new from above/ground press: Dyrness, Saker, DeCoste, Rowan-Legg, Norris, Smith, Anderson, Moseman, Tardi, Touch the Donkey + Thresholds: Words and Images, ed. O'Meara,

Silent the Decadent Terror, Michelle Lynn Dyrness $6 : Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] : fifty-first issue, with new poems by Stan Rogal, Michael Betancourt, Noah Sparrow, Phil Hall, madelaine caritas longman, fahima ife, Helen Hajnoczky and Lori Lubeski $8 : spectre, Hassen Saker : $6 : Revelations of Divine Love, Katherine DeCoste $6 : CO—STAR & RESPONSE, Shelagh Rowan-Legg $6 : Spirit House, Ken Norris $6 : Self-Portrait in a kaleidoscope, Pete Smith $6 : MUTTER, Peter Carl Anderson $6 : ignite, Lori Anderson Moseman $6 : The Thought Lawn, Mark Tardi $6 : Thresholds: Words and Images: Ottawa poets respond to works by Enriched Bread Artists, ed. David O’Meara / Susan J Atkinson, responding to Svetlana Swinimer / Manahil Bandukwala, responding to Katherine Zarull / nina jane drystek, responding to Yvonne Wiegers / Matthew Firth, responding to Daniel Sharp / Cara Goodwin, responding to Christos Pantieras / Chris Johnson, responding to Cindy Stelmackowich / Colin Morton, responding to Jennifer Macklem / Sandra Ridley, responding to Sandra Gregson / Ian Roy, responding to Joyce Westrop / Deborah-Anne Tunney, responding to Bozica Radjenovic $6 :

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September-October 2026
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