the acts

by rob mclennan

the acts

rob mclennan’s latest is a superb chapbook about love, loss, and the regaining of happiness after a focal person has left one’s life forever. He was the University of Alberta’s Poet-In-Residence for 2007/08.

ISBN: 978-0-9809278-2-5

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Released: May 2008

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, even though he was born there. He is the author of over a dozen titles, including the poetry collections The Ottawa City Project (Chaudiere Books, 2007) and a compact of words (Salmon Publishing, 2008), the novel white (The Mercury Press, 2007) and the non-fiction titles Ottawa: The Unknown City (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008), subverting the lyric: essays (ECW Press, 2008) and Alberta Dispatch: interviews & writing from Edmonton (above/ground press, 2008). He is also editor/publisher of above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell, poetics.ca) and ottawater (ottawater.com). He just spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays and interviews at robmclennan.blogspot.com