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A Strange Road to Hell

Technology, culture and the march to World War One

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Gardens of Mourning

The vast, idealistic effort to bury World War One's fallen soldiers

rob mclennan

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa and is the author of more than 20 trade books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. He won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. His most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for Little Sleep (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012) and grief notes (BlazeVox Books, 2012), and a second novel, missing persons (Mercury Press, 2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, the Garneau Review, seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics and the Ottawa poetry annual ottawater. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.

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rob mclennan

from distinctions

September 2013
  What range of tones are possible in the phrase See for yourself? Sarah Gridley, Loom * Expand, to widen. Borrowed hours, function. Blazing heat. Perhaps, we stay awake. We know: the summer still of discon- tent. Excessive: rooms we can’t yet leave. Her kingdom for a working AC…