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Tanya Holtland, Requisite
Three winters ago I was commissioned to write a libretto addressing the emerging topic of spiritual ecology. Although at the time I hadn’t heard the term before, it felt fitting, evocative, and wholly...
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Junie Désil, eat salt | gaze at the ocean
My review of Junie Désil's full-length debut, eat salt | gaze at the ocean (Talonbooks, 2020), is now up at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jeremy Colangelo
Jeremy Colangelo is the author of Beneath the Statue(Now or Never 2020), a collection of short stories, and has published fiction and poetry in such magazines as EVENT, Carousel, The Puritan, and The...
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Ongoing notes: early October 2020: Claire Farley and Natalie Hanna
Have you seen all the items above/ground press has been making lately? I mean, if you were going to subscribe, I think this would be the time. And who doesn’t love receiving mail? Especially during...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Catherine Parayre on The Small Walker...
The Small Walker Presspublishes collaborative work that brings together authors and artists from Canada and elsewhere. Predicated on interdisciplinary cooperation and the exploration of image and text,...
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Samuel Amadon, LISTENER
FABULOUS CORRIDORSWill I write to myself? I’m asleep in the library, a crackOf tiny columns opens in my face, lets me read it. I circle Around like a boy on his bicycle after dinner. If I don’t Have...
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Colin Browne, Here
is it not unfolding as we imagined, are these notthe brass mackerels we welcomed home, is thatseven-headed god not the yellow boxwe yelled for, is this not the street of the lost handshakebetween...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rebecca Fishow
Rebecca Fishow is the winner of the Holland Prize, and author of the forthcoming story collection, The Trouble With Language (Trnsfr Books). Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, Tin House, Joyland,...
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Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence
Yes. The shifting, after the return of the tide, and my own. A question rushes out of the stillness, and then advances an inch at a time: has this day ever been before, or has it risen from the...
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Spotlight series #54 : Chris Banks
The fifty-fourth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Waterloo, Ontario poet Chris Banks.The first...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Deborah-Anne Tunney
Deborah-Anne Tunney is a poet, short story writer and novelist who was born in Ottawa. Her linked short story collection, The View from the Lane was published in 2014 by Enfield and Wizenty, who also...
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P-QUEUE 17 : Movement
today the newsstays won’t you? I have been possible once and for all I who can’t fight feel it even name itanymore that’s how it has to feelor I have thought soI have thought...
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ottawater #16.0 [the final issue]: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal
Ottawa’s annual pdf poetry journaledited by rob mclennanIt might be ten months late (oh, what a year), but the sixteenth and FINAL ISSUE of ottawater is now online, featuring new writing by a plethora...
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Pearl Pirie, footlights
plumbingthe guest cabin’s dimensionsare those of Thoreau’s, the boardsand logs, rough hewn. there is a sink with a tubeto a bucket, plastic keg of waterwhich forms a modern luck of birth. spring...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Norm Boucher
Norm Boucher’smemoir Horseplay is due to be released in November 2020 and is an account of his time spent as an RCMP undercover officer working with heroin addicts on Vancouver’s Granville Strip. He...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
One element I’ve appreciated is how well our two young ladies play together, making up games and stories and songs. We knew of this prior, but our appreciation deepens. Once we wrestle them off the...
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RM Vaughan (1965-2020)
I don’t know what to do with this. Nearly two weeks after he had been reported missing in Fredericton, Canadian poet, writer, critic and artist RM (Richard Murray) Vaughan was found dead on Friday. At...
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above/ground press: 2021 subscriptions now available!
TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS! The race to the half-century continues! And with more than ONE THOUSAND TITLES produced to date through above/ground press, there’s been a ton of press activity over the past year,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jaime Fountaine
Jaime Fountaine was raised by “wolves.” She is the author of Manhunt (Mason Jar Press, 2019). She lives in Philadelphia1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most recent work...
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Heather Sweeney, Dear Marshall, Language Is Our Only Wilderness
Interlude: I am not on the syllabus. I am not from the hills or the vast ocean. I am peeling birch. I had gymnastics lessons. For a time. I was not hungry. The sun paraded for three months. I cannot...
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