Poetry / Poems
Arkbound The Shadow of My Ancestral Tree
Book SynopsisThe Shadow of My Ancestral Tree speaks of many young women's experiences, particularly the children of immigrant parents. It is a collection of poetry about life, which explores themes such as trauma, grief, heartbreak, politics, family, hope, feminism and race. Offering both an introspective and outward-looking perspective on these themes, this collection goes beyond the personal musings of the individual and highlights social issues affecting the collective. These poems encourage change, turning stories of sorrow into stories of hope. The Shadow of My Ancestral Tree is a collection created to bring comfort and companionship to the voiceless whilst paying homage to those who broke their backs planting trees so the next generation could feel their shade.
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Arkbound Spare a Thought
Book SynopsisA book of poems that explores the fundamental questions resonating within each of us about human nature. Jenny Symons, in her powerful and genuine voice, asks us to `spare a thought', pause our hectic routines for a moment and reflect on the quintessential aspects of our reality. Hers is an enthralling call for love, altruism, respect and admiration for nature, integrity and self-assertion. Emerging from the darkness of her mental illness, Symons resurrects to new life thanks to the energy of her poetry, through which we ourselves are given the chance to re-examine our truest nature. `...Following Jenny Symons' journey through hospitalisation due to schizophrenia, the collection navigates the difficult waters of the poet's on-going battle with mental illness...'Trade ReviewThis moving and thought-provoking collection of poems is a proof of the beneficial and therapeutic effects of poetry. From the abyss of her mental distress Jenny Symons manages to create beautiful art. Her poems tap into the quintessential questions of what it means to be human, exploring, with an innocent and sincere eye, every aspect of existence, form the contemplative and restoring powers of nature to the overwhelming and dehumanising influence of the chaotic and greedy modern life. Ultimately, the collection represents the poet's journey of self-discovery, through which the readers themselves are driven to reflect on the fundamental need for kindness and understanding.
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Arkbound Tick Tock, Tick Tock: It's Time to Listen
Book SynopsisThis book is a composition of powerful, poignant and perceptive poems that depict life on the autism spectrum. Written by a young person with High Functioning Autism, the poems reflect on her school and college years, capturing sadness at being marginalised as well as appreciation for the people who supported her. The poems provide important insights on the difficulties that people on the autism spectrum face, including deep anxiety and developing social relationships. Although 1 in 100 people have this condition, as it affects everyone differently, it is often misunderstood and ignored. Lauren's book adds to the calls for perception of autism to be widened, encouraging a positive and informed attitude towards those with this complex condition. Author Bio: Lauren lives in North Somerset and has a diagnosis of High Functioning Autism. She recently completed a degree in Special Education and founded an autism company supporting young people on the spectrum, their parents, and professionals. In her spare time, I enjoy baking, travelling, and going hiking. As a young person with autism, Lauren has faced misunderstandings and adversity, particularly during mainstream education. Writing poetry was a strategy she used to channel her anxieties and frustrations as well as to communicate her gratitude towards those who supported her. Writing helped to build Lauren's confidence and resilience and enabled her to find her voice.Trade Review"I almost broke down in tears - there will be so many autistic people out there who can relate to it." "Your poems made me think about things from a young person's perspective when it comes to education and the impact decisions and experiences have on a person." "Thank you, Lauren, for your bravery and honesty in your poems."
