+doc.8

        

    My heart has been detachable

    for years.

    You can find it in a clam

    in a well, in the Danish mountains.

    Purple flowers grow over stones,

    careless and expansive. 

        — Mahaila Smith, from "The Bugs Have Gone Away"

 

 

I've been trying to keep away from the news. The winter's dark and cold, and I don't need the rest of the world pressing against my chest as well. I haven't been wholly successful. Maybe you haven't too. I've found that poetry helps - I'm working my way through the collected Basil Bunting, the latest issue of Some from Rob Manery, and there's a whole stack of books I ordered from Kirby a week or two back.

 

I'm happy to say that the latest +doc is now available, and I'm starting to read for the next couple of issues as well (if you've sent me something - I'm hoping to respond in the next couple of weeks). Long poems by MICHAEL CHANG, BEE LB, and Mahaila Smith to burn bright through the long nights.

 

To purchase a copy, PayPal me or send an Interac e-Transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca. Issues are $4 CAD (Canada), $6 US and International. Please include a name and mailing address. Thank you!

Jordan Abel wins the 2024 Governor General Award for Fiction

Huge congratulations to Jordan Abel, whose Empty Spaces (Penguin Random House, 2023) won the 2024 Governor General's Award for Fiction! 

Empty Spaces was excerpted in Odd Poems 2021, the first item published by null pointer press.

Pushcart Nominations 2024

This year I'm delighted to nominate the maximum number of pieces (six) for the Pushcarts: Clifton Gachagua, January, A Sequence; Connor Ferguson, "I Want a Paper Moon"; Monty Reid, Vertebrata (Thoracic); Ros Werner Winslow, we live with blurring eyes, drinking sweet brine of sweat, spit and song—; Charlie McIlwain, CANADIAN RAINS; and Lily Herman, The April Palace.

Congratulations to Clifton, Connor, Monty, Ros, Charlie, and Lily, and thank you to everyone who submitted their work to my little longer journal.

+doc.7

And now?

 

Who will pick you up?

 

Who will shake you?

 

What will you do

when you can’t be fixed anymore?

 

  - Monty Reid, from "Vertebrata (Thoracic)"

 

 

 

It's turning towards late summer — nearly August — and I'm pleased to announce that +doc.7 is now available. This is a much longer issue than usual: at 46 pages, longer than any issue except the first. And it also features the most poets, four, making it the biggest issue so far in that sense.

+doc.7 features new work by Ottawa poet Monty Reid, American poets Ros Werner Winslow and Lily Herman, and Northern Irish poet Charlie McIlwain. To purchase a copy, Paypal me or send an Interac E-transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address. Here's to the rest of the summer!

 

+doc.6

     

                & now that our lives have been reduced
                to dark rooms in galleries
                we will become the bad films they see.

                    - Clifton Gachagua, from "January: A Sequence"

+doc.6 is now available, containing new long poems by Clifton Gachagua and Connor Ferguson. These pieces are meditations on loneliness & yearning, expectation & routine - whether in Nairobi or the pandemic-restricted streets and rooms of Des Moines.

To purchase a copy, PayPal me or send an Interac E-transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address. Here's to company, to warmer days ahead.

+doc submissions closed for the year

I was blown away by the response to the submissions call - I received so much excellent work for consideration. Everyone has been notified, and the work for each issue is set. I'll start on +doc.7 in May, and +doc.8 later in the year.

Thank you to all who submitted. Submissions will open again next January.