Saturday, August 6, 2022
some author activity: Logan, Niespodziany, Pirie + Bell,
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Nate Logan has a new poem up at The Indianapolis Review; Benjamin Niespodziany has new work up at Hex Literary; Pearl Pirie has a haiku included as part of David McMurray's online ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK at The Asahi Shimbun; and Wade Bell has some new fiction up at The Typescript.
photo by Isabella Wang
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founded July 1993 : NEARLY THIRTY YEARS OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY + NOW MORE THAN 1000 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
the above/ground press 29th anniversary big ridiculous summer sale! (until September 1, 2022
NOW AVAILABLE! above/ground press: 2022 subscriptions
upcoming events and appearances!
rob mclennan reads w Lisa Richter at the milk magazine reading series, July 27, 2022 at 7pm; TYPE Books, 883 Queen Street West (Toronto ON);
The Poetics of Space: Spotlight on the Super 8 Films of Steph Gray, Curated by Milada Kovacova, August 5-11 (Toronto ON);
above/ground press at the Fisher Small and Fine Press Fair, September 10, 2022 (Toronto ON);
above/ground press at the TIFA small press fair, September 24, 2022 (Toronto ON);
above/ground press at the ottawa small press book fair, November 12, 2022 (Ottawa ON);
recent above/ground chapbooks
photo by Isabella Wang
recent and forthcoming titles from 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, Report from the Hall Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Ken Norris, Touch the Donkey #34, Report from the Anstee Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Grant Wilkins, N.W. Lea, Jed Munson, David Miller, Matthew Gwathmey, Report from the Reid Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Michael Boughn, Laura Kelsey, Russell Carisse, Saba Pakdel, Jérôme Melançon, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #23, Report from the Robinson Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Marita Dachsel, Anne Tardos, Lori Anderson Moseman, Report from the Siklosi Society. Vol. 1 No. 1 + No. 2, Vivan Lewin, MLA Chernoff, Wade Bell, Joanna Arnott, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #22, Rob Manery, Lillian Nećakov, Report from the Ross Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #21, Report from the Earl Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Amanda Earl, Report from the Brockwell Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Karl Jirgens, df parizeau, Wanda Praamsma, Lydia Unsworth, Michael Schuffler, Calling to the Sun: Poems for Isabella Wang, rob mclennan, Touch the Donkey #32, Natalie Simpson, Nate Logan, Stan Rogal, the Peter F. Yacht Club #30 [the virtual issue], Sean Braune and Émilie Dionne, Urië V-J, Sarah Rosenthal, Andy Weaver, Simon Brown, Mayan Godmaire, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #20, Phil Hall, Kevin Varrone, Susan Rukeyser, Barry McKinnon, Benjamin Niespodziany, Terri Witek and Amaranth Borsuk, George Bowering, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #19, Franklin Bruno, Gary Barwin, Emily Izsak, Jen Tynes, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #18, Valerie Witte, Robert Hogg, Ken Sparling, Jessi MacEachern, Nathan Alexander Moore, Katie Naughton, Summer Brenner, Monica Mody, Kōan Anne Brink, Gregory Betts, Touch the Donkey #30, Michael Sikkema, M.A.C. Farrant, Jamie Townsend, Conor Mc Donnell, Adam Thomlison, Alyssa Bridgman, James Lindsay, Amish Trivedi, Ava Hofmann, JoAnna Novak, Sandra Moussempès (trans. Eléna Rivera), Helen Hajnoczky, Edward Smallfield, Valerie Coulton, James Hawes, Anik See, David Dowker, Shelly Harder, Alexander Joseph, Joseph Mosconi, Brenda Iijima, Al Kratz, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #16, Saeed Tavanaee Marvi (trans. Khashayar Mohammadi), Jason Christie, katie o'brien, N.W. Lea, Andrew Brenza, The Peter F Yacht Club #29, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #15, Zane Koss, Genevieve Kaplan, Dennis Cooley, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #14, rob mclennan and Gary Barwin, Kristjana Gunnars, Nathanael O'Reilly, Baron Rocco Fleetcrest-Seacobs, Geoffrey Olsen, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #13, Cecilia Tamburri Stuart, Keith Waldrop, Amelia Does, Franco Cortese, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Julia Drescher, Billy Mavreas, ryan fitzpatrick, Sarah Burgoyne and Susan