new from above/ground press

STANZAS #41
ottawa poems (blue notes)
a long poem (in 39 parts) by rob mclennan

1.

from backwood lumbertown,
an exercise
that works out of progress

where main street so far off the main

brandished, a tradition
of contemporary

back a bit

the pool cue over

bank street from the lip
of parliament hill
all the way

roll south to st lawrence,
under another

no one body
or poem
remains the same

mayor, governor
general, prime minister

& other optic
failures

after an 18 year hiatus, rob mclennan lives where he was born: Ottawa
(where he has never done anything wrong). He keeps writing poetry books, so
people keep publishing them, including paper hotel (Broken Jaw), what's left
(Talonbooks) & stone, book one (Palimpsest Press). He is currently working
on a poetry collection, The Ottawa City Project, & a novel, Missing
Persons, an early chapter of which recently appeared on his increasingly
clever blog www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

free if you find it, $4 sample (add $2 international) & $20 for 5 issues
(outside canada, $20 US)(payable to rob mclennan), c/o 858 somerset st w,
ottawa ontario canada k1r 6r7

STANZAS magazine, for long poems/sequences, published at random in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada. previous issues include work by Gil McElroy, Aaron Peck,
derek beaulieu, carla milo, Gerry Gilbert, George Bowering, Sheila E.
Murphy & Douglas Barbour, Lisa Samuels, Ian Whistle, Gerry Gilbert, Rachel
Zolf, J.L. Jacobs, nathalie stephens, Meredith Quartermain, etc. 1000
copies distributed free around various places. exchanges welcome.

submissions encouraged, with s.a.s.e. & good patience (i take forever) of
up to 28 pages.

complete bibliography & backlist availability now on-line at
www.track0.com/rob_mclennan

various above/ground press publications can be found at Mother Tongue
Books (Ottawa), Collected Works (Ottawa), Annex Books (Toronto), etc

next issue: Jan Allen (Kingston ON)