some author activity: Earl, Cochrane, Maloukis + Carpenter,

Amanda Earl is the October winner of the "Arc Award of Awesomeness" from Arc Poetry Magazine; Mark Cochrane has a new poem up at Canadian Literature; Rose Maloukis has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and J.R. Carpenter posts part of an audio collaboration with Darren Hagen.

above/ground press participates in The Capilano Review's epic kickstarter!

above/ground press has donated a mound of chapbooks for The Capilano Review's epic fundraiser! For a donation for $50 or more, you can pick up a set of fourteen above/ground press chapbooks. Only three sets available!

Each set includes: Gregory Betts, Who Let the Mice in Brion Gysin (2014), rob mclennan, How the alphabet was made (2014), Rae Armantrout, Rituals (2013), Fenn Stewart, An OK Organ Man (2012), Robert Manery, Richter-Rauzer Variations (2012), Mark Cochrane, Cat. (2012), Shannon Maguire, Vowel Wolves & Other Knots (2011), Ken Norris, GREEN WIND (2010), Natalie Simpson, The writing that should enter into conversation (2005), ryan fitzpatrick, Adolesce (2005), George Bowering (as "Ellen Field"), A, You're Adorable (2004), Meredith Quartermain, "Highway 99" (STANZAS #35) (2003), Donato Mancini, @phabet (2003), bpNichol, KON 66 & 67 (for jiri valoch (2002).

some author activity: Grayhurst, Cochrane, Reed, Barwin, Poe, Graham, Adams + Earl,

Allison Grayhurst has two poems in the new issue of Ann Arbor Review; Mark Cochrane has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series on the dusie blog; Marthe Reed has "Five Poems from Binx's Blues, with a Note on the Process (On Lines from Walker Percy)" over at Jacket2, alongside a short piece Gary Barwin wrote on the visual poetry of Karl Jirgens; Deborah Poe is all over Atticus Review lately, with new poems, an essay and an interview conducted by Lea Graham; Carrie Olivia Adams is one of five poets reading on November 8 at a Rescue Press anthology launch in Iowa City, Iowa, a reading to be live-streamed online; and Amanda Earl also has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series up at the dusie blog.

some author activity: Cochrane, Armantrout, mclennan, Higdon, Wilkinson, Butler, Betts, Cooley + Barbour,

[photo of Mark Cochrane reading Cat. on the poetry bus at Vancouver's WORD festival on September 29, 2013; photo credit: Kevin Spenst] Rae Armantrout and rob mclennan both have new work in the second issue of N/A; Hailey Higdon has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; there's a new interview with Joshua Marie Wilkinson over at Under A Warm Green Linden, Christopher Nelson's poetry blog; Jenna Butler guest-edits a Canadian poetry section in the October 2013 issue of Connotation Press online, including new writing by rob mclennan, Gregory Betts, Dennis Cooley, Douglas Barbour and plenty of others.

Mark Cochrane at Vancouver's Word on the Street, September 29, 2013

above/ground press author Mark Cochrane launches his chapbook Cat. (above/ground press, 2012) as part of the 2013 edition of Vancouver's Word on the Street at Liberty Square, Sunday, September 29th. He will be reading to open The Poetry Tent at 11:00am.

Other readers at The Poetry Tent throughout the day include Kim Minkus, Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, George Stanley, Peter Culley and Brad Cran.

Copies of Cochrane's Cat. are still available, here.

For more information on Vancouver's Word on the Street festival, check out http://wordvancouver.ca

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #19; above/ground press 20th anniversary special!

The Peter F Yacht Club #19
above/ground press 20th anniversary special
edited by rob mclennan
[see the link here for information on the previous issue] [see the link here for a history of the publication]
$6

With new writing by a host of Peter F Yacht Club regulars and irregulars including Steven Artelle, Cameron Anstee, Gary Barwin, derek beaulieu, Joe Blades, Mark Cochrane, Amanda Earl, JM Francheteau, Marilyn Irwin, Marcus McCann, rob mclennan, Roland Prevost, Monty Reid, Stan Rogal, Janice Tokar + Vivian Vavassis.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2013
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

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

new from above/ground press: Cat., a poem by Mark Cochrane

Cat.

Mark Cochrane

$3

In the garden, haunches down

like a library lion, Enid

the grown kitten

gently parts

with paw, with claw,

the feathers

on some rare, yellow-breasted

chat, exposing a belly

she tears open

with needle teeth &

gory-sunwarm

                   deliberation.  And standing

at his French doors

Felix is aroused

to a horror.  Loving

birds as he does—

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

November 2012

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Mark Cochrane lives in Vancouver, practises law, and teaches in the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He wrote Change Room (Talonbooks 2000) a long time ago and “Cat.” not long after that.

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