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Arkbound Painted Poetry
Book Synopsis‘Magic is not what happens, But what you do. It’s not what makes you rich, But what makes you poor.’ In this collection of poetry, readers can dive into feelings and thoughts about mental health, love, childhood and the natural world. The poet weaves her words with an innate sense of destiny, even when pushing through obstacles of self-doubt and exclusion. From the diamond beauty she sees in sparkling ice, to the darkest moments of being alone, we can find solace and wisdom. As the last stanza of the final poem says:- ‘Let’s reach out and live, Let’s share, love and give, Let’s find our lost selves in strangers…’
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Speculative Books Ltd HYPOCRISPY
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Fly on the Wall Press Climacteric
Book SynopsisClimacteric noun 1. a critical period or event. "the first major climacteric in twenty-first-century poetry" 2. MEDICINE the period of life when fertility is in decline; (in women) menopause. "most women do not experience significant psychological problems at the climacteric" "our hair is coming out in clumps; we are sweeping it from corners, from beneath the bed, gathering it into our sleepless nest" How can we love ourselves at the climacteric of our lives; of the planet? Jo Bratten's debut poetry chapbook bubbles with anger and guilt at the failures of both spirit and body and a coming to terms with loss, for the natural passing of loved ones, and the unnatural passing of our planet's ecosystems. These poems offer solace: you are not alone - "In the fractured dark we're all doomscrolling/before dawn, lit up like Caravaggios." They offer the simplest kind of love: the joy that can be found within nature.Trade Review"I loved these poems. Jo Bratten's work has a dark, foreboding quality but it's also inventive, sensual, and caustic, with bags of attitude and fresh language. Highly recommended."- Luke Wright
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Goldsmiths, Unversity of London Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science
Book SynopsisPoems about historical women in STEM fields.Hilarious, heart-breaking, and perfectly pitched, these carefully researched poems about historical women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine will bring you to both laughter and outrage in just a few lines. A wickedly funny, feminist take on the lives and work of women who resisted their parents, their governments, the rules and conventions of their times, and sometimes situations as insidious as a lack of a women?s bathroom in a college science building.Discover seashells by the seashore alongside Mary Anning and learn how Elizabeth Blackwell lost her eye. Read about Bertha Pallan?s side hustle in the circus, Honor Fell bringing a ferret to her sister?s wedding, Annie Jump Cannon cataloguing stars, Mary G. Ross stumping the panel on ?What?s My Line?,? Alice Ball?s cure for leprosy, and Roberta Eike stowing away on a research vessel. Some of these poems celebrate women who triumphed spectacularly. Others remember women who barely survived.Explore the stories of women you may have heard of (Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Émilie du Châtelet) alongside those of others you may not (Virginia Apgar, Maryam Mirzakhani, Ynes Mexia, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Chien-Shiung Wu). If you have come across Randall?s poems in Scientific American, Analog, or Asimov?s, you will have already opened the door to these tales, all the more extraordinary because they are true.Illustrated with Kristin DiVona?s portraits for NASA?s ?Reaching Across the Stars? project, this is a book to share with scientists, feminists, and poets, young and old and of any gender.
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Playdead Press The Chain Coral Chorus
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Monash University Publishing Verge 2014: Everything and Nothing
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Spinifex Press Lailas Story
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Spinifex Press This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915: ICLI
Book Synopsis‘Very few collections bring home so powerfully the vulnerability of individuals in the face of history’ writes Lisa Gorton of Robyn Rowland’s powerful poems recording the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives, mothers, composers, painters and poets during the Gallipolli War, 1915. It began with the Battle of Çanakkale and the defeat of the British navy. The land battle was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalisation of the propaganda of war. Importantly, the book finishes with a poem on women’s friendship 100 years after the war, and the healing nature of love.Trade ReviewStories of Australian, Turkish and Irish men and women in these poems show the intimate nature of war; not from the perspective of victory but from the perspective of those caught up in war, who, whichever side they were on, lost. -- Lisa GortonBoth the English and Turkish languages face each other across the pages as the men faced each other across narrow spaces between the trenches. In translating impeccably Dr Rowlands poems into Turkish, Professor M. Ali Çelikel has commendably conveyed the epic depth and literary qualities embodied in the poems. -- Himmet Umunç
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Spinifex Press Dark Matter: New Poems
