Index

rob mclennan

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of over a dozen trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections a compact of words (Salmon Publishing, 2009), Gifts (Talonbooks, 2009) and wild horses (University of Alberta Press, 2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), the former Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell, poetics.ca) and new seventeen seconds (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Review: You Exist. Details Follow. by Stuart Ross
published in Bywords.ca December 2013
Review: Great Canadian Poems for the Aged, Vol. 1 by Michael Boughn
published in Bywords.ca November 2013
Review: Quantum Leap by Mari-Lou Rowley
published in Bywords.ca October 2013
Review: Unknown Actor by Jason Christie
published in Bywords.ca September 2013
Review: Placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau
published in Bywords.ca August 2013
Review: re: verbs by Robert Swereda
published in Bywords.ca July 2013
Review: Alert to Glory by Sally Ito
published in Bywords.ca June 2013
Review: Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli
published in Bywords.ca May 2013
Review: New Theatre by Susan Steudel
published in Bywords.ca April 2013
Review: Franzlations [the imaginary Kafka parables] by Gary Barwin, Craig Conley and Hugh Thomas
published in Bywords.ca March 2013
Review: Poetryworld by Louis Cabri
published in Bywords.ca February 2013
Review: The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage by Don McKay
published in Bywords.ca January 2013
Review: from Tumultétudes: The Chips & Ties Study by Margaret Christakos
published in Bywords.ca December 2012
Essay: A note on `Miss Canada`
published in Bywords.ca November 2012
Review: The Properties by Colin Browne
published in Bywords.ca November 2012
Review: jumping in the asylum by Patrick Friesen
published in Bywords.ca October 2012
Review: Handfuls of Bone by Monica Kidd
published in Bywords.ca September 2012
Review: Distillō by Basma Kavanagh
published in Bywords.ca August 2012
Review: Garden (dec unit) by Monty Reid
published in Bywords.ca July 2012
Poem after a line or two by Sylvia Legris
published in Bywords.ca December 2010
Seneca, summer
published in Bywords.ca January 2010
a short history of the digital camera
published in Bywords.ca January 2009
Sandra Ridley's sediment
published in Bywords.ca July 2007
bpNichol’s “talking about strawberries all of the time,” variation one
published in the Bywords Quarterly Journal Volume 4 Number 1 (Spring 2006)
bpNichol’s “talking about strawberries all of the time,” variation two
published in the Bywords Quarterly Journal Volume 4 Number 1 (Spring 2006)
Meredith Quartermain’s “I Canadian dream of English,” variation three
published in Bywords.ca January 2006
reprinted in the Bywords Quarterly Journal Volume 4 Number 1 (Spring 2006)
John Newlove Poetry Award 2006 honourable mention
dirge
published in this is NOT a family venue (2005)
John Newlove's silence
published in the John Newlove Memorial Issue of Bywords.ca April 2004
reprinted in Moments Not Monuments: Remembering John Newlove (2004)
bad abstract painting
published in Bywords.ca January 2003
reprinted in the Bywords Quarterly Journal Volume 1 Number 1 (Spring 2003)
another moonlight
published in Bywords Volume 11, Numbers 2-3 December/January 2001
reprinted in the Bywords Quarterly Journal Volume 1 Number 1 (Spring 2003)