new from above/ground press : May-August 2021 : twenty-four new titles,

I clearly need to be posting these updates more often: G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #18 : edited by Melissa Eleftherion : with new work by Caroline Goodwin, Nancy Chen Long, Elise Ficarra, Brenda Iijima, Florencia Milito, Saba Syed Razvi, Aileen Cassinetto, Zoe Tuck and Kim Shuck $8 ; Listening Through the Body: An Exercise in Sustained Coordination, by Valerie Witte $5 ; From Each Forthcoming, by Robert Hogg $5 ; the girl arrived, by Ken Sparling $5 ; Television Poems, by Jessi MacEachern $5 ; small colossus, by Nathan Alexander Moore $5 ; Study, by Katie Naughton $5 ; Do You Ever Think of Me?, by Summer Brenner $5 ; Ordinary Annals, by Monica Mody $5 ; The End of Lake Superior, by Kōan Anne Brink $5 ; TWETWE, an alt-text pandemoir, by Gregory Betts $5 ; HAWAIIAN SUNRISE, by Ken Norris $5 ; Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #30 : with new poems by Dana Teen Lomax, Amanda Auerbach, Jay Millar, Cat Tyc, IAN MARTIN, Paige Carabello, Emma Tilley and Jack Jung $8 ; Boing, Extinction VS Wow! Signal, Michael Sikkema $5 ; SOME OF THE PUZZLES, by M.A.C. Farrant $5 ; G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #17, edited by Melanie Dennis Unrau : with new work by Yvonne Blomer, Kiran Malik-Khan, Peter Christensen, K.B. Thors, Nicholas Molbert, Rina Garcia Chua, Tawahum Bige, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, David Martin, Ross Belot, Bola Opaleke, Adam Dickinson, Lindsay Bird, Kelly Shepherd, Maya Weeks,Lisa Mulrooney, Rita Wong $6 ; WORM     HOLES, After Cao Fei’s La Town, by Jamie Townsend $5 ; In the Museum, by Conor Mc Donnell $5 ; Kid Commitment Proves Them Wrong, by Adam Thomlison $5 ; Retrofit Me, by Alyssa Bridgman $5 ; Labour Day, by James Lindsay $5 ; SOME OTHER DAYS AND NIGHTS, by David Miller $5 ; The Breakers (Expanded), by Amish Trivedi $5 ; and you saw the post listing all the titles from the first part of 2021, yes?

keep an eye on the above/ground press blog for author interviews, new writing, reviews, upcoming readings and tons of other material;

the above/ground press prose/naut series is coming along nicely, and I'm sure you've kept up with G U E S T [a journal of guest editors], Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] and periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, yes?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May-August 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy of each

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button (above). Scroll down here to see various backlist titles, or click on any of the extensive list of names on the sidebar (many, many things are still in print).

Review copies of any title (while supplies last) also available, upon request.

Forthcoming chapbooks by Karl Jirgens, James Yeary, Nate Logan, Sean Braune and Émilie Dionne, Simon Brown, Andy Weaver, Stan Rogal, Matthew Owen Gwathmey, Benjamin Niespodziany, Phil Hall and Madhur Anand, Jen Tynes, Franklin Bruno, Amaranth Borsuk, Gary Barwin and plenty of others! Oh, and Pearl Pirie is editing a forthcoming issue of G U E S T! And so is Edric Mesmer! And I'll be announcing 2022 subscriptions soon! (honestly, the same rate as last year, if you want to get ahead of the crowd).

Stay home! Stay safe! Get vaccinated! Wash your damned hands. Be nice to each other.