Ryan Pratt's Favourite Poetry of 2015 : Jason Christie

Ryan Pratt has posted his "Favourite Poetry of 2015" list, and was good enough to include Jason Christie's fourth above/ground press chapbook, The Charm (2015), as part of his ten-title list of books and chapbooks. Thanks so much! And of course, copies of Christie's title, as well as his prior two (here and here) are very much still available.

the peter f yacht club regatta, 2015

Another year has come and nearly gone, which means we've held our annual Peter F. Yacht Club Christmas party/reading/regatta at Parkdale Market's Carleton Tavern (I seem to have reported on the event from two years ago, but not last year's, for some reason). Pearl Pirie was also good enough to post her own report as well.

Last night was a half-packed house with readings by PFYC regulars Cameron Anstee, Amanda Earl, Marilyn Irwin, Chris Johnson, Ben Ladouceur (pictured, above), Karen Massey, myself, Roland Prevost, Monty Reid (pictured, below), Peter Richardson and Janice Tokar. After an exhausting non-stop four days of Christmas travel and social, six-months-pregnant Christine McNair was exhausted, and sent her regrets, as did more than a couple of others, including at least one unable to appear for the sake of snowstorm concerns.

There were readings, books, chapbooks, cookies and cupcakes, all part of our casual mid-holiday holiday gathering. And drinks. And a few loaves of banana and zucchini bread floating around the room as well. Oh, and festive merriment. Yes, yes.
 

And: even though you missed the event, you can still pick up a copy of the new issue, here. Otherwise, the next events through The Factory Reading Series have yet to be scheduled, but there are already plans afoot for the launch of the next issue of ottawater, and readings by a variety of writers, including Gary Barwin and Julie Morrissy, as well as appearances by Anne Boyer and Ben Ladouceur as part of our slot at this year's VERSeFest; keep an eye out here for details, or keep checking Bywords.ca (obviously). And you know about the above/ground press 2016 subscriptions?

some author activity: beaulieu, McCann, Maguire + Armantrout,

derek beaulieu offers his list of "Most Engaging Books of 2015"; Marcus McCann has a new poem up at The Steel Chisel; Shannon Maguire is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and "A Quick Interview With Rae Armantrout" by Corey Zeller now lives online at The Ampersand Review.

new from above/ground press: The Peter F. Yacht Club #23

The Peter F. Yacht Club #23
produced for The Peter F. Yacht Club regatta/reading/christmas party, December 28, 2015!
edited by rob mclennan
[see the link here for information on the previous issue]
[see the link here for a recent profile on The Peter F. Yacht Club]
[see the link here for a history of the publication]
$6

With new writing [and artwork!] by a host of The Peter F. Yacht Club regulars and irregulars, including Cameron Anstee, Jason Christie, Anita Dolman, Amanda Earl, Claire Farley, Marilyn Irwin, Chris Johnson, Ben Ladouceur, N.W. Lea, Karen Massey, Gil McElroy, rob mclennan, James K. Moran, Dylan Moran-Dolman, Peter Norman, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost, Monty Reid, Peter Richardson, Janice Tokar and Chris Turnbull.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2015
a/g subscribers [2016 subscriptions still available!] receive a complimentary copy

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

Ryan Pratt reviews Roland Prevost's Culls (2015)

Our pal Ryan Pratt was good enough to review Roland Prevost's Culls (2015) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter. Thanks, Ryan! This is actually the second review of Prevost's Culls, after Pearl Pirie reviewed such here. You can see Pratt's full review here.

Amanda Earl : A Celebration of Canadian Visual / Concrete Poetry : Brick Books

Amanda Earl's expansive two-part post, A Celebration of Canadian Visual / Concrete Poetry, is now online [see part one here and part two here] as part of Brick Books' ongoing Celebration of Canadian Poetry. As part of her post, she features statements and work by an array of above/ground press authors (and not-yet-authors), including: Chris Turnbull, Jordan Abel, Gary Barwin, Derek Beaulieu, Michael e. Casteels, Judith Copithorne, Helen Hajnoczky, Donato Mancini, Billy Mavreas, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, gustave morin, michèle provost, a rawlings, Shane Rhodes, Eric Schmaltz [above: his “Desire — an extract from The Assembly Line Babel”] and Eric Zboya.

some author activity: Earl, beaulieu, Barwin, Anstee + Smith,

Amanda Earl collaborates with Ikenna Onyegbula; derek beaulieu does a short write-up on a poem by bill bissett as part of the "Singular Encounters : : First Encounters" series over at Coldfront; Gary Barwin has a new poem posted up at h&; Bardia Sinaee wrote an essay on the work of Cameron Anstee for The Town Crier; and Pete Smith has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog.