the third issue of ottawater (www.ottawater.com/), an Ottawa poetry pdf annual, edited by rob mclennan, is almost online, and will be launching at the end of January.

The third issue features work by various residents current and former, including: Michael Blouin, Terry Ann Carter, Anita Dolman, Amanda Earl, William Hawkins, Elisabeth Harvor, Clare Latremouille, K.L. McKay, rob mclennan, Nadine McInnis, Max Middle, Cath Morris, John Newlove, Wanda O'Connor, Roland Prevost and Kate Van Dusen, interviews with poets K.I. Press, Stephen Brockwell and Shane Rhodes, and reviews of work by Laura Farina, Anita Lahey and Matthew Holmes as well as artwork by various local visual artists.

The launch party for the third issue will be happening Friday, January 26th, 2006 at the Mercury Lounge, 56 Byward Street, Ottawa, from 8pm to 10pm, lovingly hosted by rob mclennan. After short readings by various contributors, stick around for a drink, and listen to resident dj Lance Baptiste spin tunes well into the darker hours.

ottawater would like to thank designer Tanya Sprowl, Mercury Lounge's Lance Baptiste, the ottawa international writers festival, and Randy Woods at non-linear creations for their continuing support.

for more information, contact editor/publisher rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca

Chaudiere Books and Collected Works present:

a reading by Monty Reid & Clare Latremouille
from their new Chaudiere Books titles

Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:30pm at Collected Works Bookstore 1242 Wellington Street West (at Holland), Ottawa

author bios:

Widely published as a poet and essayist, Monty Reid has produced a
substantial volume of literary work. His volumes include The Life of Riley (Saskatoon SK: Thistledown Press, 1981), These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990), The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995), Dog Sleeps (Edmonton AB: NeWest Press, 1993) and Flat Side (Red Deer College Press, 1998), a collection of new and selected poems, Crawlspace (Toronto ON: House of Anansi, 1993), and the chapbooks cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005) and Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006). His work is also included in the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, published as part of the first season of books by Chaudiere Books. He has won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times and is also a three-time Governor General's Award nominee. He spent nearly twenty years working at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, in the heart of the Alberta badlands, before moving to the Ottawa area in 1999 to work at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Disappointment Island is his most recent poetry collection, newly out from Chaudiere Books.

Clare Latremouille has lived in numerous cities across Canada, and has published her work widely, including in the anthologies Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1998), Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets (Broken Jaw Press, 2000) and Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003). Her novel The Desmond Road Book of the Dead is her first published book. She currently lives in Ottawa.

Later This Fall

Chaudiere Books & the Ottawa Art Gallery invite you to the launch of the first in a series of anthologies of work by Ottawa area writers, the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, featuring the work of Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes. A free event, lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books editor/publisher rob mclennan, it happens Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 7pm at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Arts Court Building, 2 Daly Street (at Nicholas; beside the Rideau Centre). For more information, contact Chaudiere Books editor/co-publisher rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca


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