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Verve Poetry Press sikfan glaschu
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New Haven Publishing Ltd Reflections in Rhyme
Book SynopsisIn this large full colour coffee table size hard cover book, Kevin O'Dowd shares, for the first time, a collection of his poetry. It is raw and sometimes confrontational, but thought provoking and at times brutally honest. Kevin has his own style of writing that although it rhymes, it is not in any standard style, but a unique reflection of the world around him and how he sees it. His poetry isn't complicated, but he speaks his mind and his words show a lot of vulnerability and passion for what he sees going on around him. Together with the artwork of several prominent and well-known artists, foremost his own brother, Boy George, Kevin has put together a compilation of rhyme and visual art to make this a collector's item, worthy to adorn any coffee table.
£26.99
Mount Orleans Press Byron: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to Lord Byron''s poetry. Printed in a high quality hardback edition, this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
£9.49
Clairview Books Conversations with Nature
Book Synopsis'Once, we were one form among many in the garden. We learned to hear the voices of the mountains, the rivers, the sky, of silence. The mice spoke, the trees spoke, the stars spoke, the deer and the fox spoke, the snake spoke - and from these words we made being. These words formed great cities and their machines ever clamouring, and we let the silence slip and the words of the whispering world fall away beyond the mirror of our making.' (From the Prologue.) --- These eighteen meditations, amplified by Jerry Shearing's striking illustrations, offer luminous words enlivened with the weight of much listening. Through these 'conversations', Peter Owen Jones offers a pathway to reconnect with nature. Just a few sentences a day will provide sustenance for the soul.Trade Review'I will carry this little book in my pocket... I will read the words on London buses and in Dartmoor woods. These across-species conversations are more than reverie, they are participation.' - Martin Shaw, author of Smoke Hole and Courting the Wild TwinTable of ContentsForeword by Martin Shaw - Prologue - The Khamsin Speaks of the Storm - The Windflower Speaks of Flux - The Fox Speaks of Exile - The Mayfly Speaks of Impermanence - The Mouse Speaks of Courage - The Olm speaks of Khthonios - The Bear Speaks of Carnage - The Robin Speaks of Death - The Heron Speaks of Sadness - The Daisy Speaks of Receiving - The Turtle Speaks of Communion - The Jasmine Flower Speaks of Enchantment - The Hawthorn Speaks of Aphrodisia - The Painted Lady Speaks of Reverie - The Starling Speaks of Dancing - The Oak Speaks of Sanctuary - The Moss Speaks of Intimacy - The Pond Speaks of Peace - Glossary
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Poetry Book Society Poetry Book Society Spring 2025 Bulletin
Book SynopsisThe Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. Our Spring 2025 Selections are:CHOICE: Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber)RECOMMENDATIONS: Charles Lang, The Oasis (Skein Press) , Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Dane Holt, Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press), Desree, Altar (Bad Betty Press)SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach (Fitzcarraldo Editions)TRANSLATION CHOICE: TBCPAMPHLET CHOICE: TBCYou can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.
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Fly on the Wall Press brave little sternums
Book SynopsisWritten during the three years Matt Broomfield spent living and working in the autonomous, Kurdish-led region of Syria known as Rojava, these poems paint a unique picture of the revolution there, from the inside out. From Broomfield's own place in the revolution as an 'internationalist' volunteer, to the future of the region in the face of war, this collection raises serious questions and seeks to capture of the energy of Rojava, so often overlooked by the primary-coloured propaganda and grey criticism of our media. "The revolution is living, ugly, beautiful, writhing, self-contradictory, hopelessly compromised, and utterly worth fighting for."
