rob mclennan's blog

might we see you at the annual peter f yacht club reading/christmas party on saturday night at anina's cafe in vanier? so many readers!...

my review of Rodrigo Toscano's WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. (Oakland CA: Omnidawn, 2025) is now online at periodicities: a journal of p...

My review of Vancouver poet Rahat Kurd's The Book of Z (Talonbooks, 2025) is now online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poeti...

Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn , which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize. Laurentiis is the re...

  In time of strange effusion, is it allowed to count to 12 again or must I conform to beat of 8, deemed most effective to convey within med...

              In truth, I was surprised to learn that I was a witness to this collection’s inception. As I prepared to write this afterword,...

Qurat Dar is the author of Non-Prophet (icehouse poetry 2025) for which she received the inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize. She was the...

The one hundred and sixteenth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new ...

  A voice might change.                          From a distance a voice may appear to change. I see the face of another and recognize a nam...

Carter Vance   is a writer and poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, currently resident in Gatineau, Quebec. His work has appeared in suc...