new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #26; VERSeFest special!

The Peter F Yacht Club #26
VERSeFest 2018 special
edited by rob mclennan
$6

With new writing by a host of Peter F Yacht Club regulars, irregulars and VERSeFest 2018 participants, including Manahil Bandukwala, Gary Barwin, Frances Boyle, Stephen Brockwell, Jason Christie, Sergio Coddou (trans. Lea Graham), Anita Dolman, Klara du Plessis, Amanda Earl, natalie hanna, Gonzalo Hermo (trans. Ivan Barreiro and Erín Moure), Major Jackson, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Alex Manley, Steve McCaffery, Gil McElroy, rob mclennan, Peter Norman, Carolyn Marie Souaid, D.S. Stymeist and Janice Tokar

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
March 2018
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[a small stack of copies will be distributed free as part of the eighth annual VERSeFest, March 20-25, 2018]

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

The Peter F. Yacht Club : a profile,

A short profile I put together on The Peter F. Yacht Club is now online at Open Book: Ontario, with input from Laurie Anne Fuhr, Anita Dolman, Vivian Vavassis, Peter Norman, Amanda Earl, Peter Richardson, Wes Smiderle, Janice Tokar, Pearl Pirie, Cameron Anstee, Ben Ladouceur and Marilyn Irwin.

some author activity: Blouin, Pirie, Earl, Smith, Norman + Barwin,

Michael Blouin has an essay in Amish Trivedi's "Where Do You Write, My Lovely?"; Pearl Pirie participates in Amanda Earl's "One More Thing"; Amanda Earl has some new visual poetry up at Our Teeth; poems by Pete Smith and Peter Norman are now online as part of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2015 longlist; and Gary Barwin has a new poem up at h&.

above/ground press at IFOA: George Elliot Clarke, Peter Norman + Christine McNair,

Okay, so perhaps that's a bit of a stretch, but three authors previously published by above/ground press are featuring in Toronto as part of the 34th annual International Festival of Authors (October 24-November 3, 2013; Toronto): Peter Norman at the Poet Summit on October 26, as well as at a second event the same day; George Elliott Clarke on November 1 and again on November 2; and Christine McNair at the Poet Summit on October 26 and again on October 27. I'll be accompanying the thirty-seven-week-pregnant McNair to our first ever IFOA. Looking forward to it!