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Vagabond Voices The Last Woman Born on the Island
Book SynopsisThe Last Woman Born on the Island is an exploration of the past and the present, and a celebration of the landscapes, both physical and emotional, that make up our lives. What are the colours of the language or languages we speak, and how do they infl uence the ways we live? Much of this collection is set in the author’s homeland of Scotland. Some poems contemplate the history and traditions of the Highlands and Islands – from the HMS Iolaire disaster off Lewis in 1919 to the knitting of Eriskay ganseys, from the legend of the White Cow at Callanish stone circle to herring girls at the start of the twentieth century. Others consider Scottish languages and parlances, the country’s wildest and most beautiful landscapes, and the effects of tourism on the culture of the Hebrides. Is there is a diff erence between something lost and something merely forgotten? How do we fi nd what we don’t know we ever had? And what is belonging to a place, let alone to two places? In one long poem, the author stands between her home country and her adopted country of France, letting her feet talk us through the places they have been. Who is the last woman and where is the island?Table of ContentsThe last woman born on the island 5 After a Reading by Jackie Kay 7 Chickens 9 Eggs 10 Made the Small Way 11 Tracks 13 Room Six 15 Passing It On 16 Lucky Penny 17 Spoon 18 Lismore 19 Heatwave 20 The Lean Years 21 Night Walk, Baile Mòr 23 Fault Lines 24 West Highland 25 Instead of gulls 26 Peace 27 Sheela-na-gig 28 Fly 29 Cod Fishing, Firth of Clyde 30 Ear 31 Landbound 32 Corvids 33 The Dream 34 Angling 36 Collins Gem 37 Bystander 38 Prototype 39 Middle C 40 Hollows 42 Monochrome 44 Tobar na h-Aois 46 Things That Can Be Thrown 47 Forbidden 48 The White Cow 49 Hebridean 50 Gardener 51 Every time I step inside 52 Post Op 53 Eriskay Wives 54 Plea to Boy on a Train 56 First Keys 57 Celia’s Shoes 58 Thirty-Seventh View of Mount Fuji 59 Death Trumpets 60 Twelve 61 Recipes 62 Upper Cut 64 Fourteen 65 Seventeen 67 Urination For Girls 68 Cusp 70 Feet 72 Trefoil 78 Love 79 I would have liked 80 Her Hair 82 A Seat at Cailleach Farm 83 Revisiting the Island 85 Letter Home, 1920 86 Light’s Tricks 88 Notes 91 Acknowledgements 93 Prizes 94
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Vagabond Voices Glasgoscopy
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Bad Betty Press Inheritance
Book SynopsisA profoundly moving exploration of what is passed down by our forebearers, what is left behind when we lose someone and what we learn from being loved. Jasmine Cooray holds our most fiercely-guarded myths to the light. Her poems sing of self-belief rising to the surface as drowning feels imminent: wise, wild and empowering, a lodestar for survival.
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Little Betty Unruly Blood
Book SynopsisOlivia Douglass' new pamphlet takes us into the shape-shifting experiences of young selfhood, family and what it means to be between worlds. Douglass' poetry is like a strong shot of the good stuff, an irresistible introduction to this multi-talented artist.
£7.50
Bad Betty Press Crow Pirate Fly
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£11.39
Saraband The Man Who Talks to Birds
Book SynopsisDonald S Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection of poems written during lockdown at his Shetland home, Murray explores the changing geography of the island and how it has, in turn, changed him. On his daily walks through the village, Murray found himself noting shifts in the wind and weather, the imperceptible widening of the sea, and the way time has slowed. Noting the way, too, in which flocks of sheep or birds congregated in a field in anticipation of the arrival of a storm. With beautiful imagery and lyricism, The Man Who Talks to Birds taps into a deep connection with nature, and its ability to ground us, that many of us have rediscovered during 2020.
