some author activity: Niespodziany, Jenks, Flowers, Ross + Kemp,

Benjamin Niespodziany offers "My Favorite Reads of 2025," and includes Tom Jenks' 2025 above/ground press title, Chimneys, which was nice; Neil Flowers has new work up at Public Reverie; Stuart Ross offers his New Year's Poem over at his blog; and Jennifer Wenn writes on a Penn Kemp title, forty years after it first appeared, at The Seaboard Review.

Noah Berlatsky includes Jason Heroux and Dag T. Straumsvag's A Further Introduction to Bingo (2024) as part of his "Best Books of 2025" list,

American poet, critic and above/ground press author Noah Berlatsky was good enough to include Jason Heroux and Dag T. Straumsvag's collaborative chapbook A Further Introduction to Bingo (2024) as part of his "Best Books of 2025" list. Thanks so much! You can catch his full list here. As he writes:

Jason Heroux & Dag T. Straumsvag
A Further Introduction to Bingo

Jason Heroux and Dag T. Straumsvag’s above/ground chapbook is a collection of apparently randomly numbered, semi-surreal, semi-elegaic prose poems/vignettes about a bingo parlor, a mathematician, and some numbers seeking meaning, or maybe just sequence. As in Lewis Caroll, it’s not just reality but logic itself that breaks down as our sort of heroes, sort of abstractions wander from elevator to parking lot to funeral parlor asking questions like, “Did numbers have parents?” and “Why can’t your letter be delivered?” Russel Edson and James Tate are maybe touchstones, but Heroux and Straumsvag attain a loopy, giggling sense of missed prizes that is all their own. Heroux’s 2nd above/ground chapbook of the year, My Life As a Notebook, is almost as wonderful.

some author activity: Banks, Shirley, Unrau, Betts, Barwin + Carpenter,

Chris Banks offers his "best Canadian poetry books of 2025" list, via The Woodlot; Vik Shirley has a new poem up at Burning House Press; Melanie Dennis Unrau is included in the Canadian Poets Series via Peripety and/or Tronies; Gary Barwin, Gregory Betts and Lillian Allen are interviewed on their Muttertongue collaborative projects by Hollay Ghadery for the New Books Network podcast; and J.R. Carpenter has two poems online at The Manchester Review.

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: 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: drystek, Eleftherion, Niespodziany + Reid,

nina jane drystek has new work up at The Hellebore; Melissa Eleftherion has new work up at Hot Pink Magazine; Benjamin Niespodziany lists his "30 favorite authors (and their books) that I read in 2023"; and Monty Reid has work in the new issue of Pinhole Poetry.

some author activity: Swensen, Ross, O'Reilly + mclennan,

Cole Swensen has some new work up at Harvard Review Online; Stuart Ross offers his annual New Year's poem over at his blog, and is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Nathanael O'Reilly is included in the Spotlight series; rob mclennan has a new poem up at his blog, and offers his 'best of' list of 2022 Canadian poetry books.

some author activity: Niespodziany, Beaulieu, mclennan, Boyle, Pirie + Patton,

Benjamin Niespodziany listed his favorite authors and their books that he read in 2021; Derek Beaulieu offers his list of most engaging books of 2021; and rob mclennan offers his best of list of 2021 Canadian poetry titles via dusie, as well as a new poem up at the clever blog; Frances Boyle has two new poems up at Blackbird; Pearl Pirie has some new work up at Red Alder Review; and forthcoming author Christopher Patton has new work up at where is the river.

some author activity: Adams, Desbarats, mclennan + hanna,

Carrie Olivia Adams is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Michelle Desbarats is interviewed over at the Who Cares if You Listen? podcast; rob mclennan has a new poem up at his blog, and offers his tenth annual 'best of Canadian poetry books' list via dusie; and natalie hanna is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Beaulieu, fitzpatrick, Quartermain, Perry + Armantrout

; Derek Beaulieu once again offers his annual "Most Engaging Books" list; ryan fitzpatrick was recently interviewed on Jonathan Ball's podcast; Meredith Quartermain is interviewed by The Malahat Review; Paul Perry's 'best of 2020' poetry list is now up at The Independent; he also now has a "poetry clip" included online as part of the archive of John Hewitt Society Contributors; and Rae Armantrout has some new work up at The Brooklyn Rail.

