World’s End

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By (author): Rob McLennan

Through eight extended poem-sections, World?s End, sits beyond the city?s gates, from relocating to an Ottawa suburb after a quarter century in Centretown, to the birth of the author?s third child. World?s End, examines the lyric across and beyond barriers, propelled by language and fueled by the pitter-patter of tiny feet. World?s End, is an opening.

AUTHOR

Rob McLennan

rob mclennan is a poet, essayist, editor, reviewer, and blogger based in Ottawa. He has been published by many of Canada’s most prestigious publishers and he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. He is also the editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. His writing is grounded using language in fresh ways to discover, clarify, and understand the world and his surroundings. He does “not wish to remain still.” mclennan is the author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, as well as over one hundred chapbooks of poetry and fiction. He has been twice long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize, and was awarded Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award and the John Newlove Poetry Award.