Poetry. A new child, a new house, a new neighbourhood: rob mclennan takes the measure of his environment in A PERIMETER, a collection of shorter and longer pieces from 2010 to 2014. A PERIMETER is built around three longer works: the serial Alta Vista Poem; A perimeter, a survey of the poet's new surroundings (the suburbs and countryside around his Ottawa home), and A Rose Concordance, surrounding the first three months of his daughter, Rose. Interspersed are shorter poems reflecting on other aspects of mclennan's domestic and civilian life.