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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Connotation Press online: Canadian Poetry Feature, including rob mclennan,

I've two poems in the (slightly delayed) Canadian Poetry feature in the October 2013 issue of Connotation Press online, guest-edited by Edmonton poet Jenna Butler. Thanks, Jenna! Other poets in the feature include Dennis Cooley, Erin Moure, Douglas Barbour, Catherine Owen, Marita Dachsel and Gregory Betts.
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editor/publisher

  • above/ground press
  • Chaudiere Books
  • many gendered mothers
  • ottawa poetry newsletter
  • seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry & poetics
  • ottawater: new Ottawa poetry PDF annual
  • above/ground press ALBERTA SERIES (2007-8)
  • Poetics.ca (2002-7)
  • Call and Response, School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa (2011-12)

rob essays/reviews/articles

  • Joel W. Vaughan reviews Four Stories (Apostrophe Press, 2016) at Broken Pencil
  • Pearl Pirie on rob mclennan + mentorship : The League of Canadian Poets (September 2016)
  • Pearl Pirie on rob mclennan : Celebration of Canadian Poets, Brick Books (September 2016)
  • from the desk of rob mclennan, at Real Pants (May 2016
  • "Publishing Tips: On Attention," at The Malahat Review, January 2016
  • a review of my "a (short) history of l." by Elizabeth Kate Switaj at Poets' Quarterly
  • a review of my "wild horses"
  • a short write-up on the reading I did in November 2015 with David O'Meara and Brecken Hancock through the Ottawa Arts Council
  • reviewers on reviewing, for CWILA, November 2015
  • One More Thing, August 2015
  • Profile of Ben Ladouceur, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario, June 2015
  • Janet Nicol reviews Notes and Dispatches: Essays, at The Maple Tree Literary Supplement
  • article by Catherine Brunelle on rob's many online schemes, Apartment613
  • review of Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac Press, 2014) now up at Arc Poetry Magazine
  • review of Pearl Pirie's the pet radish, shrunken (BookThug, 2015) at The Small Press Book Review
  • review of Pattie McCarthy's x y z & & (Ahsahta, 2015) at The Small Press Book Review, March 2015
  • "World's End: Alta Vista," at Atticus Review, February 2015
  • Family Literacy Day, some recommendations, All Lit Up blog, January 2015
  • "On Writing" at Catina Noble's blog, January 2015
  • "Life Is Too Short For A Long Story," a new essay up at Numero Cinq, January 2015
  • rob mclennan: recommended reading, at Readerby (November 2014)
  • Brian Mihok reviews The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014) over at Rain Taxi
  • review of 70 Canadian Poets (Oxford, 2014), ed. Gary Geddes, at Cordite Poetry Review
  • review of Redell Olsen's Film Poems (Les Figues, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • All Lit Up Fall Preview: rob mclennan anticipates Stan Dragland's The Bricoleur & His Sentences (Pedlar Press, 2014)
  • Ryan Pratt reviews "Acceptance Speech" (phafours, 2014) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter
  • Profile of The Rotary Dial, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario
  • Profile of Stuart Ross' Proper Tales Press, at Open Book: Ontario
  • Author's Note, at matchbook lit, September 2014
  • "Ottawa Lit: fall 2014 preview," at Open Book: Ontario
  • review of The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (2014) at Necessary Fiction
  • review of The Uncertainty Principle; stories, (2014) at Broken Pencil magazine
  • "rob mclennan on Elizabeth Smart," re-posted at Literary Mothers
  • review of Eric Baus' The Tranquilized Tongue (City Lights, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • Profile of Jason Christie, at Open Book: Ontario
  • "(further) notes on the archive," at Open Book: Ontario
  • "On starting a new poetry journal: Touch the Donkey," at Open Book: Ontario
  • review of Lisa Jarnot's a princess magic presto spell (Solid Objects, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • "John Newlove at 76," at Open Book: Ontario
  • Where Do You Write, My Lovely? (June 2014)
  • "Literary mothers: rob mclennan on Elizabeth Smart" at Open Book: Ontario (June 2014)
  • review of Pearl Pirie's Quebec Passages (2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • Aaron Daigle discusses How the alphabet was made, (2014) over at the Flat Singles Press blog
  • review of Cecily Nicholson's From the Poplars (Talonbooks, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • review of Emily Kendal Frey's Sorrow Arrow (Octopus Books, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • "Writing, fatherhood (fragments," at Open Book: Ontario (May 2014)
  • At the Desk: rob mclennan at Open Book: Ontario (April 2014)
  • review of Angela Carr's Here in There (BookThug, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • review of Endi Bogue Hartigan's POOL [5 CHORUSES] (Omnidawn, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • review of The Uncertainty Principle: stories, by Ryan Pratt, at the ottawa poetry newsletter
  • review of Anne-Marie Turza's The Quiet (Anansi, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
  • Pearl Pirie discusses How the alphabet was made, (2014) over at her blog,
  • review of The Uncertainty Principle: stories, at The Small Press Book Review
  • WHAT IS YOUR FRAGMENT IV: rob mclennan responds
  • review of Sarah Gridley's Loom (Omnidawn, 2013) at Jacket2
  • Scott Gridley reviews Mother Firth's (2013) in Broken Pencil #62
  • "Writing Fatherhood, pt. 4," at Open Book: Ontario
  • Ryan Pratt reviews The Laurentian Book of Movement (2013) at the ottawa poetry newsletter
  • "Writing Fatherhood, pt. 3," at Open Book: Ontario
  • "Writing Fatherhood, pt. 2," at Open Book: Ontario
  • "Writing Fatherhood," at Open Book: Ontario
  • Gordon Bolling reviews missing persons (2009) at Canadian Literature, October 2013

