THE WEATHER & THE WORDS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOHN NEWLOVE, 1963-2003, Edited by J.A. Weingarten

I don't usually post when above/ground press authors have books out with other presses, but I think the late Canadian poet John Newlove (1938-2003) is easily the first above/ground press author (so far) to have a published collection of letters: THE WEATHER & THE WORDS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOHN NEWLOVE, 1963-2003, edited by J.A. Weingarten (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025). You can see a write-up the editor did on the project over here at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as a review Ken Norris did for the same journal. above/ground press, as you already know, produced Newlove's final two publications before he died, the chapbook THE TASMANIAN DEVIL and other poems (1999) and the single-poem broadside, "THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN" in 2001 (which were both reprinted in the anthology GROUNDSWELL, best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), a book I do have a few copies of, by the way) as well as a twentieth anniversary edition of THE TASMANIAN DEVIL and other poems in 2019, produced with an introduction by Weingarten (which is still very much in print). Of course, Chaudiere Books (the trade publishing arm of above/ground press) also produced A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove, edited by Robert McTavish with an Afterword by Jeff Derksen, back in 2007. Copies of this are available through Invisible Publishing. Check out Derksen's Afterword over at Jacket magazine, by the way, along with a few poems by Newlove from the collection. You should pick up a copy of the letters, I think. There is something very nice about hearing John's voice again.