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Through eight extended poem-sections, World's End, sits beyond the city's gates, from relocating to an Ottawa suburb after a quarter century in Centretown, to the birth of the author's third child. World's End, examines the lyric across and beyond barriers, propelled by language and fueled by the pitter-patter of tiny feet. World's End, is an opening.

Through eight extended poem-sections, World's End, sits beyond the city's gates, from relocating to an Ottawa suburb after a quarter century in Centretown, to the birth of the author's third child. World's End, examines the lyric across and beyond barriers, propelled by language and fueled by the pitter-patter of tiny feet. World's End, is an opening.

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Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very small spaces. Each poem is a still moment, a memory, a burst of observation, suspended outside time and held up to the light as the world whirls around it. Some are intimate, some are public, all...

With the response to Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets (2006), we decided to follow up with Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers. Because we are the capital city, Ottawa as a whole is often accused of having no identity of its own, instead, some of our strength comes from our transient nature, interacting with ideas larger and more multiple than a single base. Edited by rob mclennan, this collection features the work by Emily Falvey, Matthew Firt...

Working in the tradition of such previous poetry collections as Daphne Marlatt's Vancouver Poems (1972), George Bowering's Kerrisdale Elegies (1986), Joe Blades' River Suite (1998) and, closer to home, William Hawkins' own Ottawa Poems (1966), rob mclennan's thirteenth trade poetry collection The Ottawa City Project reads like a love song to a city caught between competing identities of local and national. The poems in this collection work to ...

Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets is a poetry anthology edited by rob mclennan.

Ground Rules features writing from the second decade of one of the most active micro publishers in Canada, selected from a series of hundreds of publications lovingly edited, produced and distributed by editor/publisher rob mclennan. A follow-up to Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), Ground rules includes a wide range of work by Artie Gold, Mark Cochrane, Suzanne Zelazo, derek beaulieu, Stephanie Bolste...

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An anthology of poetry and photography exploring the topic of AIDS in three sections: Love, Loss and Death.

Composed in three sections, "Glengarry" is a return in writing to the landscape of rob mclennan's youth.

rob mclennan's second collection of literary essays, this is another display of his vast range of reading contemporary writing. Following his previous collection, subverting the lyric: essays (ECW Press, 2008), mclennan navigates the confessional aspect of Lynn Crosbie's Liar and the lyric of the American prose poem, the shapes of Camille Martin's sonnets and Jay MillAr's insect hopes, as well as the pastorals of Lisa Robertson and his own Gle...

In his first collection of short stories, rob mclennanOs The Uncertainty Principle uses not a single wasted word to explore history, contemporary culture, human relationships, and the ways in which we live. His microfictions highlight our most important moments and biggest stories in the tiniest of spaces. Small novels and even smaller stories are all written in dense, packed prose. Carve, slowly. Carve further, even slower. Pause. Listen.

From one of the most prolific and engaged book reviewers in Canada over the past 15 years, this collection of essays and reviews showcases the literary insight of rob mclennan. The works of such Canadian poets as George Bowering, Margaret Christakos, and Barry McKinnon are addressed and analyzed, as is the status of Canadian poetry as a whole. Mclennan's own investigations into the craft of writing are uncovered as well. Strikingly innovative ...

Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of film and television, mclennan's language obscures the breadth and depth of this work.

A subcultural guide to Canada's capital city.

A Compact of Words, Canadian poet Rob McLennan's fifteenth trade poetry title, comes out of a series of reflections on domestic matters - a break-up, his daughter - influenced by the ghazal form as brought into Canadian literature through the American ex-pat John Thompson in the 1970s. Through disparate leaps, the lines write as much between them as the words themselves, writing out a clear and present labyrinthine voice that goes beyond even ...

Fascinated with form, language and subject, yet working in traditions as varied as their location in the country, these writers provide a long overdue answer to the oft-asked questions, Why poetry? Why writing?

Here are the signifiers for a journey: tickets, postcards, enforced idleness, losing one's way and sometimes finding it again.