Book SynopsisIn this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life.Trade ReviewIn Dark Matter, her seventh poetry collection, Morgan cannily exploits poetrys ability to be bothmetaphoric and direct. The voice is often conversational and anecdotal, at other times it is layered and allusive. What drives the collection is a deep and passionate intensity, which only a life spent in endless interrogation and interaction with self and world can achieve and sustain. - Patricia Skyes, Live Encounters
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Spinifex Press between wind and water
Book Synopsisbetween wind and water, is to be in a vulnerable place, the place where people and planet are. When industrial wind arrives in the neighbourhood, some locals find that living with their new neighbour has brought a whirlwind of troubles. Their health and that of the community take a nosedive. Their complaints are filed into obscurity, their stories dismissed and their voices disparaged. What sort of world do we want? We ask how can we have a better world if people and planet are not equally respected? These poems speak the stories of people who have been denied a voice.Trade ReviewRejoice! berni janssens new book! This book is easy to love: its rugged, soft, deft,exact forms. Action is embedded in things; politics is stitched into the wind. Set againstthe bamboozle clatter of corpspeak and co-option. Its a beautifully grounded book and itsgoing to make trouble. Chris Mansell, Poet and PublisherOne of Australians treasures, berni m janssen, a pioneering sound poet, is fully focusedon the auditory as a means of experiencing the world. Dr Ros Bandt, InternationalEnvironmental Sound ArtistThere is no doubt in my mind that berni m janssen is a cultural icon for our people.James Hullick, Musician, Sound Artist, Artistic Director JOLT Arts aka )-(u||!c|<These poems fashion an epic grid that electrifies you, big energy at its absolute finest.Kent Macarter, Poet and Managing Editor, Cordite Poetry Review
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Wilkinson Publishing A Pocketful of Poems: Aussie Flavoured Rhyming
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Spinifex Press An Embroidery of Old Maps and New: 2021
Book SynopsisI can see how I carry Yiayia’s war in the ample dunes of my belly, the moment she smelt the guns, she pinched the candle’s wick, gathered the startled shadows of her children, flung my baby-mother onto her back and sprinted towards the neutral moon— Migration and the memories of women’s traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother encounters animosity on Melbourne’s trams as Angela learns to thread words in ways that echo her grandmother’s embroidery. Here are poems that sing their way across the seas and map histories.Trade ReviewThese powerful, poignant poems embody the experience of generations of women, the dignity of their labour, their affirmation of life as a journey into uncharted realms, where they must adapt their skills to sustain their children in an unfamiliar culture: a challenge to be embraced wholeheartedly, bodily. The thread of a unique Greek-Cypriot embroidery tradition morphs into the thread of language celebrating the continuity and manifold richness of life in fluid, intricate patterns of ancestry and migration, the eloquence of words, hands, thread. —Jena Woodhouse. News from the Village: Travels in Rural Greece Angela Costi threads the colours and textures of heart and humanity through fabric drawn across geographies. Cut from one cloth, she stitches complexity of journey, place and people. Now and then. Anchored and looping. Her yarn and needle weave a taut finely detailed tapestry. This braid of head, heart and hand is to be treasured, passed on, a witness to events that must not be disappeared. —berni m. janssen, author between wind and water (in a vulnerable place)Table of ContentsFrom Bondi to Kyrenia Arrival Refugee Aerobics Land Mines Heavy Knock Knock Kostaki’s Harvest Woes Looping the Waves Making Lace Night Shift Crescendo The Weed Eaters The Good Citizens of Melbourne Incident in Aisle 5 Kostaki’s signature Fatigue Inner sense An Extra-curricular Assessment The English Missionary Kinaesthetic Grace Coburg When Coburg Lake became a Kyrenia Wedding When the Hill’s Hoist became the Wishing-tree Outskirts The Quadrangle of Dreams To Identify the Apostate Goddess Nike Somewhere Overseas The Colour Chase Shanker Hotel, New Delhi, 1991 ‘How to Drape a Saree' Bhagwanlila Exports, Varanasi, India The Summit of Choice Travel with a coward’s heart Abduction Calling Good Night Frontline Γιαγιά is swimming in my KeepCup Australia visits Minnesota Regulation The Daily Commute Father Homework The Guest Shelter After Dinner Diagnoses Remission 2020 Ocean View Abundance Supplementary notes Acknowledgements
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Spinifex Press I Will Not Bear You Sons: 2021
Book SynopsisUsha Akella pays tribute to the lives of women from cultures across continents, while reflecting on her own life. Her poems are the medium for women who refuse to be silenced. She condenses a calm rage into ferocious words of precision and celebrates the women who have triumphed. All the while a subversive dusting of humour runs through the collection. This is poetry that cannot be ignored. "Rage has no caste, needs no algorithm, light a pyre with it of chopped thumbs and scripted dreams"Trade ReviewThese poems distil perennial wisdom and are charged with life and a brilliance that lends us humans, particularly women, a voice. The poet demands that we speak.— Marianela Medrano, Dominican poet, author of Rooting: A Selection of Bilingual Poems
