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some author activity: Chang-Richardson, Hausner, Niespodziany, Shirley, Barwin + Reid, Ellen Chang-Richardson is featured in the "Canadian Poets Series" via Peripety and/or Tronies ; Beatriz Hausner is interviewed over at Touch...

some above/ground press author activity: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Beatriz Hausner, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin + Monty Reid, / @mreid.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/some...

catch the event at Redbird on Aug 7th!

launches Aug 7!!

the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, celebrating THIRTY-TWO YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fourteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents...

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ah, the hospital poem... will get to it tomorrow...spending a lot of time in the garden these days

do you mean the El Big Zoo poems, or something else?

cupcakes for Frances' birthday, more raspberries

I usually make pesto, but don't get very much - I only have a few dozen garlic plants in my garden. Thought I'd try something different this year. There are a variety of recipes online but they all involve scapes and some form (usually coarse) of salt.

fresh garlic salt from today's scapes!

god only knows what all grows in my garden, but no, I do not think so!

ordered some skirret seed!

Raspberries from the garden every day this week!

Again, just a general call for essays by Canadian poets. They can be personal, poetic, something in-between, from established older writers or MFA students, whatever the case may be. Send queries to query@the-wood-lot.ca and I am sure we can work something out.

End-Song
by Fanny Howe

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

~ George Orwell, 1984

Dessert tonight - mash-up pie, mostly raspberry and rhubarb, with some saskatoons and strawberries tossed in - all from the garden. Delicious!

Our second-ever themed issue all about time is now live!

pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...

white currants

dessert

Reading at Ottawa RiverKeeper event!

Apples soon!

PINHOLE POETRY Fendy S. Tulodo Sarah Washburn Thornton Susan Wismer Stephen Joffe Cassidy McFadzean Steve McOrmond Terry Trowbridge Terri McCord Laurie Koensgen Stephen Mead Mackenzie Wiebe Joe Ditchett Susan Robertson Shannon Arntfield Patrick G. Roland Jake Marmer Tin Fogdall Christina Hennemann Michael Russell Janina Aza Karpinska Courtney Buder Dagne Forrest Dan Alter THE TIME ISSUE JULY 4

It’s about time!
Our next issue arrives July 4th. We can’t wait for you to read it!

I think they're still planning to vote him out.

Dove Cottage, home of William Wordsworth, the famous gardener.

Prospect Cottage, Dungeness