Burgoyne, Paul Perry, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #12, Kemeny Babineau, Rose Maloukis, Sarah Burgoyne, Buck Downs, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Orchid Tierney, Derek Beaulieu, Misha Solomon, Dani Spinosa, Andrew Cantrell, Mark Scroggins, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #11, Michael e. Casteels + Nick Papaxanthos, Ashley Yang-Thompson + Mikko Harvey, Ben Robinson, Khashayar Mohammadi, Melissa Eleftherion, Andrea Rexilius, Lance La Rocque, G UE S T [a journal of guest editors] #10, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #9, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #25, George Stanley, The Peter F. Yacht Club #28 ; VERSeFest (postponement) special, Rachel Kearney, J.R. Carpenter, Amanda Deutch, Guy Birchard, Razielle Aigen, Anthony Etherin, Leesa Dean, Eric Baus, Ian McCulloch, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #8, Dale Tracy, Pete Smith, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #7, Isabel Sobral Campos, Jessica Smith, Mary Kasimor, Margaret Christakos, Allyson Paty, Hawad (trans. Jake Syersak), Simina Banu, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #6, Andrew K Peterson, Susanne Dyckman, John Newlove, Ben Meyerson, Natalie Lyalin, Michael Dennis, Jane Virginia Rohrer, Pearl Pirie, Chris Turnbull, Stuart Ross, Marilyn Irwin, Chris Johnson, Conyer Clayton, Frances Boyle, Kemeny Babineau, Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Kate Siklosi, Mairéad Byrne, Kimberly Campanello, Stephen Cain, Kyle Kinaschuk, Gil McElroy, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #2, The Peter F. Yacht Club #27, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Stephanie Gray, Alice Burdick, Heather Sweeney, R. Kolewe, Evan Gray, Dale Smith, Virginia Konchan, Joshua James Collis, Laura Farina, Jennifer Stella, Monty Reid, Sarah Mangold, bodies and breath: a summer workshop anthology, Cole Swensen, MC Hyland, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #1, Sacha Archer, Megan Kaminski, Sara Renee Marshall, Mark Laliberte, Lisa Rawn, Sean Braune, Michael Martin Shea, Ian Dreiblatt, Kyle Flemmer, Uxío Novoneyra (trans. Erín Moure), Stephen Brockwell, Phil Hall / Stuart Kinmond, natalie hanna, Miguel E. Ortiz Rodríguez, Natalee Caple, Travis Sharp, Beth Ayer, Jon Boisvert, Jenna Jarvis, Lise Downe, Allison Cardon, Lea Graham, Tim Atkins, Gregory Betts + Arnold McBay, Aaron Tucker, Andrew Wessels, Marthe Reed, The Peter F. Yacht Club #26, Steve McCaffery, Gary Barwin and Tom Prime, Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick, Alice Notley, Rachel Mindell, Eleni Zisimatos, Adrienne Gruber, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Matthew Johnstone, Alyssa Bridgman, Elizabeth Robinson, Geoffrey Nilson, Eric Schmaltz, Joe Blades, Katy Lederer, Kristina Drake, Stephanie Bolster, Adele Graf, Sarah Dowling, nathan dueck, Sarah Cook, Ian Whistle, Faizal Deen, The Peter F. Yacht Club #25, Marilyn Irwin, Lisa Robertson, Jordan Abel, Stephen Collis, Sarah Fox, Jake Syersak, Kyle Flemmer, philip miletic, Geoffrey Young, Carrie Hunter, Sarah Swan, John Barton, Carrie Olivia Adams, Dana Claxton, Andrew McEwan, Michael Turner, Pearl Pirie, Christian Bök, Neil Flowers, Lesley Yalen, Braydon Beaulieu, Pete Smith, Bronwen Tate, lary timewell, The Peter F. Yacht Club #24, Yuri Izdryk (trans. Roman Ivashkiv and Erín Moure), rob's fall 2015 poetry workshop participants, Katie L. Price, Roland Prevost, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Hugh Thomas, Nicole Markotić, damian lopes, Jamie Bradley, Jennifer Kronovet, Karen Massey, Jennifer Baker, Kate Schapira, Andy Weaver, Susanne Dyckman, Emily Ursuliak, Eric Baus, Rachel Moritz, Janice Tokar, Sharon Harris, Noah Eli Gordon, Ben Ladouceur, Dennis Tourbin, Sarah Rosenthal, Camille Martin, Hailey Higdon, Rae Armantrout, Marcus McCann, Christine McNair and rob mclennan, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jill Stengel, Wanda O'Connor, Two Dutch Poets: Hélène Gelèns and Erik Lindner, Kaia Sand, Amy Dennis, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Abby Paige, Brecken Hancock, Shannon Maguire, Mark Cochrane, Deborah Poe, Cameron Anstee, Rob Manery, George Elliott Clarke, Jay MillAr, Kathryn MacLeod, Fenn Stewart, j/j hastain, Phil Hall + Andrew Burke, Deanna Young, Barry McKinnon, Michael Blouin + Elizabeth Rainer, Eric Folsom, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Robert Kroetsch and dozens upon dozens of others...
