some author activity: fitzpatrick, Kemp, mclennan, Beaulieu, Saklikar, Collis + Manery,

the Calgary Guardian offers "a day in the life" of poet ryan fitzpatrick; Penn Kemp has new work up at Public Reverie; rob mclennan is interviewed at On Creative Writing, and also has some new work up at Public Reverie; Derek Beaulieu once again offers his annual list of Most Engaging Books; and the audio of Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s Vancouver chapbook launch, hosted by Stephen Collis with readings by Stephen Collis, Annie Lafleur (read by Stephen Collis), Rob Manery, Renee Rodin, Marguerite Pigeon, and Renée Sarojini Saklikar at People’s Co-op Bookstore on Dec. 6, 2025, is now online via Rob Manery.

some author activity: Tierney, Skrabalak, Carr, Robinson, Shea + Eleftherion,

Orchid Tierney is the third in the above/ground press author spotlights via the above/ground press substack; Ryan Skrabalak is interviewed alongside Robbie Wing by Miriam Atkin for "Specific Objects," WGXC: Radio for Open Ears; Julie Carr and Elizabeth Robinson have new work in the latest issue of Posit; Michael Martin Shea has some new translations of poems by Augusto Lunel over at Black Sun Lit; and Melissa Eleftherion has new work up Stone Circle Review.

some author activity: Archer, mclennan, Caporaso, Pirie, Niespodziany, Straumsvåg + Ross,

Sacha Archer has posted a new concrete (poetry/fiction) audiobook to bandcamp; rob mclennan's fourteenth annual 'best of' Canadian poetry titles has landed via dusie, and has a new section of "the green notebook" posted at The Typescript; Angela Caporaso's above/ground press title has landed on the Asemic Front 2 Top Ten Vispo Faves of 2024 list; Pearl Pirie offers her "Self-audit and Best of" list of 2024; Benjamin Niespodziany has three new poems up at The Pi Review; Dag T. Straumsvåg has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; and a video of Stuart Ross reading at Carthage College as part of their Visiting Writers Series, Kenosha WI, October 8, 2024 is now online.

some author activity: mclennan, Armantrout, Fagan, drystek, Tate + Schapira,

rob mclennan is interviewed by Megan Nichols as part of the What We Aim To Do podcast; Rae Armantrout has a poem, draft and short write-up at underbelly; Cary Fagan has started doing chapbook reviews again over at his blog; nina jane drystek has a concrete sound poetry recording newly up at the ex-puritan; and Bronwen Tate did a short substack write-up on what Kate Schapira has been working on the past few years.

some author activity: Armantrout, Hyland, mclennan, Jirgens, Hogg, Logan + Anstee,

Rae Armantrout and MC Hyland have new work in Copenhagen Lit; the audio for the interview RC Weslowski and Kevin Spenst did with rob mclennan for Wax Poetic is now online; Karl Jirgens reflects on Robert Hogg in The Typescript; Nate Logan has three poems up at cul-de-sac-of-blood; and Cameron Anstee has a piece on book culling at The Richler Literary Project.

some author activity: mclennan, Boyle, Johnson, Houbolt + Armantrout,

rob mclennan, Frances Boyle and Chris Johnson, along with Sadiqa de Meijer and Katia Grubisic, join Susan Johnston on CKCU to discuss Arc Poetry Magazine #100; forthcoming author Kyla Houbolt has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" via the dusie blog; and Rae Armantrout is part of a round-table conversation, "On Poetry and Complexity: A Conversation at the Interface of Art and Science" at Rungh, alongside Madhur Anand, Roald Hoffman, Sarah Tolmie and Osheen Harruthoonyan.

some author activity: Naughton, O'Reilly, Reid, Spinosa, Tate + Wilkins,

Katie Naughton is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Nathanael O'Reilly reads a poem in the "one minute poems" series via Rancid Idol Productions; Monty Reid is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, as is Dani Spinosa; Bronwen Tate is interviewed (with poems!) over at Etcetera; and both Monty Reid and Grant Wilkins are interviewed over at Pearl Pirie's blog.

some author activity: parizeau, Ball, Rukeyser, mclennan + Burgoyne,

df parizeau has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series via the dusie blog; there is a short write-up on the work of the late Nelson Ball, as well as some poems, up at brief poems; Susan Rukeyser reads her piece "Less a man than a gun" over at YouTube; rob mclennan is interviewed by Colin Dardis over at Fill Your Books!; and Sarah Burgoyne reads work from her new Turret House Press chapbook over at YouTube.

