new from above/ground press: After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees—, by Renée Sarojini Saklikar

After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees—
~ from volume 2 of thecanadaproject, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns, commonly known as Thot-J-Bap, a long poemRenée Sarojini Saklikar
$4

Morphology of the

Let lists suffice, those rubbed, we that assemble:

Cardo, stipes, galea, and palupus.

The City, our essence, we might communicate,

syllable, grammar and line, beds violet, wild thyme

were we to find, cracked cement, east side court

Labium when extended, the cardo,

slender, in the laterial wall, we—

might not meet, nor share anything, a glance

on the train, commonly, as short as half,

the stipital length. See here, we gather

at the steps of public buildings where once

protest put down. Many genera.

there came a time, when soldiers rode, guns cocked.

Through the cardo to the lorum, winds breathe

around condo cranes, City of Night, wander

spray cans in hand, fill our shoes with sand.

O for a hundred thousand,

homes we might call to,

all the lights coming on at once—

 

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2016
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Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle. Work from the project is widely published in journals, anthologies and chapbooks. The first completed book from thecanadaproject is children of air india, un/authorized exhibits and interjections (Nightwood Editions, 2013), winner of the 2014 Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry and a finalist for the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award. Renée is currently a mentor and instructor for Simon Fraser University, and co-founder of the poetry reading series, Lunch Poems at SFU. With Wayde Compton, Renée co-edited The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (Anvil Press/SFU Public Square, 2015). Renée was recently appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey. She collects poems about bees.

Produced, in part, as a handout at Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, April 9-10, 2016, from 11am-5pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Porter Hall, 453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Much thanks to Chris Fritton for his help and support. http://www.buffalosmallpress.org/

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: BRCA: Birth of a Patient, by Katie L. Price

BRCA: Birth of a Patient
Katie L. Price
$4

Diagnosis

I. Diagnostic Report

The patient is a 23 year old female who presents with a palpable right breast mass. The patient states that she self palpated this mass last week. Patient states that she has no other medical problems

Real-time sonographic evaluation of the right breast was performed. The area of concern is located in the right breast at 10 o’clock one to 2 cm from the areolar margin. There is an irregular hypoechoic mass measuring 22 x 26 by 29 mm. The finding is highly suspicious for malignancy. In addition to the right axilla, there is a lymph node with effacement of the fatty hilum measuring 8 x 10 x 11 mm. A mammogram was deferred at this time as the patient missed her menstrual cycle last week and is not definitely certain of her pregnancy status. A mammogram is recommended at a later time once the pregnancy status is determined.

II. Impression

1. Irregular hypoechoic mass seen in the right breast at 10 o’clock. Biopsy is recommended. The mass is amenable to core needle biopsy or excisional biopsy. Both options were discussed with the patient. The patient desired to have a core needle biopsy and therefore she was scheduled for the procedure for later this week.

2. Abnormal appearing lymph node seen in the right axilla. Fine needle aspiration is recommended.

The above findings and recommendations were discussed with the patient. In addition, the result were discussed with                   of _____________ and 2:05 p.m.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2015
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Katie L. Price’s writing—critical, creative, and other—has appeared in such venues as Fence, the Journal of Medical Humanities, Canadian Literature, and Jacket2. Originally from Utah, she resides in Philadelphia and Toronto. She currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, serves as Interviews Editor for Jacket2, and co-directs the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium.

Produced, in part, as a handout at Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, April 18-19, 2015, from 11am-5pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Porter Hall, 453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Much thanks to Chris Fritton for his help and support. http://www.buffalosmallpress.org/

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: vertigoheel for the dilly, by Pearl Pirie

vertigoheel for the dilly
Pearl Pirie
$4

that shed snakeskin in display case thru 13 homes together.
garter snake lifespan: 2 years in the wild and 6 to 10 years in captivity

existed under your thumb, swam all nerves to that stroke
was silk flared from the pinch, pulled thru a ring, am smoke.

frost-slapped cheeks applied via Avon, ‘talk to him’ you instructed,
rub his hands, keep him with us. (we never had touched.)

sanguine sans glum, stand-up, wipe sebum, beach bum,
I've been dead to you for 4 changes of addresses.

the exponential decay. scapolite turns yellow under black light.
press the button for glow over and over.

duckie, you are wedged inside my defenses causing a short.
rest. head on my chest.  breath’s the centre of all the best dervishes.

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published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2014
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Pearl Pirie has a few chapbooks, a micro press, several blogs, a gig as literary radio host and irregular gigs to teach poetry. She has two poetry collections, and a third forthcoming with BookThug in 2015. None of these poems are in them so you have to buy them both.

This is Pearl Pirie’s fourth above/ground press publication and second chapbook, after oath in the boathouse (2008).

The author wishes to thank the City of Ottawa for a grant in 2012.

Produced, in part, as a handout for the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Buffalo NY, April 5-6, 2014. Thanks much to Chris Fritton for his help and support.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Trace, by rob mclennan

Trace,
rob mclennan
$4

[dactyls, syllable, your bluesky dress]

One voice, among a thousand. Recreational, winter. Syllabi. Transmitted, boxwood. Weak, in this noise. Hand-painted ethics, sign. Sliced, misspelled, a principle of cross-stitch. Useful spurs, to feature. A park of open links. Natural depressions, slip. A delta made of decades, tulip. Endless, in the face of. Exhaust, and sooty diamonds. Hinged, the dream. Sheep continue, horses. Causeway, feathered features monument. Unsolicited birds. A bitter fence, this fertile colophon of property, remains. Straight stretches south, and south. Arcades, down Dow's Great Swamp. Dow's Lake.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2013
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Produced, in part, as a handout for the 2013 AWP Conference and Bookfair, Boston MA, March 6 – 9, and the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Buffalo NY, April 6 – 7, 2013. Thanks much to Sarah Rosenthal, Jill Stengel and Chris Fritton for their help and support.

To pick up a free copy at AWP, head over to the combined Black Radish / Dusie booth.

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2011, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. His most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com