rob mclennan

rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, even though he was born there. The author of ten previous poetry collections, he has two more forthcoming: name, an errant (2006, Stride: UK) and The Ottawa City Project (2007, Chaudiere Books: Ottawa). He has a number of recent chapbooks, including g h o s t s (Furniture Press: Columbus, Ohio), common knowledge (Pooka Press: Vancouver), & carnage (As We Try & Sleep: Winnipeg) & his poetry, fiction & critical work has appeared in over one hundred journals and anthologies in ten countries & three languages. The editor/publisher of above/ground press and the longpoem magazine STANZAS (both founded in 1993), he edits the cauldron books series through Broken Jaw Press, has edited sections of Australia’s online Jacket magazine, and recently became an editor of the American on-line journal Drunken Boat. He co-ordinates events & the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair (founded in 1994) through the small press action network - ottawa (span-o), edits the online journal Poetics.ca (with Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell) and is editor/publisher of the Ottawa poetry annual ottawater (www.ottawater.com/). In 1999, he won the CAA / Air Canada Award for most promising writer (in any genre) in Canada under the age of 30. He is completing a couple of novels, a collection of essays, and various poetry manuscripts, and editing collections of essays on the works of George Bowering, Andrew Suknaski and John Newlove. He is the author of a clever blog (www.robmclennan.blogspot.com), and recently set up the blog ottawa poetry newsletter in May of 2005 (www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.com), to include various contributions from (ir)regular correspondents in Ottawa & beyond. He was born in Ottawa in 1970 on the ides of March (they say), in the late Grace Hospital in Ottawa’s Mechanicsville area.

 

Awards

The Canadian Authors Association/Air Canada Award for Most Promising New Writer Under 30 Years of Age, 1999.

Archibald Lampman Award, for the best book of poetry in Ottawa-Carleton, shortlist, 1999
Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, runner-up,1999
Archibald Lampman Award, for the best book of poetry in Ottawa-Carleton, shortlist, 2000

 

Selected Publications
Notes on drowning. (Broken Jaw Press, 1998).

bury me deep in the green wood. (ECW Press, 1999).
Manitoba highway map. (Broken Jaw Press, 1999).
The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh(Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1999)
bagne, or Criteria for Heaven (Broken Jaw Press: Fredricton, 2000)
harvest: a book of signifiers (Talonbooks, 2001)
paper hotel (Broken Jaw Press, fall 2002)
red earth (Black Moss Press, 2003)
what's left (Talonbooks, 2004)
stone, book one (Palimpsest Press, 2004)

 

Selected Anthologies
side/lines: a new Canadian poetics (Insomniac Press, 2002)
evergreen: six new poets (Black Moss Press, 2002)
Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press / cauldron, 2003)

 

Books in Print
mclennan, rob

Poems from the Blue Horizon (Broken Jaw Press, 1994) ISBN: 0-921411-34-0.
Notes on drowning (Broken Jaw Press, 1998) ISBN: 0-921411-75-8.
bury me deep in the green wood (ECW Press, 1999) ISBN: 1-55022-379-8.
Manitoba highway map (Broken Jaw Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-921411-89-8.
The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh (Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1999) ISBN: 1896647324
bagne, or Criteria for Heaven (Broken Jaw Press: Fredricton, 2000)
Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets, editor (cauldron books, Broken Jaw Press, 2000) ISBN 0-921411-71-5
harvest: a book of signifiers (Talonbooks, 2001) ISBN 0-88922-455-2
side/lines: a new Canadian poetics (Insomniac Press, 2002) ISBN: 1894663349
evergreen: six new poets (Black Moss Press, 2002) ISBN 0887533698
paper hotel (Broken Jaw Press, fall 2002)
Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press / cauldron, 2003) ISBN 1553910125
red earth (Black Moss Press, 2003) ISBN 0-88753-381-7
what's left (Talonbooks, 2004) ISBN 0-88922-498-6
stone, book one (Palimpsest Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9733952-1-4

 

rob mclennan
858 Somerset Street West
Main Floor
Ottawa, ON
K1R 6R7
Canada
613 239 0337
az421@freenet.carleton.ca

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