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  • en route : Ottawa's Literary Scene Stacks Up, October 2013
  • Ryan Pratt reviews The creeks (above/ground press, 2013) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter
  • Alejandro Bustos discusses Songs for little sleep, and Mother Firth's, over at Apt 613,
  • John Lent reviews Songs for little sleep, over at Arc poetry magazine
  • review of Marie Annharte Baker's Indigena Awry (New Star, 2012) at Vallum magazine,
  • Ryan Pratt reviews my chapbook, Trace, (above/ground press, 2013) at the ottawa poetry newsletter
  • Introduction, "Stan Rogal's Brautiganesque," on The Toronto Review of Books
  • Alejandro Bustos profiles me for Apartment613, April 2013
  • Alejandro Bustos profiles my enormously clever blog for The Ottawa Blogging Library, April 2013
  • Some notes on Lisa Jarnot's 'Sea Lyrics,' at Jacket2
  • (brief) profile by Lucy Morrissey
  • Edric Mesmer reviews (among other things) my chapbook Sextet: six poems from Songs for little sleep, (above/ground) at Galatea Resurrects #19
  • review of Hoa Nguyen's As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books), at Galatea Resurrects
  • review of Dorothea Lastky's Thunderbird (Wave Books), at Galatea Resurrects
  • review of Steven Ross Smith's Fluttertongue 5 (Turnstone Press) at Turntable + Blue Light, December 2012
  • a note on "Miss Canada," at Bywords.ca
  • Daily Offerings: a note on "Songs for little sleep," at Branta
  • Matthew Hall reviews A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011) in Canadian Literature
  • Cameron Anstee reviews my chapbook/essay, The stone-boat heart: letters to Andrew Suknaski over at his blog,
  • shorthand: eleven short essays on fiction, at The Puritan
  • j/j hastain reviews Glengarry (Talonbooks) and C. (little red leaves) over at Turntable + Blue Light
  • Pearl Pirie responds to the Call and Response/SPAO end-of-project reading (June 2012)
  • Andrew Burke's article on collaboration in Southerly, that mentions myself + Christine McNair,
  • review of Jake Kennedy's Light & Char (Greenboathouse, 2010) at The Antigonish Review
  • Notes on Five Canadian small (micro) publishers for Cordite Poetry Review (May 2012)
  • review of Jamie Townsend's MATRYOSHKA (little red leaves) + Edward Smallfield's Equinox (Apogee) at Turntable + Blue Light,
  • review of my Glengarry (Talonbooks) with Andy Weaver's Gangson (NeWest) by Sean Braune in Canadian Literature
  • a short review/mention of a (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks) in the Halifax Chronicle Herald,
  • reviews of my grief notes: (BlazeVOX) and a compact of words (Salmon Publishing) by Rupert Loydell
  • review of my grief notes: (BlazeVOX) by Jordan Fry
  • Profle of The Emergency Response Unit, with questions at Open Book: Ontario
  • rob's "Top Eleven (Canadian) poetry books of 2011," on the Dusie blog
  • "Roy Kiyooka's 'Pacific Windows,'" on The Capilano Review blog
  • "collaborating with Lea Graham," on The Capilano Review blog
  • review of Elizabeth Robinson's Three Novels (Omnidawn) at Galatea Resurrects #17
  • review of Jake Kennedy's Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic (BookThug) at Galatea Resurrects #17
  • rob recommends Dirty Semiotics by Jesse Patrick Ferguson (Broken Jaw Press, 2011) at the Advent Book Blog, December 20, 2011
  • Profile of Ottawa's Mother Tongue Books at Open Book: Ontario
  • On Richard Brautigan's Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 (1972) at We Who Are About To Die
  • Profile of Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie at Open Book: Ontario
  • Profile of Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley at Open Book: Ontario
  • "There was something about the body: Sylvia Legris," on The Capilano Review blog
  • Profile of the ottawa international writers festival + questions with director/co--founder Sean Wilson at Open Book: Ontario
  • Eileen R. Tabios on my work-in-progress "The Uncertainty Priniciple: stories,"
  • Profile of Cameron Anstee's Apt. 9 Press at Open Book: Ontario
  • "Four Questions for Deborah Barnett, Someone," at Open Book Toronto
  • "Ottawa's Thriving Literary Scene," by Vera Grbic
  • "A second time around: a conversation between rob mclennan and Stephanie Bolster," on seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics
