books,

certain titles can be ordered via this link at All Lit Up, or via Amazon ; otherwise, one can always attempt the publishers directly, or check with me (I have copies available of most of these).

fiction

On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press, 2024) : publisher link :
The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014) : publisher link :

missing persons (The Mercury Press, 2009) : 

white (The Mercury Press: Toronto ON, 2007) :

non-fiction

A river runs through it: a writing diary , collaborating with Julie Carr (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming) :
essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022) : publisher link :
notes and dispatches: essays (Insomniac Press, 2014) :

Ottawa: The Unknown City (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) :

subverting the lyric: essays (ECW Press, 2008) : publisher link :

poetry

book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, forthcoming) : publisher link :
Snow day (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming) : publisher link :
World's End (ARP Books, 2023) : publisher link :
the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press, 2022) : publisher link :
Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) : publisher link :
A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) : publisher link :

How the alphabet was made, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) : publisher link :
A perimeter (New Star Books, 2016) : publisher link :

If suppose we are a fragment (BuschekBooks, 2014) :

Songs for little sleep, (obvious epiphanies press, 2012)

grief notes: (BlazeVOX [Books], 2012)

A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011) :

apertures (Agotist Online, 2011)

Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) : publisher link :

kate street (Moira, 2011)

52 flowers (or, a perth edge) (obvious epiphanies press, 2010) : publisher link :

wild horses (University of Alberta Press, 2010)

a compact of words (Salmon Publishing, 2009) : publisher link :

gifts (Talonbooks, 2009) : publisher link :

solids, or, strike-out (a suite) (ungovernable press, 2008)

The Ottawa City Project (Chaudiere Books, 2007) : publisher link :

aubade (Broken Jaw Press, 2006)

name      , an errant (Stride, 2006)

stone, book one (Palimpsest Press, 2004)

what’s left (Talonbooks, 2004) : publisher link :

red earth (Black Moss Press, 2003)

paper hotel (Broken Jaw Press, 2002)

harvest, a book of signifiers (Talonbooks, 2001) : publisher link :

bagne, or Criteria for Heaven (Broken Jaw Press, 2000)

The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh (Talonbooks, 1999) : publisher link :

Manitoba highway map (Broken Jaw Press, 1999)

bury me deep in the green wood (ECW Press, 1999) : publisher link :
Notes on drowning (Broken Jaw Press, 1998)

[photo of rob on the WESTFEST 10th anniversary main stage, June 7, 2013]