Each year, rob mclennan, the cornerstone of Canadian small press poetry, writes a birthday poem. : condition report, is 2023’s birthday poem packaged for you in an introspective little box. These sparse, spacious poems are poignant mediations, moments of contemplation and rethinking. A lot is hanging on that colon, the breathy space mclennan leaves before it and after. This collection is a beautiful consideration of the self, of the passage of time, and of each moment and the poet’s eternal dilemma, “whether to capture / or contemplate.”
Printed as an adorable little square and in a limited run of seventy-five copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook is written by rob mclennan. Typeset by Dani Spinosa who also designed the cover.
Each year, rob mclennan, the cornerstone of Canadian small press poetry, writes a birthday poem. : condition report, is 2023’s birthday poem packaged for you in an introspective little box. These sparse, spacious poems are poignant mediations, moments of contemplation and rethinking. A lot is hanging on that colon, the breathy space mclennan leaves before it and after. This collection is a beautiful consideration of the self, of the passage of time, and of each moment and the poet’s eternal dilemma, “whether to capture / or contemplate.”
Printed as an adorable little square and in a limited run of seventy-five copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook is written by rob mclennan. Typeset by Dani Spinosa who also designed the cover.