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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Ronnie R. Brown reviews Karen Massey's STRANGE FITS OF BEAUTY & LIGHT (2014)
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Ottawa poet Ronnie R. Brown was good enough to review Karen Massey's Strange Fits of Beauty & Light (2014) over at Bywords.ca. Thanks much! You can see the original review here.
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happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! until September 1, 2026;
2026 subscriptions now available!
NOW AVAILABLE! groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing,
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Vol. 1 No. 1, Kevin Stebner, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Stephen Cain, Geoffrey Olsen, Heather Cadsby, Evan Williams, nina jane drystek, Sophia Magliocca, Karen Massey, Jamie Hilder, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #38, George Bowering + Artie Gold, Ryan Stearne, Brad Vogler, Andrew Gorin, Report from the Pirie Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Julia Drescher, Joseph Donato, Samuel Ace, Leesa Dean, Report from the Reimer Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #37, Jessi MacEachern, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #26, Jordan Davis, The Peter F Yacht Club #32 : 2023 VERSeFest Special, Report from the Smith Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Nick Chhoeun, Ben Jahn, William Vallières, Report from the Iijima Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Isabel Sobral Campos, Mark Scroggins, Laura Walker, Report from the Trivedi Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Lindsey Webb, Barbara Henning, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #25, Touch the Donkey #36, The Peter F Yacht Club #31, Douglas Glover, Report from the Hogg Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #24, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Report from the McCarthy Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Hajnoczky Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Adrienne Adams, Chris Johnson, Geoffrey Nilson, Genevieve Kaplan, Melissa Spohr Weiss, Christopher Patton, Leigh Chadwick, Report from the Mangold Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Betts Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Hall Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Touch the Donkey #34, Report from the Anstee Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Jed Munson, David Miller, Matthew Gwathmey, Report from the Reid Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Michael Boughn, Laura Kelsey, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #23, Report from the Robinson Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Anne Tardos, Report from the Siklosi Society. 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Yacht Club #30 [the virtual issue], Sean Braune and Émilie Dionne, Urië V-J, Sarah Rosenthal, Simon Brown, Mayan Godmaire, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #20, Phil Hall, Kevin Varrone, Susan Rukeyser, Barry McKinnon, Terri Witek and Amaranth Borsuk, George Bowering, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #19, Franklin Bruno, Emily Izsak, Jen Tynes, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #18, Valerie Witte, Robert Hogg, Ken Sparling, Jessi MacEachern, Nathan Alexander Moore, Katie Naughton, Summer Brenner, Monica Mody, Kōan Anne Brink, Gregory Betts, Touch the Donkey #30, Jamie Townsend, Conor Mc Donnell, Adam Thomlison, Alyssa Bridgman, James Lindsay, Amish Trivedi, Ava Hofmann, Sandra Moussempès (trans. Eléna Rivera), Edward Smallfield, Valerie Coulton, James Hawes, Anik See, David Dowker, Alexander Joseph, Joseph Mosconi, Brenda Iijima, Al Kratz, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #16, Saeed Tavanaee Marvi (trans. Khashayar Mohammadi), katie o'brien, The Peter F Yacht Club #29, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #15, Dennis Cooley, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #14, rob mclennan and Gary Barwin, Kristjana Gunnars, Baron Rocco Fleetcrest-Seacobs, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #13, Cecilia Tamburri Stuart, Keith Waldrop, Amelia Does, Franco Cortese, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Billy Mavreas, Sarah Burgoyne and Susan Burgoyne, Paul Perry, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #12, Kemeny Babineau, Andrew Cantrell, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #11, Michael e. Casteels + Nick Papaxanthos, Ashley Yang-Thompson + Mikko Harvey, Khashayar Mohammadi, Andrea Rexilius, G UE S T [a journal of guest editors] #10, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #9, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #25, George Stanley, The Peter F. 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Kolewe, Evan Gray, Dale Smith, Virginia Konchan, Joshua James Collis, Laura Farina, Jennifer Stella, Sarah Mangold, bodies and breath: a summer workshop anthology, Cole Swensen, MC Hyland, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #1, Megan Kaminski, Sara Renee Marshall, Mark Laliberte, Lisa Rawn, Sean Braune, Michael Martin Shea, Ian Dreiblatt, Uxío Novoneyra (trans. Erín Moure), Stephen Brockwell, Phil Hall / Stuart Kinmond, natalie hanna, Miguel E. Ortiz Rodríguez, Natalee Caple, Beth Ayer, Jon Boisvert, Jenna Jarvis, Lise Downe, Allison Cardon, Lea Graham, Tim Atkins, Gregory Betts + Arnold McBay, Andrew Wessels, Marthe Reed, The Peter F. Yacht Club #26, Steve McCaffery, Gary Barwin and Tom Prime, Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick, Alice Notley, Rachel Mindell, Eleni Zisimatos, Adrienne Gruber, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Matthew Johnstone, Alyssa Bridgman, Elizabeth Robinson, Eric Schmaltz, Joe Blades, Katy Lederer, Kristina Drake, Adele Graf, Sarah Dowling, nathan dueck, Sarah Cook, Ian Whistle, Faizal Deen, The Peter F. Yacht Club #25, Marilyn Irwin, Lisa Robertson, Jordan Abel, Sarah Fox, Jake Syersak, philip miletic, Geoffrey Young, Carrie Hunter, Sarah Swan, John Barton, Carrie Olivia Adams, Dana Claxton, Michael Turner, Christian Bök, Neil Flowers, Lesley Yalen, Braydon Beaulieu, Bronwen Tate, lary timewell, The Peter F. Yacht Club #24, Yuri Izdryk (trans. Roman Ivashkiv and Erín Moure), rob's fall 2015 poetry workshop participants, Katie L. Price, Roland Prevost, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Hugh Thomas, Nicole Markotić, damian lopes, Jamie Bradley, Jennifer Kronovet, Kate Schapira, Susanne Dyckman, Emily Ursuliak, Eric Baus, Rachel Moritz, Janice Tokar, Sharon Harris, Noah Eli Gordon, Dennis Tourbin, Sarah Rosenthal, Camille Martin, Hailey Higdon, Marcus McCann, Christine McNair and rob mclennan, Rosmarie Waldrop, Wanda O'Connor, Two Dutch Poets: Hélène Gelèns and Erik Lindner, Kaia Sand, Amy Dennis, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Abby Paige, Brecken Hancock, Shannon Maguire, Mark Cochrane, Deborah Poe, Cameron Anstee, Rob Manery, George Elliott Clarke, Jay MillAr, Kathryn MacLeod, Fenn Stewart, j/j hastain, Phil Hall + Andrew Burke, Deanna Young, Barry McKinnon, Michael Blouin + Elizabeth Rainer, Eric Folsom, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Robert Kroetsch and dozens upon dozens of others...