  • "Sainte-Adele: redux," Open Book Ontario
  • Mark McCawley reviews rob mclennan's chapbook "First you know, and then so ordinary," (above/ground, 2010)
  • A short interview with Michael Blouin, Open Book Toronto
  • Robert Kroetsch (June 26, 1927-June 21, 2011), at Branta
  • "Call and response: a note on Phil Hall, and 52 flowers (or, a perth edge)" at Maple Tree Literary Supplement
  • "an old poem embedded in thoughts on the ottawa river" at Open Book Ontario
  • review of Ken Belford's Decompositions (Talonbooks)
  • longer article/interview by Patrick Connors, on rob mclennan's Pivot Reading, May 4, 2011, at Open Book Toronto
  • "an old poem embedded in thoughts on the manx pub," at Open Book Ontario
  • article/interview by Maja Stefanovska, Writers History
  • review of wild horses (U of Alberta) by Ryan Porter, The Bull Calf;
  • article/interview by Patrick Connors, on rob mclennan's Pivot Reading, May 4, 2011;
  • "An old poem embedded in thoughts on my mother" at Open Book Toronto
  • "the glass manifesto: on blogging" at Open Book Toronto
  • group review of Oana Avasilichioaesi, Meredith Quartermain, Sachiko Murakami & George Stanley at Maple Tree Literary Supplement
  • "Anticipating The Man who Killed Don Quixote" at Rain Taxi
  • review of M NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
  • "writing and reading glengarry county" at Open Book Toronto
  • "the green-wood essay: a little autobiographical dictionary" at Open Book Toronto
  • review of Marcus McCann's Force Quit (The Emergency Response Unit) in The Antigonish Review
  • "writing and reading glengarry county" at Open Book Toronto
  • review of missing persons by Cassie Leigh
  • review of David Donnell's Watermelon Kindness, at Prairie Fire Review of Books
  • "Translating Pessoa: Winnett, Taddle, Garrison" at Open Book Toronto
  • "Casa Mendoza" at Open Book Toronto
  • review of wild horses by Jeramy Mesiano-Crookston, Ottawa X-Press
  • Love, Anne Carson: a fictional essay in the wrong order
  • "G20" at Open Book Toronto
  • "Walking Brun's Wick: on bpNichol's The Martyrology Book 5" at Open Book Toronto
  • on prairie poet Andrew Suknaski
  • "Bloomsday, High Park" at Open Book Toronto
  • "Wide Awake in High Park North" at Open Book Toronto
  • "Nights below Front Street East" at Open Book Toronto
  • rob's participation in Gary Barwin's Heine Project
  • review of Larissa Lai's Automaton Biographies
  • "Valentine's Day, the Royal York Hotel" at Open Book Toronto
  • Judith Fitzgerald reviews rob's wild horses for Globe and Mail book blog
  • "Alberta Redux" at Open Book Toronto
  • "Spring, and all" at Open Book Toronto
  • Globe and Mail book blog: rob mclennan on Robert Kroetsch
  • "Canadians in New York: The Chelsea Hotel" at Open Book Toronto
  • "Queen City Chronicles" at Open Book Toronto
  • "The implied," on Branta
  • Globe and Mail book blog: rob mclennan on Pearl Pirie
  • Globe and Mail book blog: Judith Fitzgerald on rob mclennan
  • Reading and Writing Glengarry County: The Long Sault Hydro Electric Project
  • Douglas Barbour at 70, Jacket
  • how to love everything: thoughts on rereading Sarah Manguso, Moria
  • review of Eric Baus' Tuned Droves
  • review of Monty Reid's The Luskville Reductions
  • "lake, my pretty name" at Open Book Toronto
  • "the cn tower" at Open Book Toronto
  • review of Catherine Wagner's My New Job
  • "Dispatches from the Future Bakery" at Open Book Toronto
  • article on rob for Guerilla mag by Nigel Beale
  • review of on bondage by Trisia Eddy & Lainna Lane El Jabi
  • "lake, oh pure contradiction" at Open Book Toronto
  • "sleeping in toronto" at Open Book Toronto
  • Robin Blaser obit for the Xtra chain
  • review George Bowering's According to Brueghel
  • review of Alberta dispatch in the Ottawa X-Press
  • review of Margaret Christakos' What Stirs
  • review of George Bowering's Kerrisdale Elegis
  • reviews of Roger Farr's Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century
  • reviews of Sachiko Murakami and Oana Avasilichioaei
  • rob as part of Runaway Jury 5 (GG poetry shortlist, 2008)
  • review of white
  • review of Rob Budde's Finding Ft. George
  • review of Dennis Cooley's correction line
  • as part of Shawna Lemay's Capacious Hold-All project
  • Stephen Brockwell's The Real Made Up and David McGimpsey's Sitcom