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Spinifex Press The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary
Book SynopsisWhat was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? Capturing the day-to-day struggles of lockdown, the daily news, Dan Andrews’ 11am morning press conferences, the tensions between Victorians and the rest of Australia, Trump’s chaotic America, the conspiracy theories that circulated and battling her own mental health, Sandy Jeffs takes us through the whirlwind of events in imaginative haiku poems. These became her sanity while the world spiralled into madness. First wave fear is back. Before an end was in sight now there is no end. Trying to make sense of an unravelling world that is downright mad. This is not only a book about the pandemic but also about political wins and political failures. From Dan Andrews to Donald Trump. Each day brings news that creates despair or joy: the pandemic numbers and the voting numbers side by side. And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.Trade Review"Light in a dull time Best start to a better day Aptly delightful". Peter Doherty, medical scientist & Nobel Prize winner
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Spinifex Press Body Shell Girl
Book SynopsisBody Shell Girl is a memoir in verse about the first two years of a decade that Rose Hunter spent in the sex industry in Canada. When Rose walked into a massage parlour in Toronto in 1997, she was looking for a temporary fix to pay rent and avoid having to go back to her home country of Australia. Awkward, shy and looking for a place to belong, she found herself in a strange world she understood little about, other than here she could make more than rent. She planned to use her earnings to buy herself an education that would secure the career of her dreams. Naively believing she could do only what was required of her, without trauma or side effects and leave the industry on her own terms, she was shattered by what unfolded. This is her story. It is also a searing portrayal of this dehumanising industry in all its destructive power.Trade Review"Trauma can destroy narrative or it can create a firestorm in Body Shell Girl Rose Hunter has ploughed her memory and her radioactive journals to take us not just inside the debilitating machinations of her time in the sex industry but right inside the experience itself. A highly visceral reading experience that left me body-shocked and reeling. In Body Shell Girl Hunter annihilates misogynist fantasy word by word, page by page." -- Sally Breen, author of The Casuals and Atomic City "Body Shell Girl is incredible. It is a captivating and honest account of a womans experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the sex trade. Communicated with authenticity, you feel as if Rose is an old friend by the end of the book: she gives a voice to sisters who are too often unheard." -- Cherry Smiley, from the Nlakapamux and Dine Nations, founder of Womens Studies Online, Canada
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Spinifex Press Harvesting Darkness: New Poems 2019-2023
Book SynopsisRobin Morgan’s latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions. Robin shares her joys and intimacies which take centre stage and laments ‘the ringmaster’s desertion’ as death hovers in the wings and aging unfolds, while "laughing at the pain / through the gridlocked traffic in my brain". Light and shadow, sleep and wakefulness, holding tight and letting go, regret and contentment, order and chaos, battle it out simultaneously through the interplanetary and domestic worlds.Trade ReviewIntense and at times magnificent. — The New York Times Morgan proves that exquisite poetry can sometimes be the most surprising gift of grief.A volume as proud, fierce, vulnerable, and brave as the poet herself. —Alice Walker An accomplished and original poet, Morgan commands a wealth of technical resources, evident in the formal poems, and spilling over into her free verse. Each of her lines has an integrity of its own, indistinguishable from the material embedded in it. My guess is that Morgan will be regarded as one of our first ranking poets. —Jay Parini, Poetry. Love is impossible.This truth has never been more touchingly exemplified than in Robin Morgan’s poems.They hit square center. —Ned Rorem Beautifully written, passionate, rich in splendid imagination. —Grace PaleyTable of ContentsI. REAPING These Hands Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Bag Lady The Ringmaster’s Desertion The Ceiling Regret Giverny in New York The Taxidermist ‘The Fish’ The Will Pearls II. THRESHING An Idea of Disorder The Wager Terms of Art Elegy for a Husband A Sighting The Frequency Lacemakers Sailing on the Lake of Mars This Worthless Act The Winter Solstice Necropolitans Simple Choices III. WINNOWING The Last Door The Other Side Icicles of Brine Three Variations in A Minor Key 1. Waltz 2. Etude 3. Nocturne The Old Woman Is Talking with Death Certain Evenings Falling Awake
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Otago University Press Taking My Mother to the Opera
Book SynopsisPiquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From carefully chosen anecdotes it slowly unfolds a vivid and compelling sense of character and the psychological dynamics within the family. Many readers will recognise the New Zealand so vividly portrayed here, as Brown marshals deeply personal events and childhood memories in a delightfully astute, understated poetic form.
