George Edward Buck was a revival preacher who came to Alberta to found Zion in the Rockies. How did he end up the face of fraud in an international inquiry? The Boom is an oil history that returns the wildcatters and charlatans to the record and traces the oil culture of Alberta to this day.

Join Dr. Paul Chastko as he recounts the frenzy of Alberta’s 1914 Turner Valley oil rush. Hundreds of companies, thousands of brokers, and George Edward Buck’s fraudulent “salted” well sparked a manhunt and new regulations around Alberta’s oil. Register Free: https://ow.ly/ub1F50XNt5O

The Mohawk Institute was Canada's first residential school. It operated from 1828 to 1970 in Brantford, Ontario. This book looks behind the bricks to uncover and recover the lives of the students and teachers irrevocably shaped by the model for the residential school system.

Cleveland Review of Books, Jamie Tennant + Winnipeg Free Press, / @clereviewbooks.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/01/clev...

Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada niche-canada.org/2026/01/01/p...

Jamie Tennant had me up on his podcast to talk about the book of sentences! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; www.jamietennant.ca/index.php/20...

Start the new year off well with Open Access titles from Bighorn Books. Read for free online, with no cutoffs and no limits. Featuring Where Histories Meet, an essential history of Indgienous-settler relations in the Toronto region: https://ow.ly/lfpO50XAo81

hey! Katie Ebbitt interviewed me on the book of sentences + above/ground press for Cleveland Review of Books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; clereviewofbooks.com/rob-mclennan...

Happy Holidays from the University of Calgary Press! We wish you a wonderful new year and are looking forward to so many great books in 2026!

Read @lethejerome.bsky.social's review of @robmclennan.bsky.social's the book of sentences (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) in Issue 33! The writing here is so incredibly intentional, each sentence uttered as a sentence – even the one-word sentence feels full www.thetemzreview.com/melanccedilo...

#5 Bestseller in November among books by Alberta publishers. Thanks so much to readers, to the great independent bookstores who have stocked What is Broken Binds Us, and to the 'Brave & Brilliant' crew at University of Calgary Press. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social readalberta.ca/articles/bes...

Everyone's heard of the multiverse. But where does the idea come from? And could it be real? Jeremy Butterfield introduces the multiverse in philosophy and physics for newcomers, providing a clear explanation of leading theories that does not require prerequisites to understand.

Kyle Flemmer subjects Wikipedia to chance operations and poetic constraints, random number generators, arbitrary limits, and hyperlink jumps and creates a core sample of an ever shifting network, a poetic bricolage of the paratactic leap. A bold step forward in digital poetics. Coming June 2026.

Kathryn MacDonald presents What Is Broken Binds Us by @lornedaniel.bsky.social in the Temez Review! www.thetemzreview.com/macdonald-da...

CKCU's The Lit Room welcomes book of smaller author rob mclennan to talk poetry, family, and so much more. https://ow.ly/Hlwf50XGzb1

Chiam Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only member of his family who did. In Sole Survivor his son Avi traces the Frydmans to their roots in Poland and follows their footsteps to homes and synagogs, to ghettos and camps, on death marches, in a memoir that will resonate for years to come.

Thanks rob @robmclennan.bsky.social for this, and for your (seemingly tireless) promotion of all things can-lit! #canlit #canadianpoetry #literaryblog #poetrycommunity @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

the recording of the recent (zoom) conversation between Renée Sarojini Saklikar and rob mclennan on above/ground press is now online, / @reneesarojini.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-record...

rob mclennan's book of sentences hits the CBC Books Best Poetry of 2025 list! https://ow.ly/c9p650XIzif

Paul Chastko talks The Boom on CBC Calgary Eyeopener! https://ow.ly/lTIE50XHGaX

A delight and honour to talk about What is Broken Binds Us with Victoria Poet Laureate Kyeren Regehr. And listen to Zoe, Tracy and Jeremy. So many talented creatives here in Victoria. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Over on Linkedin, Bill Whitelaw makes a case for inviting Alberta's most notorious historical oil grifter into your home this holidays: tinyurl.com/4f9ewu7h

When the Dingman Well began operation in Turner Valley it unleashed a frenzy of greed and excess. This just-published book tells the story of larger-than-life promoters, wildcatters and oil evangelists, and a fever of free-market capitalism that built the foundation of Alberta s we know it today.

Today! Brecken Hancock johns host Susan and guest @robmclennan.bsky.social to talk the book of sentences on @ckcufm.bsky.social The Lit Room! cod.ckcufm.com/programs/666...

Seren was doomed to a country club cage and a leash of pearls until, one night in 1969, she said no. Now, more than fifty years later, she looks back on her life and each choice that followed, beautiful and tragic and completely her own. A new novel from the author of An Honest Woman. May 2026.

