New from above/ground press: flow march n powder blossom s by Max Middle, C$4.00. Order from above/ground press c/o rob mclennan.

From the press release: "Max Middle lives & works in ottawa where he has lov'n' been involved in many projects which have as their fulcrum a practice of poetry or 'm a k i n g . u p' (among them the Max Middle Sound Project). His work appears in Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury Press, 2005). There are sound files downloadable from his website, www.maxmiddle.com. On 24 September 2005 Middle assisted jwcurry in the execution of Messagio Galore take II (www.photos.johnwmacdonald.com). On 28 February 2006 he launches flow march n powder blossom s, in a TREE (a reading series) in ottawa. 0n 24 March 2006, he reads from forward floating blossoms in the IV Lounge Reading Series in Toronto. He is currently conjuring up spiky angels & serving dutifully in several missions including publication of visual poetry."

Via the ottawa poetry newsletter:

Influenced by the language-centred and formally-experimental writings and performances by various members of Vancouver's Kootenay School of Writing, the late Toronto poet bpNichol and poet and Nichol bibliographer jwcurry, Ottawa poet Max Middle is one of the exceptions that makes the current rule. Born in 1970, Middle kept quiet for years, but since he started writing and performing a few years ago in Edmonton (at the Olive Reading Series), just before he returned to Ottawa, he has slowly been making himself one of the most interesting poets to come out of the city in some time. His musical and poetry performance experiment the Max Middle Sound Project, founded in 2003, has predominantly included readings and sound performances by Middle of his own works, but has also included collaborations with fiction writer Melanie Little, poet Wanda O'Connor, and poet and fiction writer Peter Norman, who performed with the group on a number of occasions, including numerous shows at the Ottawa Fringe Festival in 2003, and at the ottawa international writers festival in June 2004.

For more info an above/ground press chapbook subscriptions contact rob mclennan.

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