some author activity: Deutch, Tate, fitzpatrick, Hyland + Hogg,

Amanda Deutch has new work up at house journal; Bronwen Tate has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog, as part of National Poetry Month, as does ryan fitzpatrick ; MC Hyland has some new work up at Solstice: a magazine of diverse voices; and Robert Hogg has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at dusie.

new from above/ground press: Tomorrow’s Going to Be Bright, by Jérôme Melançon

Tomorrow’s Going to Be Bright
Jérôme Melançon
$5

Fifty-Three Kilometers

Emptied of the May snow
The branches across the highway
 – those branches still articulated
    without any exposure of cartilage –
Will find their place in this impatient
Thrust upwards of the Shield.
An ornament on its edges perhaps.
In the meantime the path winds,
Mattawa a distant memory: no one
Would even try to turn around. We come
Close to stopping to move one that had
Snapped – one branch that might have held me
And entire families, unlike those bent in a bow,
Ready to shoot back up and bury
Whatever leaves itself within reach.
The lack of agreement in seasons
Hides the reversal in the motives for this trip.
A coming death, spring already verified,
Leaves grabbing on to the snow out of curiosity
A desire to be transformed, exhaustion
Already. I see hares, living in a future
Landscape, foraging for what’s left of this
Forest’s promises in each other’s shade.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Jérôme Melançon writes and teaches and writes and lives in oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina, SK. His most recent poetry collection is En d’sous d’la langue (Prise de parole, 2021). This chapbook is a supplement to that book. He is also the author of a bilingual chapbook with above/ground press, Coup (2020), and of two books of poetry with Éditions des Plaines, De perdre tes pas (2011) and Quelques pas quelque part (2016), as well as one book of philosophy, La politique dans l’adversité (Metispresses, 2018) and a bunch of different attempts at figuring out human coexistence in journals and books nobody reads. He’s on Twitter and Instagram at @lethejerome and sometimes there’s poetry happening on the latter.

This is Melançon’s second above/ground press title, after Coup (2020).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Graf, Mody, Lea, Pirie, Armantrout, Anstee, Dyckman + mclennan (plus Pakdel launch info!

Adele Graf has a poem on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Monica Mody, and N.W. Lea ; Pearl Pirie continues her mini-interviews and write-ups, featuring Rae Armantrout and Cameron Anstee; Susanne Dyckman has new poems online via Conjunctions; rob mclennan has a new poem up for Steven Heighton (1961-2022) ; and Saba Pakdel launches her forthcoming above/ground press title in Vancouver on May 14th!

new from above/ground press: Report from the Robinson Society. Vol. 1 No. 1

Report from the Robinson Society
Vol 1. No. 1
edited by rob mclennan
$7

an assemblage of writing in response
to the work of Elizabeth Robinson

including
poems, critical writings
and
philosophical transactions

with contributions by:
George Albon
Avery Burns
Valerie Coulton
Patricia Dienstfrey
Tiff Dressen
Susanne Dyckman
rob mclennan
Benjamin Niespodziany
Steven Seidenberg
Laura Sims
Edward Smallfield
Ginny Threefoot
Barbara Tomash
Laura Walker
Maw Shein Win

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2022
full list of published reports here
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Report on the Society logo by C. McNair, editor’s devil (retired)

Elizabeth Robinson has two chapbooks with above/ground press--Simplified Holy Passage (2015) and Pattern refuses to repeat itself = is divine (2017)--and edited issue #11 of G U E S T [a journal of guest editors].

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Divination, by Marita Dachsel

Divination
Marita Dachsel
$5

I can see you.

Can you see me?

In the mirror, you don’t see how you really look, you see how you want to look.

No way, you’re saying. You’re saying you know all your faults. You wish you didn’t
have them. You look in the mirror and you see your drooping eye or the weird shaped mole or how your nose is too big or too small or too flat or too pointed. The only person who ever liked her nose was Anne of Green Gables.

But all those faults you see, only you are seeing them. They are yours. You’re projecting. Most people can’t see them at all.

And don’t call them faults.

If I were your auntie, I’d remind you that they are signs of character.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Marita Dachsel is the author of the poetry collections There Are Not Enough Sad Songs, Glossolalia, and All Things Said & Done. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry, and the ReLit Award. Her play Initiation Trilogy was nominated for both a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script and The Critics’ Choice Innovation Award. She has created interactive poetry-based installations for festivals and conferences in Victoria, Edmonton, and Toronto. She lives with her family on Lekwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia where she teaches in UVic’s Writing Department and knits on the sly at any opportunity.

This is Dachsel’s second above/ground press title, after learning to breathe (1996). A third is forthcoming.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Mangold, Smith, Clayton, o'brien, Solomon + O'Reilly,

Sarah Mangold has a new poem up on the Chaudiere blog as part of National Poetry Month (who also has a short write-up she did on her most recent title at the Poetry Society of America site), as does Dale Martin Smith, Conyer Clayton, and katie o'brien; Misha Solomon has a new poem up in the Poetry Pause series via The League of Canadian Poets; and Nathanael O'Reilly has new work in The Elevation Review.

some author activity: Betts, Pakdal, Archer, Pirie, Clayton, hanna, Boyle + mclennan,

Gregory Betts has a new poem up on the Chaudiere Books blog, as part of National Poetry Month, as does forthcoming author Saba Pakdal, and even Sacha Archer; Pearl Pirie has been posting mini-interviews/reviews lately, featuring Conyer Clayton, natalie hanna, Frances Boyle and rob mclennan, among others.