Author spotlight #6 : N.W. Lea,

N.W. Lea, who formerly published under Nicholas Lea, lives and writes in Ottawa. He is the author of three chapbooks--light years (Ottawa: above/ground press, 2006), Actual Girl (Toronto: The Emergency Response Unit, 2011) and Present! (above/ground press, 2014)--and two full-length poetry collections produced through Chaudiere Books: Everything is Movies (2007) and Understander (2015).

A recent poem appeared over at the dusie blog, with another here, and even further at ditch. Kate Greenstreet did an interview with him shortly after the publication of Everything is Movies, and Marcus McCann wrote on him for the Globe and Mail book blog. A review of Present! lives here, and a recent interview conducted by rob mclennan lives here. A while back, rob mclennan even did a profile of N.W. Lea for Open Book: Ontario, and, more recently, Apt 613 did a short piece on the new collection.

His Everything is Movies can be ordered directly here, and his new collection, Understander, here.