Temptation in Whispers by Anthony Howell

Temptation in Whispers by Anthony Howell

'Temptation in Whispers was written at a time when I was deeply committed to the notion of “abstract poetry”. This was neither simply “sound poetry” nor “concrete poetry”. I was interested in working with limited vocabularies and permutations. In those days I was engaged in finding a way of writing in key with innovation going on in other purlieus of art – Philip Glass’s musicians had stayed in my studio on their first visit to London, and I had conducted the first British radio interview with John Ashbery. Several times I visited Clark Coolidge in New Lebanon and often hosted readings by poets associated with the New York School. My work was contemptuously dismissed by the British poetry establishment, and this manuscript proved impossible to publish.' (Anthony Howell)

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Baltimore by Eli Garry

Baltimore by Eli Garry

A novel in two parts set in Baltimore, Maryland, during The Great Depression. It focuses on two families, one rich, the other poor, and chronicles their fortunes and misfortunes up until the 1968 Chicago riots.

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The Reading of Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century by Jeffrey Side

The Reading of Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century by Jeffrey Side

It is becoming increasingly recognised that one of the most dominant aspects of Wordsworth’s influence is that which derives from the philosophical empiricism upon which part of his poetic aesthetic was based. Wordsworth used this empiricism mainly as a rationale to champion a more descriptive and discursive poetry than arguably had been formerly the case. It can be demonstrated that Wordsworth’s poetry relies too consistently upon a descriptive realist aesthetic derived from empiricist beliefs about subject/object relationships. As a result of this, it can be observed that Wordsworth’s poetic theory and practice are limiting both as a rationale for the creative impulse and as a critical methodology. This book traces the development of a “Wordsworthian empiricism” that had become dominant by the end of the twentieth century. It will illustrate how the reading and criticism of Wordsworth in the twentieth century (even that which viewed him principally in transcendentalist terms) tended to foreground his empiricism resulting in its wide acceptance by many influential critics as being of value to poetic composition.

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The Great Recession by Adam Fieled

The Great Recession by Adam Fieled

The Great Recession focuses on several specific issues in poetry: the first, and most salient, is an attempt to rid the text of first person singular influences, and deliver a series of vignettes or miniaturized dramatic monologues, narrated by characters attempting to cope with the harsh, desolate landscape, the abrasions and depreciations, of the last decade to pass in the United States. This era the U. S. press often calls The Great Recession. The text should thus demonstrate a kind of cleanliness, apart from the ego concerns and obsessions of the poet at hand. The second issue is ancillary to the first: once characters are established within poems, how to make them interesting, and how to make the incidents and situations they are forced to confront emotionally and intellectually resonant on a wide basis. The third is what kind of language specifically this textual ambition calls for.

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This Transmission by Michael McNamara

This Transmission by Michael McNamara

This Transmission bewilders and enlightens, inviting unconscious recognition and reaching beyond meaning. The result is a lyricism that evokes the sound of someone talking to themselves in a mirror that isn’t there.

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Spherical by DAH

Spherical by DAH

Spherical brings together a collection of micro-metaphysical thoughts, illuminating both life and death, earth and space.

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Ghost of Prophets by Milenko Županović

Ghost of Prophets by Milenko Županović

A collection of spiritually inspired poetry.

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The Cancer of Fibropoetics by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

The Cancer of Fibropoetics by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

A poet’s anxiety following radical cancer treatment is depicted in this hybrid ebook.

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Upon the Veil by David Samuel Smith

Upon the Veil by David Samuel Smith

Travels and friends have provided guidance and enlightenment touching multiple religions and cultural experiences. Empathetic and mystical tendencies bring streams of consciousness to words in conversation and thought. Upon the Veil is a collection of these musing and conversations with Jake Berry and other friends.

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Weaken by Tom Snarsky

Weaken by Tom Snarsky

What happens when on the way to the “You” of lyric poetry, something happens? Something so oblique and mysterious the speaker cannot tear their “I” away? The poems in Weaken weaken the form of lyric address, loosening the knot of I & Other just enough to let the light through—and some other things besides.

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Into the Labyrinth by Gavin Selerie and Andrew Duncan

Into the Labyrinth by Gavin Selerie and Andrew Duncan

'In November 2011, I visited Gavin Selerie in North West London for an interview that ultimately stretched over four day-long sessions. The immediate lure was a visual-verbal commentary on his 1996 long poem Roxy, which I had acquired a copy of part of, and which was a glimpse of a labyrinth of trophies, troves and associations, more complex than the poem itself. It hinted at an inner world where every space was covered with images, enveloping like a novel with a hundred characters. I wanted to drop a microphone into that labyrinth.' (Andrew Duncan)

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A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo

A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo

'My irrepressible longing for reshaping all of them in a new different life, so as to give them a fresh soul, is the drive enabling my words to be invaded by that green fuse we might think of as the very life and soul of poetry.' (Gabriella Garofalo)

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Here Comes the Alchemical Revolution and Other Poems by Paul A. Green

Here Comes the Alchemical Revolution and Other Poems by Paul A. Green

These poems document how identity dissolves and coagulates in the media landscape, via the writer’s engagement with music, film, esoterica and memory.

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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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