Monday, February 5, 2018
above/ground press 25th anniversary essays
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
The Calgary Renaissance, eds. Beaulieu + mclennan : contributor interviews,
Edited by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan, and designed by Chaudiere co-publisher Christine McNair, The Calgary Renaissance highlights some of the diverse and astonishing experimental poetry and fiction that has emerged out of the past two decades of Calgary writing. An essential portrait of some of the most engaged and radical of Canadian writing and writers from one of the country’s most important literary centres. You can order a copy directly, here.
Introduction by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan. Cover by Natalie Lauchlan and Nathaniel Mah.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
a series of interviews with rob mclennan
I've been realizing lately that I've been interviewed an awful lot over the years, and never have compiled any of the interviews anywhere. I mean, you can scroll through the blog if you wish, but who has the time? (and some have even disappeared from the internet...) So I've compiled such, here (with updates as they appear).
2026 : by Kyeren Regehr, for The Poet Laureate Podcast, August 2026 :
2025 : by Jamie Tennant, December 2025 : by Katie Ebbitt, for Cleveland Review of Books, December 2025 : by Sheelagh Caygill, for On Creative Writing, December 2025 : by Dennis Rimmer, for Talking Books & Stuff, September 2025 : by Mia Funk for The Creative Process, June 2025 : by JWT BookAdventures, May 2025 : by Chris Banks for The Woodlot, April 2025 : by Hollay Ghadery for New Books Network, March 2025 : by Victoria Cole for Horseshoe Literary Journal, January 2025 :
2024 : by Jamie Tennant for his podcast, December 2024 : by Alan Neal for CBC Radio, All In A Day, November 2024 : by Ivy Grimes for Writing Thoughts, October 2024 : by Stan Rogal for periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, October 2024 : by Cara Waterfall for Archipel, September 2024 : by Megan Nichols for What We Aim To Do podcast, June 2024 : by Han VanderHart for On Poetry Podcast, May 2024 : by Stephen Brockwell for Writers Festival Radio (podcast), March 2024 :
2023 : by Hollay Ghadery for River Street Writing, November 2023 : by RC Weslowski and Kevin Spenst for Wax Poetic, August 2023 : by Erin Bedford for Pinhole Poetry, July 2023 : by Susan Johnston, CKCU, May 2023 : by Valerie Coulton, Palabrosa, May 2023 : by Sam Szanto, 20 Questions, February 2023 : by Lori Hettler, The 40 but 10 interview series, January 2023 :
2022 : by Sharon Berg, Artisanal Writer, November 2022 : by Amanda Earl on above/ground press, The Small Machine Talks, August 2022 : by Pearl Pirie, August 2022 : by Michael Murray, Galaxy Brain, July 2022 : by Colin Dardis for fill your books!, July 2022 : by Andrew French for Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, June 2022 : by Lisa Fishman, Court Green : May 2022 : by Chris Donovan : April 2022 : mini-interview by Pearl Pirie : March 2022 : rob mclennan and Renée Sarojini Saklikar : Some notes toward the (Canadian) long poem : January 2022 : periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics ;
2021: Six Questions : Chaudiere Books : November 2021 ; Apt613 : April 2021 : Kenyon Review : February 2021 ;
2020: Splintered Disorder Press : December 2020 ; the ottawa small press book fair : home edition : August 2020 ; Jenya Stashkov (in English, translated into Russian) : July 2020 ; Red Alder Review : April 2020 ;
2019: Wombwell Rainbow Interviews : July 2019 ; Train : a poetry journal : July 2019 ; 12 or 20 questions, via Vallum : January 2019 ; on curating the Tuesday poem series at dusie for Quill Bell : Christine Stoddard : January 2019 ; talking about strawberries all of the time, April 2019 ; Ottawa Arts Council, April 2019 ;
2018: episode 30 of Amanda Earl's Small Machine Talks, March, 2018 ; poetry mini interviews, March-May, 2018 ;
2017: The Roaring Nineties, by Nathaniel G. Moore : April 2017 ; rob mclennan answers The DevilHouse Six : January 2017 ;
2016: on above/ground press for Entropy : December 2016 ; Speaking of Marvels : June 2016 ; Writing is Hard : Sachiko Murakami : June 2016 (re-post) ; We Who Are About To Die : Ian Whistle : June 2016 ; Author Questions for rob mclennan : Vanessa Cimon-Lambert : May 2016 ; rob mclennan interviewed by Susanne Dyckman for OmniVerse : May 2016 ; rob mclennan and Facebook : Oscar Martens : April 2016 ;
2015: Author questions for rob mclennan : Hayley Malouin : October 2015 ; On the Art of the Interview // Julienne Isaacs : September 2015 ; POETS ONLINE TALKING ABOUT COFFEE: ROB MCLENNAN : August 2015 ; On Collaboration: Interview with Christine McNair and rob mclennan by Jen Tynes : April 2015 ; rob mclennan interview : Writer's Block CJSW by Emily Ursuliak : April 2015 ; A CONVERSATION AT WORLD’S END: Q and A WITH ROB MCLENNAN by Lea Graham : February 2015 ;
