some author activity: Paige, Morton, Beaulieu, Ross, Dennis + Earl,

Abby Paige participates in the "Six Questions" interview series over at Chaudiere Books; Colin Morton responds to same; Derek Beaulieu has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Stuart Ross interviews Michael Dennis; and Amanda Earl has a photo essay at Watch Your Head.

new from above/ground press: Nurse Sing Home, by Kemeny Babineau

Nurse Sing Home
Kemeny Babineau
$5

Park Race: The Manual


Long term transmission enabler
Executive and non-sterile
Single use mucous mask
Wet around the neck
Pocket tuberculosis sputum
Use acceptable excretions
Hierarchy accommodation facility
Toilet washing organism metre
Commode label accountability
Soiled bedpan membrane
Diseased visitor’s mission
Because it’s varicella zoster time
Cover immense measle well
Scabies drainage activity
Desquamation control colony
Outbreak bathing bell breather
General roar locally updated

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2020
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Kemeny Babineau lives in Stratford with his partner. He works at a restaurant and operates Laurel Reed Books a sometime publisher as well as purveyor of sundry literary items. Previous publications include work from above/ground press, Angel House Press and Book*hug (nee BookThug).

This is Babineau’s fourth above/ground press chapbook after AFTER PROGRESS (2012), The Blackburn Files (2014) and Rain Play (2019).

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

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).

some author activity: Trivedi, Folsom, Hofmann, Boyle + Solomon,

Amish Trivedi writes on Mark Novak's Social Poetics for The Iowa Review blog; Eric Folsom has a new poem up at the Kingston Public Library website; part two of a manifesto by forthcoming author Ava Hofmann is now online at the Action Books blog; Frances Boyle has a new poem up at Artis Natura; and Misha Solomon has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series.

some author activity: Boyle, Clayton, Tracy + Gray,

Frances Boyle has three poems up at Cypress: A Poetry Journal; Conyer Clayton has an essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Dale Tracy is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; and Marty Cain mentions Evan Gray's above/ground press title Body Birth (2019) as part of a blog post for Action Books (a title which is totally still available, by the way).

some author activity: Perry, Pirie, Ross, La Rocque, mclennan, Burdick, Dennis + Hogg,

Paul Perry has a new essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Pearl Pirie writes on her writing space for The New Quarterly; Jenya Stashkov asked Stuart Ross to gather poems by fifteen Canadian poets to translate those poems into Russian, and to create a drawing inspired by them, which are now online, including translated poems by Lance La Rocque, rob mclennan, Alice Burdick, Michael Dennis, Robert Hogg and Ross himself; Robert Hogg has two further poems posted as part of the "Robert Kroetsch 2020" up at The Typescript; and Lance La Rocque is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews.

J.R. Carpenter is UAlberta's 2020-21 Writer-in-Residence

University of Alberta's EFS Writer-in-Residence Committee has announced that J. R. Carpenter will be their 2020-21 Writer-in-Residence. Congratulations, J.R.! It is a very good gig (I can say that with experience, as you most likely know). And of course, copies of her above/ground press chapbook, A General History of the Air (March 2020), are totally still available.