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993,
above/ground press 25th anniversary essays
reviews of our titles!
The Peter F. Yacht Club; occasional writer's group journal + annual Xmas party/reading/regatta!
small press book fairs we love
above/ground press "poem" broadsides
author interviews,
ottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal
Touch the Donkey
a small poetry magazine,
to contact editor/publisher rob mclennan, email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com; or write, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON Canada K1H 7M9
above/ground press rarities and backlist! (an ongoing list of items long out-of-print,
Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 (Chaudiere Books)
Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press)
above/ground press
- archives at the University of Calgary
- Penteract Press interviews above/ground press, May 2021
- the ottawa small press book fair : home edition, August 2020
- rob mclennan on old-school chapbook making, October 2018
- In which I answer some questions on above/ground press for Entropy, as part of their small press feature, December 2016
- "How to keep a small chapbook press alive for twenty-three years (a primer, at Open Book, October 2016
- List of micro-publishers in Canada : Brick Books' Celebreation of Canadian Poetry, December 2015
- "Six Questions For..." rob mclennan on above/ground press, October 2013
- Pearl Pirie's report on the 20th anniversary reading / launch / party, August 2013
- 'I am a child of above/ground," by Marcus McCann, August 2013
- Marthe Reed resonds to Alejandro Butros on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, nous-zot press, August 2013
- On small press publishing and above/ground press in particular by Gary Barwin, serif of nottingblog, August 2013
- Celebrating 20 years of poetry with above/ground press by Alejandro Bustos, Apartment 613, August 2013
- I simply began: above/ground press at 20 [an interview with rob mclennan], Apt. 9 Press, August 2013
- Q & A: 20 Years of above/ground press: an interview with rob mclennan by Alison Lang, Broken Pencil blog, January 2013
- ten questions for rob mclennan on above/ground press by derek beaulieu, March 2011
- above/ground press at nineteen,
- the peter f yacht club (a write-up + bibliography);
- above/ground press: at sixteen
- above/ground press: the angry teen years (fifteen)
- above/ground press: ALBERTA SERIES (2007-8), online pdf chapbooks
- above/ground press: what happens at fourteen
- Alberta dispatch: interviews and writing from Edmonton by rob mclennan
- interview with rob mclennan by Didi Menendez, Men of the World Wide Poetry World
- interview with rob mclennan by Rusty Morrison on writing, reviewing, blogging and above/ground press
- Ottawa X-Press article on small/micro press
editor/publisher rob mclennan's other web stuff
other chapbook publishers
- (m)Other Tongue Press, Saltspring Island BC
- AngelHousePress, Ottawa ON
- Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa ON
- Baseline Press, London ON
- Believe Your Own Press, Toronto ON
- BookThug, Toronto ON
- bywords, Ottawa ON
- Ferno House, Toronto ON
- Friday Circle (University of Ottawa), Ottawa ON
- Frog Hollow Press, Victoria BC
- greenboathouse books, Vernon BC
- Jackpine Press, Saskatoon SK
- Laurel Reed Books, Mt. Pleasant ON
- Leaf Press, Lantzville BC
- Lipstick Press, Gabriola Island BC
- LyricalMyrical, Toronto ON
- Mercutio Press, Montreal QC
- NO PRESS, Calgary AB
- Nomados Literary Publishers, Vancouver BC
- PigeonBike, London ON
- Pooka Press, Vancouver BC
- Proper Tales Press, Toronto ON
- red nettle press, Edmonton AB
- Rubicon Press, Edmonton AB
- Running the Goat, Books & Broadsheets, St. John's NFLD
- Simulacrum Press, Burlington ON
- The Alfred Gustav Press, North Vancouver BC
- The Blasted Tree, Calgary AB
- The Emergency Response Unit, Toronto ON
- Wrinkle Press, Windsor ON