2014: 'Poet pushes together fragments in new book' by Phelisha Cassup : October 2014 ; Blog Hop: what the stories make of us, : October 2014 ; Poetry and Art that Challenge Ottawa’s Sleepy Stereotype: rob mclennan and Tanya Sprowl-Martelock Discuss Canadian Journal ottawater : September 2014 ; Interview: rob mclennan / Words By Nathaniel G. Moore : August 2014 ; Episode Five of Ottawa Writes! Talking with rob mclennan about Small Press and more : June 2014 ; Welcome to an Interview with rob mclennan by David Prosser : June 2014 ; poets touching trees interview : June 2014 ; An Interview with rob mclennan: The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Month Blog : April 2014 ; My Writing Process—blog tour, : March 2014 ;
2013: Six Questions for rob mclennan, editor/publisher, above/ground press, Jim Harrington : October 2013 ; The Mackinac: an interview : August 2013 ; Q and A with rob mclennan, for Ribbon Pig : April 2013 ; Q and A: 20 Years of above/ground press, Alison Lang : January 2013 ;
2012: ‘The Next Big Thing’ meme-interview with rob mclennan: the blog tour that ran itself : December 2012 ; Canadian Poets Petting Cats : rob mclennan and Lemonade : July 2012 ; The Dirty Dozen, Open Book: Ontario : June 2012 ; Happy Birthday rob mclennan, Lipstick Press : March 2012 ; The South Townsville micro poetry journal : March 2012 ; Rusty Morrison interviews rob mclennan, OmniVerse : February 2012 ;
2011: Exactly 12 questions for rob mclennan; an interview by Cassie Leigh : October 2011 ; "Apologies for Ottawa" : an article and interview by Vera Grbic on the Ottawa literary community : September 2011 ; A Second Time Around: a conversation between rob mclennan and Stephanie Bolster : Summer 2011 ; The VEG Literary Magazine interviews rob mclennan : April 2011 ; 10 questions for rob mclennan on above/ground press, derek beaulieu : March 2011 ; On Reviewing: rob mclennan, Lemonhound : February 2011 ;
2010: Grey Borders Reading Series Q and A with rob mclennan : November 2010 ; rob mclennan interviewed by David Kosub on editing poetry anthologies : May 2010 ;
2009: An Interview with rob mclennan, Susan Olding : December 2009 ; an interview with rob mclennan, by Darryl Salach : October 2009 ; 8-Ball: Interview with rob mclennan : July 2009 ;
2008: 12 or 20 questions: rob mclennan answers his own : June 2008 ;
2007: A conversation between K.I. Press and rob mclennan (in progress), April-May 2007 ; Cameron Anstee questions, Carleton University, April 2007 ; Haas Bianchi questions, Chicago Postmodern Poetry, January 2007 ;
2002: rob mclennan and Stephanie Bolster in converstation : November 2002 ;
Thursday, January 7, 2016
University of Alberta Writers-in-Residence interviews: 1975-2016
Saturday, July 18, 2015
bibliography of ottawa literary magazines and presses,
: Inscape (1959-1960; 1963-1970); short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Blue R Hand Press (1961-1962); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Nil Press (1961-1965); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Something Else (1963); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Bytown Books (1963); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Commoners' Press (c. 1970s); 2016 interview with Neil Flowers, editor of Northern Comfort (1973); Northern Journey/Northern Journey Press (1971-1976); Golden Dog Press (1972-1985); short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Valley Editions (1974-83); Ottawa Poetry News (1976); Sparks magazine (1977-8); 2015 interview and bibliography; Review Ottawa/Anthos magazine (1977-1988); short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Stoney Monday (1978); Reenbou: revue plurilingue de poésie / plurilingual poetry magazine (1979); Ichor : a magazine of surreal prose (1980-1); University of Toronto Library holdings; The Carleton Literary Review/The Carleton Arts Review (1981-1997); Ouroboros (1982-1989); 2015 interview and bibliography; POP (Poésie Ottawa Poetry) (c. 1985); The Rideau River Review (1987-1988); 2016 interview and bibliography; Anthos Books (1988-1990); Bywords (1990-2001); hole magazine/hole books (c. 1990-1996); Drum: The Arts and Literary Quarterly of the University of Ottawa (1992); library listing; Ink magazine (1992-c. 1997); Hostbox (1992-1995); 2020 interview and bibliography; STANZAS magazine (1993-2006); my bibliography of STANZAS magazine; Hook & Ladder (1993-1997); 2015 interview and biography; GraffitiFish (1994-1997); 2015 interview and bibliography; graffito: the poetry poster (1994-2000); electronic archive; 2015 interview and bibliography; The Skinny (c. 1994-1996); Bad Moon Books (1995-2004); 2015 interview and bibliography; Friday Circle (1995-2006); website/archive; Grove Avenue Press (c. 1996-8); 2015 interview and bibliography; Missing Jacket (1996-1997); my bibliography/write-up; The Contemporary Journal of Literary Stuff (c. 1996-1997); 2016-7 interview and bibliography; Backwater Review (1997-1999); post-journal occasional reviews blog; 2015 interview and bibliography; Front&Centre (1999-2016); 2017 interview and bibliography; Dusty Owl Press (c. 2000-2006); Black Squirrel Press (c. 2000); Litwit Review (2000); Murderous Signs (2000-2007); 2015 interview and bibliography; Poetics.ca (2002-2007); website; modomnoc (c. 2003); camenae press (2002-3); Bywords Quarterly Journal (2003-2013); ottawater (2005-2020); website; The Moose & Pussy (2008-2012); 2016 interview and bibliography; seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (2008-2018); website; The Dusty Owl Press (c. 2009-2011); Amanda Earl's 2008 interview;