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Otago University Press Tender Machines
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Glossolalia
Book SynopsisGlossolalia is an unflinching exploration of sisterhood, motherhood, and sexuality as told in a series of poetic monologues spoken by the thirty-four polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In Marita Dachsels second full-length collection, the self-avowed agnostic feminist uses mid-nineteenth century Mormon America as a microcosm for the universal emotions of love, jealousy, loneliness, pride, despair, and passion. Glossolalia is anextraordinary, often funny, and deeply human examination of what it means to be a wife and a woman through the lens of religion and history.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc This Drawn & Quartered Moon
Book SynopsisThis Drawn & Quartered Moon takes pre-millenial San Francisco as its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule en route to jail, Elvis Presley (the poets father was his doctor), a Sculptor of the Lower Fillmore Head Shot, a dying Arab king and Courtney Love. Autodidact and gregarious loner klipschutz alternates personal with public poems, satires with romance, dramatic monologues with prose poems, street swagger with delicate songs that carry their own music. Over ten years in the making, this collection evokes the restless spirits of predecessors such as Nicanor Parra, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Wood
Book SynopsisFinalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes) Wood is a pop-culture meditation on parenthood and all its complexities and complications. In her third collection, Harper deftly inhabits the lives of sons and daughters, fathers and mothers - the real, the mythical, the dreamed-up, and the surrogate. Pinocchio tries to make his father proud in a tempting world of sex and vice. A young caregiver to a special needs child ponders her romantic future alongside the true meaning of Crimson & Clover. Bess Houdini, married to the world's greatest magician, conjures the children she'll never have. Mad Men's Sally Draper, daughter of a philandering genius, grows up desperately trying to both defy her father and become him. The poems in Wood are playful, surprising, tender, and brave... and universal in their emotional resonance. Praise for Wood: Poetry in Transit selection (poem from the book displayed on Vancouver city buses) Favourite Poetry of 2013, 49th Shelf (Kerry Clare) The Canadian Mad Men Reading List pick, 49th Shelf "... drills to the core of the familiar and the fictional in a nuanced exploration of the makings of a person ... Harper fills WOOD with questions of fertility and family, growth and failure, turning over in tensile language what it means to be real. Rooted, economical, and sharp, Harper's poems blur the line between dramatic monologue and memoir, WOOD hammering out what it is we reach for, what it is we lack." (Poetry is Dead) "Wood is meticulously packaged, the trunk-ring design from the cover repeated on the endpapers.The package is important, first because it's beautiful, but also because Wood is a project of parts rather than strictly a whole and how these parts fit together is a huge part of the book's appeal. ... Wood appears to have emerged from several different projects whose connections were secondary, and yet how these connections functionhow these poems speak to one another, echo one another, underline and overwriteis the book's most compelling quality. It's a kind of puzzle to discern how these pieces fit together, and each reread will unearth a new layer of understanding (or perhaps another ring in the grain?). Which is good reason then to stay up reading late into the night." (Pickle Me This, blog) "While the longings and fears of parents are captured in Wood, it is in the pain and perils of children - wanted or rejected, living up to expectations or running away from their parents - that Harper finds her most powerful voice. In allowing these characters to be glibly, gloriously fictionalized, their narratives become even more authentic." (Quill & Quire) "On Our Radar," 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2013: Poetry, 49th Shelf A selection from Wood, "The Sally Draper Poems," has been featured in Slate to great acclaim
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Guava Press Constab Ballads
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Guava Press Songs of Jamaica
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Guava Press Harlem Shadows
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Caitlin Press Steeling Effects
Book SynopsisWhy do some of us learn to bend? Others break? How do we move from shame to being enough? How do we bounce back stronger after adversity and then embrace our own humanity with its flawed beauty? In her first full collection of poetry, Jane Byers explores her personal experience with resilience, beginning with her own difficult birth, which she describes as inoculation against despair. As a young adult, the writer moves from complicity and its illusion of power to building a pliantself. Byers turns an unflinching eye to parenthood, as the mother of adopted twins, and examines the workplace through the eyes of a female safety specialist working alongside firefighters, transportation crews and heavy equipment purchasers. The author draws on the steeling effects of being queer to imbue her children and injured workers with suppleness. A late fall swim in an alpine lake; a woman in the twilight of life, risking delight. Red thermometers of grass shed their glistening mercury in a fever of gratitude; to tumble from the divine is to be alive in the pungent beauty that the so-called mundane has to offer. STEELING EFFECTS asks whether what doesn''t kill you makes you stronger and lives its way into the pliant beauty that gratitude affords.