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Nine Arches Press What Girls Do in the Dark
Book SynopsisRosie Garland’s dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”. We venture through strange night-time transformations, between northerly points and places of being and not-being. In a twilight alive with glimmering energy, we discover not just outer-space, but inner space – where the body and the self are made of infinite galaxies, illuminated for the briefest blink of a life.Garland’s poetry is rooted in the realm of gothic imagination, mythology and the uncanny. It contains magnitudes and magic, feminist fables starstruck with science and astronomy. Like comets, these dazzling poems explore containment, liberation, near-misses, extinction, and ultimately, they ask what it means to escape the pull of gravity and blaze your own bright, all-consuming and astonishing path.'Garland is a real literary talent: definitely an author to watch' - Sarah Waters
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Nine Arches Press Wild Life
Book SynopsisWild Life by James McDermott explores the nature of queerness, the queerness of nature, and the queerness of ‘natural’ masculinity. In bold poems that root themselves firmly in the coastal landscapes of North Norfolk, a vivid and radical dialogue between nature, sexuality and self-discovery emerges. McDermott brings a lyrical physicality to poetry which focuses on the body, desire, shame, and tenderness, creation and re-creation, and where there is ‘everything always opening / everything always coming out’. These poems skilfully graft and touch, draw parallels between moments of transformation in the many kinds of ecosystems we exist in – whether outside and between woodland, shoreline and skyline, where the wildlife will ‘see me as just another animal’, or in human interactions in schools, gyms, and pubs where ideas of manhood, self, and society’s expectations collide. Like the coastal spaces where McDermott finds an innate connection, Wild Life identifies that which is fluid and constantly changing – and that nature itself isn’t afraid of being colourful, excessive, too much.
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Away From Me
Book Synopsisand I was writing myself out of a hole I thought that actually was writing myself into a hole I think and Other Poems came as I was writing to a joyful bigger and bigger andbigger inflating when a TN or Star is dying it gets bigger in bigger and that’s how you know it’s nearly expired it comes colossal how much writing was found to be on the right sizesize of what passes through me when my send my voice out what comes back what happens to other people’s voices inside me what kind of sieve I am from ‘explanatory notes with no fingers’Away From Me is the highly-anticipated second collection from poet and novelist Caleb Klaces.‘The world,’ wrote Georges Perec, ‘is big.’ The poems here rediscover the familiar intimacies of love, disgust, vulnerability, nurture and nostalgia in the vast spaces, technologies and voices that extend vertiginously beyond the individual self.In Klaces’s imagined landscapes, language is purposefully sieved, processed and contaminated by forces outside the writer's control, creating a work with its own glitchy music and sharp beauty: ‘a joyful bigger’.
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Emblem
Book SynopsisEmblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural world in literature. Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood, faith and the interior. In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth-century emblematist Andrea Alciato – a witness to a lonely time – the poems are carried forward by a non-linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciato's emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations between mind and body, child and mother, red and green, past and present, public and private, the living and the dead.
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Journeys Across Breath: Poems: 1975-2005
Book SynopsisJourneys Across Breath collects poems from the extraordinary career of one of the UK’s most significant poets, Stephen Watts. Gathering all of Watts’ published works between 1975 and 2005 – as well as a number of unpublished pieces appearing here for the very first time – this collection is an astonishing journey through the life and eyes of a remarkable writer of people and place.This long-awaited volume presents the breadth of Watts’ writing, from early prose poems, through long narrative sequences, fragmentary episodes, and later poetic meditations – all in Watts’ unmistakable voice. A writer of both the intensely personal and deeply-felt universal, Watts’ poetry charts familial histories, friendships, and encounters, set in both remote, rural landscapes across Europe and the changing, urban environs of East London.
£16.20
Eyewear Publishing Cherry Cola
Book SynopsisA Girl and Boy in a relationship that is both intoxicating and toxic, exhilarating but ultimately at a cost to each. Edgy and compelling, Nkere tells it all through the parallel narratives of the Girl and Boy drawing on a kaleidoscope of influences that include poetic prose and contemporary spoken word. Experimental in form, this startling debut collection breaks with convention, bringing seemingly polarised forces into combat: religion versus primal desire and love versus desolation.