  • Rereading Sheila Watson and Elizabeth Smart at the Garneau Pub, Edmonton
  • Amanda Earl on rob's blog (5 years!)
  • review of Donna Stonecipher & Serge Gavronsky, Verse magazine
  • review of Some Answers by George Bowering
  • review of Patrick Friesen's Interim: Essays & Meditations
  • review by Judith Fitzgerald
  • rob in Calgary's ffwd weekly
  • Susannah M. Smith's mention of white
  • new review of aubade (Intercapillary Space, UK)
  • Dennis Cooley's fictions: "love in a dry land" (Vallum magazine)
  • review of white in Vue Weekly (Edmonton)
  • Phil Hall’s surrural: Ontario gothic, the killdeer, the music of failure and the distraction of shifting ground
  • review of white in The Globe and Mail
  • review of Sarah Lang's The Work of Days
  • some short little poetry reviews i wrote for The Ottawa X-Press
  • review of George Bowering's Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006
  • article on the U of Alberta website
  • article in The Gateway (U of Alberta student newspaper)
  • short piece by Nathaniel G. Moore, Critical Crushes Volume 3, No. 7
  • article in The Edmonton Journal by Todd Babiak
  • review of Rachel Zolf's Human Resources (Vallum magazine)
  • review of Susan Briante's Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Vallum magazine)
  • Myrna Kostash's All of Baba's Children (or, "on once not staying at Myrna Kostash's house")
  • review of name, an errant by John Stiles
  • review of The Ottawa City Project (Ottawa X-Press)
  • a brief note on the poetry of Sandra Ridley
  • article in The Ottawa Citizen by Patrick Langston
  • On (not) Being an Alberta Writer: or, anticipating UofA
  • review of Transversals for Orpheus & the untitled 1-13 by Garry Thomas Morse
  • a brief note on the poetry of Michelle Desbarats
  • review of Jay MillAr's Sporatic Growth
  • article on rob on new literary press Chaudiere Books
  • a brief brief note on the poems of Karen Massey
  • review of Birk Sproxton's Headframe: 2
  • review of Dennis Cooley's Country Music: New Poems
  • a brief note on the poetry of Michael Dennis
  • some notes on aubade by Amanda Earl
  • an accumulated retreat: four chapbooks from BookThug
  • a brief note on Rhonda Douglas
  • another review of name, an errant
  • John Newlove's "Ottawa poems"
  • the stone-boat heart: letters to Andrew Suknaski
  • review of Graham, mclennan above/ground press items
  • review of name, an errant
  • review of F.T. Flahiff's A Life of Sheila Watson and Barbara Caruso's A Painter's Journey, 1966-1973
  • review of Andy Weaver's Were the Bees
  • a brief note on the poetry of Max Middle
  • notes on geography: Meredith Quartermain, John Newlove, William Hawkins & The Ottawa City Project
  • Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets and Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry
  • review of Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, ed. Sina Queyras
  • Clare Latremouille & the moon
  • on Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering
  • on Barry McKinnon's The Centre: Poems 1970-2000
  • best practices, small press action network - ottawa
  • The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire II, Pissing Ice and the State of Canadian Poetry
  • Smaller than small: small press article by Matthew Firth, Ottawa X-Press
  • review of rob's red earth, etc. (Arc)
  • on Margaret Atwood's Survival
  • review of rob's what's left
  • Sex at Thirty-One -- McKinnon, Fawcett, Gold, Stanley, etc.
  • review of Di Brandt, Suzanne Zelazo & nathalie stephens (Coach House Books)
  • on John Newlove's "The Death of the Hired Man"
  • Notes on Andy Weaver's "Three Ghazals to the constellation Corvus (The Crow)"
  • a. rawlings' micropress essay
  • review of Stephanie Bolster & Stephen Brockwell
  • review of rob's paper hotel, etc. (Arc)
  • review of rob's harvest: a book of signifiers, etc. (Arc)
  • review of rob's bagne, or Criteria for Heaven
  • another review of rob's bagne, or Criteria for Heaven
  • yet another review of rob's bagne, or Criteria for Heaven
  • What's Love Got To Do With It?: two Margaret Christakos poetry collections, wipe.under.a.love & Excessive Love Prostheses
  • review of Stuart Ross' Razovsky at Peace (ECW)
  • review of Robert Allen & Jan Conn
  • review of Alice Burdick
  • review of Carmine Starnino & Aurian Haller
  • review of Susan Gillis

