Close Your Eyes by Michael Ruby

Close Your Eyes by Michael Ruby

When we close our eyes, we see things. We see colors and shapes, images, even brief visions. In Close Your Eyes, Michael Ruby explores this common human experience in a series of 47 prose poems, which can also be seen as scripts for abstract films. The book extends Ruby's hypnagogic Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist Ebooks, 2011) into the visual realm and joins his chronicles of fleeting memories, dream narratives, conversation fragments and repeated words in his trilogy Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012) and in Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010). Close Your Eyes also points to further explorations of visions.

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Saved by the Swell by Janne De Rijck

Saved by the Swell by Janne De Rijck

‘Adventure, suspense, philosophy and love all wrapped up in one exciting story of two ship-wrecked strangers who become lovers after being washed ashore on an island in the Indian Ocean. Their lives will never be the same again. Based on the biographies of the South-African surfer Leonard Stolk and a Flemish poet. The plot and names (other than Leonard Stolk) are fictional.’ (Brian Wrixon)

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The Rooms In Which We Existed by Jake Berry and Peter Ganick

The Rooms In Which We Existed by Jake Berry and Peter Ganick

‘Jake Berry says that his poems were “written in spontaneous response” to Peter Ganick's enigmatic and suggestive drawings. The poems, however, are not ekphrastic evocations, at least as such poems are usually conceived, but emerge from a kind of surrealist response or subconscious metaphorizing process, which suggests the existence of a true and non-rational realm of connections between all things. Berry's revelation of that world is consistently beautiful and resonant: “a dawn that never ceases.”’ (John M. Bennett)

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Backstories by Jonathan Penton

Backstories by Jonathan Penton

Backstories is a brief volume of poetry that takes mythological archetypes and forces and smashes them together, uncomfortably and anti-logically. It explores violence and sexism in current and antiquated myth, along with helplessness, power and the tragedy of the inflexible.

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The Posit Trilogy by Adam Fieled

The Posit Trilogy by Adam Fieled

The Posit Trilogy initiates a cycle, and then repeats it twice: a kind of Father, Son, Holy Ghost structure around the poet's quest to achieve self-hood, through analysis of different kinds of subjectivity (visionary, practical), explorations of dreams (consciousness creating its own kind of mazes and matrixes to wander around in) and attempted resonances with the American city of Philadelphia (birthplace of America, enchanted by history, architecture, hidden depths, and interstitial, subterranean structures). The cycles that constitute The Posit Trilogy ricochet back and forth, with an eye towards creating a poetic landscape individual, idiosyncratic, and loopy enough to stimulate any human brain receptive to its advances.

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Fire in the Garden by Jake Berry

Fire in the Garden by Jake Berry

Fire in the Garden is a brief selection of song lyrics chosen by poet, Jake Berry, from among songs written in the last 20 years. They are not intended to be representative of his music or his poetry, but are instead compositions that stand alone without music, though often in the manner of informal and folk verse. The book also includes links to video and audio versions of some of the songs so that they can be heard as originally intended: sung with musical accompaniment.

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terra form[a] by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

terra form[a] by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s eighth poetry book (excluding chapbooks), terra form(a) explores relationships between stability and instability, illness and recovery, hope and despair, connection and disconnection, material and immaterial.

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Dark Lyrics by Jaime Robles

Dark Lyrics by Jaime Robles

Dark Lyrics looks at several contemporary poets, and how they use a darker emotional palette in their writing. The poets include John Burnside, Maxine Chernoff and Seamus Heaney, among many others. The book presents Classical ideas and mythology as a backdrop for the poetic practice of using negative emotions. Robles also meditates on her own recent work and how that aligns with this ages-old poetic practice.

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Ekungok, Listen by Craig Santos Perez

Ekungok, Listen by Craig Santos Perez

Ekungok, Listen is the fifth chapbook by Pacific Islander poet, scholar, and activist Craig Santos Perez. Written in narrative and lyric forms, these poems explore Chamorro, Micronesian, and Pacific identities, cultures, histories, politics, ecologies, and migrations. An accompanying spoken word audio album, titled Crosscurrent, can be downloaded here:

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Open Moments by A. C. Evans

Open Moments by A. C. Evans

A. C. Evans explores the subversive traditions of the bizarre and grotesque, yet he describes both his art and poetry as Realistic. Influenced by the Gothic dark-side of Romanticism, fin-de-siecle Decadence, Aestheticism, the iconoclasm of Dada, revolutionary, anti-clerical Surrealism and the immediacy of Pop, he regards all these as points of departure, none as a destination.

