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rob mclennan
On Beauty is a provocative collection of vignettes revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life.
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Rob McLennan
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…
A long-overdue critical overhaul of the Canadian literary landscape by one of Canada’s most engaged reviewers, writing as reader, writer, editor, reviewer, and fan.
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…
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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…
Supple lines meander and flit over scapes of love and place, affording a lucid estrangement.
Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets is a poetry anthology edited by rob mclennan.
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…
This suite of pandemic essays exist within those first one hundred days of original lockdown, marking time through moments, anxieties and the elasticity of time itself. What are days, weeks…
Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of film and television, mclennan’s language obscures the breadth and depth of this work.
Here are the signifiers for a journey: tickets, postcards, enforced idleness, losing one’s way and sometimes finding it again.
Presents us with cues and clues to the poet’s compositional strategies.
Composed in three sections, Glengarry is a return in writing to the landscape of rob mclennan’s youth.
A subcultural guide to Canada’s capital city.
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…
What do we know of history, and what, if anything, does it have to do with the present? A halt, which is empty is a series of small studies, each…
Phil Hall
Increasingly known as the poet’s poet , Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. Guthrie Clothing is…
English writing in Montreal has a distinction of being isolated from the rest of the country, with very little support for English work. Consequently, it developed along alternate paths and…
An anthology highlighting some of the experimental and avant-garde poetry and fiction that has emerged out of the past two decades of Calgary writing. An essential portrait of some of…