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993,
above/ground press 25th anniversary essays
reviews of our titles!
The Peter F. Yacht Club; occasional writer's group journal + annual Xmas party/reading/regatta!
small press book fairs we love
above/ground press "poem" broadsides
author interviews,
ottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal
Touch the Donkey
a small poetry magazine,
to contact editor/publisher rob mclennan, email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com; or write, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON Canada K1H 7M9
Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 (Chaudiere Books)
Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press)
above/ground press
- archives at the University of Calgary
- Penteract Press interviews above/ground press, May 2021
- the ottawa small press book fair : home edition, August 2020
- rob mclennan on old-school chapbook making, October 2018
- In which I answer some questions on above/ground press for Entropy, as part of their small press feature, December 2016
- "How to keep a small chapbook press alive for twenty-three years (a primer, at Open Book, October 2016
- List of micro-publishers in Canada : Brick Books' Celebreation of Canadian Poetry, December 2015
- "Six Questions For..." rob mclennan on above/ground press, October 2013
- Pearl Pirie's report on the 20th anniversary reading / launch / party, August 2013
- 'I am a child of above/ground," by Marcus McCann, August 2013
- Marthe Reed resonds to Alejandro Butros on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, nous-zot press, August 2013
- On small press publishing and above/ground press in particular by Gary Barwin, serif of nottingblog, August 2013
- Celebrating 20 years of poetry with above/ground press by Alejandro Bustos, Apartment 613, August 2013
- I simply began: above/ground press at 20 [an interview with rob mclennan], Apt. 9 Press, August 2013
- Q & A: 20 Years of above/ground press: an interview with rob mclennan by Alison Lang, Broken Pencil blog, January 2013
- ten questions for rob mclennan on above/ground press by derek beaulieu, March 2011
- above/ground press at nineteen,
- the peter f yacht club (a write-up + bibliography);
- above/ground press: at sixteen
- above/ground press: the angry teen years (fifteen)
- above/ground press: ALBERTA SERIES (2007-8), online pdf chapbooks
- above/ground press: what happens at fourteen
- Alberta dispatch: interviews and writing from Edmonton by rob mclennan
- interview with rob mclennan by Didi Menendez, Men of the World Wide Poetry World
- interview with rob mclennan by Rusty Morrison on writing, reviewing, blogging and above/ground press
- Ottawa X-Press article on small/micro press
editor/publisher rob mclennan's other web stuff
other chapbook publishers
- (m)Other Tongue Press, Saltspring Island BC
- AngelHousePress, Ottawa ON
- Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa ON
- Baseline Press, London ON
- Believe Your Own Press, Toronto ON
- BookThug, Toronto ON
- bywords, Ottawa ON
- Ferno House, Toronto ON
- Friday Circle (University of Ottawa), Ottawa ON
- Frog Hollow Press, Victoria BC
- greenboathouse books, Vernon BC
- Jackpine Press, Saskatoon SK
- Laurel Reed Books, Mt. Pleasant ON
- Leaf Press, Lantzville BC
- Lipstick Press, Gabriola Island BC
- LyricalMyrical, Toronto ON
- Mercutio Press, Montreal QC
- NO PRESS, Calgary AB
- Nomados Literary Publishers, Vancouver BC
- PigeonBike, London ON
- Pooka Press, Vancouver BC
- Proper Tales Press, Toronto ON
- red nettle press, Edmonton AB
- Rubicon Press, Edmonton AB
- Running the Goat, Books & Broadsheets, St. John's NFLD
- Simulacrum Press, Burlington ON
- The Alfred Gustav Press, North Vancouver BC
- The Blasted Tree, Calgary AB
- The Emergency Response Unit, Toronto ON
- Wrinkle Press, Windsor ON