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Arachne Press Menopause: The Anthology
Book SynopsisThe subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, heterosexual and white. This anthology of poems and short fiction aims to address that, with wild and wonderful writing from humour and anger, relief and distress, by women who have experienced menopause, whether naturally or as a result of surgery; with a healthy dose of views from the global majority and the lesbian, bisexual and trans communities. With contributions from Adele Evershed, Alison Habens, Alyson Hallett, Amanda Addison, Anne Caldwell, Anne Eccleshall, Anne Macaulay, Cath Holland, Cheryl Powell, Chloe Balcomb, Claire Booker, Claire Lynn, Clare Starling, Ellesar Elhaggagi, Elizabeth A Richter, Em Gray, Erica Borgstrom, Genevieve Carver, Ginger Strivelli, Helen Campbell, Jane Ayres, Jane Burn, Jane McLaughlin, Jessica Manack, Joanne Harris, JP Seabright, Julie-Ann Rowell, Karen F Pierce, Kavita A Jindal, Kim Whysall-Hammond, Lucy Lasasso, Marina Sanchez, Martha Patterson, Mary Mulholland, Rachel Playforth, Ruth Higgins, Sian Northey, Susan Bennett, Susan Cartwright-Smith, Tessa Lang, Tina Bethea Ray, Victoria Bailey, and Victoria Ekpo.Table of ContentsFrom Menarche to Menopause Cath Holland 8 Pause Rachel Playforth 13 A sudden ending Anne Macaulay 14 My Wild Fires Marina Sanchez 16 The Grandmother Hypothesis Genevieve Carver 17 Be Cool Tina Bethea Ray 18 more the use the womb is put to than the womb itself Jane Ayres 20 Flashes of Kindness Victoria Bailey 21 Women of Your Age Erica Borgstrom 22 Night Sweats Julie-Ann Rowell 24 Red Clover and Black Cohosh Days Anne Caldwell 26 A Cabin in the Woods Lucy Lasasso 27 Washing Mary Jane Ayres 32 Deja vu Sian Northey 34 Shape-shift Alyson Hallett 35 Obit: My Last Egg Susan Bennett 36 Woman's Work Cheryl Powell 37 Relieved Victoria Bailey 39 The Other Side of Nowhere Jessica Manack 40 Flush Anne Caldwell 42 Foreign Land Ellesar Elhaggagi 43 Fairy Tales for the Over Fifties Alison Habens 44 Black Armour Joanne Harris 48 Breakup Helen Campbell 52 my vulva & i used to be friends Jane Ayres 53 Menostop Kim Whysall-Hammond 54 Shamans in Luburbia Kavita A Jindal 55 A Summer Prematurely Here Victoria Ekpo 61 Nuclear Tingle Karen F Pierce 63 Ruby-Red Jewel Martha Patterson 64 HUM PBA CK JP Seabright 65 Over the Bloody Moon-a prose poem Adele Evershed 66 You have been this country I have known Jane Burn 68 Dried Susan Cartwright-Smith 70 Evorel Clare Starling 72 The Change Ginger Strivelli 73 China Anne Caldwell 77 Natural wastage Anne Eccleshall 78 Gutsy Menopausal Woman Chloe Balcomb 79 O Womb Mary Mulholland 80 Silver Swans Amanda Addison 82 Monthly Tessa Lang 84 men-oh-paused - haibun Victoria Bailey 85 Demeter Elizabeth A Richter 86 Her mid-life performance review Ruth Higgins 88 The Farmer's Fire Jane McLaughlin 89 Wilding Em Gray 93 On Discovering a New Energy Source Claire Booker 94 Enough Already Claire Lynn 95
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Arachne Press Afonydd
Book SynopsisLleisiau hanner cant o feirdd yn llifo gydag afonydd Cymru. Pob cerdd yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, wedi'i chyfieithu o'r naill iaith i'r llall. Fifty Welsh poets speak for and with the rivers of Wales. Every poem translated Welsh to English, English to Welsh.
£10.80
Verve Poetry Press Khamoshi
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Verve Poetry Press Across Borders: An anthology of new poems from
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Verve Poetry Press Faulty Manufacturing
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Verve Poetry Press Dad Vs. Dad
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£12.60
Burning Eye Books Yay!
