new book coming, not exactly soon.

Frost last night does in the tomatoes, even tho covered!

Another early poem by Cole Swensen. Can't get this one out of my head.

Issue 4.3 is here! Featuring poems & photographs by 18 poets, 3 pinhole photographers & 4 new members of our Chapbook Love Letter Club; we’re so excited to see all this creative work out in the world. Please read & share! pinholepoetry.ca/current-issue-pinhole-poetry/

some sweetness from the Just Food Community Farm this am!

Buck Downs, exit style robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/buck...

some above/ground press author activity: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Beatriz Hausner, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin + Monty Reid, / @mreid.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/some...

catch the event at Redbird on Aug 7th!

launches Aug 7!!

Feed: "rob mclennan's blog" By: [email protected] (rob mclennan) on Saturday, July 12, 2025

ah, the hospital poem... will get to it tomorrow...spending a lot of time in the garden these days

cupcakes for Frances' birthday, more raspberries

fresh garlic salt from today's scapes!

Raspberries from the garden every day this week!

Again, just a general call for essays by Canadian poets. They can be personal, poetic, something in-between, from established older writers or MFA students, whatever the case may be. Send queries to [email protected] and I am sure we can work something out.

End-Song by Fanny Howe

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984

Dessert tonight - mash-up pie, mostly raspberry and rhubarb, with some saskatoons and strawberries tossed in - all from the garden. Delicious!

Our second-ever themed issue all about time is now live! pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...

white currants

dessert

Reading at Ottawa RiverKeeper event!

Apples soon!

It’s about time! Our next issue arrives July 4th. We can’t wait for you to read it!

Dove Cottage, home of William Wordsworth, the famous gardener.

Prospect Cottage, Dungeness

Monk's House, with greenhouse attachment.

The gardens at Monk's House, the longtime home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, remain well-kept and lovely, altho they have lost some of the specific character Leonard had given them. We visited last week.

Sad news.

happy 100th Robin Blaser 🎈

Yay! for rob mclennan's above /ground press and its 20th anniversary re-issue of my cuba A book. Get your copy now, or better yet, get a subscription to one of the most remarkable little presses anywhere!

some above/ground press author activity: Michael Boughn, Khashayar Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social , Stan Rogal, Monty Reid @mreid.bsky.social , Ryan Skrabalak + Mahaila Smith @mahaila.bsky.social , abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/some...

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

Just a gentle reminder to buy books, and when you do to keep these ones in mind :-)

way cool! A bunch of my El Big Zoo poems (in latest sighting) appear in talkingaboutstrawberries, along with a bunch of other animals! Many thanks.

I've got a sad poem about blowing up a hospital in here. Thx Pinhole!

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️

Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social on Amanda Earl's Kiki, N.W. Lea's Understander, Monty Reid's Garden + Andy Weaver's This / @amandaearl.bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/dawn...

Been reading some of her early work as well. Will pick her up at the Ottawa airport day after tomorrow for VerseFest.

VERSeFest begins tomorrow! & interviews w Dial, Avasilichioaei, Weaver, Hiemstra, Paige, Hall + Whittall, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/vers...

if the current griffin longlist has you down, be sure to see my 'best of' 2024 Canadian poety titles here, as a reminder for all the amazingness that was published through Canadian literature last year: dusie.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-be...

Pierre Poilievre is bad for Canada. The following dipshits have endorsed him: Donald Trump Elon Musk Steve Bannon Alex Jones Ben Shapiro Charlie Kirk Matt Walsh Joe Rogan Jordan Peterson Kevin O'Leary Megyn Kelly Newt Gingrich Danielle Smith Conrad Black Am I leaving anyone out?

New pod: WH press sec Karoline Leavitt said straight out that if Canada becomes 51st US state, it won't have to pay tariffs. This is an utterly insane position. @swin24.bsky.social is so good on what this must look like to Canadians, which is almost never discussed: newrepublic.com/article/1923...

full schedule posts soon! VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival! March 25-29, 2025 : Eileen Myles! Zoe Whittall! Phil Hall! Kimberly Quiogue Andrews! Em Dial! Salem Paige! Terese Mason Pierre! Alexis Vollant! Andy Weaver! Xénia Gould! Jessica Heimstra! etc www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

This is a powerful little book! Vertebrata by [email protected], from Turret House Press

the above/ground press postal increase sale continues! fill a whole box of poetry chapbook goodness from our enormous backlist, (w forthcoming Nada Gordon, Orchid Tierney, Gwen Aube, Lydia Unsworth, Ryan Skrabalak, Penn Kemp + Monty Reid titles, fyi; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

Today's poem - thx Vicki