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rob mclennan
photo: Christina Riley
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Join us for the launch of rob mclennan's first novel, white (The Mercury Press)
Born in Ottawa in 1970 at the Grace Hospital on Wellington Street near Parkdale Avenue, rob mclennan was raised on a sixth-generation dairy farm near Maxville, Ontario in historic Glengarry County. He currently lives directly between Ottawa's Chinatown and Little Italy neighbourhoods, and was called "Centretown's poet laureate" by David Gladstone in The Centretown Buzz in the mid-1990s.
The author of thirteen trade poetry collections in Canada and England, most recently The Ottawa City Project (Chaudiere Books, 2007), he has published poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews and columns in over two hundred publications in fourteen countries and in four languages, and done reading tours in five countries on two continents. The editor/publisher of above/ground press and the long poem magazine STANZAS (both founded in 1993), the online critical journal Poetics.ca (with Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell), and the Ottawa poetry annual ottawater (ottawater.com), he also edits the ongoing Cauldron Books series through Broken Jaw Press. His is the editor of the anthologies evergreen: six new poets (Black Moss Press), side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac Press), GROUNDSWELL: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press), Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets (Chaudiere Books) and Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers (Chaudiere Books), and runs the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair, which he co-founded in 1994, currently under the umbrella of the small press action network - ottawa (span-o), which he also runs.
rob's first collection of literary essays, subverting the lyric: essays (ECW Press), and his first travel book, Ottawa: The Unknown City (Arsenal Pulp Press) will be published at the end of the year. He also has a new poetry collection forthcoming in 2008 with Ireland's Salmon Publishing, and he is currently completing work on a book of essays by Andrew Suknaski for NeWest Press/writer as critic (spring 2008); an issue of the critical journal Open Letter; and Guernica Editions collections of essays on the works of George Bowering, John Newlove and Andrew Suknaski, as well as numerous other schemes and projects. His online home is very out of date at www.track0.com/rob_mclennan, and he often posts reviews, essays, rants and other nonsense at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com.
Information:
rob mclennan
az421@freenet.carleton.ca
613-239-0337
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