contemporary publications:
: Oberon Press (1966-); website; short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Arc poetry magazine (1978-); website; 2010 "12 or 20 (small press) questions" with Anita Lahey; my 2014 profile at Open Book: Ontario; above/ground press (1993-); website; 2015 self-profile, "above/ground press at twenty-two," at Open Book: Ontario; Pooka Press (1994-); BuschekBooks (1995-); website; Apostrophe Press (1996-); In/Words Magazine and Press (2001-); website; my 2013 profile at Open Book: Ontario; The Peter F. Yacht Club (2003-); website; 2010 bibliography; 2015 profile at Open Book: Ontario; Chaudiere Books (2006-); website/blog; Ottawa Arts Review (2006-); website; AngelHousePress (2007-); website; 2010 "12 or 20 (small press) questions" with Amanda Earl; phafours press (2007-); website; 2014 profile at Open Book: Ontario; Experiment-o (2008-); website; Maple Tree Literary Supplement (2008-); website; Apt. 9 Press (2009-); website; 2010 "12 or 20 (small press) questions" with Cameron Anstee; 2011 profile at Open Book: Ontario; NationalPoetryMonth.ca (2009-); website; The Steel Chisel (2013-); website; Touch the Donkey (2014-); website; 2014 self-profile at Open Book: Ontario; LACKINGTON'S (2014-); website; shreeking violet press (2014-); website; Textualis Press (2015-); website; Hussy Press (2015-); website; Canthius [a literary journal] (2015-); website; 2016 interview at Queen Mob's Teahouse; Smidskade 9 Press (2016-); website; battleaxe press (2016-); website; horsebroke press (2016-); website; Absolutely Orbital (2016-); website; many gendered mothers (2017-); website; Pace (2017-); website; periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (2020-); website;
Friday, June 6, 2014
The League of Canadian Poets: 2014 Souster/Lampert/Lowther shortlist interviews
The Raymond Souster Award: Russell Thornton; Anne Compton; Jenna Butler; Vancy Kasper; Catherine Graham; John Terpstra.
The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award: Juleta Severson-Baker; Laurie D. Graham; Murray Reiss; Jordan Abel; Julie Joosten.
The Pat Lowther Award: Micheline Maylor; Anne Compton; Elizabeth Bachinsky; Alexandra Oliver; Sadiqa de Meijer; Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
some videos (and podcasts) of rob mclennan reading
: video as part of the summer 2024 Gap Riot Press launch ; rob mclennan features as part of Vancouver's Poets Corner Reading Series, February 2023 ; promo for Vancouver's Poets Corner Reading Series, February 2023 ; rob mclennan reads as part of the Rose Garden Press/the temz review chapbook launch, November 2022 ; Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, June 2022 ; The Peter F Yacht Club #30, December 2021 ; Vallum magazine "Publishing in Canada: A Panel Discussion," with rob mclennan, Hazel and Jay MillAr, Dane Swan, Gail Scott, Ashley Obscura and Catherine Cormier-Larose, May 2021 ; Turnstone Press 2Poem2 Reading Series, January 5 2021 ; Windsor Bookfest, October 2020 ; Red Alder Review ; periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, virtual reading series ; episode 30 of Amanda Earl's Small Machine Talks, Ottawa ON: March 2018; episode five of Ottawa Writes! on writing and small press, Ottawa ON: June 6, 2014 ; reading two poems from Songs for little sleep, as part of the Parliamentary Poet Laureate POETS CONNECTION, curated and recorded by Fred Wah at 3-402 McLeod Street (back), Ottawa ON: November 5, 2012 (with further material for discussion) ; reading from Glengarry as part of the 2012 Archibald Lampman Award Shortlist reading (with Michael Blouin and Sandra Ridley) at Collected Works, Ottawa ON: October 14, 2012 ; feature (reading "Texture: Louisiana") at 17 Poets, New Orleans LA: May 10, 2012 ; open set at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: June 14, 2011 ; feature at VERSeFEST, Ottawa ON: March 2011 ; open set at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: September 28, 2010 ; feature at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: June 8, 2010 ; feature (reading from Missing Persons) at The Dusty Owl Reading Series, Ottawa ON: March 3, 2010 ; reading from Missing Persons outside for Peter Simpson/The Big Beat, The Ottawa Citizen: December 22, 2009 ; open set at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: September 8, 2009 ; interviewed on Ottawa's A-Channel's Breakfast Television on Ottawa: The Unknown City, March 14, 2008 ;





