Ottawater

Issue 8 of Ottawater is now online. There must be something good in the ‘water. Sure is. 60 pages of art, and lots of poems
Poems by nearly 2 dozen including Marilyn Irwin, Phil Hall (“Come back Silence we’ll try to listen”), John Barton (a Masterclass weekend with him in April is now taking registration), Stephanie Bolster, K.I. Press, and ones by some of my other favorite writers whose work too rarely lets work to light of day, like Anne Le Dressay (in a list poem of pros of a city: “The absence of a silence so profound it wakes me out of sleep like/a sudden sharp noise.” or “it’s the back of his bent neck that makes you/ notice, so that you see the vulnerability/elsewhere in him.”) and Robin Macdonald, (“A year of too many desires /planted. In fertile soil, everything /grows.”)
There are interviews (with Michael Dennis and Christine McNair) and exceptional layout by Tanya Sprawl.
The launch is tonight at the Carleton Tavern.
Psst, the next weekly issue of Linebreak is also up. A poem of matches.