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Caitlin Press Dreamland Theatre
Book SynopsisThe Dreamland Theatre exists in a photograph of a white building on sledges being pulled through the mud from one location to another by a team of horses in Prince George (then Fort George) circa 1912. These poems are about imagining place and, continuing the work of FINDING FT. GEORGE, Rob Budde''s process of trying, and failing, to find out where he is. Poetry is part of a place, and this book deals in the powerful homemaking that is language itself.
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Caitlin Press Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes
Book SynopsisArt, children, marriage, breaking, rejoicing. Love is a many-branched tree and in Hamilton''s newest poetry collection, her third, it''s autumn or winter, the winds are kicking up and branches are flying everywhere - bursting into a thousand shapes. Or maybe it''s Hamilton''s heart that explodes into many dimensions. Tender, furious, grief-stricken, witty, urbane, elegiac, political, personal, erotic - these poems are all those things. Hamilton can''t stop loving big no matter how chancy itis. All these shapes lend raw material for a poem: Mothers lose their babies. A boy loses his leg to war. A girl hides from serial killer Richard Speck. A virgin gets pregnant. A partner mourns a death at Walkerton. Women tumble into love, celebratory and foolhardy. Frank and elemental, this collection reminds us that life is worth everything we can throw at it.
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Caitlin Press Dead Salmon Dialectics
Book SynopsisDrawing on scientific studies of salmon recycling in perhumid rainforests, this book follows the dark and often humorous trial of a young biologist at work in the wildest estuaries of the rainiest place on earth. Written for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the historic Lyell Island logging blockades on Xaaydaa Gwaay, these poems form a musicolous bricolage out of a mesothermal wordstream, sampling ideas of unequal value toward a cohesion of ecological and ecoliterary integrity. Filled with thousands of rotting carcasses, rain, swirls of phosphorescent algae, rain, night-fishing bears, local sledneck debutantes, the marvel of raven song, rain and near misses by giant falling trees, this is an interdisciplinary experiment for the senses and the synapses. While they challenge passive readers to activate and participate, the poems set the visceral beauty of coastal rainforest music to the unavoidable slippery realities of hard science, technology and philosophy.
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Caitlin Press For Your Own Good
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Caitlin Press Average Height of Flight
Book SynopsisThese poems are founded in the landscape of coastal BC, built on the losses within the narrator''s life in counterpoint to her walks in the natural world. In forests with her dog, along watersheds and hill climbs, Beth Kope goes off trail to find inspiration and time for meditation. She observes as the landscapes change with storms blowing through, absorbs the names of plants, finds sustained comfort whatever the season: crisp, clear days, rain is fine, or thesnow that reveals the other creatures that share her routes. Kope invites the reader to join her on these walks and meditations on grief. The metre of feet and heartbeat creates a cadence of solace, but lovingly follows the nose of a dog.