rob interviews

  • rob mclennan interviewed on above/ground press for Entropy mag, December 2016
  • by Julienne Isacs, "On the Art of the Literary Interview," The Town Crier
  • by Lea Graham, Atticus Review, February 2015
  • by the editors, Canadian Literature
  • by OttawaWrites on Chaudiere Books and our big Indiegogo Campaign
  • by The Review Review on ottawater and Touch the Donkey, August 2014
  • by Nathaniel G. Moore, Verbicide magazine, August 2014
  • with Jon Paul Fiorentino for The Rusty Toque, July 2014
  • by Susan Toy, "Reading Recommendations," July 2014
  • by David Prosser, barsetshirediaries, June 2014
  • by Poets Touching Trees, May 2014
  • by The League of Canadian Poets, April 2014
  • by the editors, on The Mackinac #2, August 2013
  • by Jessica Kluthe on "The Uncertainty Principle: stories," July 2013
  • by Kimberly Ann Southwick on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, Boog City 80, May 2013
  • by Ribbon Pig (conducted May 2012) on "How the alphabet was made," April 2013
  • by Alison Lang, on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, the Broken Pencil blog, January 29, 2013
  • by Finn Harvor, on Conversations on the Book Trade, December 18, 2012
  • by Jonathan Ball, "What are you working on right now?," September 8, 2012
  • by Evan Munday, on Canadian Poets Petting Cats, July 3, 2012
  • with David O'Meara, in/at Ottawa Magazine
  • by The South Townsville micro poetry journal (interview + poem), March 15, 2012, Australia
  • by Janet Vickers, Lipstick Press; a little (birthday) interview, Gabriola BC
  • by Rusty Morrison, Omni-Verse (the Omnidawn blog), on Canadian poetry, blogging/reviewing + above/ground press,
  • by Cassie Leigh, Grey Borders Reading Series blog, St. Catharines ON
  • by Darryl Salach, The Toronto Quarterly blog; a new poem + a little tiny interview,
  • by Kim Jernigan, on Ottawa as a literary capital, for The New Quarterly blog
  • by derek beaulieu, 10 questions for rob mclennan on above/ground
  • by James Pickersgill, Poetry'z Own Weekend Festival, Cobourg ON
  • by Kevin Spenst, on editing & revision,
  • by Nathaniel G. Moore, "The state of short fiction in Canada, part one" at Open Book Toronto
  • by Sina Queyras/Lemon Hound, "On reviewing"
  • by Jonathan Ball, "Mass Interview 1: Marginalia"
  • by Eric Schmaltz, Grey Borders Reading Series blog
  • rob answers the Proust Questionnaire, Open Book Toronto
  • by Jacob Mooney, The Torontoist
  • by Peter Simpson, The Ottawa Citizen
  • by Susan Olding, Proved on the Pulses
  • by Bruce Deachman, The Ottawa Citizen
  • by Open Book Toronto
  • by Jonathan Ball
  • by The Danforth Review, on the ottawa small press book fair
  • with Elizabeth Bachinsky
  • some answers to questions and a poem at Canadian Literature (UBC)
  • with Sachiko Murakami
  • with Sandra Ridley
  • with Melanie Little, editor, Freehand Books
  • by Ryan Saxby, on the ottawa small press book fair
  • by Broken Pencil, on the Departures chapbook
  • rob answers his own '12 or 20 questions'
  • by ryk mcintyre for GotPoetry (part two)
  • by ryk mcintyre for GotPoetry (part one)
  • 12 or 20 questions project (interviews with various authors)
  • by Lea Graham, for MiPOesias
  • with Rob Budde
  • by Didi Menendez, Men of the Web Wide Poetry World
  • with/by K.I.Press, responding to my "anticipating Alberta..."
  • by Haas Bianchi
  • by Cameron Anstee
  • with Stephen Brockwell
  • with Shane Rhodes
  • by Matthew Firth, on Chaudiere Books
  • by Nathaniel G. Moore, on Chaudiere Books
  • with Rachel Zolf
  • with Chris Turnbull
  • with Monty Reid
  • with Adam Dickinson
  • with Amatoritsero Ede
  • with Dave Cooper
  • by Amatoritsero Ede
  • by Sheila Murphy
  • with William Hawkins
  • with Jay MillAr (on BookThug)
  • with John Barton
  • with Max Middle
  • with Meredith Quartermain
  • by james hörner
  • with Stephen Cain
  • with Stan Rogal
  • with Douglas Barbour
  • by donato mancini
  • with Gil McElroy
  • with/by Stephanie Bolster
  • by Michael Bryson
  • by Michael Bryson (on above/ground press)