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The O and The Owl by Leanne Bridgewater

The O and The Owl by Leanne Bridgewater

The O and The Owl is about a play on the 'o' and the 'owl' as a word, phonically, but also metaphorically: environment; animal instinct; nature. We have become so dependent on having to know what everything means, we ask it too much. The O and The Owl - what does it mean? It has no formal meaning but it asks you 'what do you think / what do you see / do you see the play on word / do you see the oblong rhythm / do you see the hidden politics / do you feel tongue-twisted / do you see the micro-meanings instead of 'what is the true meaning of this?' - Language's seatbelt has become unfastened, landing face-down in earth where the tongue licks and sniffs at it in a playful manner - and then the owl comes!

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Signs That Do Not Signal by Jeffrey Side

Signs That Do Not Signal by Jeffrey Side

A collection of poems.

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Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes by Jeffrey Side and Jake Berry

Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes by Jeffrey Side and Jake Berry

'In Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes, Jeffrey Side and Jake Berry tell strange, beautiful tales, collaborating, at once, in mythological structures and closely observed moments of luminous experience. Indeed, Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes is a dazzling storm of lyrical imagery, an emergency beacon telling us that language and life are perilously, delightfully interpenetrated in the laboratories of the experimental poetic.' (Scott Wilkerson)

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Hugh II, The Istictiv by Clive Fencott

Hugh II, The Istictiv by Clive Fencott

Hugh II, The Istictiv is an epic, multi-voice poem in the form of the libretto to a text-sound opera. It is set in a Britain that could exist as another in the multiverse: there are many resemblances as well as dissemblances to the one we variously know. This is the first publication of a work that was performed in parts in the multi-verse of the early 1980s but never…

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Waldeinsamkeit: Liverpool Poems (Chapter VI) by Daniele Pantano

Waldeinsamkeit: Liverpool Poems (Chapter VI) by Daniele Pantano

'Pantano offers us a chance once again to see a poet live comparative literature the way Pound did––but without the frightening aspect of the extreme beard, the Roman broadcasts, or the open cage. His poetry and translations reveal that writing is different languages influencing each other at the most intimate and experienced level.' (James Reidel)

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Unseen Avenue by Rosemary Starace

Unseen Avenue by Rosemary Starace

'In her wildly inventive Unseen Avenue, Rosemary Starace has achieved that which might seem nearly impossible—making the experience of reading a digital text seem tactile and intimate. Exploring the creative process through a re-imagining of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Starace has threaded a lantern on a rope down into the places that only this peculiar combination of mediums can reach. You feel as if you’re standing in front of a canvas, or alone in a room with a book made of real paper you can feel in your hands: grooves, edges and all. With humor, intelligence and evident pleasure, she has made a work that cannily requires intense engagement and allows moments of cool remove in turn. I will read this beautiful book over and over again.' (Carolyn Guinzio, author of Spine)

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Heartwood by Ursula Hurley

Heartwood by Ursula Hurley

Heartwood is a novel about why and how people become writers. Set in the 1990s, a cider-soaked adolescent from the North of England encounters Oxbridge elitism with tragicomic results, until a woman playwright from the seventeenth century shows her how to live. This is the first in a trilogy of experimental fictions about gender, writing and drinking too much.

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Traveling Light by Janne De Rijck

Traveling Light by Janne De Rijck

'We all need to break away from this "mad, war-infested globe" from time to time, and what better antidote than the poetry of Janne De Rijck? Her "inner globe" is one of peace and serenity, with a wink to mythology. It sometimes reminds me of the poetry of William Butler Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and it is no coincidence that Ireland and India are two of her favourite traveling destinations. So, sit back and relax, no need to labour over intricate structures. This is, pure, intuitive poetry in which rivers, stars and rainbows offer you a ‘doorway to our next existence’ and in which the spark of divinity that lodges in each of us, can be felt.' (Gerda Casier)

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The Influence of Coleridge on Wordsworth by Jeffrey Side

The Influence of Coleridge on Wordsworth by Jeffrey Side

An examination of the ways in which aspects of Coleridge’s early writings and philosophical concerns permeate the poetry and poetic aesthetic of Wordsworth, especially in the composition of Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads, of which Coleridge said, ‘It is most certain, that that Preface arose from the heads of our mutual Conversations […] the first passages were indeed partly taken from notes of mine […] for it was at first intended, that the Preface should be written by me’.

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Carrier of the Seed by Jeffrey Side

Carrier of the Seed by Jeffrey Side

‘All the way through to the poem's conclusion, with its implied continuation, the reader will have embarked down an extraordinary route of languages, registers and vocabularies, which function to arrest, surprise, disrupt, flow together, collide and cut across each other's current like a plaited waterway. In turn, this flow has been enriched by the assimilation of artefacts from different generations of writers; these deepen the work, interlacing it with echoes and experiences from different times and cultures. The integration of so many disparate elements into one cogent construct is the poem's triumph.’ (John Couth)

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Dying Swans by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Dying Swans by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Dying Swans is a literary monograph which compares Sylvia Plath via her poetry, letters and diary entries with the main character of the 2010 Hollywood film Black Swan. What results is an exploration of femininity, gender stereotypes and the female psyche as depicted in a variety of films, poems and commentary by female poets, and feminist scholarship, particularly from the 1950s to the present.

