new from above/ground press: Downs, Kelly, Souffrant, Hausner, Gray, Vitkauskas, Chang-Richardson, Sandhu, Brenza, Berlatsky, Touch the Donkey #46 + Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage,

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Buck Downs, B U R N T O R A N G E $6 ; J-T Kelly, More of How to Read the Bible $6 ; Leah Souffrant, BIBLIOMANCY $6 ; Beatriz Hausner, The Oh Oh $6 ; Steph Gray, Never Saw it Coming: prose poems $6 ; Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, The Deaf Forest of Cosmic Scaffolding $6 ; Ellen Chang-Richardson, The Moleskin Coat $6 ; Mandy Sandhu, THE TEMPORARY SPACE OF A PLACENTA $6 ; Andrew Brenza, Sigil Series $6 ; Noah Berlatsky, Spamtoum $6 ; Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #46, with new poems by Kirstin Allio, Kemeny Babineau, Joseph Donato, Beatriz Hausner, Matthew Walsh, Nicole Markotić, Lisa Pasold, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas and Emily Izsak $6 ; Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage, eds./dir. Véronique Sylvain and/et David O’Meara including new poems in English (alongside French translation) and new poems in French (alongside English translation) by: Manahil Bandukwala, Julie Huard, Amanda Earl, Myriam Legault-Beauregard, David Groulx, Michèle Matteau, Monty Reid, Clémence Roy-Darisse; translations by/traductions de Myriam Legault-Beauregard $6

and: “poem” broadside #355 : TWO POEMS: “she left under a cloud” by Christine McNair and “010 : I can lift ten thousand pounds” by rob mclennan

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June-July 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy of each

AND DON'T FORGET THAT SANDHU, CHANG-RICHARDSON, REID, CHRISTIE, HAUSNER + VITKAUSKAS WILL BE LAUNCHING THEIR NEW ABOVE/GROUND PRESS TITLES IN OTTAWA ON AUGUST 7TH, AS PART OF THE 32ND ANNIVERSARY READING/LAUNCH/PARTY! TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE! it is going to be a great event; did you see my report from last year's anniversary event?

To order, send cheques (add $2 for postage; in US, add $3; outside North America, add $7) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button (above). See the prior list of recent titles here, scroll down here to see a further list of various backlist titles, or click on any of the extensive list of names on the sidebar (many, many things are still in print).

keep an eye on the above/ground press blog for author interviews, new writing, reviews, upcoming readings and tons of other material; and you know that 2025 subscriptions (our thirty-second year!) are still available, yes? i can totally backdate; and you know above/ground press has a substack now? sign up (for free!) for announcements, and even new features! catch recent/new interviews with Orchid Tierney, Jason Christie, Steph Gray, Monty Reid, etc.

With forthcoming chapbooks by: Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Stuart Ross, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Michael Sikkema, Charlotte Jung and Johannes S.H. Bjerg, Jon Cone, Ben Ladouceur, Yaxkin Melchy (trans. by Ryan Greene, Mrityunjay Mohan, Laynie Browne, Nada Gordon, David Phillips, and probably others! (yes: others, (and: given I've been clearing a bit of a publishing backlog lately, I'm actually hoping to return to reading months' worth of submissions very soon,