new from above/ground press: SOCIALLY AWKWARD GHOST, by Amanda Earl

SOCIALLY AWKWARD GHOST
Amanda Earl
$6

In the cab en route to a place referred to as 
home, I tried to remember what being alive was 
like. I told myself to answer when my husband 
ended a noun verb object structure with an 
uprised tone. To me it sounded like zero zero 
zero up up? I think my response was one 
syllable two syllable two head nods.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Amanda Earl (she/her) writes, edits, reviews, publishes and makes mischief on the unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Peoples. Earl is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry. Subscribe to her Substack, Amanda Thru the Looking Glass and buy limited edition gorgeousness from Creatively Yours, her forthcoming year-long whimsical collaborative creation with her husband, Charles Earl. More info: AmandaEarl.com. Instagram: earlamanda.

This is Amanda Earl’s eleventh chapbook with above/ground press, after Eleanor (2007), The Sad Phoenician’s Other Woman (2008), Sex First & Then A Sandwich (2012), A Book of Saints (2015), Lady Lazarus Redux (2017), The Book of Mark (2018), Aftermath or Scenes of a Woman Convalescing (2019), Sessions from the DreamHouse Aria (2020), a field guide to fanciful bugs (2021) and THE BEFORE, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia (2022). She edited the above/ground press collection the suitcase poem (2025), as well as the first issue of G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] (2018). In 2022, above/ground press produced Report from the Earl Society, Vol. 1, No. 1.

[Amanda Earl launches this title in Ottawa on Friday, alongside Stuart Ross and Liam Burke, as part of the pre-ottawa small press fair reading at Anina's Cafe]

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