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Dramatis Personae by Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks

Dramatis Personae by Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks

Dramatis Personae is a selection of the first five collaborations between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks. This sampler focuses on the ludic world of characters created for dialogue, from Tony Hadley in exchange with Shakespeare, Beckett's Family Fortunes, a version of Ubu Roi in which Pere Ubu is played by Boris Johnson and the minutes of the British Onion Marketing Board in which a gathering of contemporary poets debate the current state of the onion. Jenks and McCabe provide a slice of British life rarely seen outside of the UK's seaside piers in the tourist season.

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Where the Three Rivers Meet by Aine MacAodha

Where the Three Rivers Meet by Aine MacAodha

Where the Three Rivers Meet is a collection of poems linguistically evocative of 17th century Irish Gaelic poetry, although written in English. The poems are rich with references and imagery that evoke the mythos of Ireland’s ancient history and Celtic traditions. The landscape is also figured, with an affection and respect, not only for its actuality but also for its vitality and mystery. In some respects, this poetry has a connectedness to the ancient traditions and concerns figuratively expressed in various earth religions, as well as in Celtic Christianity.

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Slimvol by Jeffrey Side

Slimvol by Jeffrey Side

A collection of poems.

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Coleridge’s Early Empiricism by Jeffrey Side

Coleridge’s Early Empiricism by Jeffrey Side

This study examines the influence of empiricism on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetry up until 1800, at which time he deserted it for transcendentalism. This is not to suggest that he was completely an empiricist before 1800, but that his empiricism was somewhat tempered by transcendentalist influences. Therefore, the relationship between “empiricism” and “transcendentalism” in his thinking with regard to poetic composition is problematical. Coleridge became a transcendentalist poet and thinker, whose Biographia Literaria was partly intended to demonstrate the malign effect of the Locke tradition on poetry. Even so, that book is partly a work of self-correction. There is ample evidence of Coleridge’s immersion in empiricist philosophy in the 1790s, as well as in the kind of scientific enquiry that was thought to be congenial to that philosophy.

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Genesis Suicide by Jake Berry

Genesis Suicide by Jake Berry

Genesis Suicide is a series of interconnected poems from the perspective of a point in space where the collision of multiple time frames have collapsed into an temporally non-sequential domain. Mythical, prescient, sardonic and whimsical these poems portray a world devoid of comfortable structure where reality itself is as shapeless as water.

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Thirty-two Short Poems for Bill Bronk, Plus One by Mark Weiss

Thirty-two Short Poems for Bill Bronk, Plus One by Mark Weiss

William Bronk's work is characterized by extreme care. Metaphors are few and deployed gingerly, and the matter of daily life enters most often just enough to suggest a context. And his concerns are almost exclusively with final things: on the fugitive nature of both the self and any kind of external reality, Being as if lost in the chaos of before the Biblical creation. 'What we want is a here with a meaning' he says in one of his poems, and goes on to demonstrate that we can't have it.

Of this collection of poems inspired by Bronk’s writing practice, Mark Weiss says, ‘Few of these poems dedicated to his practice really attempt to achieve it, and he probably would have found most of them in different ways totally scandalous. Rather, they seem to me to dance around his work as a fixed point. It's in fact “Sometimes,” a poem outside the group, that may come closest to Bill's poetry, though longer than all but a few of his, and I've chosen to place it immediately after them, as a sort of envoi’.

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Shadows of the Future: An Otherstream Anthology edited by Marc Vincenz

Shadows of the Future: An Otherstream Anthology edited by Marc Vincenz

A selection of poetry under represented in both mainstream and avant-garde publishing circles.

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The Windows by Paul Hoover

The Windows by Paul Hoover

The Windows is a procedural series of poems developed by Paul Hoover in the years 2007-2013 while producing the poems in Desolation: Souvenir (Omnidawn, 2012) and Sonnet 56 (Les Figues, 2009), as well as the manuscripts in progress, Gravity’s Children and After Pascal.

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Show and Tell by Joe Amato

Show and Tell by Joe Amato

Show and Tell might properly be called a work of experimental sci-fi. It’s an unconventional amalgam of standard narrative, reportage, film criticism, poetry, cultural commentary, conceptual writing, and science fiction, with an overlay of autobiographical detail that will likely be seen as such only by readers familiar with the author's other work. All told it’s a distinctively postmodern piece of writing that takes some unusual turns even by postmodern standards. It's part of a collection of short fiction, in progress, tentatively entitled The Heights and Weights of Stars.