writer (etc) blogs i often read

  • (NEW!) rob's list of blogs by Canadian writers
  • Jonathan Ball, Calgary AB
  • John Barlow, Toronto ON
  • Gary Barwin, Hamilton ON
  • derek beaulieu, Calgary AB
  • Charles Bernstein, New York NY
  • Gregory Betts, Ste. Catherines ON
  • Biblioasis blog, Windsor ON
  • Joe Blades, Fredericton NB
  • Michael Bryson, Toronto ON
  • Rob Budde, Prince George BC
  • Mairead Byrne, Providence RI
  • Stephen Cain, Toronto ON
  • Jason Camlot, Montreal QC
  • Jason Christie, Calgary AB
  • Cormorant Books blog
  • Brad Cran, Vancouver BC
  • Peter Culley, Nanaimo BC
  • Marita Dachsel, Edmonton AB
  • Lauren B. Davis, Princeton NJ
  • John Degen, Toronto ON
  • Conrad DiDiodato, Toronto ON
  • Nate Dorward, Toronto ON
  • Amanda Earl, Ottawa ON
  • Jon Paul Fiorentino, Montreal QC
  • ryan fitzpatrick, Calgary AB
  • Tom Fowler, Ottawa ON
  • Corey Frost, Montreal QC / New York NY
  • Laurie Fuhr, Calgary AB
  • Ariel Gordon, Winnipeg MB
  • Spencer Gordon, Toronto ON
  • Kate Greenstreet, New York NY
  • Helen Hajnoczky, Calgary AB
  • Sharon Harris, Toronto ON
  • Jill Hartman, Calgary AB
  • Amy King, New York NY
  • Dawn Marie Kresan, Kingsville ON
  • Ben Ladouceur, Ottawa ON
  • Larissa Lai, Calgary AB
  • Shawna Lemay, Edmonton AB
  • Rachel Loden, Palo Alto CA
  • Annabel Lyon, Vancouver BC
  • John MacDonald, Ottawa ON
  • Robert Majzels, Calgary AB
  • Billy Mavreas, Montreal QC
  • Marcus McCann, Ottawa ON
  • Max Middle, Ottawa ON
  • Jay MillAr, Toronto ON
  • Nathaniel G. Moore, Toronto ON
  • Sachiko Murakami, Vancouver BC
  • Wanda O'Connor, Montreal QC
  • Susan Olding, Kingston ON
  • Paul Pearson, Edmonton AB
  • Pearl Pirie, Ottawa ON
  • Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog, US
  • ross priddle, Calgary AB
  • Sina Queyras, Montreal QC
  • a. rawlings, Toronto ON
  • nikki reimer, Vancouver BC
  • Brent Robillard / The Backwater Review, Athens ON
  • Stuart Ross, Toronto ON
  • Mari-Lou Rowley, Saskatoon SK
  • Maria Scala, Scarborough ON
  • Brenda Schmidt, Creighton SK
  • Jordan Scott, Toronto ON
  • Ron Silliman, PA
  • Natalie Simpson, Calgary AB
  • Jessica Smith, Mid-Atlantic
  • Susannah M. Smith, Vancouver BC
  • Juliana Spahr, Oakland CA
  • nathalie stephens, Chicago Il
  • Anne Stone, Vancouver BC
  • Kate Sutherland, Toronto ON
  • Mark Truscott, Toronto ON
  • Michael Turner, Vancouver BC
  • Daniel Scott Tysdal, Moose Jaw SK/Toronto ON
  • Vehicule Press blog, Montreal QC
  • Aaron Vidaver, Vancouver BC
  • Natalie Zina Walschots, Calgary AB
  • Darren Wershler-Henry, Toronto ON
  • Thomas Wharton, Edmonton AB
  • Ian Whistle, Nepean ON / Winnipeg MB
  • Michael Winter, Toronto ON / St. John's NFLD
  • Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, New York NY
  • Heather Zwicker, Edmonton AB
  • Atlanta Poets Group
  • Trans-scribing Canada (between Taiwan and Canada, but not in the Pacific Ocean)
  • Calgary blowout blog
  • Chaudiere Books blog
  • ottawa poetry newsletter
  • alberta, writing
  • thirdfactory list of other poetry blogs etc
  • list of Canadian writers' blogs from the Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta
  • rob's list of other blogs

