Saturday, March 27, 2021
some author activity: Barwin, Kratz, mclennan, Prime + Hofmann,
Monday, March 22, 2021
new from above/ground press: The Hotdog Variations, by James Hawes
James Hawes
$4
& dog
a relish hot
with mustard
with relish
& hot a mustard
dog
hot relish
& a mustard
with dog
dog a mustard
with hot
& relish
a relish
with dog &
hot mustard
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
James Hawes lives & writes in the Montreal borough of NDG. His work has appeared in various print journals & online sites. His chapbook Bus Metro Walk (Monk Press) was long-listed for the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize in 2020. His first full-length book of poems Breakfast with a Heron (Mansfield Press) was published in 2019.
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Friday, March 19, 2021
new from above/ground press: The Great Beauty, by Anik See
Anik See
$5
In a village in Canada's north, just under the Arctic Circle, two ravens are having a conversation. (A third turns it into an argument.) Two planes fly overhead each day. The noon whistle still goes off at noon. The occasional Ford truck chortles past, and you try hard to think of another noise, but you can’t. Not even a dog barking here and there. There’s a grader for a single day in June, repairing the winter potholes. Distant voices from the other side of a hedge, soft enough to not be able to make any words out. That’s it. On your first night here, you heard a woman scream – a long, horror movie kind of shriek – at three in the morning, but it was silent after that and hard to take seriously in all that 24-hour summer light. A joke, surely. And no news the next day of anything bad having happened. The trust and comfort of living in a small town. If anything happens, you’ll hear about it. Perhaps not accurately, but it will be known. You can’t miss a thing.
The village, and the silence. What was there long before us, and, at the same time, possibility.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
as the seventh title in above/ground’s prose/naut imprint
March 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Anik See is a Canadian writer and audio producer living in The Netherlands. She is the author of A Fork in the Road (Macmillan, 2000), Saudade: the possibilities of place (Coach House Books, 2008) and postcard and other stories (Freehand Books, 2009). Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, has appeared in Brick, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Geist, grain, The National Post and Toronto Life, and has been nominated for numerous awards.
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
new from above/ground press: Chronotope, by David Dowker
David Dowker
$5
Crash Flow
The sleep we need deceives us
into thinking we are in control.
So oneiric oratory resounds
beyond dream's penumbra,
voluptuous slumber capture.
An aberrant idiolect mutters
portents of personification
and recurrent deferred futures.
A bitter tax trickles down . . .
thus insurgent up-grudge, gets
with it and what not, syllabic
ingots, word-derivatives
exchanged for time nodules,
critical capital glut, puts and calls
of the new feudalism.
The anecdotal focal length
is measured in ruins. Eon
warble as pomegranate grid.
Persephone in cellular
hell. Havoc text distributed
as seed or bitmap. By any
other name, genetically
modified or chemically
enhanced, trans-planetary loss
or gnostic occupation, the un-
grammatical dark we come to,
loosely, disinhibited. A
sentence is an iteration.
The folding up of history
in this case is loaded, like-
wise the lesions of being
human. An an-
thology of misery would be
preferable to that abstract
mash-up of casual myth-
ologies. The irony
cannot but brutal be.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
David Dowker was born in Kingston, Ontario but has lived most of his life in Toronto. He was editor of The Alterran Poetry Assemblage from 1996 to 2004 (which can be accessed at Library and Archives Canada). Machine Language was published by BookThug in 2010 and Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal (with Christine Stewart) in 2013. Chax Press published Mantis in 2018. Dissonance Engine is forthcoming from Book*hug.
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Monday, March 15, 2021
new from above/ground press: zero dawn, by Shelly Harder
Shelly Harder
$5
once there was a kingdom in the clouds
I cannot go there now
my mother held me to her chest
and the stagger
of her breath
was the motion
that clawed open
the duration of things
sometimes I watch the stars and they belly dance
the moon slinks
things happen
tinctures of gentle chaos
brutality
bodies melt
severe dusk
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Shelly Harder is the author of intimology (Frog Hollow Press) and remnants (Baseline Press).
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Saturday, March 13, 2021
some author activity: O'Reilly, Boyle, mclennan, Williams, eckhoff, Pirie + fitzpatrick
Friday, March 12, 2021
new from above/ground press: buttons and bones, by Alexander Joseph
Alexander Joseph
$5
that same song sung from auschwitz to
charlottesville
what am I without a people a land a
knowhow a home
but an angry white boy in sweat damp sheets
dreaming of yellow ribbon tangled in curly hair
waking with ruined fruit on my new world tongue
what am I without the rain or blue sky
other than scared of what’s above or reflected
hiding in sawmilled pine or history of the camps
covering myself with the names and color they gave us
what I am but flat footed and complicit
a conqueror clinging to a conquered past
no necklace or history to show my pride
no native language to detail the dirt
no bread to break nowhere to go back to
but in my dreams I walk with grandfather to town
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
cover artwork: Jaiden Dokken
Alexander Joseph is a Jewish-American, twenty-six-year-old writer. It is said in the Talmud that there are three ways to be a good Jew: study, prayer and acts of loving kindness – Alexander thinks of his writing and work as an educator as a mix of all three. His fiction has been published in the anthology Stories That Need to be Told by Tulip Tree Press, as well as in Lotus Eater Magazine, Bombay Gin and Clover: A Literary Rag. Alexander has received four honorable mentions in various Glimmer Train Magazine Short Story and New Writer contests, has been shortlisted multiple times for the Faulkner Awards, and was a finalist for the 2020 Orison Fiction prize. His essays have been published in the Boulder Daily Camera and his poetry has been published in Boomer Lit Mag and BlazeVox Magazine. He has an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School, where he teaches creative writing. He hosts the podcast American Wasteland, which has thousands of listeners and on which he reads his fiction, and he writes a weekly prose poetry column in The Mountain Ear Newspaper in Nederland, Colorado.
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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