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Collected Poetry Reviews 2004-2013 by Jeffrey Side

Collected Poetry Reviews 2004-2013 by Jeffrey Side

A collection of poetry reviews by Jeffrey Side of poetry volumes by various poets during the period 2004 to 2013.

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Forgive Me, Tiny Robots by Eric Wayne Dickey

Forgive Me, Tiny Robots by Eric Wayne Dickey

Forgive Me, Tiny Robots are short poems selected from Eric Wayne Dickey’s twitter feed. They run in reverse chronology from the most recent to the oldest. The real twitter feed is read in reverse chronology, too, but that’s not how they were written. The oldest ones were written first. You can start at the bottom of the page and read up, or start on the last page and read forward. Reading backwards, Dickey’s says, disrupts ‘the natural time sequence’ and is ‘a powerful experience, as if self-dissecting’.

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Commentaries on Bob Cobbing by Lawrence Upton

Commentaries on Bob Cobbing by Lawrence Upton

Commentaries on Bob Cobbing gathers 26 pieces of varying length on Bob Cobbing. Written between early 1980 and late 2011, these pieces add up to an informed approach to Cobbing by one who worked with him, often as significant collaborator, over three decades.

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Distorted Reflections by Jeffrey Side

Distorted Reflections by Jeffrey Side

Poems from another life.

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A Needle through Night by Julia Pello

A Needle through Night by Julia Pello

A Needle through Night is an experiment in the spontaneous amassing of subjectivities in a non-stop tornado of impressions, deliberations and observations. Like a needle pulling thread, the act of writing extracts and attracts whatever comes within reach, as it seeks exalted states of “inner” revelations through sudden encounters with the outside world, and which might prompt the question: Where or what is the boundary between the supposed interior and exterior?

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Windows without Dreams by Daniela Voicu

Windows without Dreams by Daniela Voicu

Windows without Dreams captures the sheer joy of living. Many of the poems are formerly delightful, dappled with quirky portmanteau words and turns of phrasing, which seem as natural as sunlight. Yet, this collection is not without its representations of sorrow; and there are poems about lost love and failing relationships where, to quote from one poem, 'The kissed memories of rainbow sentiments, salt wind and the sand storm, speak from my skin'.

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Neither Us nor Them: Poetry Anthologies, Canon Building and the Silencing of William Bronk by David Clippinger

Neither Us nor Them: Poetry Anthologies, Canon Building and the Silencing of William Bronk by David Clippinger

The twentieth century witnessed the proliferation of the poetry anthology, and perhaps none was so instrumental in reshaping the poetry canon than Donald Allen’s New American Poetry, which introduced many readers to the Beat writers, the Black Mountain School, as well as New York City poets. Allen’s anthology was organized around a concept of poetry communities, and was one of the first to foreground group “identity” as a canonical practice. As most readers of Donald Allen’s groundbreaking anthology are aware, William Bronk is not included in the cast of poets assembled within The New American Poetry. But what might be surprising to many is that Bronk was invited by Allen to contribute to the anthology and he was the final person to be cut from the final manuscript. Neither Us Nor Them uses William Bronk’s poetry and letters as a window to survey the construction of The New American Poetry anthology—as well as an opportunity to explore the generation of poetry communities as vital to the canon making process. The case of William Bronk is, therefore, illuminating both in terms of the late 1950s/early 1960s poetry scene as well as in the canonical debates that have occurred since then and rendered materially at the level of the anthology.

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Splice Poems by Dan Godston

Splice Poems by Dan Godston

This poetry collection splices together found texts with the poet’s lines, creating dynamic juxtapositions of images and language. The found texts include quotes by a biologist, writer, and musicians and composers, and these poems explore themes such as an artist’s identity and audience’s presence, jazz and improvisation, and cognition and the creative process.

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Symphony No. 7 by Ric Carfagna

Symphony No. 7 by Ric Carfagna

Symphony No.7 is a poetic meditation on the passage of time. Each of its eighty-eight numbered sections begins by isolating and framing an image of a moment resonating through an empirically based terrestrial reality. Here it is known that each moment is subject to the quantum flux of an observing mind’s cognitive awareness, and thus, each moment presented evolves according to the indeterminate and mutable potentialities inherent in the nature of its existence moving through an experientially perceived corporeal realm.

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Light on the Lion's Face by Tim Van Dyke

Light on the Lion's Face by Tim Van Dyke

The poems in Tim Van Dyke's Light on the Lion's Face are composed in conjunction with Jean Baudrillard's book, Seduction, often using fragments from the text as architecture for the poems. The other two architectural concepts are the Shivite myth of Kīrttimukha (or "Face of Glory"), a story about a ravenous lion eating its own body, and the stylistic renderings and fragments of Aime Cesaire. Tim Van Dyke uses these three points of departure to fashion a new sensibility about the body, love, seduction, society, and the continued relevance of myth and ritual.

