new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #20; VERSeFest special!

The Peter F Yacht Club #20
VERSeFest 2014 special
edited by rob mclennan
[see the link here for information on the previous issue]
[see the links here for information on the 2013 VERSeFest special issue, the 2012 VERSeFest special issue and 2011 VERSeFest special issue]
[see the link here for a history of the publication]
$6

With new writing by a host of Peter F Yacht Club regulars, irregulars and VERSeFest 2014 participants, including Cameron Anstee, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Sarah de Leeuw, Anita Dolman, Amanda Earl, m erskine, JM Francheteau, Marilyn Irwin, Ben Ladouceur, rob mclennan, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost, Monty Reid, Peter Richardson and Vivian Vavassis.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2014
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[a small stack of copies will be distributed free as part of the fourth annual VERSeFest, March 25-30, 2013]

above/ground press 2014 subscriptions still available!

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

"poem" broadsheet #324: FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC, FRIDAY’S QUICK: LINDY ON THE RADIO, by m erskine

Down, rumpus lurcher — ungainly rayon!
Watch, in the wind,
gin, cup of tea,
knit —
location: poker face...
Hungary, come clean;
multiple-halfwit rookie,
necessary ear. 

FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC, FRIDAY’S QUICK:
LINDY ON THE RADIO
by m erskine
above/ground press broadside #324

Produced for a reading in Ottawa as part of The Factory Reading Series.

m erskine is a long-time corrupter of words. The poetry condition is responding well to treatment, thanks for asking. This is her second above/ground press broadsheet.

The Factory Reading Series: Lea, Thomas + Erskine, February 6, 2014

The Factory Reading presents:

a night of readings and chapbook launches

with readings by:

N.W. Lea (Ottawa ON)

Hugh Thomas (Fredericton NB)

+ m erskine (Toronto ON)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan

Thursday, February 6, 2014;

doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm

The Carleton Tavern, Ottawa

223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)

author bios:

N.W. Lea lives and writes in Ottawa. He is the author of two previous chapbooks, light years (above/ground press, 2006) and Actual Girl (The Emergency Response Unit, 2011) as well as the full-length collection, Everything is Movies (Chaudiere Books, 2007).

He will be launching his second above/ground press chapbook Present! (2014).

Hugh Thomas [pictured] is a poet and translator living in Fredericton, where he teaches mathematics at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent chapbook, Opening the Dictionary, published by above/ground press, was shortlisted for the 2012 bpNichol chapbook award. Franzlations, a collection of illustrated Kafka remixes, created with Gary Barwin and Craig Conley, was published by New Star Books in 2011.  

He will be launching his second above/ground press chapbook Albanian Suite (2014).

m erskine is a long-time corrupter of words. The poetry condition is responding well to treatment, thanks for asking.

She also had an above/ground press “poem” broadside reprinted in the anthology Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003).