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In the Blueprint of Her Iris – A Collaboration. Vikki C. (Poems) & Robert Frede Kenter (Images)
David Hanlon – Dawn’s Incision: Poems
Samuel Strathman: OMNISHAMBLES
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Andre Breton asserted that “a poem is a debacle of the intellect.” Samuel Strathman proves that point throughout this alternately intriguing, amusing and terrifying collection. The omnishambles is perhaps that of pop culture and high culture, and our place within or alongside both. Allusions pile up like cigarette ash, and our laughter blows them away. The undead make frequent appearances; imagine a Renaissance vanitas painting in which the skull springs out of the frame, incisors ready to rip your throat. The illustrations are extraordinary, their muted palette of sepias and greys establishing a quietly powerful dialogue with the poems. Omnishambles will appeal to anyone who admires George Hitchcock or Charles Simic; like those poets, Strathman deadpans his way through a dreamlike world that is unsettlingly familiar. – James Knight, publisher STEEL INCISORS.
Arden Hunter: Stop Fidgeting
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Lynne Jensen Lampe: Talk Smack to a Hurricane
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Pandemic Love & Other Affinities – The Anthology
Contributors:
Ewoenam Akahoho, Roseline Mgbodichinma Anya-Okorie, Akesha Baron, Ronna Bloom, Yasmine Bolden, Velid Beganovic Borjen, Paul Brooks, Barney Ashton-Bullock, Matthew Burnside, Sue Chenette, Marian Christie, Defne Cizakca, Geraldine Clarkson, Cathy Daley, Nabina Das, Shome Dasgupta, Satya Dash, Martins Deep, Peach Delphine, Steve Denehan, Olga Dermott-Bond, Chelsea Dingman, Damien Donnelly, Birgit-Lund Elston, K. Eltinae, M.S. Evans, Suchi Govindarajan, Catherine Graham, Sue Finch, Kari Flickinger, Roger Hare, Matthew E. Henry, Elizabeth Horan, Rahma O. Jimoh, Silas Jones, Agunbiade Kehinde, Robert Frede Kenter, Rose Knapp, Laurie Koensgen, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Emma Lee, Robynne Limoges, V.C. McCabe, Spangle McQueen, Jenny Mitchell, Hasan Namir, Marcelle Newbold, Twila Newey, Lizzie Olesker, Charlotte Oliver, Niall M. Oliver, Bola Opaleke, Kunjana Parashar, Serena Piccoli, Maria S. Picone, Kushal Poddar, Lee Potts, Whiskey Radish, Khalisa Rae, Vismai Rao, Larissa Reid, Monty Reid, Andres Rojas, Moira J. Saucer, Anna Saunders, Preston Smith, Ankh Spice, Alina Stefanescu, Sam Strathman, Claire Trévien, Bunkong Tuon, Margaret ViboolsittiseriSoftcover Edition:
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Robert Frede Kenter’s EDEN – a visual poetry collection
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The work is eclectic, punk – in the sense of authentic, as opposed to slick simulacra – and haunting. Many of the images offer the reader a feeling of shimmering impermanence; a peripheral moment caught in transit, captured briefly, and transformed.
And, as such they work outside mainstream narratives, presenting us with glimpses of a material landscape that is frequently overlooked. We are offered a space of resistance within the forgotten snatches of our worlds as we are shown how magic – or the possibility of magic – might exist in diverse spaces; an urban landscape, pavement weeds, mathematical texts and telegraph wires.
These pieces also possess heart and deep humanity. As we read ‘Eden’ we find a space of raw feeling – some poems cry out in pain and bewilderment, then promise hope. Some laugh at convention, subvert our expectation, others’ offer us the possibility of finding the sublime within the mundane.
Together, they ask us to see the everyday through its eroded corners; challenging, mystical, but still as real and human – in all the hurt and wonder of it all – as it gets. – Sarah Jane Crowson, visual poet.
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Whiskey Radish: the adventures of char vol. #1
Now available for order! 160 + page book of VISPO by this totally original, magical visual artist, writer and musician from Massachusetts. Previously published by U.K. Penteract Press and others, Whiskey has a wide international following for her comix; philosophical, underground, laugh-out-loud and brilliantly realized, the work of a lifetime! This is her first full-length!! Get it while you can. An instant CLASSIC, soon to be read here on Planet Earth and other galactical, palatial and less-esteemed destinations.
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Postmarked Quarantine – A Full-Length Collection of New Poetry by Kolkata, India Author, Kushal Poddar
Kolkata-based writer and visual artist and Ice Floe Press Dispatches from a Pandemic contributor has created an instant classic diary for our times. Each poem represents a ‘day-in-the-life’ of the poet and his family. The full-length book is a complex, humorous and surreal snapshot of life under lockdown during the first and 2nd waves of the global COVID19 pandemic.
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We see, perhaps, a glimmer of the wreckage Benjamin’s Angel of History witnessed. Poddar’s Angel of History is we readers, as “We turn back to see us/ walking behind us, and another we running past,/ their heads turned toward the origin.” – Michael Dickel.
There are echoes throughout the book of inheritance and of choosing what we keep from someone we love and how we pass this on. – Sue Finch
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STILL AVAILABLE : Miggy Angel’s Boy, Bestiary
Boy, Bestiary is an incendiary book of poems, the third volume of a trilogy that also includes the highly visionary, Extreme Violets (Hi Vis Press).
Miggy Angel is a U.K.-based poet, spoken word artist, visual artist, editor, and founder of Burning House Press. He is a member of the music project We Bleed Ink.
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STILL AVAILABLE : Robert Frede Kenter – Audacity of Form
Robert’s exquisite book Audacity Of Form, a stunning, complex combination of poetry and visual art, developed out of linked poetic fragments and intuitive juxtapositions, is available now from Ice Floe Press.
Robert Frede Kenter is unafraid to tackle the grit and the hardships of life. This mixed media collection of experimental poetry, visual art and photography offers hard truths and a voice for poetry and art lovers alike.” —Isabelle Kenyon, founding editor of Fly On The Wall Press.
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NOW OUT OF PRINT:
Kyla Houbolt’s Dawn’s Fool — A Microchap
Author’s Statement
The poems in Dawn’s Fool were written over a period of years and came together out of a desire to express a communion with the living planet which I experience in the sentience of non-humans as well as other human beings. The communion with non-verbal sentience in particular is often very fugitive of expression – even if one experiences it, it often does not translate at all well. Poetry is a conveyance for such expression and goes further than other means. Yet there is often a sense of incompleteness at the attempt.
The title poem, ‘Dawn’s Fool’, is the oldest of the group, written in the mid 1990s. The dove herself – does she know the burden we’ve placed on her slight wings? Or is her living simply going about dove business?
More recently I feel the non-speech of the creatures more potently. We live in a time of urgency and belief in the trustworthiness of science. Yet the animals would have speech with us if we could listen to their non-words. Will the rocks unburden themselves? How would we live if we could hear in that way?
I hope you enjoy these few poems. They are love poems, to the Earth and to you.
Kyla Houbolt
Bola Opaleke – Skeleton of a Ruined Song
1st Printing Sold Out. 2nd Printing (New Edition) – Coming Soon!
A brilliant first chapbook by the award-winning Nigerian-Canadian poet Bola Opaleke, this is a truly heart-rending, complex, sensitive and ferocious body of work about war, loss, hope and migration.
Sometimes, we’re helpless
in the hands of ghosts –
these things that fling us
like rocks, like unsalted venison,
at gods who feed only on dead bodies.
“This chapbook has in it the beginnings of fire” – Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition
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