other books/sections edited

  • Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, A Selected Collage
  • Tuesday poem, Dusie blog, April 2013 etc
  • Halvard Johnson's TRUCK, August 2012
  • Douglas Barbour section, Jacket
  • Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory; "new Canadian poetries" issue
  • Decalogue: ten Ottawa fiction writers
  • Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets
  • George Bowering section, Jacket
  • evergreen: six new poets
  • side/lines: a new Canadian poetics
  • new Canadian poets section, Jacket
  • YOU & YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS: NEW MONTREAL WRITING
  • Written in the Skin: a poetic response to aids

Cauldron Books (rob mclennan, series editor)

  • Cauldron Books (Broken Jaw Press)
  • ancient motel landscape, shauna mccabe
  • Dancing Alone, Selected Poems, William Hawkins
  • Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003
  • resume drowning, Jon Paul Fiorentino
  • This Day Full of Promise, poems selected & new, Michael Dennis
  • Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets

some other lit sites worth reading

  • Aaron Tucker's Agora Review, Toronto ON
  • branta: celebrating the might of write (Goose Lane blog), Fredericton NB
  • Peter Darbyshire's CanCult, Vancouver BC
  • Trevor Cole's Authors Aloud, Toronto ON
  • Chicago Postmodern Poetry
  • The Danforth Review, Toronto ON
  • ditch: the poetry that matters
  • Doppelganger, Vancouver BC
  • Dooney's Cafe :: A News Service
  • The Goose
  • Intercapillary Space, UK
  • It's Still Winter, Prince George BC
  • Jacket magazine, AUS
  • jwcurry/Messagio Galore page (with links)
  • LEXICAN RADIO, Vancouver BC
  • Narrativity
  • Northern Poetry Review
  • The Parliamentary Poet Laureate "Poem of the Week"
  • paperplates, Toronto ON
  • Parser: New Poetry & Poetics, Vancouver BC
  • Phillytalks
  • Stephen Collis' Poetic Front, Vancouver BC
  • PoetryReviews.ca
  • rabble.ca
  • The Rain Review of Books, Vancouver
  • Rain Taxi
  • ReLit Awards
  • Shampoo Poetry
  • stonestone, Prince George BC
  • Louis Cabri's Talknophical Assumnacy, Windsor ON
  • W magazine (KSW), Vancouver BC
  • UbuWeb
  • /ubu Editions
  • more here