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Caitlin Press He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car
Book SynopsisElegiac, lyrical, ironic; a series of reflections, recollections; a collection about relationships -- to family, clocks, water, trees, ungulates, endings -- recognising that not all relationships are straightforward: a mother''s secret false teeth, a teakettle riddled with bullet holes, pears and small knives. To leave a face in the funeral car is to fall out of time, to fall into history, to ponder the meanings of dust, the quiet records of suicide. This is poetry that covers a broad range, wide and changing, the strangeness of everyday life buoyed by the solace of language, the pleasure of song. Each word in its right place, each poem reflecting beyond surface meaning.
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Caitlin Press Rough Ground Revisited
Book SynopsisCovering Rough Ground, Kate Braid''s first book, was published in 1991 and awarded the Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman. Since then Kate has written extensively in prose, poetry and on CBC Radio about her and other women''s experiences in the construction trades. Her work has been highly praised by women in almost every line of male-dominated work including lawyers, accountants and engineers, and she is in wide demand as a speaker and writer on the subject of women in non-traditional work. After publishing her memoir, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man''s World, in 2012, it seemed appropriate to return to the first poems with the release of a second edition, Rough Ground Revisited. In this new edition, some of the original poems have been replaced with new ones that explore-in slightly more gritty fashion but still with humour, compassion and a wise eye-her experiences and the impact of that crucial time in her life.
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Accents Publishing Painted Daydreams: Collection of Ekphrastic Poems
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Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc. The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow: A Child's View of the
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Laertes Giovanni Pascoli: O Little One and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisPascoli stands in the doorway. He is both a last romantic and Italys first modern poet. Beloved for his poems of family and the nest, he is also one of the first voices of modern depth psychology. Steeped in the Italian landscape and drawn into the spell of little creatures, he catches the natural world with scientific accuracy, becoming one of our earliest ecological poets. A revolutionary who writes with emotion about the rural poor, he also reports on the first wave of Italian immigrants to the new world. This collection assembles Giovanni Pascolis central and prophetic study of the imagination, O Little One, an extensive selection of poems delineating his long career, and a late and previously untranslated essay on the poetry of dead languages. The translators introduction examines Pascolis place as a liminal figure, situated at the conjunction of multiple worlds, casting a visionary light on whatever he beholds.
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Laertes We Fall Like Children
Book SynopsisHow does a writer translate war? And when the war is over, how does the individual reconstruct his world from the ruins? Bajraj lives in Mexico, in exile since the war in Kosovo, and a lot of his poetry is equally attentive to both the desire and the loneliness inherent in that fate. -- Ani Gjika Bajrajs poems capture the troubled voice of the foreigner in a strange land; a place tethered, painfully and inextricably, to the past. Bajrajs Mexico City, populated by fallen angels and the ghosts of the poets war-torn past, is an uneasy place, one in which even the most mundane of activities is tinged with darkness. Visions of violence intermittently break the flow of words, rendered all the more forceful by their sparse simplicity. This selection of short poems, like small windows into a world in which neither the reader nor the poet is entirely at ease, allow us to contemplate the brutal melancholy of war, exile, and their lingering effects. -- Alice Whitmore
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Laertes A Song by the Aegean Sea: A Book of Poetry
Book SynopsisA Song by the Aegean Sea is a song for the unsung heroes of the coast of Izmir, Turkey, or Smyrna, that cosmopolitan city through the different ages. The book celebrates the underbelly of the city; the gypsies selling flowers, the roving musicians, the mussel-sellers, and the protestors. The elements of the city’s coastline are also merged with the characters in an impressionistic, yet surreal canvas from a stranger’s point of view. The traveler, i.e., the poet, or the singer of the Aegean song yearns to become part of the scene. Trade ReviewMohamed Metwalli’s A Song by the Aegean Sea transports us to Turkey’s Aegean coast where a tourist described as an “Egyptian poet” observes scenes of city life from his “6th floor balcony / [i]n the Izmir Palace Hotel.” Told in three sections spanning a year (each poem is dated from three trips taken in June 2013, January 2014, and June 2014), a mostly