above/ground press: Geoffrey Nilson

Light Makes a Ruin
Geoffrey Nilson
$5

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Geoffrey Nilson was born in Duncan, BC on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Cowichan Tribes. A poet, editor, and literary critic, he is also the founder and publisher of micropress pagefiftyone. Nilson is the author of four chap-books. In 2020, his poem “The Sound of Cellulose” appeared in the anthology Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (Caitlin Press), and his critical writing has appeared recently in Canadian Literature and Arc Poetry Magazine. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University and an MA in English from Simon Fraser University, where he is at work on his PhD studying the contemporary long-poem in Canada. In a past life, he was musician, songwriter, and recording engineer for various solo and collaborative projects. The BC-YK Representative for the League of Canadian Poets, Geoffrey lives with his daughter in New Westminster on the unceded territory of the Qayqayt nation. Website: www.vcovcfvca.com

This is Nilson’s second above/ground press title, after In my ear continuously like a stream (2017).

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IN MY EAR CONTINUOUSLY LIKE A STREAM

by Geoffrey Nilson

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

November 2017

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Geoffrey Nilson is a writer, musician, multimedia artist, and father. He is the author of three chapbooks, Alchemy Machine (2015), We Have To Watch (The Quilliad Press, 2016), and O (Swimmer’s Group, 2017). Nilson’s poems and essays have appeared widely in Canada and internationally including in Poetry is Dead, Event, PRISM international, subTerrain, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque and Qwerty. He has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry and his book-length manuscript won Honourable Mention for the 2015 Alfred G Bailey Poetry Prize.

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