some author activity: Earl, Irwin, Martin, Betts, beaulieu + mclennan

Cameron Anstee has been on a reviewing-spree lately, recently touching on some of Amanda Earl's latest, including her most recent above/ground press title, and Marilyn Irwin's self-published title; Camille Martin again participates in Third Factory/Notes on Poetry with a 2012 list of recommended reading; Gregory Betts participated in "the next big thing" self-interview; derek beaulieu lists his "most engaging books of 2012" and rob mclennan launches a new book at Ottawa's AB Series on January 29, 2012, alongside Toronto poet Beatrice Hausner.

some author activity: Ladouceur, Anstee, Ball, Pirie, mclennan + The Peter F Yacht Club,

One of Ben Ladcouceur's poems has been nominated by the editors of Prism International for a Pushcart Prize; Cameron Anstee wrote a nice review of some recent chapbooks by above/ground press author and small press legend Nelson Ball; both rob mclennan and Pearl Pirie participated in "the next big thing" blog self-interview, and both read in Ottawa in January as part of the A B Series (Pirie on the 10th, and mclennan on the 29th). And there are still spaces in rob mclennan's upcoming poetry workshops!

And don't forget our annual Peter F Yacht Club Christmas party/reading/regatta on the 29th!

Have you subscribed for the above/ground big 20th anniversary subscriptions? New publications forthcoming from Abby Paige, Jordan Abel and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, among others. Just what might 2013 bring?

Happy Seasonal things! From all of us to all of you, there;

some author activity: mcpherson eckhoff, Weaver, Markotić, Cooley, Reid, Bowering, Hall + mclennan,

kevin mcpherson eckhoff [pictured] was in Ottawa over the weekend, where he launched his new chapbook, and even posed for a number of other pictures; Douglas Barbour has been editing TRUCK over the month of October, and including various above/ground press authors, including Andy Weaver, Nicole Markotić, Dennis Cooley, Monty Reid + George Bowering; Phil Hall is doing a lecture at Queen's in November, as part of a series he's started; and I even have a new poem up at Halvard Johnston's On Barcelona.

new from above/ground press: dissections from their biography, by kevin mcpherson eckhoff

dissections from their biography

kevin mcpherson eckhoff

$4

You are each unique snowflake. Kevin is her mother's son with ten original sauces: spicy, virtues like puppy warmth, saucy and explicity tarnished. He was born in her village of several piqued interests. An ungainly warrant to circumvent the queue or whatever strokes, she identified a new generic strain in her spare time of which we are all the general inheritors. So, she began in a small town and she will live and dye in his small town of Weaverron, b.c. Her biography delisted from fame sites. I smell rubbery goodness in him and a gentle womanly love for all things small and hairy. It's me spring day, men from Anismouth visit when I'm shy. I'll call us together like teeth and dildos on picnic, eat parades of youth, or share old versions of each other's habitual shot records. That's her, shining and young and her. Mostly irreverent yet factually astute. Her massive glands and tiny shouts, little hands and huge hair. We eat to her delight, dear Kevin. I have found you at last, cowering, sheltered in her and apoplectic. The streets awake and look for small towns in which to retire. From inside, an inside delightedly yours. My story filled with vomit yet shiny, slick and parasitic. Missing you? Not now.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

October 2012

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

kevinmcpherson eckhoff will be launching dissections from their biography in Ottawa on October 20, as part of Max Middle’s AB Series, with Jenny Sampirisi at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

kevin mcpherson eckhoff has been called a lot of things: rhapsodomancer, easy-peaser, reversed show gamer, et cetera. most of all, he's a blarney stone. least of all, he's a poet.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

Some author activity: Martin, mclennan, Earl, Armantrout, beaulieu + Robertson,

A new poem from Camille Martin's forthcoming trade book appears online at The Toronto Quarterly as part of Poetry Month 2012; a new poem by rob mclennan's work-in-progress, "How the alphabet was made," appears online at Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca (be sure to check the entire month's worth of poems here), as does a piece by Camille Martin; there's a new interview with Rae Armantrout here, and "CCWWP Pedagogy Interview # 2 with derek beaulieu" is now online as well; see also, Amanda Earl's report on beaulieu's recent AB Series appearances in Ottawa, with Pearl Pirie's photos of same; and Lisa Robertson participates in "A Evening in Conversation with Lisa Robertson" in Toronto on Monday, April 9, 2012.

Some author activity: Amanda Earl and rob mclennan

above/ground press author Amanda Earl has a new poem and a short interview over at Australian online journal, The South Townsville micro poetry journal, as well as some recent "Poetry Talk" posts over at her blog; and Pearl Pirie took a photo of rob mclennan listening to Ron Silliman's reading on March 10, 2012 in Ottawa, and, for some reason, there's a YouTube post of him reading at The TREE Reading Series open mike from June, 2011.