some author activity: Abel, Bowering, mclennan, Dean + Young,

Jordan Abel has won the 2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition Prize for Mountain Fiction and Poetry; The George Bowering Collection and Reading Room is scheduled to be installed in Special Collections at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2025; rob mclennan was interviewed by Alan Neal for CBC Radio's All In A Day; and Leesa Dean is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey ; and did you see this interview with American poet Geoffrey Young?

some author activity: Barwin, Robertson, Armantrout + Houbolt,

Gary Barwin is interviewed by Ali Hassan for CBC's The Next Chapter; Lisa Robertson and Kate Briggs are in conversation online at Granta; Rae Armantrout has two poems online at London Review of Books; and Kyla Houbolt is interviewed over at The Broken Spine

some author activity: Brown, Mody, Tucker, Melançon + Dennis,

Simon Brown has some new poems and a short statement in the Spotlight series; Monica Mody is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Aaron Tucker is on the longlist for the CBC Non-Fiction Prize; Jérôme Melançon was interviewed for the Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec Views and Voices podcast series, to talk about poetry, translation, and living in French outside Québec, including a bonus reading of "Solidarité", from En d'sous d'la langue, as well as a bonus reading of "Irregularities" from Tomorrow's Going to Be Bright; the late Michael Dennis' "Shelf Portrait" (writ in 2019) is newly posted at The Richler Literary Project.

some author activity: O'Reilly, Joseph, Mavreas, Tate, Betts + MacEachern,

Nathanael O'Reilly is interviewed over at Fevers of the Mind, and has a new poem up at Beir Bua Journal; Alexander Joseph has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; a CBC article on Montreal's Billy Mavreas closing down his "curiosity shop and art gallery" after twenty years; and Bronwen Tate, Gregory Betts and Jessi MacEachern all have new work online at Carousel magazine.

some author activity: Aigen, Burdick, Clayton, Barwin + Cooley,

Razielle Aigen is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Alice Burdick has a new poem up at The Miramichi Reader; Conyer Clayton has a poem reprinted up at Concrete&River, and has new work up at Long Con magazine; Gary Barwin has an essay on the CBC website on living through the pandemic; and there are new poems online by Dennis Cooley!

some author activity: Clayton, Drake, Kolewe, Young, Pirie + mclennan,

forthcoming author Conyer Clayton has a poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as do Kristina Drake and R. Kolewe; new English language Ottawa Poet Laureate Deanna Young responds to April's wash of snow for CBC Radio Ottawa; Pearl Pirie has some new work up at talking about strawberries all of the time, where rob mclennan is also interviewed.

CBC Poetry Prize longlist : Bolster + mclennan,

above/ground press authors Stephanie Bolster and rob mclennan made the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize longlist, alongside thirty-one other Canadian writers. Hooray! Congratulations to all! Stephanie Bolster is the author of more than a couple of above/ground press titles still in print, including Three Bloody Words: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (2016) and GHOSTS (2017), which is made up of poems from the same work-in-progress as her poems on the longlist; and rob mclennan is the author of far too many items that remain in print, but most recently include King Kong (2014) and It's still winter (2017), which is also made up of poems from the same work-in-progress as his poems on the longlist.

some author activity: Betts, Abel + beaulieu,

Gregory Betts has new work up at NewPoetry; Jordan Abel is interviewed on CBC Radio, and further, for the Globe and Mail; and above/ground press is included in a display of derek beaulieu's work at London's Book Art Bookshop (his most recent above/ground press title being a a novel 1-20).

some author activity: Blades, Ursuliak, Swan + Hogg,

Joe Blades has a new poem as part of the Chaudiere Books National Poetry Month series; Emily Ursuliak is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; Sarah Swan is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Robert Hogg speaks stone mill, organics and poetry over at CBC Radio Ottawa.

some author activity: Earl, Smith, Anstee, Ball + mclennan,

Amanda Earl has a new visual poem up at h&; Jessica Smith can be found at FORMATION; Cameron Anstee talks on Ottawa's CBC Radio on Nelson Ball's bpNichol Chapbook Award win; and rob mclennan has a new poem up at Truck.

some author activity: Saklikar, Christie, beaulieu, Clarke + McEwan,

Renée Sarojini Saklikar is featured over at Drunken Boat; Jason Christie has new work in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; five pages from derek beaulieu's forthcoming a a novel are now up at X-Peri; Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke gets a write-up at the CBC website; and Drew McEwan has some new work featured at the Matrix magazine website.

some author activity: Christie, Hall, Brockwell + Robinson,

Jason Christie has some new work posted at NationalPoetryMonth.ca; Phil Hall is interviewed by CBC Books; Stephen Brockwell has a new poem posted on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as does Elizabeth Robinson.

some author activity: Maguire, Abel, Pirie, Kronovet + mclennan,

Shannon Maguire has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series on the dusie blog; Jordan Abel is included on CBC Books' "Writers to Watch 2015" list; Pearl Pirie has a new poem posted at one sentence poems; Jennifer Kronovet has a new essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and rob mclennan has a new poem up at Empty Mirror.

some author activity: Higdon, Kaminski, Carr, Landman, Butler + Robinson,

Hailey Higdon has a recent piece up at Coldfront; Megan Kaminski picks another "song of the week" over at Coldfront as well; Emily Carr has new work in the August 2014 issue of Front Porch; Seth Landman has some new work over in NOO Journal #15; Jenna Butler has a short piece on the CBC website on why one should never write in a vacuum; and forthcoming above/ground press author Elizabeth Robinson responds to Where Do You Write, My Lovely?