above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!

The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s been a ton of above/ground press activity over the past calendar year, including MORE THAN FIFTY TITLES (so far) produced in 2025 alone, including: poetry chapbooks by Eudore Évanturel (trans. by Jamie Sharpe, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Jason Heroux, Jon Cone, Ben Ladouceur, Yaxkin Melchy (trans. by Ryan Greene, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Michael Sikkema, Laynie Browne, Nada Gordon, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Buck Downs, Noah Berlatsky, Andrew Brenza, Mandy Sandhu, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Steph Gray, Beatriz Hausner, J-T Kelly, Terri Witek, Jason Christie, Micah Ballard, Monty Reid, Tom Jenks, Orchid Tierney, Brook Houglum, Sandra Doller, Eileen Myles, Gregory Crosby, Kevin Davies, Lori Anderson Moseman, Thor Polukoshko, Lydia Unsworth, Ryan Skrabalak, Jacob Braun, Cary Fagan, Gwen Aube, Penn Kemp, Maxwell Gontarek, Nathanael O’Reilly, Catriona Strang, Andy Weaver and Alice Burdick; prose chapbooks by Jason Heroux, Stuart Ross, Meredith Quartermain, Leah Souffrant and R Kolewe; the chapbook anthologies Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage, eds./dir. Véronique Sylvain and/de David O’Meara, and the suitcase poem, ed. Amanda Earl; issues of the poetry quarterly Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] and an issue of The Peter F. Yacht Club (all of which are still in print, at least for the moment).

NEW SLIDING SCALE SUBSCRIPTIONS (AND RESUBSCRIPTIONS): Postal increases this year have been brutal (30% back in January), so I’m taking Stuart Ross’ sage advice, and for 2026, I will be offering a sliding scale subscription rate. According to multiple folk (including current subscribers), I really should have upped the rates years ago, but I always resist, not wanting to price anybody out (as I think finances is the worst reason to not be able to participate). Subscriptions include everything above/ground press makes from the moment you subscribe through to the end of 2026, such as chapbooks, broadsheets, The Peter F. Yacht Club and G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] and quarterly poetry journal Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal].

CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTIONS : $75-$120 (CAN $)
AMERICAN SUBSCRIPTIONS : $75-$120 (US $)
INTERNATIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS : $100-$140 (CAN $)

Honestly, if you are open to subscribing, whatever works within that particular range is completely fine! Not everyone has the same kinds of resources, and the main goal is to have the books available to those who want them. As well, anyone who subscribes on or by December 1st will also receive the last above/ground press package of 2025, including those exciting new titles by a number of those folk listed above, plus whatever else the press happens to produce before the turn of the new year.

Why wait? You can either send a cheque (payable to rob mclennan) to 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 7M9, or send money via PayPal or e-transfer to rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com (or through the PayPal button at robmclennan.blogspot.com).

Forthcoming items through the press also include individual chapbooks by Frances Cannon, Lance La Rocque, russell carisse, David Gaffney, Kevin Spenst, Lillian Nećakov, Jill Stengel, a collaboration between Cary Fagan and Rebecca Comay, Buck Downs, Guy Birchard, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jeremy Luke Hill, Mrityunjay Mohan, David Phillips, and a collaboration between Charlotte Jung and Johannes S.H. Bjerg, as well as Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #47, featuring new work by Jason Christie, Sabyasachi (Sachi) Nag, Aidan Chafe, Sarah Rosenthal, Meredith Quartermain, c.a.r. rafuse and Susan Gevirtz (a couple of which have already been sent to the printer, by the by), as well as a whole slew of publications that haven't even been decided on yet. Who knows what might happen next.

And don’t forget our glorious new substack! I’ve been posting author features/interviews over there for a while now, lots of cool updates that way (and a good way to catch the occasional above/ground press update).

And don’t forget (also) that groundswell: the best of the third decade of above/ground press, 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2024) is also still available, yes? 

The Factory Reading Series is gearing up for some further events, but have you seen the virtual reading series over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (with otherwise new monthly online content, by the way; the pandemic-era extension of above/ground press). Have you seen the posts, as well, through the (ottawa) small press almanac? lots of information on above/ground press and everyone else in town who makes chapbooks/ephemera etcetera! And the next edition (32nd anniversary!) of the ottawa small press fair is November 22nd!