Happy
birthday, above/ground press!
In case you hadn’t heard, today is the TWENTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY
OF CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION for above/ground press (which has now
achieved 1,200 publications to date) and to celebrate such, I thought, why not
offer a huge summer sale? (I mean, people love those, right?)
$35
(plus shipping) for any eight 2021/2022 titles! Or, if you are feeling
particularly brave, $40 for any ten 2021/2022 titles! (until September 1, 2022!
with
options including plenty of 2022 titles so far: Report from the (Cameron) Anstee
Society Vol. 1 No. 1 ; Reading The Great Classics Of Canlit through Book
5 of bpNichol’s The Martyrology, by Grant Wilkins ; Natural Man, by N.W.
Lea ; Silts, by Jed Munson ; AN ENVELOPE FOR SILENCE: Some Short
Fiction 1977-1989, by David Miller ; looping climate, by Matthew
Gwathmey ; Report from the (Monty) Reid Society Vol. 1 No. 1 ; In
the shadows, by Michael Boughn ; west coast shorts, by Laura Kelsey
; English Garden Bondage, by Russell Carisse ; In-Between, Poetry by
Saba Pakdel, a non-corresponding bilingual English/Persian collection ; Tomorrow’s
Going to Be Bright, by Jérôme Melançon ; G U E S T [a journal of guest
editors] #23 : edited by David Dowker : with new work by Nicole Raziya
Fong, Lisa Robertson, ryan fitzpatrick, Catriona Strang, Allegra Sloman, Nikki
Sheppy, Fenn Stewart, Pete Smith and Christine Stewart ; Report from the
(Elizabeth) Robinson Society, Vol. 1 No. 1 ; Divination, by Marita
Dachsel ; Andante: Scales and Proportions for a Chemical Orchestra Amid
the Fraying Social Norms, by Anne Tardos ; Okay?, by Lori Anderson
Moseman ; Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #33 : with new
work by Howie Good, Jérôme Melançon, Genevieve Kaplan, Cecilia Stuart, ryan
fitzpatrick, Benjamin Niespodziany, Maw Shein Win, Margo LaPierre, Sarah Pinder
and Michael Boughn ; Report from the (Kate) Siklosi Society, Vol. 1 No.
1 and No. 2 ; COLVILLE SUITE FOR MIXED VOICES, by Vivian Lewin ; SCRIED
FUNDAMENTS, pomes by MLA CHERNOFF ; Visions of Bolaño, by Wade Bell ;
pandemic friendship, by Joanne Arnott ; G U E S T [a journal of guest
editors] #22 : edited by Kyle Flemmer : with new work by Leslie Joy Ahenda,
Jake Byrne, Cobra Collins, nathan dueck, Kyle Flemmer, Helen Hajnozcky,
Samantha Jones, Jun-long Lee, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Helen Robertson, Ben
Robinson, Eric Schmaltz, Cristalle Smith and Kevin Stebner ; ELEGIES, by Rob
Manery ; 3¢ Pulp, by Lillian Nećakov ; Report from the (Stuart)
Ross Society Vol 1. No. 1 ; Report from the (Amanda) Earl Society
Vol 1. No. 1 ; THE BEFORE, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia, by
Amanda Earl ; G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #20 : produced also
as CASTLE GRAYSKULL 1.5, directed by Skeletor edited by Micah Ballard and
Garrett Caples : with new work by Colter Jacobsen (as Teela), Anne Waldman,
Brian Lucas, Carrie Hunter, Roberto Harrison, Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye
and Bob Flanagan, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Tamas Panitz and Gregory Corso ; Report
from the (Stephen) Brockwell Society Vol 1. No. 1 ; ECO BLUES: A tale in
3 parts, by Karl Jirgens ; Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #32
: with new work by Carrie Hunter, Emily Brandt, Lillian Necakov, David Buuck,
Hugh Thomas and Nate Logan ; DISSECTIONS, df parizeau ; aversions // nothing special, by Wanda Praamsma ; RESIDUE,
by Lydia Unsworth ; Kid Stigmata, by Michael Schuffler ; Calling
to the Sun: Poems for Isabella Wang, edited by Stephen Collis : with
contributions by: Manahil Bandukwala, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Yvonne Blomer,
Stephen Collis, Zoe Dagneault, Diana Hayes, Erica Hiroko Isomura, Fiona Tinwei
Lam, Jen Sookfong Lee, Natalie Lim, Tanis MacDonald, rob mclennan, Hasan Namir,
Chimedum Ohaegbu, Tolu Oloruntoba, Arleen Paré and Rob Taylor ; Autobiography,
by rob mclennan ; Small Print, by Natalie Simpson ; Apricot, by
Nate Logan ;
To order, send
cheques (as well as your list of preferred titles; add $3 for postage; in US,
add $5; outside North America, add $11) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive,
Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or
the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
with numerous rarities/backlist titles still available as well! And you remember we still have a handful of t-shirts, right? And those 25th anniversary broadsides?
with further forthcoming
2022 titles by Lindsey Webb, Jason Heroux, Nick Chhoeun, Grant Wilkins, Isabel
Sobral Campos, Mark Scroggins, Laura Walker, Adrienne Adams, Jordan Davis,
Jason Christie, Geoffrey Nilson, Andrew Gorin, Lori Anderson Moseman, Melissa
Spohr Weiss, Marita Dachsel, Stuart Ross, Genevieve Kaplan, Christopher Patton,
Angela Caporaso, Isabella Wang (among others, of course) and Sara Lefsyk’s
guest-edited issue of G U E S T [a journal of guest editors]! Oh, and Touch
the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #34 lands next week as well!
and while we, at above/ground
press world headquarters, otherwise known as above/ground press print
and digital poetry solutions, know that we are living in unprecedented
times, what choice have we but to persevere, and move forward? while being
attentive to physical safety, hand-washing and mental stability as best as
possible. we wish you all continued health and safety, please! we will still be
here, even through the disruptions, attempting to produce new books, journals
and broadsides as best as we are able (and in the meantime, of course, check
out the online extension of above/ground: periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics). And
who knows, we might even be able to re-start both The Factory Reading Series
and the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair this fall? Maybe? And next
year, we’ll have a huge event to celebrate THIRTY YEARS (with a ‘best of the
third decade’ anthology as well, to appear in fall 2023 with Invisible Publishing.
That will be pretty cool,
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