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Was It Something I Said by Meriel Malone

Was It Something I Said by Meriel Malone

Meriel Malone’s Was It Something I Said, deconstructs the demotic with a wit and humour that exudes a certain charm, yet is occasionally disconcerting in its edginess. Coupled with this, is a linguistic turn of phrase that eases the reader into exegetic flights of fancy, and from there into “the haze of calculated space”, to quote from one of her poems.

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At Times Your Lines by Susan Lewis

At Times Your Lines by Susan Lewis

The prose poems in At Times Your Lines muster compression and elision, irony and parable in the pursuit of the necessary impossible; tracing life and fault-lines between the lived and the created, the recognizable and the strange. “These poems are terse yet opaque, jokey yet unapologetically consequential... off-beat, perfectly tuned, and compulsively readable.” (Wayne Thomas, editor of The Tusculum Review). "With their gift for formal and stylistic compression, for condensation laced with startling shifts of speed and sound, these poems transform the necessary limitations of the coin of the realm into the making of virtuoso turns on a dime." (Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley)

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Memory Fictions by Lawrence Upton

Memory Fictions by Lawrence Upton

Memory Fictions continues Lawrence Upton's (in his own word) restless investigation of renewing approaches to poetry. It is, in part, also a record of his recent formal exploration of notation (in this case of texts for two voices) to disambiguate typed text without being overly directive. The work is an affirmation by Upton of the importance of performance as the full realisation of a poem; poems written and presented to support performers inherently; and, in its structures and composition, it represents, though quietly, a new direction in his writing.

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Aloha Mele by Katherine Hastings

Aloha Mele by Katherine Hastings

‘In this remarkable new book Katherine Hastings, as the title suggests, says hello to song: song of “A ceiling of stars”, “slow lava flow”, and a sensual iridescence that beautifully expresses Hawaiian love. Hastings does much more: the reader who begins to read these radiant words may start out “in the quenched hive of solitude” but soon finds her or himself “Afloat in naked beauty”, “Turned tenderly/toward/together”! Hastings is a poet of such skill and grace that the earth itself (in the spectacular form of Hawaii) achieves a lyric, singing voice in her work’. (Lee Slonimsky)

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From Outside by A. C. Evans

From Outside by A. C. Evans

From Outside (a selection of poems from 2006 to 2011) takes place at “the borders of the future”, where a solitary cyborg with metal arms stands waiting for another client. The dramatis personae are a cast of mad performers, misfits, hick comediennes, mutants, celebs, ghosts, undercover agents and the Eternal Bride from the Large Glass. The tutelary deity is pale-faced Hypnos: guardian of desperate poets and “you” (the invisible companion) or, perhaps, even “you” (the reader) relaxing on an old park bench, watched over by hunched black birds…

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Of Oscillating Fathoms These Nonverbal Chants by Felino A. Soriano

Of Oscillating Fathoms These Nonverbal Chants by Felino A. Soriano

Of Oscillating Fathoms These Nonverbal Chants is a functioning interpretation of understanding environment; the basis of this understanding is found listening to the voices loudly unheard, and through honoring communication’s multilayered opportunities and comprehended freedoms.

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Snowlines by Jack Alun

Snowlines by Jack Alun

Snowlines is, at once, a poem and a series of poems in which perception and memory stutter to the edge of oblivion. Alun employs a taut, sparse but evocative style to direct the reader through a network of images and ideas into interiors of personal understanding. The variety of themes covered, including love, language and the ephemeral, incorporate as recurring echo into the bleakness of the landscape.

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Lubbock Electric by Anne Elezabeth Pluto

Lubbock Electric by Anne Elezabeth Pluto

Anne Elezabeth Pluto's Lubbock Electric is a collection that takes us from the emerald parlor of Easter to the turquoise tower of The Three Kings—a pilgrimage of dust from the West Texas prairie to Central Asia—calling forth the delicate bonds of love and death, and the memory that sustains them.

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Songlines by Iain Britton

Songlines by Iain Britton

These poems touch on the experimental, the alternative, and rely on space and imagery for impact, and should be treated as living entities. Each poem should take the reader on a journey. They are multilayered and many everyday themes interconnect them, and the use of mnemonics adds a strengthening dimension to the symbolism.

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Outside Voices: An Email Correspondence by Jake Berry and Jeffrey Side

Outside Voices: An Email Correspondence by Jake Berry and Jeffrey Side

This 18-month transatlantic email correspondence between Jake Berry and Jeffrey Side ranges across and intertwines a variety of topics that include: poetry and music; film and TV; the changes in culture over the past few decades; the differences in regional U.S. and U.K. accents; the difficulty of reaching the famous in order to interview them; the songwriter as poet and vice versa.