some author activity: dueck, hastain, mclennan, Radmore + Manery,

nathan dueck has some new work in where is the river; j/j hastain and Juliet Cook have some collaborative work online via The Operating System; rob mclennan and forthcoming author Claudia Coutu Radmore participate in Vallum magazine's 2018 year in review; and Rob Manery is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: mclennan, Earl, Young, Smith + Higdon,

rob mclennan has some poems up in Volume 1 of Theta Wave; Amanda Earl (among others) participates in the Queen Mob's Review of 2018, over at Queen Mob's Teahouse; Geoffrey Young, Jessica Smith and others have work in the anthology The Emerald Tablet; and Hailey Higdon provides her own list of 2018 Recommended Reading for Bloof Books.

some author activity: Robinson, Schmaltz, Siklosi, Dolman, Earl, mclennan + Beaulieu,

Elizabeth Robinson is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews, as is Eric Schmaltz; Kate Siklosi, Anita Dolman and others have new work in issue #11 of Amanda Earl's experiment-o: and both rob mclennan and Derek Beaulieu write up their 'best of 2018' book lists.

Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s 2018 recommended reading : MC Hyland's Plane Fly at Night (2018)

American poet Elizabeth Clark Wessel includes MC Hyland's Plane Fly at Night (2018) as part of her chapbook-fueled 2018 recommended reading list over at Bloof Books. Thanks so much! And of course, copies are still very much available.

Pearl Pirie's Best Reads of 2018 so far: Marshall, hanna + Ross,

Ottawa poet, editor, publisher, critic and blogger (and above/ground press author) Pearl Pirie was good enough to include three above/ground press titles in her extensive "Best Reads of 2018 so far" list. Thanks so much! She included Sara Renee Marshall's The Landscapes were in my arms (figure 2) (2018), natalie hanna's Concealed Weapons/Animal Survivors (2018) and Stuart Ross' Espesantes (2018). You can read the full list of her "Best Reads of 2018 so far" here. And did I mention that all three titles are still available? Hooray!

Ian Dreiblatt's how to hide by showing in the age of being alone with the universe listed as one of Kenyon Review’s Holiday Reading Recommendations

Two lists in two days! Kirsten Reach, Fiction Editor at the Kenyon Review offers Ian Dreiblatt's how to hide by showing in the age of being alone with the universe (2018) as one of Kenyon Review’s Holiday Reading Recommendations, calling it "a delight." We totally agree. Thanks so much!

Kirby at knife | fork | book offers Travis Sharp's Sinister Queer Agenda as a top 2018 pick!

As a response to the Globe & Mail leaving poetry off their "Top 100 Books" list for the third year in a row (a third year at least), Kirby at Toronto's legendary poetry-only bookstore, knife | fork | book. has written up his own list of "Top 2018 Picks!" He lists a wealth of materials, from full-length collections to chapbooks, and was good enough to include above/ground press' Sinister Queer Agenda (2018) by Travis Sharp! Huzzah! Thanks for this, Kirby! We totally agree.

some author activity: Waldrop, Earl, mclennan, Ladouceur + Tucker,

Rosmarie Waldrop is interviewed on Burning Deck, and closing down the press after nearly six decades; Amanda Earl posts a lovely obituary for her mother; rob mclennan has a new poem up at Abstract, and posts his 'best of 2017' Canadian poetry books over at dusie; Ben Ladouceur has a new column up at Open Book; and Aaron Tucker is interviewed over at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog.

some author activity: Mangold, Ladouceur, beaulieu, Graham + Betts,

Sarah Mangold is featured over at Drunken Boat; Ben Ladouceur has some new work up at The Rusty Toque; derek beaulieu posts his "Most Engaging Books of 2016" list; Lea Graham is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Gregory Betts has a new poem up at h&.

some author activity: Earl, mclennan, Trivedi + Pirie,

Amanda Earl has a new poem up at The Kitchen Poet; rob mclennan's 'best of' 2015 Canadian poetry titles is now online at the dusie blog, and he also has a new poem posted as part of Paul Vermeersch's "Sunrise with Sea Monsters"; Amish Trivedi is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Pearl Pirie has a new poem up at the Flat Singles Press blog.