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Zane Koss, Harbour Grids
From Canadian poet and critic Zane Koss, following a small array of chapbooks, including two with above/ground press, comes the full-length debut, Harbour Grids (Picton ON: Invisible Publishing,...
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Sara Lefsyk, We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds
I TOLD THIS SMALL MAN: if I had a mule, a parachute and long, flowing locks, I would jump out of this plane, put you in my shopping cart and push you to Brazil where we would change our names, cut...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mary Fairhurst Breen
Mary Fairhurst Breen grew up in the suburbs of Toronto and raised her kids in an artsy, slightly gritty part of the city. A translator by training, she spent thirty years in the not-for-profit sector,...
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Rodrigo Toscano, The Charm & The Dread
CodingThe Pandemic is no longer an external event, ratherit is an interiority in search of an externality. The George Floyd protests are no longer an externality,they are an internality seeking an...
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new from above/ground press: G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #21 :...
NOW AVAILABLE: G U E S T #21produced also as CASTLE GRAYSKULL 1.5directed by Skeletoredited by Micah Ballard and Garrett Caplessee here for Micah Ballard and Garrett Caples’ introduction and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Charlie Petch
Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host,...
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R. Kolewe, The Absence of Zero
My review of Toronto poet R. Kolewe's third full-length poetry title, The Absence of Zero (Toronto ON: Book*hug Press, 2021), recently appeared online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
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CAConrad, Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibrations
My review of CAConrad's Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibrations (Wave Books, 2021), recently appeared online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Holly Lyn Walrath
Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer, editor, and publisher. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. She is the author of several...
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Lee Suksi, The Nerves
SLOOWe have something called closet time, slung in the absolute darkness over piles of fragrant old laundry with bottles of experiments lining the walls, bubbling inside. Let me be clear: it could...
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Atsuro Riley, Heard-Hoard
[ bunkhouse ] Most nights the boy they called Tynansuppered us with scrapple from a can. Or some black-eyeshe’d’ve road-begged; a quarter-peck of...
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Brian Fawcett (May 13, 1944-February 27, 2022)
Sad news out of Toronto, hearing that Brian Fawcett died this past Sunday night after an extended illness. Strange to think I’ve known him some twenty years, as one of our early in-person encounters...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shashi Bhat
Shashi Bhat is the author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth (McClelland & Stewart, Canada, Fall 2021; Grand Central Publishing, US, Spring 2022) and a short story collection also forthcoming...
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new from above/ground press: twenty-three new/recent (December 2021-March...
; 3¢ Pulp, by Lillian Nećakov $5 ; Report from the (Stuart) Ross Society Vol 1. No. 1 edited by rob mclennan, $7 ; Report from the (Amanda) Earl Society Vol 1. No. 1 edited by rob mclennan, $7 ; THE...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Oscar Oswald
Oscar Oswald is the author of IRREDENTA, an Editor’s Choice manuscript to be published by Nightboat Books in 2021. The collection engages the pastoral tradition from the American context of Thoreau,...
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Daniel Sarah Karasik, Plenitude: Poems
messianic timeimagine there were no oppression to shape our identities. instead:limitless forms of descriptive difference not essentialized andpoliticized by violence. if we were to say I in such a...
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Touch the Donkey : eighth anniversary sale,
To celebrate the eighth anniversary of the quarterly Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] this April: anyone who subscribes (or resubscribes) anytime between now and the end of April 2022 has the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sydney Hegele
Sydney Hegele(formally Sydney Warner Brooman) lives in Toronto, Canada with their fiancé and French bulldog. They are the author of the short fiction collection The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021),...
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Jason B. Crawford, Year of the Unicorn Kidz
Some debts can only be paid with the body. And in jason b crawford’s rebellious and desirous debut, a life is the cost of an errant belonging. Crawford shows that to exist outside of the paradigms of a...
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Stuart Ross, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
When I worked with Dave McFadden on his volume of selected poems, Why Are You So Sad?, I thought we would reproduce the poems exactly as they had been originally published, and in chronological...
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