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Piso Mojado by J. D. Nelson

Piso Mojado by J. D. Nelson

These 23 slip-resistant poems were written between 2009 and 2010 in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California.

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The Stories by Ed Larrissy

The Stories by Ed Larrissy

A book about the provisional and untidy narratives we create every minute, and how these overlap with the sanctified narratives of society and religion. The world remains strange, but the strangeness infects the story.

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Writing What For? Across the Mourning Sky by Raymond Farr

Writing What For? Across the Mourning Sky by Raymond Farr

Executing techniques gleaned from Language poetry and its dada/surrealist roots; each poem is a box canyon of meaninglessness tipping its hat to the absurd. Literary expectations are dashed on the rocks of dire mismeaning, embellishing the nothing that seems an inherent folly, a joke intrinsic to "a turn of phrase." These poems succumb to the glossy experience of recreating the experience of reading these poems—a train of thought derailed again and again, until what is obvious becomes radiant/radioactive, but not meaning to "mean."

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Endless, Beautiful, Exact by Francesco Levato

Endless, Beautiful, Exact by Francesco Levato

A series of texts, remixed from appropriated oral and written source material, which explore interpersonal conflict through a fragmented and implied narrative. The author seems to have a clampdown on what he is willing to express, and what few words are allowed through are charged with emotion and tension.

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Slight Return: Remix and Ekphrasis by Robert Archambeau

Slight Return: Remix and Ekphrasis by Robert Archambeau

What if Kafka had written the Kama Sutra? What if the rhetoric of manifest destiny were mashed up with the destruction of Hiroshima? What if the icons of punk and glam found themselves curled up with Sheena of the Jungle? What happens when a poet draws a lucky card in the Mexican lotteria? What if poems were made from the flotsam and jetsam of culture, high and low? What if the author really has died, as Roland Barthes told us he would, and been replaced by the scriptor, whose sole power is to mingle texts? What if Jimi Hendrix had only given us the last two words of ‘Voodoo Child (slight return)’? The questions, if not all the answers, are in the poems in Slight Return: Remix and Ekphrasis.

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Grounds by Calvin Pennix

Grounds by Calvin Pennix

Intermingling the imagined and the actual, Grounds reveals a common journey under the guise of untried language. Split into two parts, but carrying one narrative thread, Grounds challenges the reader, and provokes thought.

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Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry by Jessica Smith

Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry by Jessica Smith

Composed between 2000 and 2006, these short essays on poetry and poetics straddle the genres of traditional academic essay and manifesto. They include analyses of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics (Andrews, Bernstein, DuPlessis, Hejinian, Howe, McCaffery, and Silliman) and poetry by Modernists Eliot, Stein, and Zukofsky; 19th Century poets Browning, Rossetti and Shelley; and contemporary poets Cecilia Vicuña and Christian Bök. Spanning 200 years of poetry and philosophy, Smith weaves a theory of the concomitance of space and time in language.

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Woody Alliances Laundered by Andy Brown

Woody Alliances Laundered by Andy Brown

In Woody Alliances Laundered Andy Brown and William Wordsworth collaborate on 16 reinterpretations and variations of the most popular of English Romantic poems ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’. Among other questions, these witty and insightful new poems ask what if Dorothy Wordsworth were the original source of the poem; what if William vanished from the picture altogether; what does commerce and recession have to do with daffodils; and why is the Reverend Spooner out walking in Grasmere, conversing with rhyming Cockneys, Zen poet-monks, and archaeologists who have just uncovered the Rosetta Stone for Wordsworth’s original poem?

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Dark Hope by Vernon Frazer and Michelle Greenblatt

Dark Hope by Vernon Frazer and Michelle Greenblatt

As their divergent styles merge experimental language and personal experience into a rare musical synergy, Vernon Frazer and Michelle Greenblatt create a series of poems whose images of terror and darkness shadow dance across the page, their sinuous movements balancing a kernel of optimism that reveals itself as Dark Hope.

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Callibration by Keith Higginbotham

Callibration by Keith Higginbotham

The poems in Calibration are about longing, dislocation, and the ultimate failure of language to adequately address complexities and fears of ordinary life.

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Apertures by Rob McLennan

Apertures by Rob McLennan

In Apertures, the second book of poet Rob McLennan's The Other Side of the Mouth, he writes a variation on Vancouver writer George Bowering's Curious, a collection of poems composed for and about other poets. In Apertures, McLennan composed pieces about the possessions of a variety of poets he has known, whether personally or only through their writings, over the past decade and a half. In eighty-three poems, McLennan

writes the “stuff” of a list of both American and Canadian poets, riffing through each writer's individual language, resulting in a portrait of North American writing through the eyes of one of Canada's most active poet/critics.