some author activity: Niespodziany, Nilson, Saklikar, Wang + Robertson,

Benjamin Niespodziany is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Geoffrey Nilson has posted to Soundcloud the audio of a reading at the New Westminster Public Library in New Westminster BC on April 9, 2022 by "Five Contemporary BC Poets": Tolu Oloruntoba, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Isabella Wang, Claire Matthews and Kevin Spenst; and Lisa Robertson is interviewed by Louis Klee for the Sydney Review of Books.

some author activity: Archer, Collis, MacEachern, Niespodziany, Mody + The Free Nashville Poetry Library,

[above/ground press items seen in the wild at The Free Nashville Poetry Library; photo by Megan M. Garr] Sacha Archer is interviewed over at Artisanal Writer; Stephen Collis has a new poem up at the scales project; Jessi MacEachern has a new poem (audio and text) up at Vallum magazine; Benjamin Niespodziany has some new work up at Blue Arrangements; and Monica Mody has a poem up in the Tuesday poem series over at the dusie blog.

some author activity: Barwin, Eleftherion, Barbour, Notley + Earl,

Gary Barwin's "Letraset Canon," "A canon for 3 tenor saxophones," is now up at YouTube; Melissa Eleftherion has a poem in the new issue of Lammergeier; The Book Publishers Association of Alberta has announced that they have renamed their "Speculative Fiction Book of the Year" to the "Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction"; abstracts are sought for a roundtable on the work of Alice Notley; and Amanda Earl has new visual work posted at Train : a poetry journal.

some author activity: Ross, Reid, Tate, Archer, Gunnars, Jirgens, Norris + Young,

Stuart Ross is a finalist for the 4th James Tate International Poetry Prize, for his full-length manuscript, "Cringe System"; Monty Reid is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Bronwen Tate now has a newsletter you can sign up for; Sacha Archer has posted "an improvisation by Sacha Archer played on a broken stand-up piano that was found in a large dumpster in the downtown of Peterborough, Ontario c. 2007" via YouTube; and above/ground press authors Ken Norris, Karl Jirgens, Geoffrey Young and Kristjana Gunnars, among others, have new work in the latest issue of mouse eggs.

some author activity: Cortese, mclennan, Vaughan, Cooley, Saklikar + Turnbull

Franco Cortese answers the "12 or 20 questions"; rob mclennan recently posted a poem for the late RM Vaughan; Dennis Cooley has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Renée Sarojini Saklikar has helped launch "Poetry Phone" through the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, providing "Vancouver's first free poetry hotline," and featuring readings by Vancouver poets; and Chris Turnbull has some new work up at The Pi Review.

some author activity: Hamilton, Clayton, Barwin + Campos,

a video of Jane Eaton Hamilton reading for EVENT magazine's (Virtual) Fall Reading Series is now online ; Conyer Clayton has new work up (including audio) as part of the Decameron Writing Series; Gary Barwin has a "disaster fable" over at Watch Your Head; rob mclennan has a new poem from the "snow day" manuscript up at his blog; and Isabel Sobral Campos is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Earl, Cochrane, Maloukis + Carpenter,

Amanda Earl is the October winner of the "Arc Award of Awesomeness" from Arc Poetry Magazine; Mark Cochrane has a new poem up at Canadian Literature; Rose Maloukis has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and J.R. Carpenter posts part of an audio collaboration with Darren Hagen.

Amanda Earl reading from Sessions from the DreamHouse Aria

above/ground press (etcetera) author Amanda Earl reads from her work-in-progress "Sessions from the DreamHouse Aria." Her latest above/ground press title, her seventh so far with the press, is Aftermath or Scenes of a Woman Convalescing (2019).

audio from the peter f yacht club christmas/reading/regatta is now up on soundcloud!

As promised, Craig Carpenter was good enough to post the audio from our most recent Christmas party/reading/regatta over at Soundcloud! Take a wee listen, if you like. And you can see my report from the event here.

some author activity: Archer, Armantrout + Perry,

Sacha Archer has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; there is a short interview with Rae Armantrout in the Herald Net for a reading she's doing tomorrow in Everett, Washington; and Paul Perry reads a poem from his above/ground press chapbook as part of the Irish poetry podcast Words Lightly Spoken.

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.

some author activity: Archer, McFadden, Adams + Flemmer,

Sacha Archer recently posted the audio of his reading of his above/ground press chapbook, upROUTE; there's a very nice article on the late David W. McFadden in the Globe & Mail; Carrie Olivia Adams is interviewed on editing over at the Chicago Review of Books; and Kyle Flemmer has new work up at h&.