some author activity: Collis, Rogal, Tierney + Boyle,

Stephen Collis is featured in the "Spotlight" series; Stan Rogal has new poems up at talking about strawberries all of the time, as well as an interview; Orchid Tierney is also interviewed there; and Frances Boyle has a new poem up at The Maynard.

some author activity: Campanello, Rosenthal, Spinosa, Clayton + Earl,

Kimberly Campanello is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Sarah Rosenthal has some new work up at Word for/Word; Dani Spinosa is interviewed over at The Maynard; Conyer Clayton is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Amanda Earl has a piece in the "(Not) My Writing Desk" series at Queen Mob's Teahouse.

Jami Macarty reviews Conyer Clayton's TRUST ONLY THE BEASTS IN THE WATER (2019)

Jami Macarty was good enough to provide the first review of Conyer Clayton's TRUST ONLY THE BEASTS IN THE WATER (2019) over on Facebook via The Maynard; thanks so much! And of course she's launching this in Ottawa on Saturday at the big above/ground press 26th anniversary reading/launch/party!

Short-form Shout Out
TRUST ONLY THE BEASTS IN THE WATER. Conyer Clayton
(above/ground press, 2019)
by Jami Macarty, The Maynard Co-founder & Editor

Conyer Clayton’s chapbook of 23 prose poems navigates the central question: “How did we get here?” Whether coming to terms with physical trauma--“the car is there, tipping over the mud in slow motion”--or psychological trauma (related to childhood/family of original) --“My mac-and-cheese is cold. If I complain about it, I’m never allowed to eat it again”--the poems track how the psyche, at the various levels of consciousness, digests trauma and “process[es] what we take in” while alive in a world where “Every moment is an edge we nearly stumble off of.” The primary il/logic moving within the poems is that of dreams, where “We float like apples down dirty streets and... The concept of density has never actually mattered.” There’s grieving levity, there’s intelligent heart in these poems on their road that “winds perpetually upward and eternally downward and hopefully.”

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some author activity: Robinson, Bolster, mclennan, Earl, Barbour + Murphy,

Elizabeth Robinson has some new poems online at Conjunctions; Stephanie Bolster had a new poem up at NewPoetry.ca; both rob mclennan and Amanda Earl have new poems up at The Maynard; and Douglas Barbour and Sheila Murphy are interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.