I received a package in the mail from poet, bookseller, and publisher of Laurel Reed Books Kemeny Babineau yesterday. It contained a new publication of his, A Poem of Days, “a cycle of journal entries” written between January 7 2013 and January 15 2014. It is a lovely production, with a handstamped cover in theContinue reading “Kemeny Babineau | “A Poem of Days””
Tag Archives: above/ground press
Self-Promotion
If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to use this space for some blatant self-promotion. My last post focused on work I had published through Apt. 9 by other poets appearing in trade collections. I don’t have a trade collection of my own on the horizon, but I do have work coming out in two tradeContinue reading “Self-Promotion”
Recent Acquisitions | October 2013
Ball, Nelson and Barbara Caruso. Points of Attention. Toronto: Weed/Flower Press, 1971. I’ve coveted this book for years now, and finally have a copy on my shelf. Points of Attention was published in 1971 as a collaboration between Barbara Caruso and Nelson Ball in a tiny edition of 50 copies. Typesetting was done at CoachContinue reading “Recent Acquisitions | October 2013”
Some Links | 14 January 2013
Peter Gibbon wrote a fascinating post at the Conduit Canada blog about the Highway Book Shop that is well worth a read. Pete had been telling me about this store for years, but I was never able to get as far north as Cobalt. I regret it. Recently John W. MacDonald posted a documentary onContinue reading “Some Links | 14 January 2013”
Interview: Susan Johnston
This morning, Susan Johnston very kindly interviewed rob mclennan, Marilyn Irwin and myself on Friday Morning Special Blend on the mighty CKCU about the upcoming reading/launch/anniversary. The full audio is posted below. Thanks, Susan! 3 August 2012 | Friday Morning Special Blend, Susan Johnston, rob mclennan, Marilyn Irwin, Cameron Anstee
Michelle Desbarats: A (sort-of) Interim Finding Aid
Michelle Desbarats is a widely appreciated, if arguably under-published, poet in Ottawa. Her first and only trade collection, Last Child to Come Inside, was published in 1998 by the Harbinger Poetry Series at the Carleton University Press. For years now her working biography for readings, magazines, and anthology appearances has declared some variation of theContinue reading “Michelle Desbarats: A (sort-of) Interim Finding Aid”
Review: Lime Kiln Quay Road by Ben Ladouceur
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 24 May 2011] Lime Kiln Quay Road Ben Ladouceur Ottawa: above/ground press, May 2011. Ben Ladouceur has had a wonderful nine months since returning to Ottawa following a year spent working in Suffolk, England. He gave a widely heralded reading on the opening night of Versefest alongside Michael Dennis,Continue reading “Review: Lime Kiln Quay Road by Ben Ladouceur”
Review: Impossible Books (The Carleton Installment) by Stephen Brockwell
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 24 May 2011] Impossible Books (the Carleton Installment) Stephen Brockwell Ottawa: above/ground press, August 2010. Stephen Brockwell’s “Impossible Books project” (this above/ground book is its second installment) is an ongoing series of individual poems that are presented as excerpts from imagined “impossible” books. The impossible books of this installmentContinue reading “Review: Impossible Books (The Carleton Installment) by Stephen Brockwell”
Cameron Anstee 