Book SynopsisYou know how it is when the summer comes, and you have an album which you play over and over, which seems to sum up a very particular time and place? In which each song seems to sing of life and the very joy of living it? Yay! Is a collection of upbeat poems for uncertain times, poems of imagination and escape, whimsy and warmth, humanity and honesty. From a man trapped in a toilet in a motorbike museum with a cistern which refuses to flush, to a small town in West Virginia in which absolutely everything has a suddenly erotic undertone, via Scratch'n'Sniff hieroglyphs and the world's most mediocre circus, these poems are a veritable celebration of life from the Professor of Whimsy.
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Burning Eye Books More Mixed Messages
More Mixed Messages is courageous, unflinching, authentic, informed and indefatigable. Mark doesn’t look away, or speak in whispers. The work sits well in the rich vein of protest poetry; confronting the reader and society with visceral truths wrapped in humour and righteous anger. Mark compels the reader to the centre of the most heightened moments, to inhabit the hard questions about themselves, about life, about society; to hear the words as they read, to feel them as they’re heard. Asserting the questions: Am I in or out of the system? What am I made of? Do I contribute to this? If not me, then who? Looking back to look forward, Mark evidences that change has happened and so change is possible. This collection invites you to discover more of a poet for the times.Review“Mark’s poetry is punchy, precise and positive. He doesn’t waste words, and always hits his target. One of the UK’s most vital poetic voices of the 2020s” - Steve Tasane, Poet and author.
£8.99
Hajar Press Curious Affinities
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Salamander Street Limited Chatsky & Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony
Book SynopsisAnthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work for the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him tackling major monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser by Molière and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov. Miser, Miser! is a bold reworking of Molière’s classic comedy of 1668. Harpagon the miser is hoarding a pile of gold, which he has buried in his garden. As he tries to sell off his daughter, catch himself a beautiful young bride and outwit his scheming household of clever servants, the comedy of errors intensifies. Although the original French play is written in prose, Burgess remakes it in a mixture of verse and prose, in the style of his famous adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. This translation, discovered in the author’s archive, is the work of a writer at the height of his powers, reinventing Molière for modern audiences. Chatsky, subtitled ‘The Importance of Being Stupid’ is another verse comedy. The theme is that of the intellectual hero who rebels against the smug, philistine society in which he finds himself. First performed in 1833, Griboyedov’s play was so heavily cut by Russian censors that it was barely recognisable. The play is a virtuoso vehicle for male actors, and the source of many famous quotations. It is also notoriously difficult to translate. In Chatsky, Burgess remakes a classic Russian play in the spirit of Oscar Wilde. It is a great feast of language and invective. The complete texts of both plays are published here for the first time. Two Plays confirms Anthony Burgess’s reputation as a gifted writer for the stage, and as a translator of great wit and sophistication. MISER, MISER! CASTING: 7 men, 3 women CHATSKY CASTING: 9 men, 7 women
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Parthian Books Cardiff 75: Contemporary Writing from the City
Book SynopsisCardiff Writers’ Circle was formed in 1947 and is joined here by other local writinggroups, all lending their imaginations to a wide variety of styles, genres, and formats. You may laugh. You may cry. You may gasp at the sheer beauty contained within these pages. But above all, you will be holding a snapshot of the fantastic talent that exists today in Cardiff, city of the dragon.
£9.50
SmithDoorstop Books A Coalition of Cheetahs
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SmithDoorstop Books Mahogany Eve
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Crumps Barn Studio Lorry Load of Lyrics: the brilliant first
Book Synopsis"You are my destiny, The compass points to you, You can have the best of me, When I get back to you" A poetry collection written with humour and honesty in the cab of his truck - HGV driver Michael John Evans takes a fresh look at the call of home and family, and his most precious corners of the UK as he experiences life on the road
£7.59
Written Off Publishing Sins & Sunflowers
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Shoestring Press The Breath of Time
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Valley Press Selected Poems
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£24.00
The Emma Press Poems from a Witchs Pocket
£9.49
The Emma Press Noon
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£7.59
Dedalus Press Sudden Light
£10.45
Tapsalteerie The Wilds
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£10.80
Backlash Press Backlash Journal 4
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£6.04
Nine Arches Press Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Book SynopsisBlackbird Singing at Dusk is a bold exploration of place within nature through themes of rural working-class identity and the female body, alongside explorations of loss and the repetitive nature of time.
