some author activity: Unsworth, Kolewe, mclennan, Ursuliak, Kratz + Straumsvåg,

[photo by Dag T. Straumsvåg] Lydia Unsworth has two new poems up at The Manchester Review; R. Kolewe has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; rob mclennan has some new work up at Noir Sauna; Emily Ursuliak has an essay up at The Goose; and Al Kratz is interviewed by Constance Malloy.

new from above/ground press: Tierra del Fuego (excerpts from a fiction), by R. Kolewe

Tierra del Fuego (excerpts from a fiction)
R. Kolewe
$5

He stayed off expressways and stuck to secondary roads when he could, sometimes in forest, sometimes with wide vistas: though the mountains there are not the spectacular peaks farther north they are softly sublime. He saw the small blue sign marking the access road for the Institute among the aspens, a place he’d read about wondering if he’d ever wind up there himself, given his work it wasn’t impossible and in a way it would be closing an open loop in his life. He had no idea Sil would be there a few years later; he had just discovered Tear had a sister, my genius sister Tear said, we’re twins but she’s five years older. Later he found his journals didn’t mention that sign though he recalled it clearly, of course illuminated by Sil’s tenure there and everything that transpired afterwards: it was one of those things that gained significance only in retrospect. And exactly what significance did it have, if any, anyway? It was like realizing that you and the green-eyed stranger at the bar beside you were both at the same event, a concert or gallery opening or conference, a decade or more ago. She doesn’t know who Rilke was but at least you have that in common, the same place at the same time; an entanglement, yes, but not something that tells you much about anything. Simultaneity isn’t information.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
as the twenty-eighth title in above/ground’s prose/naut imprint
May 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

R. Kolewe has published four books of poetry, and several chapbooks. He lives in Toronto.

This is Kolewe’s second title with above/ground press, following Like the noises alive people wear (2019).

To order, send cheques (add $2 for postage; in US, add $3; outside North America, add $7) 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 www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Sikkema, Robertson, Kolewe, Crosby, Shirley, Witek + mclennan,

Michael Sikkema has new work up at cul-de-sac of blood; did you know that Lisa Robertson has an occasional newsletter you can sign up for, as does R. Kolewe?; Gregory Crosby and Vik Shirley each have work up at talking about strawberries all of the time, as does forthcoming author Terri Witek; Chris Banks interviews rob mclennan for The Woodlot; and don't forget that above/ground press has that new substack you can sign up for, with extra-special other things to appear there.

some author activity: Kolewe, Naughton, Webb, Kemp-Gee + (ottawa) small press almanac,

R. Kolewe is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Katie Naughton and Lindsey Webb both have new work at interim poetics; forthcoming author Meghan Kemp-Gee is also interviewed at Touch the Donkey; and did you see that above/ground press is now part of the "(ottawa) small press almanac" collective of Ottawa-based small and micro press publishers?

some author activity: Clayton, Drake, Kolewe, Young, Pirie + mclennan,

forthcoming author Conyer Clayton has a poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as do Kristina Drake and R. Kolewe; new English language Ottawa Poet Laureate Deanna Young responds to April's wash of snow for CBC Radio Ottawa; Pearl Pirie has some new work up at talking about strawberries all of the time, where rob mclennan is also interviewed.

new from above/ground press: Like the noises alive people wear, by R. Kolewe

Like the noises alive people wear
R. Kolewe
$5

1.

In the next room someone reading stage directions
trying to name the scene familiar foreign
always even what comes next is far away.



No correct one. A branching
tangled tree overgrown with vines, no line
breaks now. Monochrome, only edges.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

R. Kolewe lives in Toronto. He has published two books of poetry, Afterletters (BookThug 2014) and Inspecting Nostalgia (Talon Books 2017).

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com