Listed to a special talk from the editors of Behind the Bricks presented by the Ontario Historical Society discussing the ways this unique project has brought togeter historians and community to create this important new book. https://ow.ly/NxvJ50XAoVK

Want to read local? Check out Alberta Views' Book Guide for a year of books from Alberta authors and publishers. albertaviews.ca/guide/books-... #BookSky @newestpress.bsky.social @renegadeartsent.bsky.social @durvile-shyba.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @aupress.ca @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I interview Lorne Daniel about his beautiful poetry collection, What is Broken Binds Us (U of Calgary Press, 2025). We talk about addiction, surrender, writing directly and with tenderness, and much more. newbooksnetwork.com/what-is-brok...

Behind the Bricks is one of the Seaboard Review's Top Books of 2025! https://ow.ly/a8K950XBrJE

Who survives war? What does survival mean? What does survival cost? In poetry by turns lyrical and intense, We Survived Until We Could Live tells the story of a father, a mother, and a son living in a life scarred, psychologically and physically, by the aftermath of war. Coming in April 2026.

Today we have our second excerpt from Mountain Voices, our latest edited collection in our open-access book series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Take some time to read Gùdia (Mary Jane) Johnson's "A’ä˛y Chù’: By Itself Mountain" niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/a... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

Coming this April. Anglers knee-deep in Alberta's waters after WWI knew there was something wrong. Fish, once abundant, were growing scarce. The rivers were in crises. Up and down the Eastern Slopes they came together - and and argued with each other - to save the western trout kingdoms.

The DMQ Virtual Salon presents Holli Carrell, Pauala Neves and author of the book of sentences rob mclennan. Enjoy readings right now at https://ow.ly/Wyry50XmBWJ

People like to see people NOT get away with murder. A fantastic collection of mystery novels (and why we love them) from NewTrail: https://ow.ly/PmBp50Xx26k

So wonderful to see Bonememory on the bestseller list!

Bonememory navigates a lattice of identity with nuance and wordplay as identity wanes and waxes and temporary peace is found. Anna Veprinska's Bonememory. Reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine https://ow.ly/cxvV50XmCXA

Today our editor, @gabtm.bsky.social, combed our archive for Mountain Voices and Echoes to help promote the latest collection in our @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment open-access book series. niche-canada.org/2025/11/19/m... #envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains

A richly illustrated, highly accessible survey of relations between Indigenous peoples and settles in the Toronto region - essential reading for all those who wish to learn how our past informs our present and the future. Now available Open Access! https://ow.ly/TS6y50XkBQY

Just Published! This beautiful book brings together adventurers, artists, and the Mountain Legacy Project to explore the history and future of our most striking landscapes. Wherever fine books are sold! https://ow.ly/CtAS50XnWpE

We are proud to be a Certified Canadian Publisher. Our books are made in Canada. They're printed in Canada. Edited and designed in Canada. We are one of over 115 Canadian book publishers bringing our voices to the world.

Tomorrow 12:30 on CKCU 93.1 FM (Ottawa) and CKCUFM.com, I'm talking with Susan Johnson about What is Broken Binds Us @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Bonememory by Anna Veprinska reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine https://ow.ly/OyrJ50XmEeG Lore, bones, memories, meaning. These gatherings are as chronic as the speaker’s pain, heightening awareness of goings-on “beneath skinsong.

Discover Canada's mountains as you've never seen them before in Mountain Voices. This beautiful book brings together adventurers, artists, and the Mountain Legacy Project to explore the history and future of our most striking landscapes. Available now! https://ow.ly/o5B150XkCeZ

Alberta bestseller for October, #6 What is Broken Binds Us. Alberta readers thanks for putting a poetry collection on your bestseller list! Huge thanks to all the independent booksellers who supported my tour with buddy Bruce Hunter and my publisher @ucalgarypress.bsky.social . #readalberta #books

University Presses publish scholarship, history, art, literature and more. These books inspire debate, present ideas, and share voices that would otherwise go unheard . We couldn't be more proud to be part of a global community of University Presses. #UPWeek #TeamUP

Bonememory navigates a lattice of identity with nuance and wordplay. Anna Veprinska's Bonememory. Reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine. https://ow.ly/yV2y50XmE5U

book of sentences author rob mclennan joins Holli Carrell & Paula Neves at the DMQ Virtual Salon. Watch online! https://ow.ly/5Ras50XmBAe

Read an excerpt from Mountain Voices from Alison Criscitiello here: niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p... We will be publishing excerpts on the 1st of each month through next October in partnership with the Alpine Club of Canada and @ucalgarypress.bsky.social! #envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains

This University Press Week we're thinking about the amazing work done by our community of peers who publish challenging thought-provoking, and inspiring books with creativity, passion and verve. We are so proud to be part of this global publishing community.

Alberta publishers share our story with the world. This Monday, join us to honour the authors, editors, designers, and more who create books for, by, and about Alberta. Why celebrate Alberta book day? Alberta makes good books.