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Jim Shepard, Master of Miniatures
The year before, Tsuburaya had forced Tanaka to go see his beloved King Kong, which had just earned four times as much in its worldwide re-release as it had originally, and Tanaka had also...
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Episode Five of Ottawa Writes! Talking with rob mclennan about Small Press...
I was recently interviewed for the Ottawa Writes podcast on writing and small press, posted a couple of weeks ago as episode #5. Why not listen?
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jennifer Firestone
Jennifer Firestone is the author of Flashes (Shearsman Books) Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She...
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Today would have been my mother's seventy-fourth birthday,
Here she is on the beach in Cobourg, Ontario with her mother, during the summer of 1956. Mum's youngest sibling, Bob, splashing about behind them.
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happy canada day!
Hoping you are somewhere fun. We are most likely at a brunch with wee babe, before wandering back home.Pam Anderson's birthday today, also. Our Centennial baby. Did you know that?Canada Day! The...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David James Brock
David James Brock is a playwright, poet and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada, the US, and the UK. His first collection of poetry, Everyone is CO2, was...
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Long-Time Talonbooks Owner and Publisher Karl Siegler Made Member of Order of...
!!! Former Talonbooks publisher Karl Siegler, editor/publisher of five of my poetry collections--The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh (1999), harvest, a book of signifiers (2001), what’s left (2004),...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part two)
There was so much small press fair, it couldn’t all fit into the space of a single posting. See my previous post on the spring edition of the ottawa small press book fair here. Do you even recall what...
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some poems new and less-new, newly online;
I recently had a poem posted over at The Nervous Breakdown, part of the unpublished 2012-era manuscript, "household items" (others from the same project appear here and here). Two more recent pieces,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laressa Dickey
Laressa Dickey is a poet, dancer and bodyworker. In 2005, she received an MFA in creative writing, and during those studies she also began training in improvisation and working more particularly with...
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Emily Abendroth, ]EXCLOSURES[
The admonition to “learn our limitations” was everywhere emblazonedas the single most indelible motif that we might need take heed ofshould we indeed wish to succeed in our future doingsI.e. In the...
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rob mclennan answers "Where Do You Write, My Lovely?"
Amish Trivedi has started a new tumblr page, in which he asks writers to answer the question "Where Do You Write, My Lovely?" and was good enough to include my response as the first in the series....
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John Newlove at 76
My piece, "John Newlove at 76," is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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Catriona Strang, Corked
PROLOGUEJust a Little Bit of Bad NewsLax makes a deft passforward – devoured ordevouring – (no animalswere harmed) apparently it all standsfor “how far back canthese traces be?” (none but...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with McElroy, Martin, McCarthy +...
Anticipating next week's release of the second issue of Touch the Donkey (a small poetry journal), why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with first issue...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joanne Arnott
Joanne Arnottis a Métis/mixed-blood writer, born inWinnipeg, Manitoba and based in Coast Salish territories on the West Coast. A publishing and performing poet since the 80s, and a blogger in more...
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The Poetry of Phil Hall, selected with an introduction by rob mclennan...
A few weeks ago, I signed the contract to edit a critical selected by poet Phil Hall, to appear as part of The Laurier Poetry Series published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Exciting, yes? Now,...
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Lisa Jarnot, a princess magic presto spell
My review of Lisa Jarnot's a princess magic presto spell (Solid Objects, 2014) is now online at The Small Press Book Review.
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James Gendron, Sexual Boat (Sex Boats)
SEX BOATMy open hands are innards.The one I hold toward youmasks a whole castlewhose gate/gatehousemakes one evil.It makes our questions perfect.Like a gift, it ruins usgradually from inside.Our true...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with andrea bennett
andrea bennett's debut book of poetry is Canoodlers (Nightwood, 2014), which follows the growth and class leaps of a townie tomboy from Hamilton, Ontario. andrea's writing has been published in...
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