happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press!

Today is the thirty-third anniversary of above/ground press! And that first ever above/ground press event held at the (long gone) Stone Angel Institute on downtown Ottawa's Lisgar Street (July 9, 1993), so I thought it might be worth offering a bit of a backlist sale. Why not look through the titles across the past three years of titles—2024 through 2026—and see what might interest? We’re currently working a couple of exciting upcoming plans, including the usual anniversary reading/launch/party for August (watch this space; see here for a report on last year’s event) as well as a hefty recording project, to celebrate the press’ 33 1/3 birthday later this fall. But for now, until September 1, 2026:

ANY FOUR TITLES FOR $25 (postage included)
ANY TEN TITLES FOR $40 + shipping / Canada add $20 / US add $28 / International add $34
ANY TWENTY-FOUR TITLES FOR $80 + shipping / Canada add $30 / US add $33 / International add $35
ANY FORTY-FIVE TITLES FOR $200 (postage included)
/ all prices in Canadian dollars ; “any” is subject to availability,

The press has produced nearly fifteen hundred items to date, if you can believe it, most of which are single-author poetry chapbooks. Although, if prose is more of your thing, be aware that this sale includes titles in the prose/naut series (which includes fiction, essays etc; see the full list here), with recent titles by rob mclennan, Susan Rudy, Ken Sparling, Jason Heroux, Stuart Ross, Leah Souffrant, R Kolewe, Meredith Quartermain, Susan Gevirtz, M.A.C. Farrant, Jacob Wren, Clint Burnham, Aaron Tucker and Evan Williams, etcetera. Perhaps a cluster of chapbooks by Amish Trivedi? Or Brook Houglum, Orchid Tierney, Jason Christie, Steph Gray, Monty Reid, Lydia Unsworth, Micah Ballard, Nathanael O’Reilly, Michael Sikkema, Kate Siklosi, Ken Norris, Lillian Nećakov, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Cary Fagan, Amanda Earl, Buck Downs, russell carisse, Pearl Pirie, Gary Barwin, N.W. Lea, Rose Maloukis, Guy Birchard, Misha Solomon, John Levy, Sarah Burgoyne, ryan fitzpatrick, J.R. Carpenter, Jon Cone, Jérôme Melançon, Travis Sharp, Gil McElroy, Jennifer Baker, Jason Heroux, Stephanie Bolster, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Jessica Smith, Derek Beaulieu or Lori Anderson Moseman? I mean, the possibilities are (mostly) endless. Or, heck, send me a note with a list of interests, and I can fill a box of surprises?

The past three years or so of activity also includes issues of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] and The Peter F. Yacht Club. Honestly, just go through the sidebar of names on the above/ground press blog. Each name clicks to the most recent above/ground press title by that particular author (if there are further titles by that author still available, links to such are within that particular post).

To order, send cheques to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com ; questions? shoot me an email,