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to those close enough to peruse, the ottawa small press book fair, fall 2026 is noon to 5pm, Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road, Ottawa. You can buy the epub or ebook of In Praise of Small Press by Phil Hall now, or order the paper version or pick […]

Years keep slipping on their greased downward tracks. Claw prints, methinks. Oily paws sliding. Pace and staying calm and consistency are the things. Everything is so incremental. But one present minute at a time. The Jason Heroux book I read in June now has its review up at Mirimichi. And the review of a book […]

Hey, folks…Coming in the fall 2026 from phafours press: Little Survivors Everywhere by Kyla Houbolt (October, 2026) and In Praise of Small Press by Phil Hall (November, 2026). One is the dip into surreal from a U.S. poet I admire. Another a walk through what he sees in small press by a Canadian poet I admire. You can pre-order […]

Here’s a DIY starter pack to print on magnetic sheets. It’s in Helvetica Neue, size 13, (when you want to add words to match). Edit: Version 3. There are (3) 81/2 x 11 sheets. I rearranged some for best fit on page and voted some words off for better ones. 588 words/names symbols/affixes/suffixes in .doc […]

I’m editing, editing. What could I do for break? I know…word games. There’s re-w-or-d-a-ble. (Not a sponsorship endorsement but word geek fun.) What else? What do I like? Let’s see, poetry, remixing, chance operations, corpus studies, Good Omens and making stuff. I have 5 sets of magnetic poetry. What if I made a Good Omens […]