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rob mclennan

The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a number of countries, rob mclennan has published work in over two hundred trade journals in fourteen countries and three languages, and performed in Ireland, England, Wales, the United States and across Canada.

mclennan’s books with Talon are The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh, harvest, what’s left, gifts, and Glengarry.

September 2012 : Glengarry Shortlisted for Lampman Award

April 2011 : Nuri Does Not Exist, Triage, and Glengarry Have Arrived!

BOOK AWARDS

Archibald Lampman Poetry Award Nominee, 2000.

QUOTES OF NOTE

“mclennan is a poet of place, always finding his voice out of the material of his surroundings, the continuity of its existence through history.” — Ottawa Xpress

“…exists as a paradisiacal, Elysium field of memory and escape…the county of Glengarry is beautifully presented as a post-Wordsworthian (almost neo-Wordsworthian) oasis.”
— Canadian Literature

QUOTES OF NOTE

rob mclennan is one of the best contemporary poets in Canada.
— Barry McKinnon

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“mclennan works with a genuine verbal invention and his cultural ephemera laid out in pastiche make a strong impression.”

— University of Toronto Quarterly

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For mclennan, there are no rules. His poetry defies convention or classification.
— Room Magazine

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Just the right combination of details…carefully crafted, each line shifting the image slightly…
— Books in Canada