rob mclennan (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, fiction writer, critic, editor, and small-press publisher. His work has moved through Canadian literary culture for decades, joining an extensive writing practice to sustained editorial and publishing activity. Shampoo Poetry published his work across six issues: 11, 13, 18, 23, 25, and 36.
Writing and publishing
mclennan has built a literary career across poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, chapbooks, magazines, and independent publishing. The range matters because his work often grows through networks of writers and publications as much as through individual books. His long-running literary blog documents books, readings, small presses, reviews, and conversations across contemporary writing.
His poetry frequently works through fragments, accumulation, shifts of register, and close attention to the textures of ordinary language. The poems can move quickly between observation, memory, literary reference, and the social life surrounding writing. That mobility fits naturally with the magazine culture in which much of his work circulated.
rob mclennan in Shampoo Poetry
The Shampoo archive records mclennan in Issues 11, 13, 18, 23, 25, and 36. Those appearances span several stages of the magazine and show a sustained editorial relationship across the archive. Historical pages carried individual works including (composed in the midst of action), C.D. Wright’s lost road, from paisley, as if lost in an ancient maze, and a later group of poems.
This profile preserves the bibliographic record of those contributions and gathers their history under one stable author page. The issue references identify where the work appeared in Shampoo and keep the author’s place in the magazine’s archive clear for readers, researchers, and other publications that still cite those appearances.
A small-press literary network
mclennan’s presence in Shampoo belongs to a broader small-press ecology built from magazines, chapbooks, readings, blogs, reviews, and correspondence between writers. Such networks gave experimental and independent poetry a durable public life outside large publishing institutions. His career offers a particularly visible example because writing, editing, reviewing, and publishing remain closely connected across his practice.
Readers following that history can continue through Shampoo’s guide to modern poetry and its survey of contemporary poets. The profile of Danil Rudoy leads into the magazine’s current formal-poetry corpus.
