A Halt Which is Empty By Rob Mclennan

A Halt Which Is Empty Paperback – May 15, 2019 by Rob McLennan (Author)

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mansfield Press (May 15, 2019)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1771262206
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1771262200
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces

Reviewed by LB Sedlacek

An eclectic mix of poems in prose and free verse in this book of poems is a gift to the reader.  Everything on the page is above average.  Mclennan gives us smart aesthetic verses.  From the poem “A modest proposal,”:  “Unexpect, a lake. A rise in the earth. Soft and sweet and mute as a cork. This all may be a construct, / still. I can’t speak for. Reinventions of solitude.”  Mclennan gives the reader everything and so much more in these inventive poems as he captures the world, so to speak.  The presentation is unique as the poetry itself.

About the Author

Born in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital city, Rob McLennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection A perimeter (New Star Books, 2016), How the alphabet was made (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and Household items (Salmon Poetry, 2018). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Christine McNair), The Garneau Review, seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics, Touch the Donkey and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater. He is Interviews Editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse, a former contributor to the Ploughshares blog, editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices on his website.