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Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan, reviewed by Julian Day

Julian Day

Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan

Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan / Insomniac Press / 2014 / 978-1554831265 / 318 pages rob mclennan has operated above/ground press from his home base of Ottawa for more than … [Read more...]

Four poems for Empty Mirror by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

off five-forty-two / credit: em

1. However quick, language still takes time to adapt. Beautiful things, to wit: the colour of a spring balm, a tongue. The amplification of syntax. What have you. 2. His hospital … [Read more...]

A perimeter by rob mclennan, reviewed by Ali Znaidi

Ali Znaidi

A perimeter - poetry by rob mclennan

A perimeter by rob mclennan / New Star Books / 978-1-55420-128-0 / paperback / 80 pages / 2016 In A perimeter rob mclennan has ordered the poems which were written between 2010 and 2014 in a way … [Read more...]

City of words by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

sky delta - Denise Enck

City of words All the galaxies we see have a number. Sarah Lang, For Tamara Singlet. Does not wish to. Hardened. Alone is not the page. Breathe rapidly, and nuclear. Articulate. Torrential surf. … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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