rob's audio/video

  • rob's first post-Alberta Ottawa reading at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Sunday, June 8, 2008
  • on Bookmark, CKUA Radio (Edmonton), March 16, 2008
  • on Breakfast Television for Ottawa: The Unknown City, A Channel, Ottawa, March 14, 2008 (YouTube)
  • on Trevor Cole's Authors Aloud, reading from The Ottawa City Project
  • Reading at the Atwater Library, Montreal, Thursday, February 16th, 2006
  • a new poem, "The Key of L," on On Barcelona, September 2013
  • two short stories in Sassafras #1, September 2013
  • two new poems in Tarpaulin Sky, August 2013
  • new poem, "from Hark, a journal: 1864-1967," in Himalayan Walking Shoe, July 2013
  • new poem, "Origin story:," in The Wonder Book of Poetry, Jully 2013
  • new poem, "Conditions of the shudder," above/ground press broadside #319, June 2013
  • four new poems, in The Avatar Review #15, June 2013
  • two very short stories, in The Barnstormer, May 2013
  • collaborative poem with Christine McNair in Gritty Silk #1, May 2013
  • new poem, "Testament: a short sequence of poems after housewares," in The Wonder Book, May 2013
  • 2 poems from "Songs for little sleep," in foam:e 9, May 2013
  • new poem, "Conditions of the shudder," up at the LPG National Poetry Month blog, April 19, 2013
  • new poem, "Bank Entire," up at The Steel Chisel, April 2013
  • new short fiction, "A Short Film About My Father," on Numero Cinq, April 2013
  • new poem, "King Kong Goes to Cambridge," on Dr. Hurley's Snake Oil Cure, March 2013
  • new poem, "Liner notes: empty, for an era," on On Barcelona, March 2013
  • new poem, "Birthday Poem for Gwendolyn Guth," on Peter Ganick's experiential-experimenta-literature, March 2013
  • new poem, "King Kong Goes to Parliament Hill," on Centretown Nonsense, February 2013
  • new poem, "Self-portrait, with infant," on Konundrum Engine Literary Review, February 2013
  • four prose poems, "Notlake Utanikki," on Talking Writing, January 2013
  • new poem, "King Kong Goes to Stratford," on On Barcelona, January 2013
  • new poem, "A SINGLE STREAK, PURE WHITE OF SKY," on the Verse magazine blog, December 2012
  • new poem, "Imaginary Fred," on Peter Ganick's experiental-experimental-literature, November 2012
  • new short story, "The Matrix Resolutions," on The Puritan, November 2012
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in On Barcelona, October 21, 2012
  • Field Notes: Dear Lea Graham, on Centretown Nonsense (October 2012)
  • two poems from an untitled collaboration with Christine McNair, in summer stock (September 2012);
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in TRUCK, August 31, 2012
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in Newark Review, August 2012
  • a short short story at Reader's Digest Canada (online), July 2012
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in The Offending Adam (with little write-up), June 20, 2012
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in Truck, June 13, 2012
  • from "The underside of the line," in Turntable + Blue Light, May 2012
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in foam:e 9, April 2012
  • from "Songs for little sleep," in Prompt #1, April 2012
  • from "how the alphabet was made," at NationalPoetryMonth.ca
  • sequence "Notes on the subject of marriage" at Quarter After #1 (March 19, 2012)
  • three new poems at NAP 2.4 (March 12, 2012)
  • untitled short story at Fortunates (January 29, 2012)
  • Subject; , on Scott Howard's RECONFIGURATIONS: Volume 5: Disappearance (January 21, 2012)
  • Territory is not Map--, on Halvard Johnson's On Barcelona (January 16, 2012)
  • two poems from "Songs for little sleep," on Dear Sir, (January 2012)
  • a small handful of poems, in BlazeVox Winter 2011 issue (January 1, 2012)
  • two poems from an untitled Sainte-Adele collaboration with Christine McNair, in TRUCK (November 24, 2011)
  • "lake, verse," in Canadian Literature #208 (spring 2011)
  • "The Carleton Tavern, shadow," on Mad Hatter's Review blog, August 8, 2011
  • from "Songs for little sleep," on Lily, August 1, 2011
  • "A (broken) line of ants," poems responding to Warren Dean Fulton's last Ottawa Pooka Press pub crawl, at Upstart, July 7, 2011;
  • two lake poems, on Apparent Magazine, July 4, 2011
  • "Vancouver, specifically," on Sachiko Murakami's Project Rebuild, July 6, 2011
  • "They will take my island," June 30, 2011
  • four poems online at Stride magazine (England), June 13, 2011
  • Poemaday 12, May 13, 2011
  • National Poetry Month blog, The League of Canadian Poets, April 2011
  • Prick of the Spindle, 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • Otoliths, summer 2010
  • late nights on bank street: a concordance, from Branch 2.1
  • AngelHousePress, Nat'l Poetry Month, from "grief notes"
  • monday poem, leaf press, January 18, 2010
  • shampoo 36
  • turntable (BC)
  • angelhousepress' national poetry month, 2009
  • a poem and brief write-up at The Globe and Mail blog
  • black robert journal
  • pf poetry
  • leaf press, Monday's Poem
  • milk
  • rob mclennan feature at Poet's Corner - Fieralingue
  • three poems on the TREE Reading Series "open mike" page
  • ars poetica
  • lexican radio
  • another new rob poem on The Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
  • rob mclennan feature on Other Voices International
  • Starfish Poetry #8
  • rob on MayDayPoems, daily during May, 2008
  • blue skies poetry
  • Forget Magazine
  • BlazeVOX
  • ditch: the poetry that matters
  • OCHO #11
  • Bywords.ca
  • Puritan Fiction Magazine
  • Walrus, Toronto ON
  • Stylus Poetry Journal
  • Shearsman magazine 69/70
  • Shadowtrain 13
  • stonestone, winter 2007
  • Dusie 5
  • Sidebrow
  • Otolith 3
  • Jacket 31
  • Murderous Signs 13
  • Drunken Boat 8
  • melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks 4
  • "intercapillary space"
  • listenlight 01
  • aught 15
  • The Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
  • luzmag
  • RealPoetik
  • zafusy
  • Nth Position
  • The Argotist Online
  • Spillway Review
  • P.F.S. Post
  • Moira Poetry Journal
  • Shampoo 23
  • Malleable Jungle
  • Stylus Poetry Journal
  • Jacket 28
  • Hutt
  • Cordite Poetry Review
  • Sentinel Poetry
  • Honouring Mothers
  • The Alterran Poetry Assemblage
  • stonestone
  • the muse apprentice guild
  • Pettycoat Relaxer
  • Gumball Poetry
  • Milk
  • Flatlands
  • Shampoo 18
  • greenboathouse books