Narrative theme: Environmental issues & natural wo

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain's Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language...

In Michael Earl Craig's sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the "Italy of God,"...

Sandra Simonds's Triptychs is a brilliant intersection of poetic form and the passage of time.Crafted initially in strips handwritten on rolls of receipt paper obtained at a dollar store, then assembled into three textual columns that sit side-by-side on...

In Underfoot, Holmberg asks what prevents an industrialized nation-state from achieving its desire to extract maximum resources.His answers are people and their connection with land.Writing in Northern Smi, he creates a world of symbols to enact the...

Abro's work has been described by The Outline as "an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts" that "publicly grapples with pillars of its own existence within the influencer economy." Alongside The Outline, her work has been featured in publications...

Long-awaited debut collection from an author known for his many chapbooks. His poetry chapbookthelucid upward ladderwas afinalistfor the2015 Toma alamun Prize (Verse Magazine). Boston-based author who is well situated to promote the book. The book was...

With global climate disasters in the news every day, Glazova offers riveting insights into the natural world and is an important voice for ecopoetry.Readers see the Russian and English poems on facing pages.Glazova received the Andrei Bely Prize, one of...

In these self-mocking poems - populated with youths and elders, cellphones and televisions - Jiang Tao presents and dissects a discontent with the state of the world. The complex use of metaphor highlights his profound wit and poetic mastery, building...

'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' - Olivia HarrisonOlivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening a book of...

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a...

This book is not meant to be read from cover to cover.Instead, it is a book for dreamers. Its purpose? To ease the soul.From award-winning writer/illustrator Jackie Morris, on the heels of 2020's The Lost Spells, is a book that enters the realm of...

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for poetryWinner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limn, Caitlin Scarano's collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality.The...

2021 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry"The book is intimate, expansive, and in moments, willfully hopeful." -Victoria Chang, winner of the PEN Voelcker Award for OBIT Here are poems with music matched to matter, so that reading them often...

These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls.Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of...

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets.This new selection is drawn from two other books, Cpla Siamach an Ama / The Siamese Twins of Time and Gr fiar / Crooked Love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the...

The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth and the oral tradition, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change. And there was indeed a Bronze Age...

An off-beat examination of the denials that underpin extractive capitalism.From the cratered lake of Chennai, India to the environmental racism of Neon Genesis Evangelion's Tokyo-3, Sunny Ways oscillates between images of environmental collapse and...

Vancouver-based La Melia was the winner of the 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, but painting is just one of the mediums she employs. First and foremost, she is a poet. The poetic path followed by La Melia travels through territories as varied as...

A book of prismatic, lyrical poems that enhance and disrupt the pastoral tradition to consider organic and mineral worlds, queer desire and experience, the mathematical and the spiritual; struggle and resistance.Pink Noise orbits in spaces of memory,...

"Madnesspays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated."-The New York Times FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature FINALIST for the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of...