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Bowl of Light by C. Brannon Watts

Bowl of Light by C. Brannon Watts

Bowl of Light is a collection of intersections, even collisions; the perspectives here move from adolescence to adulthood, and the poetry itself, in structure and spirit, reflects everything from moments of lyricism to abstraction and experimentation. The book is divided into four sections, each an arc of radius under the sky, a physical location, and a point along the journey to poetic and personal maturity. C. Brannon Watts' work is both personal narrative and intimate conversation with the reader; though there is aggression here, you should probably bring along your favorite hat, pipe, and personality. Just in case.

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The Propaganda Factory by Marc Vincenz

The Propaganda Factory by Marc Vincenz

In these taut lyrical poems, Marc Vincenz navigates society through a Fellini camera capturing voyeuristic meditations and startling moments of flux. The citizens of The Propaganda Factory try to imagine what lies behind the Wall. Businessmen on the Brechtian stage yearn to speak of trees, Kafka’s secret police have an ear pressed to the glass, and ‘shadows drag behind like bats’.

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Werewolf Weather by Larry Sawyer

Werewolf Weather by Larry Sawyer

Using surrealist momentum to explore the possibilities of language, the poems in Werewolf Weather tear at the ‘curtain of nothingness’, as mentioned by Hughes-Alain Dal to reveal an egoless disquietness. Showing a mutability of identity, time and place in the actuality of words these fabulist poems celebrate the nostalgia of right now.

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A Western Exile by Matt Hill

A Western Exile by Matt Hill

A Western Exile comprises of ten prose poems, randomly composed and offered. Episodes from an incomplete life, vaguely recorded. Devoid of connective punctuation, intent to foster an effulgent flow.

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Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo

Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo

Like the seeds on the head of a sunflower, the poems, translations, and story in Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo whorl according to a special pattern. Here you will find arachnids, jealous women, numbers, half-truths, a dangerous dictionary and a few naughty words. Enjoy your encounter.

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A House in Summer by Maxine Chernoff

A House in Summer by Maxine Chernoff

The uncanny and the daily blend in Maxine Chernoff's new collection, A House in Summer. From incantatory poems such as ‘Rune’ and ‘Commentary’ to the storied landscapes of ‘Parade’, ‘Aversions’ and 'A House in Summer', these large and generous poems ask the reader to confront a world broken and made whole by language.

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Mother Earth by Adam Fieled

Mother Earth by Adam Fieled

Normal people tend to figure out what (and who) they want through relationships. Poetry in 2011 doesn’t always need to deal with the exalted, the archetypal, or (as is the case with post-modern poetry) the conditions and contexts of language itself. Poetry that configures the extraordinary through the normal is useful because it has utility value for an audience, largely middle and working class, that is being challenged by threatening external conditions, economic and otherwise. Mother Earth is an ordinary story with some pertinent implications; if it is read with understanding, it can function as allegory and its relationships stand as representations of the larger trends currently shaping our world.

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Country Without a Name by Ann Bogle

Country Without a Name by Ann Bogle

Of Country Without a Name, Morgan Harlow writes: ‘Ann Bogle’s latest collection of memoir fiction, is a sequence of thoughts, dreams and conversations. Here white petunias are cut with scissors to make a name, values are placed as if they were tarot cards, and approximations of the sublime are revealed in mathematical detail. Country Without a Name recalls the work of Dada poet Tristan Tzara (whose name means “country” in Romanian) and the semi-autobiographical pharmaceutical quests and cut-up text collages of William S. Burroughs. Bogle rebels, defines and ultimately defies hierarchies. Her writing, manifesto-like, hints at what might have been learned from Andre Breton’s Nadja if we had been given her diary to read, along with the idea that non-being dwells in language the same as being does, or in Bogle’s words: ‘Not to be she is embodied’.

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Harmonia by Don Share

Harmonia by Don Share

Harmonia is the immortal goddess of concord and harmony. Despite the cheering poetry implied in that description, she was renowned for receiving a fatal necklace on her wedding day that brought misfortune to all who possessed it. More happily: harmonia is the natural state of being of all living things, according to Plato; it’s a genus of beetles, and of weeds, a particularly sublime Krautrock band; an asteroid. And, encompassing vibrations from all these juxtaposed things, it is also the title of this collection of slightly dissonant outfakes or B-sides (as he calls them) by Don Share.

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Inshore Seeds by William Allegrezza

Inshore Seeds by William Allegrezza

Inshore Seeds by William Allegrezza is split into four sections. The first section explores the intersection of language, meaning, identity, politics, and inconsistency, and the second reveals poetry as news articles without the news. The third section takes on the prose poem, and the fourth section plays with the dual image of kern from typography and military history, as if poetry is called to both.

