 copies available
originally published in an edition of 250 copies as part of a reading at the conference "Al Purdy: The Ivory Thought" at the University of Ottawa, May 5-7, 2006

22. Eve 'n Adam, Michelle Desberats Fels
$15 each / 3 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies, March 1998

23.  HERE AND THERE, Tim Bowling
$10 / 9 copies available
originally published in an edition of 250 copies for handout for National Poetry Month, April 2001

24. Winter 2, ed. rob mclennan
Jesse Ferguson, Lea Graham, Gwendolyn Guth, Meghan Jackson, rob mclennan, Jennifer Mulligan and Sandra Ridley
$10 each / 13 copies available
originally published in an edition of 400 copies for handout during Winterlude, February 2006

25. Manitoba highway map (part V), rob mclennan
$10 each / 6 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies, October 1998

26. It's over is it over, Love's Fragmented Narrative, Douglas Barbour
$10 each / 3 copies available
originally published in an edition of 300 copies, April 2005

27. sex at 31, rob mclennan
$15 each / 2 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies, March 2001

28. TEN, ed. rob mclennan
Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach, Aidan Baker, John Barton, John M. Bennett, Stephen Brockwell, George Elliott Clarke, Shannon Cowan, Michael Dennis, Anita Dolman, Susan Elmslie, m erskine, Jon Paul Fiorentino, ryan fitzpatrick, Natalie Hanna, Matthew Holmes, Warren Layberry, A.J. Levin, Gil McElroy, rob mclennan, Colin Morton, Sheila E. Murphy, Sharon H. Nelson, Ken Norris, Meredith Quartermain and Andy Weaver
$25 each / 3 copies available
originally published in an edition of 300 copies for the tenth anniversary reading/party of above/ground press, August 28, 2003

29. the blind aesthetic (or, sorry im all ears), rob mclennan
$10 each / 6 copies available
originally published in an edition of 200 copies for handout distribution at AWP, Texas, March 2006