rob's western poetry tour

rob mclennan with Winnipeg poets Karen Clavelle and Ariel Gordon
Aqua Books, 89 Princess Street.
Wednesday, November 22, 7:30pm.

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa even though he was born there. The author of a dozen trade collections of poetry, his most recent are named an errant (Stride UK, 2006) and aubade (Broken Jaw Press, 2006). A collection of literary essays is due to appear in fall 2007 with ECW Press, and he is currently putting the finishing touches on There Is No Mountain: Andrew Suknaski New & Selected Poems for Chaudiere Books, a new publishing house he has co-founded in Ottawa. He often posts reviews and rants www.robmclennan.blogspot.com.

Karen Clavelle is a writer, poet, and publisher (Atelier 78), who dreams of summer rides in prairie sun, wind, rain, grasshoppers and honey bees, from Manitoba to Montana, on the back of a big black motorcycle. In addition to writing critical articles on prairie writers and a monograph on Dennis Cooley, she has written two long poems and several chapbooks (pachyderm press). Producer and publisher of Three Days in Spain (a small anthology of international writer's work), and The Archaeology of Water (2004) (a collaborative print project), Karen recently completed her PhD dissertation on the garden in prairie literature at the University of Manitoba, where she teaches Prairie and English Literature. In addition, she is sifting through a collection of Mother Goose letters found in a tin box retrieved from an old granary; collaborating on a blind print project with print-maker Gordon Trick; and occasionally producing hand-made books. A new chapbook of her poetry is perpetually forthcoming with above/ground press.

For information on the rest of the western tour, see here.