in collaboration
Steven Ross Smith
Phil Hall
$6
Morning performance poempublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
rattles & whistles & gaaaks
great-tailed grackle verse
howler monkeys & Frank Sinatra
the bird that isn’t there
has a name
the swinging howler chorus
is missing here this week
to be frank
a lesson in the line
collapsing form as foam
leaves a crockery bit
of green rose
then takes it back out
then in as noise
all day no one
watching or listening
the horizon erased by rain
never makes landfall
what lifts is dirty & pushes
what collapses
is clear & pulls free
March 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Phil Hall has a new book out this spring: Vallejo’s Marrow (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024). Other recent books are: The Ash Bell (Beautiful Outlaw, 2022); Toward a Blacker Ardour (Beautiful Outlaw, 2021); and Niagara & Government (Pedlar, 2020).
Steven Ross Smith loves music, practices yoga, and is fascinated by moss. Disparate threads weave through his seven-book poetic series fluttertongue. A new book is Glimmer: Short Fictions (Radiant Press, 2022). He writes in Victoria, BC.
This is Phil Hall’s fifth above/ground press chapbook (not including the secret chapbook), after Verulam (2009) and A Wolf Lake Chorus (2021), and the collaborations Shikibu Shuffle (with Andrew Burke; 2012) and Alternative Girders (with Stuart Kinmond; 2018). The festschrift Report from the [Phil] Hall Society, Vol. 1 No. 1 appeared in 2022.
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