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Respondings by Martin Stannard

Respondings by Martin Stannard

Respondings is the second collection of poet Martin Stannard's reviews and writings about writing, this time selected from pieces published between 2004 and 2007. Often controversial and brutally honest, and never courting popularity, Stannard continues to question poets, poetry and himself in an effort to find out whatever there may be to find out. Stannard's writing has often been called "witty and outspoken". Others have just said it's really clever and funny. It's always interesting.

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Empirical and Non-Empirical Identifiers by Jeffrey Side

Empirical and Non-Empirical Identifiers by Jeffrey Side

A look at the ways in which aspects of mainstream poetic composition practices limit ambiguity and a reader-response approach to the reception of poetry.

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Periods by Joel Chace

Periods by Joel Chace

Periods by Joel Chace was inspired by an insight he had in 2010 that, as he says, ‘Periods complete sentences, which are complete periods’. Of this he says, ‘this sentence seemed to express two different ideas about periods (and about sentences). Once I realized what this statement suggested, I was intrigued to begin finding and creating more sentences, more ideas about periods—a collection that has grown into this sequence’.

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An Archaeology of Theory by Peter Ganick

An Archaeology of Theory by Peter Ganick

What is a text? After John Coltrane's wall of sound, we have here a wall of text. What does making sense entail? Is it in the words themselves and/or the sequence of words? In An Archeology of Theory, Peter Ganick suggests both and neither in true spatial reference. Energy is space is a version here-to-be-read.

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Periods by Joel Chace

Periods by Joel Chace

Periods by Joel Chace was inspired by an insight he had in 2010 that, as he says, ‘Periods complete sentences, which are complete periods’. Of this he says, ‘this sentence seemed to express two different ideas about periods (and about sentences). Once I realized what this statement suggested, I was intrigued to begin finding and creating more sentences, more ideas about periods—a collection that has grown into this sequence’.

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Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep by Michael Ruby

Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep by Michael Ruby

In Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep, Michael Ruby transcribes voices that are accessible to consciousness in the last seconds before sleep. There are 70 transcription sessions, each ending with the poet falling sleep. The origin and significance of the voices are undetermined.

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A Short Treatise on the Nature of the Gods by Dan Beachy-Quick

A Short Treatise on the Nature of the Gods by Dan Beachy-Quick

A Short Treatise on the Nature of the Gods takes the distance between human reality and godly ideality as its primary crisis. Each poem is its own discrete meditation complicated by its link to other such poems, all building not toward conclusion, but a clearer sense of difficulty.

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yumdZ by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

yumdZ by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

yumdZ is a computer-generated process, a self-regulated stochastic text written using old 8-bit computer, Atari 65XE, as the only source. The text is composed of random bytes, memory dumps and characters mapped to Atari's own ATASCII set, a near-chaotic travel inside to the computer's memory, instead of metaphorical we are traveling literally to the world of the hexadecimal numbers, POKE/PEEK commands and 6502 processor assembly opcodes. This book is a document of the trip.

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Odd Fish by G. E. Schwartz

Odd Fish by G. E. Schwartz

In Odd Fish we encounter Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, a 19th century American naturalist learned in ichthyology, botany, malacology, anthropology and linguistics whose field notes set out to, as Adam did, name the world he walked through, one circumlocution at a time.

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Odds Against Today by Vernon Frazer

Odds Against Today by Vernon Frazer

In Odds Against Today Vernon Frazer's linguistic techniques force language beyond semantic limitations to produce poems that become events rather than meanings, although his lexical admixtures do not necessarily preclude perceiving or experiencing meaning.

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Royal Blue Car by Evelyn Posamentier

Royal Blue Car by Evelyn Posamentier

Evelyn Posamentier's Royal Blue Car takes you to the core of the red thread of life, in words that are given to you as grains: vivid drops of soul.

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A Fool in the Pack by Bariane Louise Rowlands

A Fool in the Pack by Bariane Louise Rowlands

A Fool in the Pack by Bariane Louise Rowlands is an exploration in vocabulary, metaphor and free form, expressing adoration and respect for nature and animals, as well as expressing sadness at the lack of respect, honesty and love between human beings. Many of the poems are pseudo-sexual/sensual, which partially reflect the confusion that can accompany a too early exposure to sexuality.

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Museless Now Fay Wray by Michael Basinski and Ginny O’Brien

Museless Now Fay Wray by Michael Basinski and Ginny O’Brien

Museless Now Fay Wray is a collection of poems in three sequences. The poetries are juxtaposed fragments composed to conceal and reveal by focus and out of focus musical constellations. There is rhythm first rather than the arrogance of meaning. They are to be ancient.

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