omniscient narrator paints scenes based on the poet’s travels. A title like “Jump Cut” alludes to the collection’s cinematic framework with local characters reappearing and storylines carrying through across several poems, and we learn that the tourist had wished for “stronger lighting / For scenes unworthy of filming / In his life.” In the final poem, “Farewell,” the speaker observes “the carcass of a dove / Struck by lightning in front of my very eyes.” Gretchen McCullough’s collaborative translation with Metwalli is full of remarkable phrases, from winter’s “skittish sun” to […] ships seeping their lightFrom afarSilver and gold on the surface of dark waters In her introduction, McCullough notes that Metwalli composed his original text, first published in 2015, in “formal standard Arabic, not colloquial,” which made me wonder whether the translation is reaching for a slightly archaic register of English. Many poems land on an emphatic exclamation point reminiscent of older poetry, moves that feel akin to making a black-and-white film in homage to the classics. In “A Raven, a Moon,” the speaker enters into conversation with the city itself and considers what to do with “a drunken, orange half moon,” musing about whether to send it skipping “on the surface of the water … [o]r puncture it until it lands on the bed of the sea.” Metwalli delights in metaphor; in “Strange Language,” the speaker observes how a date “primped herself, / her mirror, the page of the sea,” before they board a “boat with no intention to depart.” REVIEWED BY LAYLA BENITEZ-JAMES -- LAYLA BENITEZ-JAMES * Poetry Foundation *
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Sagging Meniscus Press Moreover
Book SynopsisThese poems turns laconic and garrulous, hard-boiled and tender, magnify gaps and unreliabilities in the surface of things through which the depths of an underlying desolation, a nameless existential care, and the mystery of love may be glimpsed; they make a swaying bridge over the abyss of loss. Number among my umpteen flaws detached glibness, he writes; Who would disagree that little''s glitchless? What he calls his glibness, transmitted with a compressed but graceful musicality, often attains an unsentimental lyricism all the more touching for its reticence. His audacious imagination and relentless intelligence give rise to a richly ironic humor that is often valedictory, somber, even grim, but never without profound affection and attention.
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Sagging Meniscus Press Rituals of Mummification
Book SynopsisPoet Joseph Reich writes from a great inner pressure of experience and memory. His senses are open to an America frozen in a forever unconsummated act of rotting; with humor, empathy, and a vast, restless energy, his experience bursts out, capturing the fleeting world in a poetic bubble with an almost painterly repletion, so that for a moment it becomes whole and tangible, authentic both to the outer reality to which it is a touching tribute, and to his own nature.
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Sagging Meniscus Press Orchid Elegy
Book SynopsisMatthew Gasda''s gorgeously contrapuntal Orchid Elegy is a long poem that, like a fugue, moves at once backwards and forwards, joining an impulse towards restless exploration and budding divagation with an instinct for recapitulation. Its 179 brief numbered sections are held both together and apart by a semantic tensegrity achieved through graceful thematic stratification; each structural node experiences the quality of its own solitude in resonance with an elegiac melos unfolding around and through it. These parcels of finitude, petals like the characters of a play, constantly seek, both in form and in thought, the pattern of a lost Eurydice, even in the shifting, retreating presence of the Other, for the most important category of beauty is the beauty of that which is lost. The spiral of longing persists through love, hunger and death. Yet, something is accomplished, if not necessarily captured, through the turning of this gyre of lament and encomium. Tracing and dissecting through the alchemy of metaphor the form of the beloved, slowly the poem emerges from its secret and consciousness emerges; the poem, or the soul, becomes body, and vice versa, a shared node transparent -- shining, and with renewed purpose, the elegy of life begins again.
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Sagging Meniscus Press Magritte's Missing Murals: Insomniac Episodes
Book SynopsisThese insomniac episodes consist of 84 tantalizing descriptions of hallucinated Magritte murals, painted on the inside of poet Joseph Reich''s sleepless eyelids. Strongly visual but leaving much to the imagination, humourous, and deliciously paradoxical, they make a delightful introduction to Reich''s wryly obsessive way of shaking off the downpour of the world''s insanity.
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Sagging Meniscus Press Grief Songs
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Sagging Meniscus Press Resisting Probability
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Sagging Meniscus Press Please State the Nature of Your Emergency
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Sagging Meniscus Press Wings
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