new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #21!

The Peter F Yacht Club #21
edited by rob mclennan
[see the link here for information on the previous issue]
[see the link here for a history of the publication]
$6

With new writing by a host of Peter F Yacht Club regulars and irregulars alike, including Cameron Anstee, Steve Artelle, Jason Christie, Anita Dolman, Amanda Earl and Tom Walmsley, Laurie Fuhr, Marilyn Irwin, Chris Johnson, Michael Lithgow, Karen Massey, rob mclennan, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost and Sandra Ridley.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2014
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[launching tonight at the peter f yacht club annual regatta/reading/christmas party!]

above/ground press 2015 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

2014 ReLit Shortlists : eckhoff, Rogal + Brockwell,

Congratulations to the three above/ground press authors, along with all else, who made it onto the 2014 ReLit Awards Shortlist: kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Forge, Invisible), Stan Rogal (Love's Not the Way to, BookLand) and Stephen Brockwell (Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books, Mansfield).

some author activity: Earl, Pirie, Prevost, McCann, Lea, McNair, Bolster + Gordon,

Amanda Earl writes about some of the successes of the members of her former writing group -- Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost, Marcus McCann, Nicholas Lea, Christine McNair and Sandra Ridley -- over at her enormously clever blog; Cosmonauts has added, as their podcast #2, Stephanie Bolster discussing poetry and literature; Pearl Pirie has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; and Noah Eli Gordon has a new poem up at ink node.

happy seasonal, christmas, holidays, etc;

Cameron Anstee's 2014 Poetry Chapbook Round-up: Baker, Schmaltz, Pirie + Tokar,

Ottawa poet, publisher and blogger (and above/ground press author) Cameron Anstee was good enough to mention Jennifer Baker's Abject Lessons, Eric Schmaltz' Mitsumi Elec. Co. Ltd.: keyboard poems, Pearl Pirie's today's woods and Janice Tokar's Arrhythmia as part of his 2014 poetry chapbook round-up. Thanks much!

You can see his original post here, with far more titles than the ones excised.

Jennifer Baker. Abject Lessons (above/ground press). Debut chapbook! Smart, funny, thoughtful, steeped in Ontario (literary) history. Jennifer Baker is growing as a poet and you’ll want to have this earliest one on your shelf in another few years time.

Eric Schmaltz. Mitsumi Elec. Co. Ltd.: keyboard poems (above/ground press). Visual/concrete poems build “using a disassembled keyboard, black paint, black ink, and white cardstock.” Engaging visual work taking apart and reconstituting the mechanical means of production. Possibility and order (possibility of order?) set against decay, imprecision, and disorder.

Pearl Pirie. today’s woods (above/ground press). A hugely entertaining re-telling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears that thinks through the implications of each decision in the story, and what the conditions of their home says about their family dynamic.

Janice Tokar. Arrhythmia (above/ground press). Tokar’s first chapbook (I believe). A meditative lyric sequence in 12 parts. I was glad to encounter Tokar’s work for the first time this year, and look forward to seeing where it goes in the future.

Jim McCrary recommends: Megan Kaminski's Wintering Prairie and Touch the Donkey

Jim McCrary recommends a short list of small press publications over at Galatea Resurrects #23 (A Poetry Engagement) including Megan Kaminski's chapbook Wintering Prairie (2014) and the small poetry journal Touch the Donkey. Thanks much, Jim! See his original list here.

some author activity: Robertson, Smith, hastain, Reed + Armantrout,

Lisa Roberton's "Essay on Origins" is included in the new issue of The Rusty Toque; Jessica Smith has a new poem up at Open Letters Monthly; j/j hastain has new work in issue #8 of summer stock; Megan Burns interviews Marthe Reed over at The Conversant; and Rae Armantrout has four new poems up at Jacket2.