new from above/ground press: Report from the McCarthy Society. Vol. 1 No. 1

Report from the McCarthy Society
Vol 1. No. 1
edited by rob mclennan
$7

an assemblage of writing in response
to the work of Pattie McCarthy

including
poems, critical writings
and
philosophical transactions

with contributions by:
Laynie Browne
Barbara Cole
Sarah Dowling
Jenny Drai
Al Filreis
Sarah Heady
rob mclennan
Elizabeth Robinson
Edward Smallfield
Han VanderHart
Kevin Varrone
Divya Victor
Elizabeth Willis

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2022
full list of published reports here
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Report on the Society logo by C. McNair, editor’s devil (retired)

Pattie McCarthy is the author of seven books of poetry—six from Apogee Press, Wifthing (2021), Quiet Book (2015), Marybones (2012), Table Alphabetical of Hard Words (2010), Verso (2004), and bk of (h)rs (2002); and one from Horse Less Press, Nulls (2014). She was interviewed as part of her appearance in the debut issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal].

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Rogal, Collis, Downs + Niespodziany,

Stan Rogal has some poems up at The Pi Review; a poem by Stephen Collis is discussed by Pattie McCarthy, Kate Colby and Lily Applebaum via the Jacket2 podcast PoemTalk; an article (with interview) on Buck Downs' latest project, "The Poet Posting Stickers All Over Washington D.C.," is covered by The Click; and Benjamin Niespodziany is interviewed over at the new podcast We All Speak In Poems.

parentheses zoom reading : Jan 13/21 : Pattie McCarthy, rob mclennan, Christine McNair + Kevin Varrone,

Please join us at parentheses for a celebration of our fourth issue, with readings by rob mclennan, Christine McNair, Kevin Varrone & Pattie McCarthy.

When: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 3pm EST

Where: https://zoom.us/j/2730238369https://zoom.us/j/2730238369

parentheses: A Barcelona-based magazine of poetry and fiction. To obtain copies of issues 1, 2, 3, or 4, please email us at parenthesesbcn@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/parenthesesbcn/ 

dusie : the 2016 advent calendar : Smith,

above/ground press author Jessica Smith is included along with some two dozen others (DuPlessis, Ebeid, Detorie, McCarthy, etc) in the annual dusie advent calendar!

Ryan Pratt reviews Touch the Donkey #s 1-3

Ryan Pratt reviews the first three issues of Touch the Donkey (one, two, three) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter. Thanks much, Ryan! Of course, copies of all three are still available, as are subscriptions (whether separately, or as part of the annual above/ground press subscriptions).

new from above/ground press: Images from Declassified Nuclear Test Films, by Stephen Brockwell

Images from Declassified Nuclear Test Films

Stephen Brockwell

$4

0800055,

No Date,

“Let’s Face It”,

9:35-10:04

Her hair.

Say that—all the voices

murmur.

What skin tone

adjustments, I can’t

imagine—who could?

No categories for that

declassification, too much

gamma

to see it.

And of the trees,

what survival?

Match stick does not

survival make

as beautiful as sunsets.

There are no creams

for alpha particles.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

October 2014

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Stephen Brockwell is an Ottawa poet who runs a small IT company from a tiny office in the Chateau Laurier. His collection Fruitfly Geographic won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2004. His most recent collection is Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books.

This is Stephen Brockwell’s fourth above/ground press chapbook, after Excerpts from Impossible Books: The Crawdad Cantos (2012), Impossible Books (the Carleton Installment) (2010) and Marin County Poems (2001).

[produced for a reading at Brickbat Books, Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, October 4, 2014 with rob mclennan and Pattie McCarthy, hosted by Jack Krick]

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