ottawater: a city of romantics & optimists

Published to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the City of Ottawa,
Canada's glorious capital city, "ottawater," and its chemical formula/logo
"O2(H2O)," is a brand new poetry annual produced exclusively on-line, in
both readable and printable pdf formats. An anthology focusing on Ottawa
poets and poetics, its first issue appears in January 2005, 150 years
after old Bytown became the City of Ottawa. Long seen as a town made only
of bureaucrats and technocrats, and a more conservative poetics,
"ottawater" simply wants to remind us of what work is happening, and has
been happening for years, despite government types announcing every few
years that the arts in Ottawa is about to begin. We say instead: we have
always been here.

Edited by Ottawa writer rob mclennan, the first issue features work by
various residents current and former, in both readable and printable pdf
formats, including: Stephen Brockwell, George Elliott Clarke, Anita
Dolman, Tamara Fairchild, Laurie Fuhr, Gwendolyn Guth, William Hawkins,
Matthew Holmes, Clare Latremouille, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Peter
Norman, Monty Reid, Chris Turnbull and Ewan Whyte, interviews with poets
John Barton and Max Middle, and reviews of work by Stephen Brockwell,
Peter Norman and Shane Rhodes, as well as artwork by Derrick Lacelle, Don
Monet, Jeremy Reid, Jennifer Kwong, Sarah Dobbin, Juan Carlos Noria and
designer Tanya Sprowl.

You can find the first issue at www.ottawater.com/