£10.79
Parthian Books Bathing on the Roof
Book SynopsisExplored through the lens of the media and fame, these poems imagine how Mother Nature might respond to humanity's interference, were she as flawed and determined as humanity itself.
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Stairwell Books Village Fox
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Stairwell Books Dream Catcher 50
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Stairwell Books An Anxiety of Poets in their Natural Habitat
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CavanKerry Press A Half–Life
Book SynopsisA poetry collection centered on the Korean American experience. The term “half-life” is used to describe radioactive decay, pharmaceutical drugs, rocks, the atoms of our human bodies, and even technological products. Using this idea as a starting point, A Half-Life provides a rare glimpse into the Korean American experience. The poems utilize the literal metaphor of the highway as the intersecting point of America, Asia, and the globe, to reflect on the emotional and physical journeys many Asian Americans take. From Chicago to Seattle, from the biographical to the fictional, from current times to the Korean and Vietnam wars, A Half-Life covers the joy and pain, the probable and improbable, the individual and communal—the cultural histories we all share.Trade Review“David Cho’s poems evoke experiences of growing up Korean American, loving Chicago, and meditating on roadkill at the same time that they signal an awareness of themselves as verbal constructions. Hence, in a poem about the hyphen—that iconic signifier of ethnic American identity—punctuation itself takes on a life of its own; in a poem ostensibly about love for his wife, the speaker offers an encomium to the Windy City; and in a poem about roadkill, the speaker invites the reader to address the dead deer directly. What does it mean to be a second-generation American? How do you write a love poem? What can death teach us? A Half-Life at once grapples with these and other important questions and resists reductive answers.” * Floyd Cheung *“At the heart of David Cho’s A Half-Life is a narrative journey of Harry Kim, an American son, born to immigrant Korean parents, learning to become American in the heart of America, treading a line between two cultures, embracing a lineage more complex than most American boys and young men, and finding a way to belong in the country he was born in with both heart and spirituality and desire.” * Shawn Wong *Table of ContentsI. Sovereign AsymmetriesA Circle of Fragments Existential Poem #1 Existential Poem #2 Existential Poem #3 Gravity’s Pull Spring in Seattle LullabyII. Poems for HarryA Young Boy’s Life 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.Growing Up Harry: Harry’s Jr. High Linguistic Lessons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The EdgeHarry’s Playboys 1. 2. 3. 4.Cheers for Harry 1. 2. From the Bleachers 3. The Walk HomeThe Locker Room 1. 2. The BallerinaAfter the ConcertHarry Meets the FatherPraise for Prozac: Notes from Harry’s JournalIII. Journeys of a HyphenA Love Poem for My WifeThe ApologyEntropy 1. 2.Chicago Highway Poems 1. Lake Shore Drive 2. 94 East 3. I-90Indiana Highway Poems 1. I-65 2. Route 231 3. Lafayette, INThe Hyphen
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CavanKerry Press Tanto Tanto
Book SynopsisA critical look at female queerness through the lens of first-generation culture. In Tanto Tanto, a queer daughter of immigrants highlights the struggles she faces in romantic relationships amidst a culture of oppressive, culturally sanctioned heteronormativity. Exploring the consequences of queer love in both contemporary American and Luso-American societies, Tanto Tanto unsettles ideas about the privileged queer body, romantic love, queer motherhood, femininity, gender identity, sex, and more. This collection makes visible and troubling what is often overlooked, misunderstood, and romanticized in “American” homosexuality.Trade Review“Tanto Tanto is a rich, complex, and breathtaking tapestry of desire, longing, pleasure, sorrow, and, above all, love. The collection creates a fractal love letter centering on the relationship between the speaker and her wife, but also encompassing the love for their children, the self, poetry, and the body (with the latter as a sight of joy, pleasure, resilience, and spirit). With a voice that is marvelously both tender and vigorous, Carreira moves us to experience love in tuna sandwiches, the divine in the every day, and terror in