some author activity: Barkman, Pirie, Prime + Christakos,

Carla Barkman (the poet formerly known as Carla Milo) is currently being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Pearl Pirie is interviewed by Bill Arnott; Tom Prime is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Margaret Christakos has some new work up at Canthius.

some author activity: Barwin, Kratz, mclennan, Prime + Hofmann,

husband and wife Gary Barwin and Beth Bromberg are featured in the Toronto Star; Al Kratz is zoom-interviewed by Constance Malloy as part of her "In Conversation" series; rob mclennan has a new poem up at his blog; Tom Prime has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series; and Ava Hofmann has some new work posted at Sulfur.

some author activity: mclennan, Prime, Robinson, Caple + Trivedi,

rob mclennan has a new poem in the 'poetry pause' series via The League of Canadian Poets; Tom Prime has an essay celebrating forty years of Proper Tales Press; Ben Robinson is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; R.M. Vaughan interviewed Natalee Caple for This magazine; and Amish Trivedi has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

Amanda Earl reviews six 2018 titles: Adrienne Gruber's Gestational Trail, Gary Barwin and Tom Prime's gravitynipplemilk, Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick's Pleasure Bristles, Alice Notley's UNDO, Sean Braune's The Cosmos and kate siklosi's po po poems

For the second year in a row, the esteemed and muchly generous poet, editor, publisher and reviewer (and above/ground press author) Amanda Earl reviews her favourite above/ground press titles of the past year (see her 2017 lists here, here and here), providing a first review of Adrienne Gruber's Gestational Trail, a first review of Gary Barwin and Tom Prime's gravitynipplemilk, a first review of Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick's Pleasure Bristles, a first review of Alice Notley's UNDO, a third review of Sean Braune's The Cosmos (after Greg Bem reviewed such at Goodreads and Esther Chen reviewed such at PRISM International) and a first review of kate siklosi's po po poems. Thanks so much! You can see Amanda's full review here.

new from above/ground press: gravitynipplemilk anthroposcenesters, by Gary Barwin and Tom Prime

gravitynipplemilk
anthroposcenesters
by Gary Barwin and Tom Prime
$5

The Dinosaur-Boned Ate Lump-Light

if clouds are made of dinosaur
bones, how do you hug them?
the dinosaur-boned
eat volcano lumplight. They are
prickled heat-lakes, but they care

when I jumped off the windmill
I fell like a clam falls from the mouth

I like centrally heated air, it smells
of dinosaur bones. It is made of dinosaur
bones

like suicide and clouds, hot-dogs have
bits of ground-up bone in them

he was a vapid
reality tv housewife-Christ. My infant
father, whom I was legally responsible for,
elocuted
the glandless cities of Godspeak
Christstethoscopes to the starfish inverted

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Tom Prime is a student in the MFA program in Fine Arts at the University of Victoria (Specializing in Poetry). He writes poetry, prose, and music. His first chapbook, A Strange Hospital, was published by Proper Tales Press last year. His poems have also been published in Carousel, Ditch, Fjords Review, The Northern Testicle, The Rusty Toque, The Week Shall Inherit the Verse, and Vallum. http://tomprime24.wixsite.com/tomprime

Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist and the author of 21 books. His bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and the Hamilton Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award. His latest book is No TV for Woodpeckers. His latest chapbooks are Broken Light (Penteract Press, 2017) and Quantum Typography (Timglaset Editions, 2018.) He is currently Writer in Residence at McMaster University and the Hamilton Public Library. garybarwin.com

This is Barwins’s fourth above/ground press chapbook, after “SYNONYMS FOR FISH,” STANZAS #26 (March, 2001), Seedpod, Microfiche (2013) and the collaborative PLEASURE BRISTLES (with Alice Burdick; 2018).

[Gary Barwin appears in Ottawa at the 8th annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival on March 24, 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

some author activity: mclennan, Prime, Siklosi, Spinosa + Archer,

rob mclennan has two excerpts of a work-in-progress, "snow day," here and here and here on his blog; upcoming author Tom Prime has work up at Stuart Ross' The Week Shall Inherit the Verse; forthcoming authors Kate Siklosi and Dani Spinosa talk of 'how to start your own small press, from people who are still learning' as a guest-post over at the hook&eye blog; and Sacha Archer has a new visual piece up at Uut Poetry.