driving home from the grocery store. Tanto Tanto celebrates the speaker’s love while also masterfully navigating the gifts and cruelties of inheritance growing up in a heteronormative working-class immigrant family, and the fear and violence of life as an immigrant LGBTQ woman in America. Tanto Tanto is gorgeous, sensual, intersectional, intimate and large, honest and real. I was enthralled and moved by this collection.” * Ananda Lima, author of 'Tropicalia' and 'Mother/Land' *“Marina Carriera’s Tanto Tanto is an ode to love that is ‘kindling to kerosene’ yet from that fire it somehow invokes the creation of bridges between lands, families and bodies, silences and howls. This is a queer love that is rooted in an immigrant voice, one that both questions and desires the myth of the picket fence and the warmth of the quotidian. Be prepared for the lushness of the ocean and cephalopods and pussies that do house chores and write horror, all in homage of an ‘aquatic hallelujah’ that sings the siren song of adoration. I am in awe of this complex, scary, funny portrait of intimacy because it is truthful, brave, original, as all love should be.” * Grisel Y. Acosta, author of 'Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere' *“In Tanto Tanto, Marina Carreira offers holy songs of queer devotion. This Luso-American daughter of immigrants writes ‘a dialect of resistance’ in which Portuguese queers English as naturally as ‘the way andorinhas muscle-memory between Lisbon and Porto.’ Here, holy water swells like the tides in moonlight to baptize beloveds: ‘I lay wet in my longing for the surge. . . the ocean I swallow whole.’ What lush odes to the body, to immigrant resilience and queer survival, and to the poet’s ‘most handsome tulip’ beloved with ‘tremendous tongue’: ‘There are so many ways I can learn // to take my coffee if you make it,’ Carreira writes. This is a poet of so much dimension, so much rapture, who has uncovered the divine in nature (‘marigolds and magnolias nippling the breasts of unseen gods’) and herself and has no time for ‘those who can’t see such fucking divinity.’ I can’t wait to teach this book.” * Darla Himeles, author of 'Cleave' *"Tanto Tanto invites the reader into the life of its speaker with both beautiful and blistering images of an America where you are free to live as you please but never free from judgement. . . . Tanto Tanto is full of richly detailed personal stories that woo the reader into caring deeply for the speaker of these poems. The emotion is so real and honest, one cannot help but relate to these never dramatic, genuine-in-every-way stories." -- Christine Salvatore * Mom Egg Review *"Tanto Tanto is full of richly detailed personal stories that woo the reader into caring deeply for the speaker of these poems. The emotion is so real and honest, one cannot help but relate to these never dramatic, genuine-in-every-way stories." * Mom Egg Review *Table of ContentsTanto Tanto Baptism Autobiography of a Fufa Baby Steps (an Ars Poetica) Morning Song What the Water Gave Me Estou a Sentir Só Este MomentoIf I Weren’t This Body Tanto Tanto Lines Pussy in Space Love During Retrograde Telling Another Story When My Mother Tells Me I’ll Always Be a LoserBrunch Capela da Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos While Six Planets Retrograde, I Consider Mandalas & America Pussy Cleans the Bathroom Tanto Tanto Ten Things I Never Told the Homophobic Portuguese Woman on Ferry Street Oracular Apology To the Snails I Crushed in My Youth The Quiet New Hope Ode To My Pussy Scar Hum for Impending Icestorm Fado for My Last Love Tanto Tanto The Body To Know Saudade in America Sometimes the Bird Sometimes the Hunter Sometimes Both Savage Beauty Pussy Writes Horror PansyTanto Tanto Irreparable Harm Like I’m Already Dead On the Last Night of Pride Poem Where I Try Not to Think About My Partner’s Existential Crisis Hard An Abecedarian of Gratitude Your Pussy Sonnet for This Queer BodyTanto Tanto
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White Pine Press Necessities
Book Synopsis"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. Influenced by his reading of Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Charles Simic, James Tate, and other explorers of the marvelous, these poems are parables, which deepen with each reading. Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, more than a dozen edited volumes and books of translations, and five works of nonfiction. He is the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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